Diversity Panel at the Microsoft MVP Community Mixer February 27, 2017 Chicago, IL

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This video will walk you through how to configure and integrate HockeyApp with Xamarin.Forms: We started off by following the HockeyApp documentation (How To Integrate HockeyApp with Xamarin). During…

It's time consuming, costly, and difficult for growers to measure and regulate pH throughout the day and across the lifecycle of a plant. Indeed pH levels are one of the key factors in plant health.…

This is a video demo of the Wiretap Group Connector we built which monitors enterprise Yammer social feeds and flags content for policy violations defined by corporate IT or HR departments. Core Team:…

It is 2016 and backend is dead. In a few remaining strongholds, small clusters of surviving developers fight to maintain their own servers. The rest of the world is drenched in the chaos of…

In this video we have the opportunity to talk to Jonathan from Hackers and founders about his story creating a global community of 200k+ hackers/founders! Ever wondered how being an ER nurse could…

Abstract Building web applications in a single language has a number of advantages, but it also poses some challenges. In this talk, I will discuss how F# makes a great choice for full-stack web…

In this video, Gabrielle will discuss and review her biggest challenge when building an motor controlled NodeBot! Here is a quick 5 minute video on some tips and inner workings of the L9110 Module. …

Jennifer Marsman speaks with Charles Stacy Harris III about developing for the Microsoft Band. They discuss the capabilities of the Band: the sensors it contains, tiles, notifications, Bluetooth,…

Jacquelyn Crowhurst delivering the opening keynote at Open Source North conference in the Twin Cities. June 9, 2016

Doug Wheelock aka "Wheels" was just an "ordinary kid from an ordinary place" ... "that's how it happens at NASA." With 18 years at the organization and 178 days in space…

Justin Brezhnev, Executive Director & Founder of Hacker Fund sits down with Community Evangelist Yesenia Alvarez to chat about the organization. Justin also known as the "The Cat" shares…

Software Legend and Master Architect Juval Lowy joins Dr. Doris Chen for a candid discussion of the career path of architects. Juval has mentored hundreds of architects the world over in his renowned…

Gabriel Rangel, Associate Chief Technology Officer for IT at the Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL), explains the NASA Space Apps Challenge. Each year, participants in over 200 sites across the globe…

Parse is an incredible backend for mobile applications, but unfortunately, it was recently announced that Parse will be retired in January of 2017. This left many developers and startups in an…

This video covers how to make emission materials in your game. It is continuing the Polish and Particles video for Game Dev Show: https://channel9.msdn.com/Shows/gamedev/5 For more help you can…

Blog Post: http://WakeUpAndCode.com/minecraft-azure

Presenter: Vincent Vergonjeanne. Re-shared with permission. Subject: WebGL and Unity - Best Practices Topics covered: How to deal with lack of sockets and threads. Major rendering optimizations to…

Sarah Sexton spoke at Flourish! Open Source Conference, a student-led conference hosted at the University of Illinois at Chicago. Video re-shared with permission. Learn how to build and deploy Node.js…

Join Susan Wisowaty, Microsoft Community Evangelist and Julie Lerman, MVP for a discussion and demo on Entity Framework. Julie tells us about EF, what's new and challenging, and gives a demo of EF…

The final installment of developing for the Microsoft Band, we walk through setting up your Mac for iOS development as well as go over some tricks that you may need when you are developing for iOS.…

Bots (or conversation agents) are rapidly becoming an integral part of your users' digital experience – they are as vital a way for users to interact with a service or application as is a web site or…

Plenty of announcements at //build, but here, we'll cover the announcements for Azure IoT Hubs and Microsoft Office. Some follow up //build sessions can be found here: Developer's Guide to Connecting…

Presenter: Charlie Helman, Game UI/UX developer, currently at Wizards of the Coast. Topic: UnityUI basics, techniques, best practices, and must-have assets for building UIs for Unity projects. …

"Where there's a will there's a way. There's a way to solve every problem using your engineer prowess." – Michelle Easter, JPL Engineer Hit play to let Channel 9's Seth Juarez spark your…

Presenter:Alexander Birke. Re-shared with permission. Topic: Procedural Meshes in Unity. Description: Being able to create 3D models and surfaces on the fly is a powerful part of the Unity API that…

Seth Juarez (Channel 9) profiles a 2016 NASA Space Apps Challenge hack team before the big event. Hear how a few old friends gathered as a team, what is inspiring them to tackle the NASA Space Apps…

Hear from visionary, Tom Soderstrom, IT Chief Technology and Innovation Officer at Jet Propulsion Laboratory (JPL) on how technology and innovation work hand in hand and how JPL dares to do mighty…

Jennifer Marsman summarizes the top machine learning announcements from Build 2016. We announced the previews of the Microsoft Bot Framework and the Microsoft Cognitive Services. These are brought…

Ryan Bubinski, Co-founder of the educational startup, Codecademy, sits down with Technical Evangelist, Stacey Mulcahy, and Community Evangelist, Annie Bubinski, to chat about Codecademy's origin,…

In this video we talk to Eddie Farah about a system he built for Automate Ads to allow customers to place a line of code on to their website or mobile applications and feed all tracking data directly…

