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• Developing Apps for Microsoft Surface, Windows 8, Windows RT and Windows Phone 8

  Posted To ActiveNick's Big Bald Blog By Nick Landry On Tue, Jun 19 2012

  POST UPDATE: I updated the details in this post to reflect the new public announcements regarding Windows Phone 8 on 6/20. Microsoft just raised the bar in the tablet market. Unless you’ve been living under a rock for the past 24 hours, you know...

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  Tags / WPF, XNA, Windows 7, Android, Mobile Development, Microsoft Surface, Gaming, Touch Computing, Windows Phone, Microsoft, Infragistics, iPhone, Visual Basic, Silverlight, iPad, Windows Phone SDK, Nokia, Lumia 800, Samsung, Apple, Xbox LIVE, Apollo, Event, GameDev, Windows RT, Metro, iOS, HTML5, Visual Studio, Javascript, HP, Win32, Paul Thurrott, OEM, C++, MacBook, WinRT, Kindle Fire, ARM, Dell, Tablet, Java, Netbook, Perl, Blackberry, F#, Lenovo, Ultrabook, Microsoft .NET, Toshiba, Direct3D, Ruby, Python, WinJS, Windows 8, C#, Haskell

• TechBash Event Follow-up: Windows Phone, Azure, XNA, Oh My!

  Posted To ActiveNick's Big Bald Blog By Nick Landry On Wed, May 2 2012

  Thank you to everyone who attended my TechBash sessions last Saturday. It’s never easy to give up half a weekend to go learn cool new developer stuff and hopefully it was all worth it for you. As mentioned, all my presentation slides and demos are...

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  Tags / XNA, Mobile Development, Windows Phone, Enterprise Mobility, Microsoft, Community, Azure, Free Tools, Nuget, Windows Phone SDK, Conference, Event, Slides, GameDev, Windows Azure Toolkit, WATWP, Azure Storage, Notifications, Cloud, TechBash, Brent Schooley, Ambrose Little

• Bytes by MSDN: Jerry Nixon & Nick Landry Talk Mobile Apps & Games at GDC

  Posted To ActiveNick's Big Bald Blog By Nick Landry On Tue, Apr 24 2012

  Earlier in March I attended the Game Developers Conference (GDC) for the first time in four years. That week, I had the pleasure of connecting with Jerry Nixon , Microsoft Developer Evangelist in Colorado, who interviewed me for Bytes by MSDN . Join us...

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  Tags / Product Management, XNA, NetAdvantage, Data Visualization, Mobile Development, Gaming, Windows Phone, Jobs, Infragistics, iPhone, Free Tools, Windows Phone SDK, Apple App Store, Conference, Event, GameDev, iOS, Dragonvale, GDC, Backflip Studios, Bytes by MSDN, Kosmic Warz, Jerry Nixon

• Deeper in .NET 2012 Event Follow-up: From the Hand to the Cloud–Building Windows Phone Apps & Games with Azure

  Posted To ActiveNick's Big Bald Blog By Nick Landry On Sat, Mar 31 2012

  Thank you to everyone who attended my #DiDN12 session on this cloudy (pun intended) Saturday morning. I greatly appreciate everyone’s dedication to get up early and give up half of their weekend to come listen to the bald French-Canadian yap about...

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  Tags / Mobile Development, Windows Phone, Enterprise Mobility, Microsoft, Community, Azure, Free Tools, Nuget, Windows Phone SDK, Conference, Event, GameDev, Windows Azure Toolkit, Deeper in .NET, WATWP, Azure Storage, Notifications, Cloud

• CodepaLOUsa Event Follow-up: Building Windows Phone Games in 3D with XNA

  Posted To ActiveNick's Big Bald Blog By Nick Landry On Thu, Mar 29 2012

  Sorry for the delay folks. If you attended my talk at CodepaLOUsa a couple weeks back in Louisville, KY, here are the presentation materials I promised you . In this ZIP file you’ll find my presentation deck, as well as the sample Windows Phone...

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  Tags / XNA, Mobile Development, Windows Phone, Community, Free Tools, Windows Phone SDK, Conference, Event, Slides, GameDev, CodepaLOUsa