September 2008 - Posts
A new school year starts and a new Imagine Cup begins! This year's theme is "Solve the World's Toughest Problems." So, what are the world's toughest problems? The United Nations has identified some of the hardest challenges in the world today
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Technorati Tags: techDays_CA Hello Everyone! While we don’t have all the speakers listed as there are over 60 across the country (most should be there for the end of the week), we do have the sessions and you can sign up for the early bird price
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Late last week, Scott Guthrie announced the availability of the Silverlight 2 Release Candidate . This is pretty exciting news as it represents a significant milestone towards the go-live of Silverlight 2. The RC release of Silverlight 2 represents a
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Check out the deep zoom photo collage application on the home page. Explore Design is less than a week! Last year I went to the conference as an attendee and had a blast. It was great to talk to high school students who were interested in Design and connecting
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Hello Everyone! Your feedback on TechDays has been great and I really want to thank you so much for taking the time to share your comments with me. I thought, as there has been three major themes in all the questions, I’d share my answers
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Similar to last year , I'm filling up my calendar with upcoming UX conferences and activities. Here's the list I created. Feel free to add the ones you like in comments. Oct. 1- 2: Explore Design presented by Microsoft, Toronto It's the first North
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There are a lot of creative students in Canada who are doing innovative work to improve people's life through interactive, visual, informational, and other aspects of User Experience Design. I invited them to introduce who they are and share their work
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Back in April Qixing wrote a post about how Deep Zoom could provide an innovative way to present slides. Apparently others have found this idea interesting as well as the Microsoft Office Labs team in Redmond has released a plug-in called pptPlex
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Earlier this summer, a brand new design for DiscoverIT launched! A great Canadian design story is waiting to be told... Story background DiscoverIT.org is a site aimed at high-school students to help them discover career options in IT. It was first created
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Hello Everyone! While I guess the surprise is out. TechDays is real and no longer just a dream. We’ve been working hard over the last year to bring a similar experience as TechED across Canada. Yes, not just in Toronto …..our
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Today we released social bookmaking capabilities for there major Microsoft resource sites: MSDN (targeted at developers), TechNet (targeted at IT Professionals), and our own Expression Community site . I checked out the Expression site and made my own
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Flash, Silverlight. Silverlight, Flash. The debate started a little over a year ago when Silverlight was introduced and as time has passed, the debate continues stronger than ever. While some people are attached to a specific RIA toolset and platform
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Another great thing happened during my vacation last month is the public launch of Photosynth. Now everyone can play with Photosynth and create their own synths. It's one of the Microsoft innovations really caught my attention when I first saw it earlier
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I'm back from my vacation in China now. In addition to watch Olympics with my family and friends, I did quite a few things I haven't done before like climbing water falls with metal chain, ride on the those bamboo rafts that I saw so many times in Chinese
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