My weekly newsletter is out — HTML5, Game Dev, Startups

This is my weekly newsletter which covers my favorite stories of the week in the fields of Tech, HTML5, Startups, Game Dev, and Venture Capital.

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Tech

• “These women represent the “can” of women in STEM, a story that too often goes untold.”
• We have a massive recruitment problem — programmers and recruiters
• Intro to Azure power point (from me)
• On Internships in the tech industry — Stacey Mulcahy
• Where the fuck is princess Leia?
• A walkthrough of DJ Cutman’s VG recording studio
• What are the benefits of on premises vs cloud?

HTML5

• WK Webiew — much improved perf for Cordova apps
• Flow: A static JavaScript Type Checker from Facebook
• Making Javascript games — from the browser to a store app

Gaming

• Microsoft’s giving away free games, movies and some Dragon Ball for Xbox One’s 1st birthday

Game Dev

• The first post of my game dev blog, for my new Unity shmup
• Popcap: The making of Peggle
• Drexel, two other PA schools get $750k to grow the games industry
• 2D Sprite pipeline for Unity
• Indie Dev Podcast Ep 15 — Michael Hicks

Startups / VC

• Why 2015 will be a great year for startups
• Growth rate in revenue or active users is the paramount startup metric | A Founder’s Notebook
• How Important are Professional Services to Your Startup?