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April 2008 - Posts

Wednesday, April 30, 2008 1:08 PM

How Safe is your data?

Ever wonder why companies like to offer so many fun free services?  Well we all know paid search (a company pays to be the first on the list when you search for "technology" makes the lions share of the money.  So why not focus on
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Tuesday, April 22, 2008 6:57 PM

On C++ and being a "real" programmer

One of my unnamed developer damsels linked me to a GREAT article from good ol Dr. Dobbs.  The article consists primarily of an interview with Bjarne Stoutstrap - engineering chair at Texas A&M regarding the applicability of C++ in education. 
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 9:29 PM

WTF Google - Beta Edition

While having a conversation with one of my googler pals - I noticed that gmail still bears the "beta" moniker.  WTF Google.  <rant> Gmail was released in March of 2004 - meaning it's been in Beta for FOUR YEARS NOW - little lengthy
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 3:32 PM

Your Digital Lifestyle

In our quest for hearts and minds, Microsoft has traditionally been VERY successful at minds (making the intellectual value proposition), but not so successful with the hearts part (emotion - making you feel for our products).  However, I just saw
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Wednesday, April 16, 2008 2:06 PM

Edvangelist on tour!

My buddy edwin is hitting the road on the Digital Dorm Room tour!  He's taking an RV - packing it full of the latest and greatest Microsoft technologies and driving around the North East.  Want to know where the Edvangelist on wheels will strike
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Tuesday, April 15, 2008 4:37 PM

GeekGirlBlogs.com

A recent comment on my Women + Tech Post from the Geek Girl Blogs site caught my eye.  Never having heard of it - I went to take a look.  VERY cool idea = aggregate the blogs of female developers from around the world.  Excellent :) I know
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Monday, April 14, 2008 4:09 PM

Spambot crack Live Mail CAPTCHA in <6 seconds

Recognize this? This picture is better known in the anti-spam field as a CAPTCHA (Completely Automated Public Turing Test to Tell Computers and Humans Apart) - nice and succinct... The purpose of this picture is to prevent spammers from using programs
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Monday, April 14, 2008 3:49 PM

Use Silverlight to stream DRM

Now businesses can ensure that streaming online media content is protected with DRM.  This ha the potential to open completely new models for online audiences to enjoy media that would otherwise stay off the web.  For more check out the official
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Saturday, April 12, 2008 9:31 PM

Rejected launch Marketing

Not every idea can be a winner...   This video is from The Code Trip - a bunch of developers hit the road in a tour bus, geek out, and journey across the land. It's a good good time.  For more check our their Travel Log .
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Friday, April 11, 2008 5:12 PM

How the web works (msft style)...

I commonly get the question - sooo...wtf is a web service?  A web service is anything which requires two or more computers to communicate.  Most web services these days are designed with a single "Server" providing data to any "Clients"
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 11:12 PM

2008 Rube Goldberg Machine

Purdue just won this year's 2008 Rube Goldberg Machine competition.  This whole idea is surreally awesome - build an insane contraption to make a hamburger:  Thanks to Doug White of Udel and cpuguru fame for linking me up with the video!
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Thursday, April 10, 2008 10:33 PM

XNA + High Schools = Goodness

I gave a talk on XNA to a Springbrook High School a couple months ago.  And lo and behold now they've created a game!  I'm really amazed at the speed that the students and teacher (Pat Yongpradit) have adapted to the XNA environment.  Their
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Monday, April 07, 2008 7:45 PM

Does Live Writer Work with Word?

I was giving a talk at the University of Baltimore and was asked if Live Writer (a desktop blogging application) could post cotent copied in from Word. So, I took a sample from a popfly demoscript (in an table in word) and copied it over. Looks good!
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Friday, April 04, 2008 7:40 PM

Ubalt XNA Talk - they wanted to know where to go to learn more!

Ok - well here it is: žXNA Creators Club — http://www.microsoft4me.com/xna žXNA Team Blog Site — http://blogs.msdn.com/xna/ žTorqueX — http://www.microsoft4me.com/xna — And, of course – Danwaters.com 2+ hours on how to make
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Friday, April 04, 2008 11:47 AM

Getting starting with Game Development from Ground Zero

I'm currently at Wheaton HIgh School recieving the age old "I want to make a game, but how?" question. 1. Get it installed: http://creators.xna.com/Education/newtoxna.aspx 2. Make Pong in 5 Minutes: http://blogs.msdn.com/devschool/archive/2008/02/03/pong-in-5-minutes.aspx
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Thursday, April 03, 2008 2:40 PM

Microsoft Facebook Application

We're getting started with a great new way to talk with our audience - Facebook app!  I REALLY like this idea.  Facebook is a now the defacto way for people (students and young professionals mostly) to reach out to each other.  Why not
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Wednesday, April 02, 2008 6:43 PM

Women + Tech

An issue I've struggled with over my time with the Evangelism team at Microsoft is how do we reach women?  A couple weeks ago we held a great event to this end: DigiGirlz Day 2008 - 65 girls at Microsoft Reston all day to learn about the "cool"
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Tuesday, April 01, 2008 12:44 PM

Popfly + History = the ultimate Mashup

A buddy of mine - the edVangelist is working with a history department to help them use some of the new Microsoft technologies.  The question came up: Can we use popfly to teach/share/communicate history? YES! 10 minutes later I had a little mashup
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