At Build 2016, Jennifer Marsman spoke with Tim Sneath about the new Visual Studio installer. Historically, Visual Studio has been a very large download which takes some time to install. This process…

Presenter: Claudia Doppioslash Topic: How Unity lets you take almost full control of the shader subsystem, and more importantly, what you can achieve with that control. Slideshare Resources:…

This video goes into how to on creating Trail Renders in Unity, explaining their use and the differences between them and Particle Systems. This is a quick follow up blerb from the Game Dev Show's…

We've all been here before. You're at a conference and a developer takes the stage to talk about how their product it going to change the world. Fast forward an hour and your neighbor shakes you awake…

Microsoft had a big presence this year at the Miami Mini Maker Faire 2016! People visiting the Microsoft Maker Faire booth got to get hands-on with a wide range of cool tech like XBOX, IoT devices,…

In VS Code, you can author, preview, and compile Markdown with a little bit of one-time setup and a few handy keyboard shortcuts. I know you're a busy developer, so watch me demo the highlights in…

In this video we cover the basics of working with a Kinect for Windows v2 to create a WPF game. The goal is to show you how easy it is to get started creating apps for human interactivity. We start…

The keynote presentation at the "Tech in 2016" conference at the University of Chicago, April 9, 2016. Microsoft Senior Technical Evangelist David Giard discusses how to choose the right…

At Build 2016, Jennifer Marsman spoke with Bill Wagner about some of the new features in C# 7. [00:23]: It's been open sourced at https://github.com/dotnet/roslyn. [01:31]: Overview of new features…

At Build 2016, Jennifer Marsman spoke with Matt Winkler about customer success stories using big data on Azure. [00:19]: Customer success stories [01:00]: Wind turbines [03:57]: JustGiving [07:39]:…

Blog post: http://WakeUpAndCode.com/hackathon

At Build 2016, Jennifer Marsman spoke with Pete Brown about the state of IoT at Microsoft. They discussed the difference between the Windows IoT and Azure IoT offerings, how people are using IoT…

Download Unity3D here:http://unity3d.com/get-unity/download?ref=personal Download the Nightmares asset package from the Unity Asset Store here: https://www.assetstore.unity3d.com/en/#!/content/40756…

In this video I walk you through an install of Ubuntu Linux 15.10 as a Generation 2 VM in azure. Then I install the LXDE Xwindows desktop. I then install XRDP. Next I add the .xsession file to use…

In this video I will walk you through the set of steps for creating a Recovery Services vault and backing up an Azure virtual machine (VM). This tutorial is for use with Recovery Services vaults which…

In this video we build some cool development environment [00:35] - The purpose[01:20] - The ARM Template[02:10] - Some PowerShell Foo[04:20] - The Docs[13:50] - How to Deploy this thing...[15:34] -…

Paul DeCarlo visits Infusion's Houston office to discuss their Enterprise grade Barbecue monitoring system running on a Raspberry Pi 2 device with Windows 10 IoT Core and powered by Azure IoT Hubs.…

A decade ago Juval Lowy pioneered the concept of microservices with his famous saying of "Every Class as a Service". Juval joins Dr. Doris Chen, senior Microsoft Developers Evangelist at…

Blog Post: http://WakeUpAndCode.com/why-slack Shahed Chowdhuri (Sr. Technical Evangelist @ Microsoft) talks to Sidney Andrews (MCT, Azure consultant) about why Slack may be the right tool for you.

Learn what Guggs, a physicist by trade, thinks about augmented reality and where we're headed with Windows 10 as he speaks openly with Stephen Rose about these topics and more.

Miss the Windows 10 and Office 2016 launch event in your city? Listen to Steve Guggenheimer ("Guggs"), Chief Evangelist, deliver a fun keynote on how Windows 10 is helping transform your…

Code for San Francisco is a local chapter of the Code for America Brigade, an international network of people committed to using their voices and hands, in collaboration with local governments, to…

Code for San Francisco is a local chapter of the Code for America Brigade, an international network of people committed to using their voices and hands, in collaboration with local governments, to…

Code for San Francisco is a local chapter of the Code for America Brigade, an international network of people committed to using their voices and hands, in collaboration with local governments, to…

Code for San Francisco is a local chapter of the Code for America Brigade, an international network of people committed to using their voices and hands, in collaboration with local governments, to…

Code for San Francisco is a local chapter of the Code for America Brigade, an international network of people committed to using their voices and hands, in collaboration with local governments, to…

Laura Montgomery and Paul DeCarlo introduce Continuum Features and showcase how developers can take advantage of Continuum in their Universal Windows Platform Applications. We discuss what Continuum…

There's a lot of developer content on Channel 9! How does this all get made? I'm glad you asked. In this fun, short-film-style video, we'll take you through an entire day of video production in under…

The weekend of March 5-6, 2016, Code for America held its fifth annual CodeAcross event. CodeAcross is a weekend of civic hacking events hosted by nodes of the Code for America network around the…

Blog post: http://wakeupandcode.com/getting-started-with-game-development Watch me talk about game development with Microsoft Technical Evangelist Frank La Vigne. Jump to the companion video on…

