It’s That Time – Get Set For Your Friday Five

Persistent Storage And Volumes Using Kubernetes On Azure With AKS Or Azure Container Service  Pascal Naber helps companies embrace Microsoft Azure and build large scale distributed systems with modern architectures based on microservices. Pascal works as an Azure Cloud Consultant at Xpirit. He is the co-founder of the Dutch Azure Meetup and is awarded by Microsoft… Continue reading It’s That Time – Get Set For Your Friday Five

New Preview Alpha System Update – 2/1/18

Preview Alpha Insiders can expect another new update today, complete with brand new fixes. This update (1802.180131-1450) will begin rolling out at 6.00 p.m. PST and will become mandatory shortly after that.  Read on to learn more about the fixes and known issues related to this build. Fixes: Mixer Fixed an issue which caused the Mixer app to crash when connecting a headset while the app is in use. General  Resolved an issue which sometimes caused degraded console performance in games, apps, and on the dashboard. Party Chat Miscellaneous performance improvements for party chat. Dynamic Theming Additional fixes to address… Continue reading New Preview Alpha System Update – 2/1/18

Windows Template Studio 1.7 released!

We’re extremely excited to announce the Windows Template Studio 1.7! In this release, our two big items are Visual Basic support and Prism framework!  We love how the community is helping. If you’re interested, please head over to head over to WTS’s Github. What’s new: Full list of adjustments in the 1.7 release, WTS’s Github has […] Continue reading Windows Template Studio 1.7 released!

Custom Vision – Machine Learning Made Easy with Jim Bennett | The Xamarin Show

This week James is joined by friend of the show Jim Bennett, a Cloud Developer Advocate at Microsoft, who shows us how to use AI inside a mobile app to identify his daughters’ toys. He walks through using the Azure custom vision service to generate a m… Continue reading Custom Vision – Machine Learning Made Easy with Jim Bennett | The Xamarin Show

Meet Team Xbox’s Brad Rossetti

Last month we spent some time talking to the Xbox Insider Program’s XP champion, The Wee Bear, and this week we’re chatting with Xbox Program Manager Brad Rossetti, who you may know as @WorkWombatman on Twitter. Brad plays a big role in managing and communicating system updates, from posting release notes on The Xbox Insider blog to answering questions posed by Xbox Insiders on Twitter and Reddit and much more. Below, Brad takes some time to better explain his role (and the role of the Xbox Insider team) and talks about some of his favorite games! Hi there! For starters,… Continue reading Meet Team Xbox’s Brad Rossetti

Raging Justice Is Getting Ready to Smash Its Way to Xbox One

We’re MakinGames, husband and wife duo, Nic and Anna Makin, who along with help from Jay Howse (art) and Steve Burke (sound/music) have created Raging Justice, our tribute to the gratifyingly brutal, side-scrolling brawlers we grew up with in the early 90s. We’re all good mates from the days when we worked at the UK game studio Rare. It’s taken years of hard graft, juggling all our “spare” hours around work and children, to turn our initial idea into a game… that’s going to be launching on Xbox One with help from our friends at Team 17! Back when we… Continue reading Raging Justice Is Getting Ready to Smash Its Way to Xbox One