The odd ramblings of a geek pretending to not be "all grown up"
A couple of months ago, I joined a new team in Microsoft, one focused on something I hold near and...
Date: 06/13/2016
Note: This is a summary of a guide that I and a couple of other great people worked on – link to the...
Date: 07/31/2013
As the deadline is fast approaching for the online Imagine Cup Games competition, we thought it...
Date: 03/25/2013
I’m truly excited about WOWZAPP 2012: Worldwide Hackathon for Windows, and it’s great to see all...
Date: 10/15/2012
With the general availability of Windows 8 rapidly approaching (October 26, if you missed the...
Date: 09/11/2012
If you’re teaching development in a school or college and want to bring your content up to date with...
Date: 08/09/2012
The World Festival of Imagine Cup 2012 is on right now in Sydney, Australia and I'm ecstatic to...
Date: 07/10/2012
Just minutes ago the top six teams were announced for the Software Design competition of Imagine Cup...
Date: 07/08/2012
Congratulations to the top five teams in the two Game Design tracks for progressing to the final...
Date: 07/07/2012
Just moments ago we announced the top twenty teams at the Imagine Cup worldwide finals in Sydney,...
Date: 07/07/2012
Here we are again! Another year and another brilliant batch of games that have wowed the judges....
Date: 05/23/2012
I’m totally excited for this weekend. It’s the annual GlobalGameJam where hundreds of...
Date: 01/26/2012
Normally I like to write my own text for my blog posts, but my team mate, Peter Laudati, has done a...
Date: 12/10/2011
I am constantly discovering super cool apps for the Windows Phone and a team mate suggested I should...
Date: 12/06/2011
One question that crops up a lot when I talk to students about the Game Design competitions is how...
Date: 12/06/2011
In a recent post, I walked through the process of getting up and running with DreamSpark, AppHub,...
Date: 11/14/2011
I truly love my job. It takes me to exotic places like Cairo, Warsaw and Paris. It gets my...
Date: 11/10/2011
We’re holding another game camp, this time a mega-one! We have four different activities to choose...
Date: 10/31/2011
To make it easier to ask questions about Imagine Cup and Game Design, I’ve set up a series of...
Date: 10/28/2011
The sixth New York City Code Camp is just around the corner – have you registered yet? It’s going to...
Date: 09/14/2011
A Phone Camp is an all day event where you get to go hands on with Windows Phone 7.0 and 7.5,...
Date: 09/14/2011
WOOHOO! The third game camp for New York is at a close and it finished off an amazing February with...
Date: 03/13/2011
If you do – I strongly encourage you to keep an eye out for game camps in your area or even better...
Date: 02/25/2011
If you’re keen to try your hand at HTML5 for the web track of Game Design in Imagine Cup this year...
Date: 02/19/2011
Just a heads up that the two live meetings we held last week to field questions and cover...
Date: 02/17/2011
I’ve uploaded a few photos from the We <3 Games weekend at Rochester Institute of Technology to...
Date: 02/13/2011