In this post, I will teach you how to determine what user has administrative rights on the server as well as walk you Step-By-Step how to configure SQL Server to allow other users to login as…

In this video I walk you through how to add Google Authentication to your ASP.NET Core (ASP.net 5) application. This demonstration uses the default template from Visual Studio 2015. For full…

In this video, Sarah Sexton walks us through building your first Node.js app from scratch, all the way to deploying it on Azure. For more information, check out these resources, including a course on…

My goal with this video is to give an overview of what DRM is, how it works, and illustrate the history behind it so that you can understand why it is still around today. DRM is an systematic approach…

In this episode special guest Nuri Halprin walks us through Concurrency and how to address it. About Nuri: Nuri Halperin consults, develops software, and trains with passion. His company designs and…

David Giard's presentation at MidwestJS 2015. Edge is Microsoft's new browser and includes a complete rewritten rendering engine for both HTML and JavaScript. Edge is faster and more standards…

David Washington's session from MidwestJS 2015 Learn how to design beyond the standard controls and how to consider learnability, confidence, performance when going custom. What steps would you follow…

Images from the 2016 SpartaHack hackathon at Michigan State University!

What were you up to in High School? Planning a hackathon for 250 people? Yea Right! I sure wasn't... Microsoft provided space for 250 high school hackers in our Silicon Valley Office a few weeks ago…

Keep up with industry trends, how we should be thinking about our business, how technology changes coming will likely impact us and our business and plenty more. Gain access to shortcuts in keeping…

My team recently participated in a hackathon and built a Unity game controlled with Particle Cores. In this interactive game, one player is a cat, the other is a mouse. Right now it's just a game of…

For the past year Azure Mobile Services has come a long way. From adding easy access to making custom API's and table scripts to combining push notifications and identity management. However, this…

You can download the DOCX version of the step by step guide at the source blog post...Boot to Native Boot To VHD (Boot2VHD) – Video Walk-through of Installation Step-By-Step 1) Download Windows 8…

Got ten minutes? That's enough time to get started with VS Code, Microsoft's cross-platform, open source code editor. Become acquainted with the basics, including how to navigate files and folders,…

Step-By-Step Guide (.docx) available for download at ITProGuru.com 1) Download Windows Server 2012https://aka.ms/getwin20122) Follow Step-By-Step Instructions to configure BIOSConfigure BIOS Before…

Presentation on Microsoft Azure at SpartaHack in East Lansing, MI.

This was inpromptu recording done from a cell phone and streamed over periscope. The quality isn't the best, but the content is rocking! Watch Greg Bruno, VP Engineering, at StackIQ talk about…

These procedures were written using Windows 8 but will work with prior versions of Windows 8, Windows Server 2012, Windows 7 and Windows Vista and Windows Server 2008 or Windows Server 2008 R2. There…

In this ALL DEMO three (3) part series we will take a look at Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Specifically, we will look at integration and how these great new products are made to work together. In…

In part III you will learn about SharePoint Workspace, PowerPoint, SharePoint Fast Search, Documents Sets and More SharePoint Workspace 2010 – Synchronize SharePoint site to your local workstationNew…

In this ALL DEMO three (3) part series we will take a look at Office 2010 and SharePoint 2010. Specifically, we will look at integration and how these great new products are made to work. Once you…

Does Jenn Schiffer think that Art and Code Go Together? Duh of course she does. In this talk, Jenn shows some of her own exploration of the intersection of art and code using JavaScript, from tools…

The State of the Web Chris examines the state of the web - from where we started to how we go to where we are now. Abstractions made for browser differences, page obesity and lack of performance ,…

Electroknit! Pixel to Textile Electroknit is a craft project to convert graphics into knitted patterns for an electric knitting machine. What does it take to turn a digital image into a physical…

Travis Won't Accept My Packages - Testing Hardware In this talk, Suz Hinton discusses the process of automated testing for hardware. From continuous integration testing using Travis CI, setting up…

Have you ever built and published a mobile app? Maybe you've tried and abandoned the idea because you didn't make any money. Maybe you gave up before even trying because it's a saturated market and…

Bios Requirements for Enabling Hyper-V. Short video to show exactly where you might find these settings.*X64 Server with Hardware Assisted Virtualization (Likely found under Configuration then…

Explore the world of music and the Web Audio API in the Browser, where it can create connected and interactive experiences. Walk through some different interaction models utilizing sound. The…

Responsive Web Design - A Framework for Modern Web Designers How do Modern web designers need to approach creating responsive web sites? Working within a new framework that includes planning,…

Led by Doris Chen, we focus on how to build and deploy applications using Docker and Azure, Microsoft’s flexible open source friendly cloud platform. We discuss scaling out over the Docket CI…

Angular or Backbone, which one you will use in your mobile app? How could you develop a mobile app across iOS, Android or windows devices? This talk will take an intimate look at two of today's most…

When you are building a mobile app or a website mostly likely you are going to need some type of data repository. This can be either files, video or in the form of a "database". In order to…

In this session, you will learn to use Azure Machine Learning to make predictions. The example used is predicting whether a passenger on the Titanic will survive, given information like their age,…

In this session, you will learn to use Azure Machine Learning to make predictions. The example used is predicting whether a passenger on the Titanic will survive, given information like their age,…

