Today it is my last official day in Microsoft! After 10 years living abroad I decided to go back to Rome. I really loved my time at Microsoft where I worked for the last 4 years. It is indeed a great company to work for and I think it is moving in absolutely...

This post if part of the Student Project Express, a series in which I am showing how to complete a Student project using Microsoft technologies. The table of contents for the series is available here and I will keep it updated as as publish more content...

This post if part of the Student Project Express, a series in which I am showing how to complete a Student project using Microsoft technologies. The table of contents for the series is available here and I will keep it updated as as publish more content...

If you follow this blog and/or me on Twitter , you should know that I have been travelling up and down the UK delivering a series of talks in colleges and Universities. During the talk, I show a very cool demo of how to use Expression Blend to transform...

This post if part of the Student Project Express, a series in which I am showing how to complete a Student project using Microsoft technologies. The table of contents for the series is available here and I will keep it updated as as publish more content...

This post if part of the Student Project Express, a series in which I am showing how to complete a Student project using Microsoft technologies. The table of contents for the series is available here and I will keep it updated as as publish more content...

With the release of version 3, Silverlight has hit the maturity sweet spot with more and more organisations realising the its benefits and adopting it as a platform to develop rich internet apps and media based application. As such we start seeing a significant...

I am really pleased to announce that in collaboration with 123-reg we just launched an offer open to all students in the UK. A year's web hosting for only a quid a month… and they will even chuck in a FREE .info DOMAIN NAME for that personal touch Yup...

This post if part of the Student Project Express, a series in which I am showing how to complete a Student project using Microsoft technologies. The table of contents for the series is available here and I will keep it updated as as publish more content...

This post if part of the Student Project Express, a series in which I am showing how to complete a Student project using Microsoft technologies. The table of contents for the series is available here and I will keep it updated as as publish more content...

This post if part of the Student Project Express, a series in which I am showing how to complete a Student project using Microsoft technologies. The table of contents for the series is available here and I will keep it updated as as publish more content...

This year UK Imagine Cup is shaping up to be great! We received a large number of submissions for the Software Design category and the quality of the entries has been fantastic! As you may know we asked 5 charities in the UK to help us provide a briefing...

This post if part of the Student Project Express, a series in which I am showing how to complete a Student project using Microsoft technologies. The table of contents for the series is available here and I will keep it updated as as publish more content...

The deadline to submit your entry for the Imagine Cup in the UK is approaching fast!!! You have to do it by 11.59 p.m. on 18th December 2009 ! I did receive a few questions on how to properly submit, so here is a brief overview on how to do it. If you...

Technorati Tags: ImagineCup I am very glad to announce that we just launched the UK Imagine Cup 2010 ! Last year I was (for the first time) closely involved with the 2009 edition and I was deeply impressed with the commitment that the students put into...

We just launched this great offer for UK students… You can buy Office Ultimate 2007 for £39.50 and Windows 7 Home Premium or Professional for £30.00. All you need is to have a valid “.ac.uk” email address (as those provided by most UK Universities and...

One of the most common issues that people approaching Web Development with Microsoft products complain about is how difficult it can be to set up all the software they need. Getting a machine up to speed is kind of a hassle because you need to go and...

As someone who works with Academics and students my year starts and ends in line with the Academic year (which is also more or less aligned with the Microsoft fiscal year but that is a different story). So every year before term, we look back at what...

In the last couple of days, we made a number of announcements at the Worldwide Partner Conference in New Orleans. One of the most interesting things we released (and that all developers may want to take a look at) is the XP2Win7 project , which features...

As every year, applications for the Microsoft Student Partners programme in the UK are now open. Being a Microsoft Student Partner is a great opportunity to get in touch and work with us and learn more about our technologies… And with Silverlight 3, Expression...

Some days ago I had an opportunity to have a chat with Christian and Iulian, the two members of the team KCL from Kings College in London who created a system called Pioneer which aims to reduce pollution in large cities by reducing traffic congestion...

As many of you should already know, we recently released Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) for Technet , MSND , MSDN-AA first and for everybody else a bit later. I installed it as soon as I could and have been playing around with it for a few days already...

UPDATE: A new version of the PHP on Windows Training Kit which fixes a bug with Windows 7 has been just released. Check out more here or download the updated one here We just launched a the PHP on Windows Training Kit that developers can use to...

The DeepZoom team just released an updated version of DeepZoom Composer which now supports native upload of your composition to the really cool DeepZoomPix (I blogged about DeepZoomPix a few days ago when it was launched). The previous version of Composer...

Have you ever wondered how Silverlight could take advantage of the Azure platform? Well, we just released DeepZoomPix a fantastic photo sharing site that takes advantage of both these technologies to provide a truly innovative way of sharing your photos...