Dave Voyles for Gaming, HTML5, Startups, & Xbox
I love Gaming, HTML5, Startups, & Xbox, so I figured "why not spread the good word?"
Debugging web apps with Vorlon JS
The fine folks on the TED teach at Microsoft introduced VorlonJS during //BUILD last week. Vorlon is...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 05/03/2015
Video from the 2015 Imagine Cup US Finals is online
Every year, the Microsoft Imagine Cup helps thousands of students across the world express their...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 05/01/2015
Video update of my Unity shmup
I’ve been working on a shmup for the last year in my free time. Here’s a video of the...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/30/2015
MonoGame 3.4 is out, has support for Windows 10, and that will include Xbox One
Today the MonoGame team released 3.4, which includes a flurry of updates, but most importantly,...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/29/2015
A Developer’s Guide to Windows 10
With the imminent launch of Windows 10 this summer, I’ll have a lot of information on my blog...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/24/2015
Use this HTML5 video player sample for your hackathon projects
Last week Microsoft announced the new Azure Media Services video player. Here’s the biggest...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/22/2015
Video learning path for creating high performance HTML5 applications
I’m all about web technology for writing cross platform and mobile applications. I’ve...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/20/2015
Unity, Unreal Engine 4, & Cocos2D will now ship with Visual Studio set as the default IDE, free to use
Recently Microsoft announced a new deal with these engine providers: Unity Technologies, Epic Games,...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/20/2015
Using blob storage to host my podcast .mp3 files
I host a podcast called The Indie Dev Podcast where I interview game developers from around the...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/20/2015
Live streaming HTML5 video using Azure Media Services
Jason Seuss, a Principal PM Manager on the Azure Media Services team gave a great overview of this...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/16/2015
Latest progress and updates to Microsoft’s Spartan browser
Below are some links my co-worker, David Rousset, has compiled a list of links for Microsoft’s...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/16/2015
Introduction to Azure Media Services, AES, PlayReady, and video transports
In the previous tutorial, I gave a high-level overview of HTML5 video and many of the transport...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/16/2015
Microsoft Virtual Academy for free video training
I'm always kind of surprised when people ask me where to go to learn how to program. I went to...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/16/2015
How to write games for Xbox One – Video and slides
I recently gave a talk about game development on Xbox One for Brazil’s Game Expereince virtual...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/13/2015
I spoke about WebGL on David Giard’s video podcast
My peer in Chicago, David Giard, has a video podcast called “Technology and Friends”....
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/13/2015
Introduction to HTML5 video
This is part of an ongoing series of content that I’ll be writing about using Azure...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/12/2015
Check out my CarPuter project from 2009
While I was in college I had a fascination with creating the most tech savvy interior for a car that...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/11/2015
I highly recomend Malcolm Gladwell’s book “Outliers: The Story of Success”
I spend a lot of time on planes and trains, and along the way, I enjoy reading when I can’t...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/11/2015
Slides from my WebGL / asm.js talk at ECGC
I gave a talk this morning at the East Coast Game Conference about the current state of WebGL for...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 04/09/2015
Google Polymer and web components tutorial
Source code: GitHub Live demo: https://pokemonwebaudio.azurewebsites.net/ I started working...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 03/14/2015
Accessing member functions in Polymer elements
I’m working on a silly Polymer project right now, which parses a Pokemon database and returns...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 03/09/2015
Unity 5 Roadshow is coming to Philadelphia Thurs April 2nd
You can sign up here. When and where Philly Game Forge 239 Chestnut Street 2nd Floor Philadelphia,...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 03/09/2015
GDC: Xbox LIVE and Xbox One will be open to many more developers now
Chris Charla, Director of Microsoft’s ID@Xbox program gave a talk at GDC today, covering many...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 03/04/2015
I wrote a JavaScript study guide
JavaScript study guide JavaScript is a disgusting language. But I love it! It’s riddled with awful...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 03/02/2015
Steam in-home streaming to a Dell Venue Pro
I’ve got a little Dell Venue Pro that I use from time-to-time for work. It’s a $209...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 02/24/2015
New weekly newsletter is out
This is my weekly newsletter which covers my favorite stories of the week in the fields of Tech,...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 02/20/2015
asm.js is headed to the Chakra JavaScript engine for Spartan in Windows 10, and what it means for games
Earlier today, we flipped asm.js to “In Development” at status.modern.ie. Support for asm.js has...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 02/18/2015
Adding WinJS to your website
I recently started assisting on a demo project with my peer in Raleigh, David Crook, where he is...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 02/17/2015
Sample project for using ASP.NET Web API in Xamarin iOS apps
This lab goes through the process of creating an ASP.NET Web API project in Visual Studio, and then...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 02/15/2015
I talked about game dev on this week’s Azure podcast
The folks at the Azure podcast brought me on this week, to talk about how to use Azure as a game...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 02/13/2015
Video and book recommendations for startups
I recently discovered that a co-worker, Mandeep, and I shared a number of the same interests....
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 02/11/2015
My weekly newsletter is out
This is my weekly newsletter which covers my favorite stories of the week in the fields of Tech,...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 02/11/2015
Visual Studio 2015 Preview Tools for Unity is out now
Herr’s a link to download it. You’re probably already familiar with Visual Studio tools...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 02/05/2015
Learn to program with 24 free eBooks (post from Life Hacker)
Students and friends are always asking me, “How do I learn to program?” I learned by...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 02/04/2015
Intro to big data, HDInsight (Hadoop) on Azure
TLDR: HDInsight is Microsoft’s flavor of hadoop. It’s used to collect massive amounts of...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 02/03/2015
New format for my weekly newsletter
A friend had recommended that I consider a new format for my newsletter, and I agreed, thinking this...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 02/03/2015
Call for speakers is open at the 2015 Philly.NET code camp
Code Camp 2015.1 Interested? Apply here. Some History 21st Code Camp over 9 years Run by a dedicated...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 02/03/2015
On saying “no”
Evangelism I love my job. When I first came on board to the Developer Evangelism team at Microsoft,...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 01/31/2015
Microsoft’s talks at GDC 2015
GDC isn’t far away (March 2-5th), so you had better get on it if you haven’t booked a...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 01/31/2015
Announcing Xamarin Hack day at Microsoft Malvern on Sat, March 14
James Nichols, founder of the Philadelphia Xamarin meetup group has recently been brought on board...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 01/29/2015
New “Prepose” scripting langauge for Kinect 2 from Microsoft Research
Kinect 2 for Windows has been out since last July, and we’ve seen a ton of awesome projects coming...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 01/29/2015
How to Get Hired at Microsoft as a student
Anthony Rotoli, a University Recruiter at Microsoft just did a great interview with Heather Wood...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 01/27/2015
ASP.NET Web API vs Azure Mobile Services
When it comes to any sort of technology, I’m similar to the pooch in the picture above....
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 01/27/2015
Microsoft Technical Evangelist, Dave Voyles on the State of Startups in Philadelphia
Last week I spoke to students at Villanova’s School of Business about the state of startups in...
Author: Dave Voyles - MSFT Date: 01/27/2015