I like data and I like games. When I heard my friend Karan Gulati's job included both of these things, I thought it was too good to be true. Obviously we have to get to the bottom of this... We'll…

TLDR: Type safety, productivity, intellisense, and debugging. In continuing with my recent trend of using TypeScript, I wanted to illustrate how to create functions and variables in TypeScript,…

From Blocks to Lines Scratch for Educators Scratch is a great for teaching kids of all ages to learn how to code. In this short video designed for scratch educators, I am going to explore different…

Windows 10 is now installed on over 200 million computers and devices and is the final destination for the convergence of "One Windows across all devices", allowing you to build for every…

Hack at Brown 2016 Recap We did a recap at Hack At Brown - which is a hackathon at Brown University that runs in February every year. This year they had over 400 students, from many different…

When working with IOT one of the more common questions we get is this: "What is the typical architecture in IOT scenarios." In this video, David Crook uses a white board to diagram and…

When you are building a mobile app or a website mostly likely you are going to need some type of data repository. This can be either files, video or in the form of a "database". In order to…

Create your first Unity2d game in just 7 steps. In this tutorial, I will show you how to create a simple Unity2D game that will transport you right back to the 80s with a Pong style clone. In this…

In the previous Bits and Bytes, we looked at Getting Started with TypeScript, now we will see how we can add TypeScript support to existing projects. Similar to getting up and running we are going to…

Join Technical Evangelist Annie Bubinski for an interview with Walt Ritscher (@waltritscher), a trainer at Lynda.com, who presented this year at CodeMash 2016 about Data Visualizations. He showed…

Join Technical Evangelist, Annie Bubinski, for an interview with Wolf Goerlich (@jwgoerlich), who presented this year at CodeMash 2016 about Security Culture in Development. CodeMash has educated…

Join Technical Evangelist, Heather Shapiro, for an interview with Steve Sneed (@ThawedHead) and his son Zach, who presented this year at CodeMash 2016 about Laser Pong: Setting A Guinness World Record…

Join Technical Evangelist, Adina Shanholtz, for an interview with Mike Geig, who presented this year at CodeMash 2016 about Building Virtual Reality Games with Unity. CodeMash has educated developers…

Join Technical Evangelist, Sarah Sexton, for an interview with Brian Gantzler, who presented this year at CodeMash 2016 about Ember Data. CodeMash has educated developers on current practices,…

Join Technical Evangelist, Heather Shapiro, for an interview with Michael Perry(@michaellperry), who presented this year at CodeMash 2016 about How to Prevent Code Abuse. CodeMash has educated…

Join Technical Evangelist, Gabby Crevecoeur, for an interview with Maureen Zappala (@mzappala10), who presented this year at CodeMash 2016 about Building Confidence, Reducing "imposter…

Join Technical Evangelist, Annie Bubinski, for an interview with Parag Joshi (@ilovethexbox), who presented this year at CodeMash 2016 about the Rise of the Wearables. CodeMash has educated developers…

Join Technical Evangelist, Annie Bubinski, for an interview with Microsoft's David Giard (@davidGiard), who presented this year at CodeMash 2016 about Azure Mobile Apps. CodeMash has educated…

You might be wondering what is TypeScript. Is it yet another programming language I need to learn? Another set of API’s and documents to read through? Yes and no. It is a superset of the programming…

From Blocks to Lines Scratch for Educator Scratch is a great for to teach kids of all ages to learn how to code. Through gaming, design, and story telling scratch teaches kids the core fundamentals…

Microsoft teamed up with Playcrafting to host a Global Game Jam in NYC from January 29th-31st! Over 300 people attended and jammed throughout the weekend. Background Music The Spontaneous Elk…

Microsoft teamed up with Playcrafting to host a Global Game Jam in NYC from January 29th-31st! Over 300 people attended and jammed throughout the weekend. CONFFESSIONS OF A GAME DEV - We left a…

Please watch https://channel9.msdn.com/Niners/danstolts for the next version of this step-by-step which will cover Edge and Outlook 2016How to use RSS feeds in Internet Explorer 9Feeds, also known as…

Global Game Jam 2016 Demo Part 1Site: SCAD AtlantaDigital Media Center Theatre MobaCap owner / artist / animator / trainer James Martin demonstrates Motion Capture On Demand using a Perception Neuron…

Global Game Jam 2016 Demo Part 1Site: SCAD AtlantaDigital Media Center Theatre MobaCap owner / artist / animator / trainer James Martin demonstrates Motion Capture On Demand using a Perception Neuron…

Microsoft teamed up with Playcrafting to host a Global Game Jam in NYC from January 29th-31st! Over 300 people attended and jammed throughout the weekend. Alec Dawson delivered his Game Design Basics…

Microsoft teamed up with Playcrafting to host a Global Game Jam in NYC from January 29th-31st! Over 300 people attended and jammed throughout the weekend. David Kuelz gave his Intro to Narrative…

Microsoft teamed up with Playcrafting to host a Global Game Jam in NYC from January 29th-31st! Over 300 people attended and jammed throughout the weekend. Filip Baba @virtualations was on a team that…

