January, 2008

I arrived late to the Bar Camp ... not to untypical for a conference. I attended about half of the first two sessions at 2:00 Designing Web sites & Social Marketing. The social marketing discussion was interesting. Nikhil Nilakantan introduced us...

Bar Camp Texas is in Bryan Today! Not too many folks get lucky enough to have a Bar Camp get organized right in their backyard, but I am one of them. I've never been to a Bar Camp before so please excuse (and correct!) any statements that may display...

The MSDN Academic Alliance is a great opportunity for student clubs, faculty, and academic departments to enable their students and courses with free software. Administering this system, however, has been a bit cumbersome in the past. Last year, I stumbled...

As I mentioned in my NEAT-o-Games post , on Friday I visited CPL to see talk about Windows Mobile Development. I provided an overview of threading concepts in .NET CF and gave a quick demo of basic threading concepts. If you are new to threading in either...

NEAT-o-Games is a fantastic example of using Windows Mobile to improve your world. Check out this news coverage from their photo and video page (this page is fairly slow to load). NEAT-o-Games is 24 hour competition between you and a friend to see who...

Coding4fun examines how to use a web service in less than 1 hour by Creating a Vanity Search Page . Call the Windows Live Search service to create a vanity page that displays images, news articles, and web sites about you.

What were your fellow students working on last year? Here are a couple of my favorites, a Bed-Mounted Laptop and the Titan Racers Game … orange, orange. Do you want to share a project you’re working on? Send me an email at divein@microsoft.com Think you...

I got new Channel 8 business cards this week and was sad that I hadn't started this blog when I ordered them. Channel 8 is a new channel for students (like Channel 9 and Channel 10 ). The business cards are awesome and have a cool puzzle on the back....

Microsoft has launched a new homepage for students called Microsoft Student Experience . The site contains information from getting discounted software to a set of How-Tos . My favorite, How to create less annoying PowerPoints.

In an earlier entry ( Format C# or .NET Code for your Blog or Website ), I linked to manoli.net/csharpformat as a great web site for formatting C# or .NET Code for you blog. Clint Rutkas pointed out that Windows Live Writer has a plug-in that uses Jean...

I'd like for this to hit when students search for a Microsoft Student Newsletter. Unfortunately, I my last post was plural so it doesn't hit as high ... rewording title :) Student Developers – MSDN Flash News for Students Sign up to explore development...

Dan Fernandez announces the availability of an AddOn Studio for World of Warcraft and walks us through the features. Now you can write a WoW addon without getting lost in the scripting.

Microsoft DigiGirlz Day connects high school girls with Microsoft women executives to explore opportunities in business and technology. Registration will open in mid-January and will be first come, first served. Interested parents or students should visit...

Test for Channel 8 streaming

Would you like to hear from Microsoft on a more regular basis? We have a number of newsletters with great information for students. Have a topic you’d like to see in a newsletter? Having trouble subscribing? Email me at divein@microsoft.com Student...

In school I never learned to use any office applications. As a dev, I thought I was very cool because I could use tools like pine to check my email. That cool factor disappeared quickly, when I took my first job at IBM I had to pick up and use Lotus Notes...