January 2009 - Posts
Happy the year of OX, everyone! May the new year bring you and your family joy, good health and wealth! The pronunciation of OX in Chinese is very close to the English word “New,” so it’s very popular to say “Happy Niu Year” to each other here. This is
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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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It’s a wrap! We finished our last TechDays stop in Vancouver today. We made so many great connections along the way and learn what we can do to improve the conference experience from city to city. Here are some examples: Starting TechDays Montreal, we
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Have you worked on a project recently that you are proud of? Whether it’s a mobile application, a rich interactive online service, a re-design of a website, a software solution that helps people’s productivity in a particular domain, or even an innovative
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Vancouver is our last stop for TechDays. I’m sitting at Toronto airport now and waiting to board my flight to Vancouver. I look forward to catching-up with my graduate school classmates from UBC and meeting new friends at TechDays next week. Similar to
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After coming back from a week of professional training at Microsoft headquarter Redmond, I finally got a chance today to watch Steve Ballmer’s Pre-CES Keynote . The public availability of Windows 7 Beta was the big announcement, and starting last Friday,
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Here is a list of innovative projects from various Microsoft labs. Many of these projects are handy tools that you can try out today. From Live Labs Thumbtack lets users collect snippets of information from Web sites and share the collections with others.
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I came across SilverlightShow this morning. It's an independent Silverlight community, and the goal of the site is to "help Silverlight developers to find solutions to common problems, to stay up-to-date with the latest news , to learn the best practices
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