Microsoft teamed up with Playcrafting to host a Global Game Jam in NYC from January 29th-31st! Over 300 people attended and jammed throughout the weekend. Alyssa "A.C" Menes (@acmenes)…

Hey PowerShell users, do you ever need to search for files while using PowerShell? I do all the time and the standard way in PowerShell just doesn't give me the options I want. Get-ChildItem -Recurse…

Microsoft teamed up with Playcrafting to host a Global Game Jam in NYC from January 29th-31st! Over 300 people attended and jammed throughout the weekend. Olga Andreyeva (@olgaandreyeva) delivered her…

Microsoft teamed up with Playcrafting to host a Global Game Jam in NYC from January 29th-31st. Over 300 people attended and jammed throughout the weekend. Matt Schell is a New York City based…

Join Microsoft Technical Evangelists, Unity Game Developers, and Savannah College of Art and Design students on another whirlwind adventure through 2016's GLOBAL GAME JAM!® January 29 - 31, 2016. We…

Jam Year: 2016Site: SCAD AtlantaDigital Media Center Theatre1611 W Peachtree St NEAtlanta, GA 30309United States Join Microsoft Technical Evangelists, Unity Game Developers, and Savannah College of…

If you're like me and think Not Another MySQL Install, when you go to setup WordPress... then look no further. A couple months back (I know I'm late, I'm sorry!!) I got to drive out to Alabama and…

If you download Unity 5 (in this case, 5.3.1 with the patch), and attempt to open up an old Unity 4.6 project, a pop-up dialogue will prompt you to upgrade to the newest version (which may take a few…

We caught up with solution architect and Microsoft Regional Director Michele Bustamante to chat about the new wave of Microservices and how this is effecting how we now think of building applications…

How To Download & Create a USB, DVD or ISO of Windows 10! Plus, tips for Migrating user data from their old machine to the new Windows 10 MachineIf you need to install or reinstall Windows 10…

Listen to the podcast Download the .mp3 Subscribe via iTunes Howard is an industry veteran who now works in academia at Shawnee State University's game development program in Ohio. Before working in…

Rejjee.com is a startup that is focusing on REVOLUTIONIZING THE WAY YOU PROTECT, MANAGE, AND REPLACE YOUR PERSONAL PROPERTY. They have integrated with police stations and are helping people all…

Listen to the podcastDownload the .mp3Subscribe via iTunesEthan Lee is a software engineer based out of Georgia, who has a history of working on what previously XNA, but is now his own open source…

Steven Murawski talks about CHEF References and where you can get training. Thank you for watching this series.

In this quick video, I walk through the process to manually update your Raspberry Pi 2 running Windows 10 IoT Core build 10.0.10586.0 to the new 10.0.10586.63 update. If you are running build…

Join Blain Barton and Steven Murawski at the Florida MeetUp as they do demos in CHEF and Azure. Check out ways to use recipes, cookbooks and change control for nodes.

In this video, we will create our first Xamarin Forms project in Visual Studio. We will run this app out of the box on Windows phone, then make some changes and see the same UI displayed on Android…

Are you a student interested in getting started with tools to create websites? Do you know a little HTML/CSS but don't know how to publish your website or a good text editor to write your code? This…

Xamarin recently release Xamarin Forms 2.0 and one of the biggest upgrades here is support for Windows UWP projects. Sure, we have been able to use Xamarin Forms to create shared UI between Android,…

Dan Mall is an award-winning creative director & advisor from Philadelphia; an enthralled husband and dad; founder & Director of SuperFriendly; and co-founder of Typedia, The Businessology…

Jed is a JavaScript developer based in Brooklyn and is currently the resident web nerd at UNIQLO in NYC. Jed is often seen on github, soundcloud, and twitter. At JS Open Day in NYC, Jed gave an…

Yotam Mann is a musician and programmer who creates open-ended compositions realized collaboratively with listeners. His interactive music pieces includes three Chrome Experiments, a Turbulence.org…

[00:00] - Introduction[04:41] - Create Virtual Machine[07:19] - Install R Studio[09:14] - Create New Script[10:11] - Install Packages[11:12] - Connect to SQL Azure[16:08] - Statistical…

Steven Murawski discusses introduction to CHEF and Azure, but starts out with his background and how he got started with CHEF. He then goes into the flow of CHEF and makes it very clear when starting…

View the slide deck here. Writing code for multiple platforms can be a lot of work. It can be even more work to have to completely rewrite it for each one, too. What if you wrote an application in…

This video will showcase all of the ways you can deploy and use WordPress on the Azure platform. You can use it your way. Maybe you have a project that needs to be up for a little while and do not…

A basic introduction to game development using Unity 5. Source Code: https://github.com/TobiahZ/CollectThemAll In this tutorial, we cover: Navigating Unity EditorBasic C# ScriptingBasic Camera…

Learn how to use the Kinect to control your Unity 5 game! Source Code: https://github.com/KatVHarris/Unity5-KinectGestures

So I play a lot of games (Heroes of the Storm!) and I frequently want to record what I'm doing, so that I can provide commentary for others, but also so that I can learn from my mistakes. I generally…

