Take the knowledge you’ve been gaining in and out of your classes and build some software to change the world! I’m touring the following campuses this week, so attend if you’re nearby! All these events will have free food and prizes, so be sure to attend...

If you are a professor planning to teach a course on Game Development or a student with some programming skills, you should download the free curriculum resources: Game Development with XNA: Semester 1 - Teacher Roadmap . Overview C# is a modern and professional...

I’ve held a couple of WP7 AppMakr Workshops in the last month or two and wanted to highlight a few cool apps created by students from Tufts, UMASS Lowell, and Northern Essex Community College… Some of them may seem pretty basic, but with AppMakr , it...

I attended the Boston Business Journal 2011 Breakfast ceremony early this morning, celebrating the companies that were recognized as the “Best Places to Work” in Boston. This year, we came in 3rd place for the Large Companies list! I was so excited when...

Professor Gino Sorcinelli from UMASS Amherst taught a course last fall called, “ Effective Decision Making in the Age of Cloud Computing,” . This course is a university-based, senior-level, Honors-College Seminar where students use Tablet PCs and Cloud...

Prof. Holly Yanco from UMASS Lowell taught a pretty awesome course this past Spring called Multi-Touch Computing , i.e. Surface Development! Check out the course material and syllabus here ! You know you want to sign up for the course now. I attended...

  A young HS teacher, Pat Yongpradit, writes about Visual Studio, XNA, Windows Phone development and yes, the Imagine Cup in his curriculum for Scholastic Online. http://blogs.scholastic.com/bestintechtoday/2011/04/tech-creators-pat-yongpradit-computer...

  1. Using the Windows Phone 7 Advertising SDK · Explores the use of the advertising SDK and creating a PubCenter account, some developers cited in the post have made over $12,000 and one is grossing $7,000 a month in ad-revenue. 2. Encouraging Windows...

  So you want to get a free Dreamspark account and upload some phone apps via App Hub waiving the $99 fee as a student… But the process is not as straight forward as you thought. This blog post goes through the process step by step, making it simple...

Last week was the finals of the US Imagine Cup in Redmond Washington – at Microsoft Corporate headquarters. Students from the Boston area really did well representing themselves and their schools. TTHV (Texting Towards Healthier Villages), with students...

· People’s Choice Voting is now open for the US Imagine Cup finalists in Software design and Game Development. This is your chance to help select your choices for the top teams in the country. take a look at the various teams ( http://on.fb.me/2011ImagineCup...

Wow… I’ll post some videos later, but for now, here are some pretty cool projects thus far: Technological Trippin’ OK. So what am I doing wearing a black mask while someone is behind me with their camera phone? Technological tripping… The camera behind...

  Earlier today, Dylan Field (Brown U), Paul Kernfield (Brown U), Christophe Van (Harvard) and a other awesome students helped Microsoft NERD pull of the 1st annual New England Collegiate Hackathon 2011! We had over 200 students register at http...

  Check out http://www.nech2011.com . It’s going to be a blast. I’ll update some links below throughout the evening for students to start hacking right away. Tools Download: http://create.msdn.com/en-us/home/getting_started Windows Phone Development...

Now this is pretty cool. Jeff Blankenburg started a new Developer Series on his blog . Every day in the month of October, he will be writing an article (see list below) about writing apps on the platform. Here is the link to: 31 Day of Windows Phone 7...

Imagine Cup Teams Recognized at White House Science Fair Very cool. If you already registered for the Imagine Cup or thinking about participating, just know that this is definitely something with very high visibility! President Obama welcomed 60 students...

Here are a few pictures of my tour so far this week. Will post some videos and interviews early next week. 10/11/10 Tufts MSP talks about his team’s Game Dev submission, Organ Trail … what a name…   10/12/2010 My bad. I forgot to take pictures. Send...

  Find out if there’s an event near you! First, I’ll share some cool photos and videos so I can make you jealous of what you missed. If you want to skip directly to the resources to get started, definitely check out the my other post: Windows Phone...

If you want to start developing for WP7, here are some useful links I wanted to share from the conference. First, download the tools here !   or http://create.msdn.com It will include all the components you need. (Direct link here: http://create...

  Take the knowledge you’ve been gaining in and out of your classes and build some software to change the world! I’m touring the following campuses, so attend if you’re nearby! All these events will have free food and prizes, so be sure to attend...

Figured I’d do a quick introduction. I’ve been at Microsoft for the last 10 years and couldn’t think of a better place to work! I’m an Academic Developer Evangelist working closely with college students and faculty in the New England area (MA, CT, NH...

It's time to get a real blog going! In need of a huge update from edvangelist.spaces.live.com. Stay tuned for news on Windows Phone 7, Azure, XNA, Hackathons, AppLabs, and launch parties in your area... Next post... an introduction.