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A whole lotta free stuff with Visual Studio Dev EssentialsVisual Studio Dev Essentials

A whole lotta free stuff with Visual Studio Dev Essentials

Published by Rami on June 3, 2016

I recently created a new Visual Studio account to share some code and collaborate with friends. Low and behold, I received an email to activate my “Visual Studio Dev Essentials membership” which include a good and long list of benefits and free stuff! Some of which are: Visual Studio Tools and Services $25/month of Azure Cloud credits for 1 year Xamarin University Training 6-month subscription to Pluralsight SQL Server 2014 Developer Edition Microsoft R Server Developer Edition (Allows you…

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Get the most out of the JavaScript Week

Published by Rami on November 13, 2015

Hello everyone! Packt Publishing has launched JavaScript Week until Sunday 15th November. It seems they are offering a 50% discount on their newest and most popular JavaScript titles. Take your pick – from emerging frameworks such as React.js and Meteor, to full stack web development with MEAN. If that’s not enough, you can take advantage of their JavaScript bundle offer. Simply select any 5 of the discounted titles and get all of them for just $50 – all…

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Microsoft Hololens to bring Science Fiction to Science Fact

Microsoft Hololens to bring Science Fiction to Science Fact

Published by Rami on June 26, 2015

Today I came across a great post by NASA, talking about their collaboration with Microsoft Hololens to develop Sidekick, a new project using commercial technology to empower astronauts aboard the International Space Station (ISS). Project Sidekick will use Microsoft HoloLens to provide virtual aid to astronauts working off the Earth, for the Earth. NASA mentioned on their website that a pair of the devices is basically scheduled to launch on SpaceX’s seventh commercial resupply mission to the IS station…

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Microsoft Dev Center Benefits

Published by Rami on November 22, 2014

Originally Posted at MSDN Blogs: Microsoft Gulf Technical Community   Hello Developers!! I wanted to share with you the news about the updated rewards functionality in the Windows Dev Center Benefits. For those of you who are not aware of the program, Dev Center Benefits is a global program for Windows app developers of all experience levels. Developers receive technical, design, publishing, and marketing offers to help build and promote their apps. The program provides access…

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Book review of Windows Phone 8 Application Development Essentials

Book review of Windows Phone 8 Application Development Essentials

Published by Rami on December 14, 2013

Hello Folks! This is no technical post, as you can clearly tell from the title, this is a review of a book that I recently had the chance to go through. PACKT Publishing  “one of the most prolific and fast-growing tech book publishers in the world” and of course the publisher of my book Developing Windows Store Apps with HTML5 and JavaScript, recently contacted me with the ask of reviewing one of their new publications titled Windows Phone 8 Application…

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