Join Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Mark Michaelis and myself in this candid discussion about C# Scripting - a new feature announced by Microsoft in November 2015. With C# Scripting, you can use…

Join Microsoft Regional Director and MVP Mark Michaelis and myself in this candid discussion about C# Scripting - a new feature announced by Microsoft in November 2015. With C# Scripting, you can use…

Have you experienced Dolby surround sound in a browser? re.flow is a music re-mixer and visualizer built to show off the spatial audio possible with Dolby Digital Plus within Microsoft Edge. It uses…

While looking to request a feature for our Edge browser, I was pointed towards the Windows Feedback tool, which is build into Windows 10. You can get to it by searching for "Feedback" in…

This year marked the first edition of Connect(), a live virtual event which took place in New York on November 18 - 19, 2015. The event focused on a variety of announcements surrounding the popular…

Learn best practices for Node.js with Visual Studio and Windows, including how and why to use npm packages and modules. Highlights include: [3:28]- Helloworld in node [6:26]- Bobblehead Generator!…

In Part 3 of 3, Andrew Mason from the Microsoft Product Group discusses the roadmap for Nano Server to conclude the 3 part series, hosted by the Florida IT Professionals MeetUp.

In this video, I talk about a simple way to setup a Scrum workflow using GitHub issues. [00:48] - GitHub Scrum Workflow Repo[01:51] - My Test Repo[02:28] - GitHub API for Labels[02:48] - GitHub…

In Part 2 of 3, guest Andrew Mason from the Microsoft Product Group in Redmond discusses Nano Server as an Application Platform. He'll discuss containers as well as benchmarks for Nano Server compared…

Ed Wilson discusses his new role within Microsoft and his new book PowerShell Step-By-Step 5.0 as well as the PowerShell Saturday #10 event happening in Tampa March 19th, 2016. Join us on IT Time =…

I have been trying to create and 3D Print a retro looking "ON AIR" sign to use when my kids and I are trying to record videos. I have been using Fusion 360 to do the modelling, but am…

In Part 1 of 3, guest Andrew Mason from the Microsoft Product Group in Redmond discusses Nano Server from Windows Server 2016 perspective at the Florida IT Professionals MeetUp. Windows Server 2016…

Highlights of the WildHacks hackathon at Northwestern University, November 21-22.

This is the keynote presentation at the 2015 Detroit Dev Day, held at Cobo Hall in Detroit November 15, 2015. David Giard talked about "You and the Technical Community"

In Part One we looked at getting up and running using Web Tiles and building a quick demo for a Windows Phone. In this episode we now look at setting up our computer to develop for the Band and well…

I recently wrote an article about some of my favorite Chrome extensions, partly because I wanted to share some of the things I felt worked well, but also because I wanted to learn about what others…

A look at the action at the Boilermake hackathon that took place October 16-18 at Purdue University.

Construct2 is a fantastic HTML5 game engine. Which means it -easy- to publish it to the web. During this video we will create a simple HTML5 website in Azure, tidy up and test our Construct2 game,…

Everybody Into The Pool! Node.js for .NET DevelopersMatthew SoucoupThat Conference 2015Day: Mon, Aug 10 Time: 4:00 PMLevel: 100 Category: CloudTags: node.js, .net It seems like Node.js is showing…

This video is a first in a series where I walk you through the updating of an older website to bring it to current web standards. Once of the first things that I do is add bootstrap to the site and…

This is a step by step walk through of using an existing dataset of homes collected from Zillow's data api to create our own "Z-Estimate" or estimated home value based on the information at…

AppStudio for Windows is a fantastic tool for knocking out some quick Windows 10 apps. There is a HTML widget in AppStudio which is very convenient for displaying static HTML content. But if you add…

AppStudio from Microsoft ( http://appstudio.windows.com/ ) is a fantastic online tool for generating 'reader' type applications. But sometimes moving from "cool in AppStudio" to…

Join Blain Barton and Ed Wilson on the boat in Hernando Beach Florida talking about their new books (Ed Blain) coming out and the technical topic around understanding objects from strings in…

Video clips from students participating at the second installment of Hack Dartmouth on October 3rd-4th, 2015. The students came up with great ideas and there were about 30 projects submitted; half of…

Learn how to develop applications that take advantage of the Microsoft Band. From accessing the full range of sensors including heart rate, accelerometer, gyroscope and skin temp to build interesting…

Students get a free Windows 10 publisher account via the DreamSpark.com program. But its not the most straight forward thing to get going. During this video we walk you through getting a publisher…

In this video, you will learn the basics of Navigation with your game. You will create a home page with a play button which takes you to your game. Then, when the player loses the game, he is…

In this video, you will learn how to create true running animations for your player. The character will move left or right with a walking motion, and then sit idle while not moving, exactly how you…

In this video, you will learn how to create a Heads Up Display, better known as a HUD. This is used to display necessary pieces of information during your game, such as Health, Score, Time, etc. …

In this video, you will learn how to create a Heads Up Display, better known as a HUD. This is used to display necessary pieces of information during your game, such as Health, Score, Time, etc. …

In this variable, you will learn how to use variables. Variables allow you to store pieces of information to use throughout the game. A couple of examples of relevant pieces of information are…

