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Build 2013, is taking place June 26-28, 2013 at the Moscone Center in San Francisco. Registration opens at 9:00 AM PDT on Tuesday April 2, 2013 at http://buildwindows.com At Build, we’ll share updates and talk about what’s next for Windows, Windows Server, Windows Azure, Visual Studio, and more. It is the event for developers to get a first look at what’s next from Microsoft. Build 2013 will happen at a larger scale but grab your tickets quick before they run out! Also, sharing a quick tip with you guys, you might need to take note of your country’s time zone variations! Tickets will be sold at $2,095 (US) each, but first 500 early birds will get their tickets at $1,595 (US). Don’t miss out this awesome opportunity to be part of Build 2013!

The excitement has reached fever pitch as the five red lights are activated for the first time to kick-off the 2013 Formula 1 season. Rev up your phones, tablets and PCs to stay up-to-date with all things Formula 1 using your Windows devices. For fans of the prancing horse we have the Official Ferrari Magazine App, in addition to a range of apps that cover live races, commentary, news and all the stats from your favorite teams and drivers. You’ll want to get these hot apps for your Windows 8 and Windows Phone to get geared up for all the racing action! After the checkered flag, you can get behind the wheel with a great selection of racing games. Unique to Windows, you can connect through Xbox Live to get driving, and pit yourself against friends on the leaderboard Here are some apps specially picked for F1 fans! ...

Releasing the new Sample Browser app OneCode Sample Browser 1.0 for Windows 8 and Windows RT was released globally in the Windows Store during the week of 2013 MVP Global Summit. It is a new relaxing way for Developers to search, download, learn, request and share thousands of code samples on any Windows 8 or Windows RT device! Developers love code samples, the Sample Browser Windows Store app can provide them with mobile agility while they develop their app. The Sample Browser Windows Store app is supported in both online and offline mode. Thus, making it easy to find and share code samples. Now, bringing you the spotlight features of Sample Browser Windows Store app! Fast sample search: you simply swipe and search. It is fast and direct. Free search conditions: you can filter samples by Visual Studio version, contributor, programming language, technology and update time. You can also sort the sample search results by relevance, popularity, release date, download count, ratings, title and author. You have full control of how you want to search for code samples. Big sample repository: the Sample Browser searches 5000+ code samples in MSDN Samples Gallery, including 400+ official Windows 8 samples, 300+ Windows Phone samples, and 1200+ Microsoft All-In-One Code Framework samples. The sample repository is ever growing. What if I cannot find the sample that I’m looking for? The Sample Browser is integrated with the Sample Request Service provided by the All-In-One Code Framework team. Developers are encouraged to submit code sample requests dealing with any Microsoft development technologies and any programming languages to the MSDN Sample Request Forum (http://code.msdn.microsoft.com/site/requests). At the same time, Developers can vote for newly submitted or existing code sample topics. Here’s the exciting part! In this active Developer community, your code request may be quickly resolved by the strong MVPs and other community members. Microsoft engineers will also pick the requests with high number of votes and provide the code samples, free of charge. Code is at hand: downloading the sample code, reading the documentation, browsing source code, searching inside the project – all of these can be done with one simple touch. You can get your “hands” on 5000 code samples. (read sample documentation) (browse source code) (search inside the project) Anytime, anywhere: Whether you have internet access or not, whether you are at home, in office, or in commute/airplane, you can learn your downloaded sample code anytime, anywhere. Swipe and share. It’s that easy! Do you want to share a code snippet? Select the code snippet: Swipe: And share! It’s that easy! The team is releasing a new version of the Sample Browser Windows Store app every few weeks. Your feedback will change it for the better. Please email us at onecode@microsoft.com. Hope the introduction of Sample Browser Windows Store app cured your headache, developers! :)

Looking for imaging apps on Windows Phone 8 to beautify photos or just wanna have a little fun? Windows Phone has photography apps for various purposes, so check them out, if you haven’t. Here’s a little preview to imaging apps on Windows Phone 8. FHOTOROOM - Is a pro camera, photo sharing network and professional mobile photo editor. Our Pro Camera is focused on achieving the absolutely best results that your camera can produce. Utilizing technology like our custom EV (Auto Exposure), Grid and Level all come together to extend the ability of your camera. Our photo sharing network allows uses to show off their photos with our very fast growing community. ...

The Zombies Strike Again!!! Take part in We Live to Code 2013, that has returned stronger and better with our partner, Samsung! What’s best is that anyone can sign up, whether you are a student, developer or a startup! So, develop a great app and be part of the app revolution! All developers can register individually or as a team, preferably in teams of three or less. If you’re a lone ranger, fret not. On the first day of the hackathon, you can mingle with other participants and identify peeps you want together for the next month. Interested to be part of this awesome experience, yet you feel that lack the skills. Join us for pre-hackathon training on the evenings of 20th and 27th March. These trainings sessions are helmed by in-house Microsoft technical experts and target to equip participants with the relevant training to develop their apps. But, there’s a slight twist. We live to code returns with double pitching session, the first pitch will be held on the last day of the Hackathon (7th April 2013) and the second pitch will be on 5th May 2013. The former will constitute 30% of the team’s score and the latter will constitute 70%. In the one month period, you can then test and refine your apps from good to great. To be part of the this awesome experience, applicants can sign up via http://welivetocode.eventbrite.com/. Successful applicants will then be contacted via email for their personal particulars and their app ideas.

Sick and tired of testing your web apps on multiple versions of Internet Explorer? Modern.IE is here to save the day! Modern.IE is a new resource for web developers that offers tools to help optimize their sites for modern browsers like IE10. A new code detection wizard to detect common coding issues Developers start by entering a webpage URL that they want to test: In a few seconds, modern.IE reports the webpage results in the below three categories, and includes recommendations on how to update the site: ...

 The Spiffy team is proud to partner Founder Institute to offer 3 scholarships to Windows Developers in their upcoming April Semester 2013! Developers can earn yourself a scholarship through BizSpark Launch Academy. BizSpark Launch Academy is a competition for startups and individual developers based in Singapore who are building applications for the Windows Store, Windows Phone 8 or on Windows Azure. You will stand the chance to receive expert training and feedback to launch startup companies with Founder Institute beginning in April 2013. And… that’s not all! You can also participate in Windows Startup Challenge with the app ideas that you pitch through BizSpark Launch Academy. This could lead you to launch your Windows Store app at DEMO Mobile, a global launchpad for the most innovative mobile startups held in April 2013 in San Francisco, California. So, if you have the ability to prototype a Windows Store app, quickly iterate to design, and bring your app to life, send in an image of the prototype to win8sg@microsoft.com with a quick overview of the app and personal particulars by 8th Feb 2013. More details of how to enter can be found at http://academy.weshipcode.com. You can also tweet about your app building process or prototypes with #app4theWIN. About Founder Institute The Founder Institute is an early-stage startup accelerator and global launch network that helps entrepreneurs create meaningful and enduring technology companies. Through a part-time four month program, existing and prospective founders can launch their dream company with expert training, feedback, and support from experienced startup CEOs - while not being required to quit their day job. Our unique Graduate Liquidity Pool also enables graduates and mentors to share in the equity upside of each class, creating local, teamwork-based ecosystems where great new businesses can flourish. In just over three years of operation, the Founder Institute has helped launch over 650 companies across 37 cities and five continents - making us the world’s largest startup accelerator. Our goal is to “Globalize Silicon Valley” by launching 1,000 meaningful and enduring technology companies per year in over 50 cities worldwide. The Founder Institute was founded in 2009 by serial entrepreneur Adeo Ressi, and is operated out of a small office in the heart of Silicon Valley.