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Microsoft to give out development tools to students | Markets | Markets News | Reuters
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Historically, Microsoft's free development tool software program for students has been controlled by computer science departments. This has probably been one of multiple reasons that comp sci students have disproportionately taken advantage of Microsoft...
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And the winner of the BillG - signed Guitar Hero guitar at ODC 2008 is...
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As I mentioned here , we held a raffle earlier today to give away a Guitar Hero III guitar, complete with Bill Gates' autograph, at the Office Developers Conference 2008. The guitar played a part in the FedEx demo during BillG's keynote kicking off the...
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BillG Keynote at ODC -- see the video and screenshots from the FedEx demo
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over 4 years ago
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If you weren't at ODC live to see BillG's keynote, you can see the video here. [Note: updated link so it works again.] Also, FedEx showed a number of cool things during BillG's keynote at ODC today. The demo was really packed, so there wasn't a lot...
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Win a Guitar Hero Guitar signed by BillG!
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over 4 years ago
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As I mentioned here in the post about FedEx's awesome announcements and demo, Microsoft and FedEx are giving away a Guitar Hero III game, complete with a guitar signed by David Zanca and BillG! You can see the guitar at the FedEx both at the ODC. And...
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FedEx joins BillG on stage at ODC 2008 to announce FedEx QuickShip, and show off Office as a platform, S+S
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(Update 1:41pm PST: See screenshots and video here !) I'm at the Office Developers Conference 2008 this week, and BillG is on stage doing Q&A, having just finished the keynote. A number of the highlights involved FedEx. In fact, FedEx SVP David...
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S+S Example #1: Ford Work Solutions
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over 4 years ago
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Computers and software can do lots of interesting things, and more every day. While I love websites -- I don't want to be completely constrained to them. For example, i like having things like Zune , my smartphone , Windows Live Writer , etc. as part...
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Poppendieck: Ten Simple Rules of Lean Programming
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After my last post referring to a webinar by Durward Sobek, he got me thinking again about the fantastic work of Mary and Tom Poppendieck . They are such a great force for evangelizing lean software development. I highly recommend their two books on the...
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Applying Lean Thinking in software development... model Lean product development
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I like what Mark Ramm says here .... There's much that software development can gain from Lean manufacturing. It's not that software development operations should adopt manufacturing processes, per se -- but many of the principles of lean thinking can...
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