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Your Employer Owns Your Job, but YOU Own Your Career: Why Mobile Dev Matters
Have you ever built and published a mobile app? Maybe you've tried and abandoned the idea because...
Author: ActiveNick Date: 02/29/2016
Take a Video Tour of the Visual Studio Emulator for Android
I recently had the pleasure of sitting down with my good friend Robert Green to record another...
Author: ActiveNick Date: 02/25/2016
Ultimate Guide & FAQ to Setting-Up a Windows Phone Development Environment
by Nick Landry (last updated on 9/22/2014) Mobile development is full of exciting opportunities, but...
Author: ActiveNick Date: 09/22/2014
Getting Started with 2D Game Development Using GameMaker
Anyone who knows me personally or follows me on Twitter knows that I’m a huge gamer. The...
Author: ActiveNick Date: 07/11/2014
Event Session – Building Universal Windows Apps for Smartphones and Tablets with XAML & C#
The “Blue Wave” is in full swing. Thanks to the new Universal Windows app templates in...
Author: ActiveNick Date: 06/24/2014
Event Session – Beyond Cortana & Siri: Using Speech Recognition & Speech Synthesis for the Next Generation of Mobile Apps
Speech is probably the topic I’m most passionate about when it comes to app development (ok, I...
Author: ActiveNick Date: 06/23/2014
Internet of Things Expo Power Panel with Microsoft, IBM, Kaazing, LogMeIn & Aria
I recently had the pleasure of joining a team of experts on the Things Expo Power Panel about the...
Author: ActiveNick Date: 06/17/2014
Dads: Teach Electronics to your Kids
My Three Dads Yesterday was Fathers Day. I feel very lucky because I didn’t grow up with one...
Author: ActiveNick Date: 06/16/2014
Live from New York, it’s the Internet of Things!
I’ve been spending the last couple of days at SYS-CON’s Cloud Expo in New York City...
Author: ActiveNick Date: 06/11/2014
(re)Introducing Windows Platform Developer Magazine
Almost a year ago, I decided to test the waters on a new feature of my (then) favorite iPad app:...
Author: ActiveNick Date: 06/06/2014
Join ActiveNick for Studio Time in New Jersey + New Win8 Dev Contest
What is Studio Time? Studio Time – also known as Office Hours – is a block of time set...
Author: ActiveNick Date: 03/06/2014
Windows Phone App Studio Now Supports Windows 8.1 too!
App Studio is a really cool online application that Microsoft launched last August to make it easy...
Author: ActiveNick Date: 02/20/2014