Use a template, publish your Windows 8 app, and get 100$ – limited offer

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May 9

Lost Keys HD for Windows 8, a game about demons, and magic

By on May 9, 2013 in Community Rock Stars

At Make Web Not War we like to promote applications or games the people in communities are doing around our platforms. We did an interview with Rob Targosz, who build a Windows 8 game around magic, and demons. As far as we like demons, and playing games on our devices (not during work hours… ahum… [...]

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May 3

Three ways to set up a Ruby stack on Azure

By in Geek Speak, Training & Webcasts

Microsoft’s announcement of the Windows Azure SDK for Ruby opens up new alternatives and resources for Ruby developers to publish their apps in the cloud. This first version of the SDK (GitHub) supports working with Azure storage & Azure service bus, and deployment in a Linux VM on Azure IaaS. The 3 options covered below [...]

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April 30

Use a template, publish your Windows 8 app, and get 100$ – limited offer

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It’s already May, the summer is really taking place, the vacations are coming in a couple of weeks, and our partners are going crazy like this crazy frog! With the overwhelming feedbacks they had around some of the templates for Windows 8, they are improving the previous offer: use one of the templates listed below, [...]

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April 29

Build your next great game for Windows 8

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Even if learning how to build Windows 8 application, if you are a Web Developer, is not a hard task, we still believe that starter kits (or templates) are one of the way to go to learn how to do it. One of the things I like to do on my Windows 8 device is [...]

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April 22

Setting up Ubuntu Linux VM on Windows Azure for Node.js using essential Node & Azure tools on Mac OS X

By in Geek Speak, Training & Webcasts

As of lately I’ve been experimenting with Node.JS and Express for back-ends and REST APIs of web, mobile & Windows 8 apps, such as the Hero & Finder Templates.While Azure Web Sites provide a perfect way to get going fast with Node, because Web Sites aren’t running IIS8 yet, to use Socket.IO with Node I’d [...]

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April 22

The 3rd developer movement challenge & the developer movement extension

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If you follow us on Twitter or on Facebook, you probably already hear about the new challenge, and the developer movement extension, but we thought it would be good to do a blog post. Firstly, let’s start with the Developer Movement program extension: you now have until June 15th to participate, and get some points! [...]

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April 8

Why Are My Design Skills Weaksauce?

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There is not a day that goes by while perusing the Internet and all its glory (ok, excluding all the haters, trolls and evil) that I find something really well-designed and think to myself: “Why are my design skills so weaksauce?” I see amazing websites and apps that really nail the design and when I [...]

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April 8

Have some fun exploring HTML5 games with PONG!

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Take a couple of hours to learn your way around HTML5 and Canvas while creating your own version of Pong! Whether you have built games on other platforms and are trying to learn your way around gaming with HTML5, or you have never built a game before and have always wanted to, here’s a great [...]

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April 2

Windows Store App Labs now available in Montreal, register now, it’s free!

By in Featured, Geek Speak

I’m happy to announce that we now have Windows Store App Labs in Montreal. In my post about Notman House last week, I mention quickly the app labs, but I want to be sure everybody understands what is an App Lab!   Why I should attend? A Windows Store App lab is a free two hour [...]

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March 28

Microsoft lounge at Notman House

By in Geek Speak

At Microsoft Canada, we like startups. We want to help them be successful so we targeted three startups spaces where we would be able to set a lounge, and have a Microsoft presence. We already set up a space at MaRS in Toronto, Launch Academy in Vancouver, and now, Notman House in Montreal. Talk to [...]

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