In this video, you will get an intro to the Event Sheet where you will add logic to your game. Logic always takes the form of Events and Actions. And Event is some kind of condition or trigger…

In this video, you will add some additional objects to your game such as a real player sprite, moving platforms, and spikes! Course ***Course Resources - http://bitly.com/gaminginthecloud *** Have…

In this video, you will learn about using TileMaps to create and build out levels. TileMaps allow you to create massive and multiple layouts very quickly. This will be the basis for building out the…

In this video, you will learn how to add sprites to your game to represent characters, enemies, platforms, etc. Sprites will be one of the core ways to add characters to your game! You will also get…

In this video, learn how to create your first project. You will notice tons of free templates, samples, and tutorials, but we still start by creating a Retro Style Project, which includes some…

In this video, we will walk through downloading and installing Construct 2 on your machine to make sure you are ready to follow along! ***Download https://www.scirra.com/ *** Course ***Course…

Structure and Resources In this video we will talk through the structure of this course. The general structure is you, the viewer, will be walked through how to implement some of the core concepts of…

We've got a Reddit thread for this, with lots of conversation happening. For this ongoing event, I plan on illustrating a number of ways that you can get started in the gaming industry, regardless of…

Part 1 - Database Projects https://channel9.msdn.com/Blogs/Have-you-tried-turning-it-off-and-on-again/Creating-a-Database-Project-for-Artificial-Intelligence Part 2 - Deploying to SQL Azure…

Welcome to Intro to Construct2! I designed a tutorial to use the main aspects of Construct2. Please use the timestamps below to jump to the section you want to watch. Getting Started In order to get…

Node.js is a powerful, open source framework for facilitating JavaScript apps on the server. The best thing about Node.js for web apps is that it allows a developer to use the same development…

Vermont Code Camp is a full day event that brings together technology community members, students and professionals from around Vermont and beyond. In 2015, there were sessions on a variety of…

UPDATE: Lots of conversation going on at Reddit regarding this post. Here is the second part of this series. A common question I receive is "How do I get into the gaming Industry?" In fact,…

In April, Microsoft released Visual Studio Code as part of its //Build conference. I have been using it on my MBP for most of the coding I do on the Mac. I found a number of things I really…

In this video, Sarah walks us through building your first Node.js app from scratch, all the way to deploying it on Azure. Her thoroughness is absolutely refreshing! For more information, check out…

I've found the Particle (once called Spark) boards to be the easiest way to get started in the Internet of Things. Since each chip is wifi enabled from the start, it's easy to flash code! Here I set…

Angular or Backbone, which one you will use in your mobile app? How could you develop a mobile app across iOS, Android or windows devices? This talk will take an intimate look at two of today's most…

In this interview James Sturtevant talk with Bryan Soltis from Kentico. Bryan is a Technical Evangelist for Kentico and has been working with Azure since it was in beta. In this video he talks about…

In this quick tutorial, I will show you how to create your own WordPress site using Windows Azure. WordPress is super easy to use and a great tool for creating blogs or tracking your projects and…

C# 6 makes coding even easier. Watch how Michael Palermo guides the discussion by comparing previous approaches to common tasks with new ways introduced in version 6. Features covered include auto…

This quick paced video shows the steps I took to build a lighted "GIVE" sign powered by Windows 10 IoT Core on a Raspberry Pi 2, and using Azure as a back end to control the sign remotely. …

Last time on Braindump on Node.js, Kat and I attempted to bootstrap the topic and get started with this cool server-side framework. Node.js runs like a champ in Azure and is fun for all sorts of…

The SplitView control is a new addition to XAML for Windows 10 Applications. It's basic use is to display a side menu, such as the one usually called "hamburger menu". One thing to note is…

Although we have added the SplitView control to XAML with the ability to create a hamburger menu, we lack documentation on how to actually create the hamburger button. Honestly, I have searched and…

Learn how to create an Azure website, then publish to it from a Github repository.

Adaptive Triggers is extremely useful for creating "responsive" applications, ones that adapt to the current screen size. This is necessary with Windows 10 because the same application can…

Learn how to create a simple Azure website, then push the files from your local repo to create a live working Azure website.

In my previous video, Adaptive Triggers Intro, we started from the very beginning with Adaptive Triggers. We create a simple sample that displayed the current "state" (phone, tablet, of…

In this tutorial, I will show you how to make your own touch sensors using Velostat , a pressure sensitive material that can be cut into any shape you might need. For this tutorial you will need:…

Have a few breadboards, but not sure how they really work ? We'll go through the basics of breadboard - the essential building block for your electronics kit. Get prototyping your electrical circuits…

ASP.NET5 is a new open source and cross platform framework for building cloud-ready web apps using .NET. In this video I am going to show you how to get an ASP.NET5 project running on Windows and …

ProvisionStorageConfiguration.ps1https://gallery.technet.microsoft.com/scriptcenter/Storage-Spaces-Automated-3caf249a After hardware validation, you can begin creating Storage Pools and Virtual…

This is the first of a two part series on "Automating and Testing Storage Spaces Performance with PowerShell-Part 1of Using Storage Spaces Deployment Guide" In the series, we walk through…

