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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 2:16 PM

Interesting Links – 15 July 2008

I am struggling to catch up from my vacation. One of the trailing points in my activity is blogging – both reading and writing. I’ve got over 500 blog posts (mostly in the education category – aren’t you all on vacation?) to read. But I’ve come up with
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Wednesday, June 11, 2008 4:56 PM

ACM Committee on Women in Computing Newsletter

ACM-W, the ACM Committee on Women in Computing , has just published the first edition of their newsletter. The newsletter is called "ACM-W CIS newsletter: Celebrate, Inform, Support" and the first issue is pretty interesting. The ACM-W main web page (
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Tuesday, April 29, 2008 6:28 AM

Pitching Your Idea - An Interview About Presentations

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/29/pitching-your-idea.aspx'; Perry Lowe, a marketing professor at Bentley College and Philip DesAutels , were at the recent US Imagine Cup finals giving some presentations to the competitors.
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Monday, April 28, 2008 7:58 AM

Trip Report – Summit (NJ) Schools

digg_url = 'http://blogs.msdn.com/alfredth/archive/2008/04/28/trip-report-summit-nj-high-school.aspx'; Last week I took a trip down to Summit High School to take part in a teacher workshop day. There were about 200 teachers from the high school and middle
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 6:16 AM

Getting A Job - The Blizzard Edition

This week Clint posted his interview with John Cash from Blizzard Entertainment over at Channel 8. The "money line" in the interview is something like "you know that math you think you'll never need? Well you're going to need it." John keeps his college
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Tuesday, March 25, 2008 5:29 AM

Students 2 Business - Its About the Jobs

Students 2 Business (S2B for short) is "a Microsoft® Community Initiative designed to connect Microsoft partners and customers with qualified students for entry-level and internship positions. The objective of the S2B program is to inspire local businesses
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Tuesday, March 11, 2008 6:29 AM

So You Want A Job in the Software Industry

Clint Rutkas has been doing a lot of interviewing lately. At a number of events he has been interviewing software professionals about what it takes and what people need to know to prepare for a career in the software industry. His most recent interview
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Wednesday, February 20, 2008 9:50 AM

DreamSpark - Microsoft Gives Software to Students for Academic Use

OK so it is already all over the blogosphere that Bill Gates announced a new program called DreamSpark to give software to students. (The official press release is here BTW) So I'm kind of late to the party already. Channel 8 is going to be a key source
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Tuesday, February 12, 2008 11:48 AM

How Rare (Game Dev Company) Recruits Graduates

Rare is one of the top game development companies in the world and is based in the UK. As you might expect there are a lot of people who want to create video games who want to work for Rare and for companies like Rare around the world. There are a bunch
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Thursday, January 10, 2008 11:23 AM

Update on DigiGirlz Days at Microsoft

I got this announcement this week and thought it worth sharing and reminding people that sign ups open soon. Technology career options offered for high school girls 4th Annual Microsoft DigiGirlz Day connects high school girls with Microsoft women executives
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Wednesday, December 26, 2007 7:49 AM

Fixing the AP CS Curriculum

So as you read this it is a day or two after Christmas. You may still be full from Christmas dinner and you just want to take it easy. Or it may be that you don't celebrate Christmas and you are struggling to find interesting content to read on the Internet.
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Thursday, November 29, 2007 9:05 AM

Is Computer Science Dying

Well that is a pretty dramatic title. I didn't think it up myself though. I'm not so pessimistic. It is the title of a post I read recently though. There does seem to be a lot of bad news in the field of Computer Science these days. I also read recently
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Tuesday, November 13, 2007 3:40 AM

What in the world is a Developer Evangelist?

The word "evangelist" is showing up in job titles more and more these days. But what is a job like that all about? I tend to describe it as being in the "making friends and influencing people" business. But that is just my perspective. Recently Channel
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Friday, November 02, 2007 5:10 AM

Top Posts From October

Well October was an interesting month. In some cases I was pretty good at predicting which posts would get the most interest and in others I was pretty far off. I did think that the free download book on creating websites that sell would be popular but
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Friday, October 19, 2007 6:04 AM

CS Degree Starting Salaries Are Up

Last week I posted about information that I thought guidance counselors should have about the CS/IT field. Someone said in a comment that I didn't really make the case that students should actually go into the field. On one hand I do believe, as I heard
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