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To build software that meets your security objectives, you must integrate security activities into your software development lifecycle. This handbook captures and summarises the key security engineering activities that should be an integral part of your...

Dan Waters has posted a series of introduction level webcasts on his blog. The content includes: Introduction Getting Started Setting up the Create Serial port communication in VC# Express Teaching the robot to sing More on serial port stuff Setting up...

The UK has a well deserved reputation in the field of Games Development and yet so far is not well represented at this world-class conference aboard the luxury Celebrity Century cruise ship, . It promises to be a very informative and fun event and will...

I have blogged before about the wealth of resources available on the Academic Resource Centre and have posted links about the most popular global downloads . I now have a tool that lets me see what the popular downloads are in the UK so this is what your...

Great news, XNA 2.0 is now available. Find out all about it on the XNA team blog . I still have a few "Getting Started with XNA" DVDs left so if you are a UK academic please get in touch and let me know how many you would like. Claire

Students competing in the Software Design category of the Imagine Cup will be delighted to learn that the deadline has been pushed back to January 9th . This gives everyone chance to work on their submissions over the Christmas holidays. We realise...

Two of the Italian MSPs have enjoyed learning XNA so much that they have devised tutorials and webcasts to help others have a great experience too. The content is available in both Italian and English and can be found at http://xnalearners.spaces.live...

Microsoft is committed to collaborating with the global scientific community to find solutions for some of the toughest challenges facing humanity, in diverse disciplines like life sciences, environmental science, and engineering. The new technical computing...

Most of us carry a camera at this time of year to capture pictures of friends and family but why not take some pictures that capture the essence of winter and submit them in this competition? http://www.wintersnaps.windowsvistamagazine.com/ You don't...

Our colleagues in Virginia and Washington recently ran a session which provided an overview of Microsoft Robotics Studio (MSRS), its application model and Visual Programming Language as well as peek under the hood at the MSRS technology foundation - Concurrency...