The Geek Girl: Tara's Developer Ramblings from the Dorm
Tara is a Microsoft Technical Evangelist formerly know as Developer Evangelist. Currently focusing on Windows 8 & Mobile Cross-Platform development with C# working with Professional & Student/Academic developers. Dabbling with JavaScript, WinJS,
Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 6: Creating Enemies and Detecting Collisions
Overview Last time we met in Part 5 of this blog series, we created an animation to bring the ship...
Date: 08/25/2013
Honeycomb Rush Tutorial for Windows 8 (Presentation/Code from MonkeySpace Conference)
Overview This tutorial will introduce you to game development on Windows 8 by using the MonoGame...
Date: 08/16/2013
Public Service Announcement: Blog Update
Hi All: As I finalize two great blog posts, I wanted to announce my new blog:...
Date: 08/16/2013
Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 5: Animating the Player/Ship and Creating a Parallaxing Background
Overview In Part 4 of this blog series, we added the ability for the user to interact with the game...
Date: 04/12/2013
Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 4: Adding and Processing Player (User) Input
Before we get into adding the code to receive and processing input from the player (user) of the...
Date: 02/23/2013
Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 3: Updating Graphics using Content Pipeline with MonoGame
Overview MonoGame currently does not have a Content Pipeline as a part of the framework therefore we...
Date: 01/04/2013
Home for the Holidays? How about a Holiday App Challenge to Pad those Worn Pockets..
Want to Have a Very Appy (yes Appy) Holiday? Looking for a way to make some Extra Money ($$) over...
Date: 12/14/2012
Windows 8 Game Development using C#, XNA and MonoGame 3.0: Building a Shooter Game Walkthrough – Part 2: Creating the Shooter/Player Asset of the Game
Overview The Shooter game from the XNA Game tutorial is a particular type of game with a set of...
Date: 12/10/2012
Get Appy: The Windows Store is Open For Developers
Are you ready for the good news? Ready to Get Appy? Well here it is, the Windows Store is open...
Date: 09/13/2012
Students Vying to Be the Big App on Campus: You Can Help!
This year has been exciting to be a Developer Evangelist covering the Academic space. It’s...
Date: 02/24/2012
Want to Get and Keep a Job…Coding Seems to be the Key
Today I read a commentary out of the San Francisco Bay Area, that discussed the fact that in...
Date: 02/17/2012
Want Fame? The Big Apps On Campus is the Way
Hopefully by now if you are a student at any College or University, You have heard about the Big...
Date: 01/20/2012
Been Camping Lately? Get resources from the HTML5 and Windows Phone 7 Developer Camps
Many of you have attended a HTML5 and JavaScript Web/Game Camps we’ve conducted in the East Region...
Date: 12/16/2011
Never Too Young or Too Old to Be a Developer or a College Student: Meet 15-year old JUNIOR at Morehouse College – Stephen Stafford
I hope everyone had a Happy Thanksgiving. I am thankful for the great experiences of being an...
Date: 11/25/2011
Calling All Windows Phone Student Developers: Get Started Building your WP7 Apps & Games and WIN BIG
For those of you interested in building an Windows Phone app or putting the finishing touches on...
Date: 11/19/2011
Windows Phone Student Developers: Are you Ready for Some Football?? Oops I Meant Ready for Some Win Phone!
It’s a great time to be a Student Windows Phone Developer in the South, especially if you attend a...
Date: 11/10/2011
Cloudy with a Chance of Azure: Learn more about Windows Azure with new Tutorials (yeah w/PHP & Eclipse too)
Learn more about Windows Azure and Windows Azure Interoperability with PHP with these great new and...
Date: 02/22/2011
Time for your Body to take Control...the Kinect SDK is coming
Yesterday we at Microsoft were very excited that Microsoft Research announced it will release a...
Date: 02/22/2011
The Big Apple Goes Big in the Cloud - If we can make it there, We can make it anywhere, NY
In a 5 year deal with New York City, Microsoft is projected to help save the city a whopping 50...
Date: 10/20/2010
Windows Phone 7 Officially is Here: Ready, Set, Code!
Today is the Formal announcement and introduction of Windows Phone 7. Windows Phone 7 will be first...
Date: 10/11/2010
The Cloud is Open: Windows Azure support for PHP Developer
Vijay Rajagopalan, Microsoft Principal Architect in the Interoperability group, unveiled at Open...
Date: 09/20/2010
Didn't make it to the MIX Conference, Want to know the latest on Windows Phone, Silverlight, and XNA?
What is MIX? A 3 day conference for web designers and developers building the world's most...
Date: 08/24/2010
Top Three Tips for Running Apps in the Cloud
Our own Joe Healy, Microsoft Developer Evangelist in Florida, interviews Ryan Dunn,...
Date: 08/11/2010
Want to Get Your Head in the Clouds - Learn Windows Azure
If you are really interested in learning Windows and SQL Azure, they is no better time than the...
Date: 08/06/2010
Get Your Head in the Cloud! Try Windows Azure and SQL Azure FREE for a Month.
Try the Windows Azure and SQL Azure free for a month. Get in the Cloud! Through this unique offer,...
Date: 08/05/2010
Visual Studio Interoperability and Cross-Platform Development
I got asked by a customer today around this topic so I thought I would share some resources around...
Date: 04/17/2008
Visual Studio and TFS 2008 Compatibility with Earlier VS/TFS Versions
As most people are aware we released VS and TFS 2008 some months ago, but what seems to be a...
Date: 04/14/2008
Welcome to the Developer Tools Specialist Blog for the Greater Southeast
On this blog, you will get some good information about not only the technical aspects of Visual...
Date: 04/14/2008