Let's Talk Open Source .NET .NET is Open Source and with this comes an opportunity for new and existing developers to contribute to this growing community. Before I jump into code and building a…

Full source project: https://github.com/jasonrwalters/Unity_CustomInspectorDescriptionDisplay variables created in scripts to be displayed in a GameObject's inspector.- Useful for adjusting game…

Full source project: https://github.com/jasonrwalters/Unity_PlayerController using UnityEngine; using System.Collections; public class PlayerController : MonoBehaviour { public bool…

In the past couple of months since the Microsoft Build conference, we have heard several exciting pieces of news surrounding, among many other things, the future of Windows. Windows 10 is the next…

This video tutorial is a basic example on using Raycasting in Unity. Source code here: https://github.com/jasonrwalters/Unity_Raycast using UnityEngine; using System.Collections; public class…

This is the first in a somewhat experimental series called Brain Dump on Node.js with colleagues Jeremy Foster and Kat Harris. Kat is a passionate game developer and is interested in using Node.js as…

Ever wanted to communicate with an Arduino using Node? We'll explore how to write values from an Arduino and get capture those values in a Node app using serial communication. This tutorial will show…

In this video, Jennifer Marsman describes various ways to get data into Azure Machine Learning: use the samples, upload from your local machine, create quick datasets within the tool, or read data…

David and Brian walk through labs showing how to use Powershell to manage Virtual Machines and Networks in Azure. In this screencast, we cover Lab 3, where you will learn how to use Powershell to…

Hello Internet, and welcome to a She Builds Games: Video! My name is Sarah, and this is a video about Demystifying Construct 2! Construct 2 is a free drag-and-drop game maker. It creates 2-Dimensional…

In this Azure Walkthrough I cover how to set up an existing NodeJS website in an Azure Web App. Then edit the website with Visual Studio Online You can learn more about running NodeJS on Azure on…

In this July 2015 conversation, Jeff Fritz describes some of the features we can expect in the upcoming ASP.NET 5.

David and Brian walk through labs showing how to use Powershell to manage Virtual Machines and Networks in Azure. In this screencast, we cover the last part of Lab 4, where you will learn how to use…

David and Brian walk through labs showing how to use Powershell to manage Virtual Machines and Networks in Azure. In this screencast, we cover the first part of Lab 4, where you will learn how to…

Hello Internet, and welcome to a She Builds Games: Video! My name is Sarah, and this is a video about how to set Visual Studio to be your default script editor in Unity 3D. We know that Unity already…

While PowerShell alone is great for deploying Azure Virtual Machines, the newest innovations in Visual Studio make PowerShell plus Azure even easier! Join Tommy Patterson and Ian Philpot as they walk…

After the big announcement day of Visual Studio 2015, I wanted to take a few minutes to capture some of my initial thoughts and highlights from the day.

A quick reaction to the Visual Studio 2015 launch event on July 20th, 2015. Be sure to explore the social reaction to the launch on Palermo4.com!

This video walks through the Azure configuration for the Connect the Dots IoT project. The Connect The Dots implementation requires a number of Azure resources and services that need to be created…

David and Brian walk through labs showing how to use Powershell to manage Virtual Machines and Networks in Azure. In this screencast, we cover Lab 2, where you learn to use Powershell to create…

David and Brian walk through labs showing how to use Powershell to manage Virtual Machines and Networks in Azure. In this video, we cover Lab 1: Building the Foundation, where you learn how to use…

Ever wanted to get more information on your Azure website? For example, do you want to see live streaming for your logs or see application logging information? Would you like to navigate the sites…

GUI's are great, but everyone should embrace the command line! If you want to interact with your Azure content from the command line, there are two ways to do it - PowerShell, which works on Windows,…

In this video I talk to Floyd Hilton about Visual Studio Database Projects. Floyd introduces us to Database Projects and how they are used. He covers how to import your database, source control for…

Microsoft software engineer Ahmet Alp Blakan delivers a keynote speech in Seattle on an open-source Docker project which has more than 800 contributors from all around the world. Watch as he explores…

In this Azure Walkthrough I cover how to set up a continuous deployment to an Azure Web Site with Deployment Slots. You can learn more about setting up staging slots including slot settings and…

Ryan Joy and Samuel Cozannet discuss Big Data on Microsoft Azure with Canonical Juju.

Led by Tim Benroeck, we see a presentation of Azure and it's applications for businesses, including its advantages for start-ups. He leads into a discussion with Greg Doerr, CTO of ClearContract…

Shahed Chowdhuri hosts a fireside chat event, focusing on how to scale out applications which are built on relational databases using Apache Cassandra and Microsoft Azure’s flexible, open-source…

Led by Jeremy Foster (@codefoster), this Fireside Chat with members of CloudCoreo & Heroic.ly, discuss their business startups and the applications they used to adapt, evolve, and expand their…

Luke Tillman, Language Evangelist at DataStax, focuses on how to scale out applications built on relational databases by using DataStax Enterprise built on Apache Cassandra and Microsoft Azure’s…

Luke Tillman, Language Evangelist at DataStax, leads a discussion of what Cassandra is and why it is important. He covers topics such as how Cassandra is different, it’s use as an application for…