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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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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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] Unity has released the open beta for Windows Store apps. Last week Unity announced the availability of Unity 4.2 as an open beta for Windows store apps. Don’t know Unity? Unity is a popular game development platform. They have an entire mobile game development ecosystem: powerful rendering engine, continuously updated development toolset that includes [...]

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This weekend I had family visiting, so I wasn’t able to attend any of the OpenDataDay events. However, I decided to do my own “mini-hackathon” during my Saturday lunch break using the new Finder & Hero templates for Windows 8.   UPDATE: Use my Finder template updated with a couple of small fixes. I said [...]

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Are you an iOS developer? Did you think about porting your application to a new platform? Are you curious about the opportunities around Windows 8? Do you want to learn a new technology that you can add to your knowledge arsenal? I know, Objective-C is not the same as C#, HTML5 or even C++, but I [...]

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If you’ve ever built a website or web application then you’ve undoubtedly gone through the pains of opening multiple browsers on multiple operating systems and have likely called a friend or uncle to ask them to test it on their machines too. I know I have – which is likely why most people don’t pick [...]

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Did you remember Atari games? I admit, I was too young when it was launched, but that doesn’t mean that I didn’t play a lot of these games. I have a good news for you, they are back! Starting today, you can now play your preferred games like Pong, or Asteroids in your browser (or [...]

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Ever wanted to learn more about HTML5, CSS3 and JavaScript? You want to discover what you can accomplish with this new technology, but you don’t know where to start? Do you struggle to find some time  to sit down and become a HTML5 ninja? If you say yes to one of those questions, I have [...]

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If you haven’t found it yet and you are doing HTML, javaScript or CSS development, check out jsfiddle! Sometimes you hear about a cool new HTML5 feature and you want to explore it, but you don’t want to go through the hassle of building and deploying a web page to do it. This is when [...]

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HTML5 is so awesome, but doesn’t work on all browsers, modernizr is the first step to supporting old browsers when you write HTML5 code HTML5 really does rock, with so many great features like the <video> tag, <Audio> tag, new elements like <header>, <footer> and attributes to do cool validation on <input>. But Internet Explorer [...]

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