About

Byte Code Canada is a small blog owned by one student set out to develop Windows Phone and Xbox 360 video games, and Windows Phone/Windows 8 Metro Apps using a multitude of development tools that are provided by Microsoft and App Hub.

 

Founded in September 2011 by Robert Gawdzik, a Microsoft Specialist & Student Software Developer from Toronto, Ontario.

I work with Microsoft and App Hub to distribute our programs and games to the Windows Phone, Xbox 360, and Windows 8 marketplace.

Byte Code Canada Roster:

  • Robert Gawdzik
Legal Stuff
  • Note that some applications are released under the name Robert Gawdzik, and not Byte Code Canada.  Byte Code Canada just refers to the “blog” run by Robert Gawdzik.
  • Note all Windows Phone & Windows 8 applications are released under Robert Gawdzik, and all PC games are released under the blog name “Byte Code Canada”.
  • “Byte Code Canada” was selected as the name of the blog simply because the domain name bytecode and the extension .ca was available as a domain at that time.
  • Bytecode is a form of instruction set designed for efficient execution by a software interpreter.
  • All code published in a blog post is considered Open Source and Public.  You may use it as you please.
  • The full name of bytecode.ca is “Byte Code Canada Studios”.
  • Your privacy when visiting this blog is valued. No info will be publicly shared, but in the event of a WordPress exploit, anything can happen.
  • Anything not explicitly classified as open source is deemed as a closed source piece of software.

2 Comments

  1. eclectocrat
    December 3, 2012 at 7:48 pm

    Hey, fellow Torontonian developer here. I have a lot of experience with Unix and Apple platforms, but haven’t developed on Windows since the 90′s. You seem to have a lot of understanding of MS platforms and I wonder if you can speculate on whether MS will keep the RT platform like iOS, or if they plan on bringing it closer to Windows 8 x86?

    I’d like to experiment with Windows 8 development, as an avowed MS hater, I have to give them credit on their Windows 8 gamble, it seems like they may actually innovate their way into mobile! I was considering purchasing a WinRT Surface, but I doubt that MS will ever port Visual Studio to WinRT.

    The biggest frustration for me, is that MS is actually attracting me, but the lack of transparency and communication makes me hesitant to take a risk. I realize that you are just a dev, but I wonder what you think about the future of WinRT vs Win x86, and whether it is a good time to be a dev, or there is still a mess to clean up before we can have smooth dev/deploy process?

    Thanks!

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