June 10

Building a Location-based App Using the Finder Template

By on June 10, 2013 in Community Rock Stars

The Windows 8 Finder Template is a template developed to allow developers to quickly and easily create a location based type application for the Windows 8 store. It allows a developer to easily pull existing point of interest data into the app to display on a map. If no point of interest data is available, [...]

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June 5

MobileStartupsTO features: Designing & Developing for Windows 8

By on June 5, 2013 in Community Rock Stars, Events, Featured

    Article written by Kevin Yu, marketing intern at People & Code. On May 8, 2013, People & Code hosted their MobileStartupsTO Special Feature: Designing & Developing for Windows 8. Presenters Ashley Arbour (Interactive Designer) and Mukul Seth (Interactive Developer) from Digiflare, a full service digital agency, talked to the group about their experiences [...]

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May 22

The Developer Movement final challenge is there

By on May 22, 2013 in Featured

It’s already the last challenge! So many points had been giving. So many prizes have been redeemed. It’s now time for the second edition of Developer Movement to bow out, but it will be done with class! For this last challenge, that will end on June 15th, we have many prizes. For each Windows 8 [...]

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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 on May 3, 2013 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

By on April 30, 2013 in Featured

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

By on April 29, 2013 in Featured

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 on April 22, 2013 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

By on April 22, 2013 in Featured

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?

By on April 8, 2013 in Uncategorized

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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