The CyKho Blog

Last week I was hanging out in Texas doing some training on Silverlight/Evangelism training. I was staying in Irving - a huge tech center - more or less just like any other suburban tech city (Redmond/San Jose/Reston). But at some point, I had a sudden...

As some of you know, Microsoft is hosting a HUGE student competition called the Imagine Cup - design software, travel the world, win some money: A team in New Jersey has started their blog about their experiance - very interesting - especially if...

The Zune team is marketing a art consumption device by using art? o rly? ya rly! no wai! <insert owl pictures here> Check it out: Zune - Intergalactic Swap Meet Uploaded by firat

I know this has been said a thousand times, here it is anyways: We (humans - American humans in particular) use the planets resources at an unsustainable rate This will begin to suck - really soon - really bad: http://www.storyofstuff.com/ ...

It's kinda scary how much thought and time is invested in wringing the wallets and buying the minds of 20somethings these days: http://adage.com/cmostrategy/article?article_id=122041 One of the Implications raied by this article got me thinking...

Now you can use Gmail to connect to AIM - wooohooo - no more stupid ads :) Recently, I found out that pidgeon and Trillian are blocked by MS corpnet - so i was MIA for a while on AIM. Now I'm back - with only two clients! (MSN allows you to connect to...

In my short time as an Academic Developer Evangelist for Microsoft I've come to understand that scale is the #1 thing I need to get right. There are waaaaay more students than mes! Goal : Make the best content possible to help as many students as possible...

While, none of these are new to the scene, there are technologies which everyone I've talked to loves - so I figured I'd post em' all in the same place :) Microsoft Robotics Studio (Level = know what a robot is): Write some code to run a robot - except...

Recently, a close friend - who also happens to be a tester @ M$ - brought this post by Joel of Fog Creek Software fame to my attention: "It occurred to me that when you have a proof that goes on for pages and pages, it’s far more likely to contain...