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August 2005 - Posts

Chance to give input to Visual Studio--let's hear it!

Posted Tuesday, August 30, 2005 4:33 PM by Daryll McDade
ATTENTION TEACHERS—LOOKING FOR YOUR INPUT! My colleague Jay Schmelzer from the Visual Basic Team is looking for your feedback for future versions of Visual Studio and how it can help Academia. I would say that today, Visual Studio is almost TOO robust Read More...
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Student Intern video on Channel9

Posted Thursday, August 25, 2005 12:41 PM by Daryll McDade
Hey—one of those interns is David Smith from MSU! I met David at the Imagine Cup regionals LAST year. David also swung by the US Finals this past year—I guess he was feeling nostalgic. Great comments David—glad that I got to bump into you while you were Read More...
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Project Aardvark ships!

Posted Saturday, August 13, 2005 12:21 PM by Daryll McDade
I posted previously about Project Aardvark ; Well the interns have finally shipped their summer project — Fog Creek Copilot 1.0 has shipped ! Congrats to the team! How cool is that for these students? Your Summer internships results in a shipping product…awesome Read More...
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Microsoft and Google faceoff

Posted Friday, August 12, 2005 3:46 PM by Daryll McDade
But not the way that you might normally think… Two teams of “pencil pushers and programmers” faced off in a quiz competition (The Golden Linux Bowl) at LinuxWorld . I love the sense of humor of the Microsoft team dressed up as Darth Vader and Stormtroopers. Read More...
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Crabby Office Lady goes RSS

Posted Friday, August 12, 2005 3:36 PM by Daryll McDade
Thanks to Heather for the pointer. I’m usually just as big of a character blog hater as anybody. But the Crabby Office Lady’s feed actually pretty useful. I’ve learned a TON of stuff about Office that I didn’t know thanks to “her.” Read More...
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Paint.NET updated

Posted Wednesday, August 10, 2005 2:05 PM by Daryll McDade
Looks like the team that is maintaining Paint.NET have updated the app. It was created all in C# by some students at Washington State University—mentored by some folks at Microsoft. The app is intended to be an alternative to Microsoft Paint. Some Read More...
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MSN Spaces now has Power Toys for Advanced Users

Posted Wednesday, August 10, 2005 10:10 AM by Daryll McDade
If you have an MSN Spaces account AND you would classify yourself as an advanced user, you should check out the new Power Toys . From the Power Toys team: “PowerToys are additional programs that developers work on after a product has been released Read More...
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DigiGirlz Technology Camp

Posted Tuesday, August 09, 2005 4:11 PM by Daryll McDade
DigiGirlz is a great student outreach effort that the Microsoft Diversity Team puts on here in the Seattle area. There will be 80 high school girls visiting Microsoft campus for 4 days. They’ll meet female executives, take a tour of Game Test labs and Read More...
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Spammer to pay Microsoft $7 million

Posted Tuesday, August 09, 2005 7:47 AM by Daryll McDade
The fact that a Spammer has to pay Microsoft $7 million is big news IMO. In the scheme of things, $7 million isn't a lot of money to Microsoft--this is clearly about the principle. It's great that $5 million of this will go directly to Microsoft's efforts Read More...
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Visual Studio 2005 e-learning FREE

Posted Sunday, August 07, 2005 8:06 PM by Daryll McDade
The Microsoft Learning team has launched 8 FREE e-learning courses for Visual Studio 2005 . Free until November 8th--get it while you can! :) Tags: Visual Studio , Whidbey Read More...
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MSN enters the blogosphere with Filter

Posted Sunday, August 07, 2005 7:42 PM by Daryll McDade
I'm a little late to the game on this one (haven't had much time to dig into this kind of stuff)--but better late than never. The gist is that MSN Filter allows the masses of Web surfers to act as the initial ‘filter’ sharing content they think is interesting Read More...
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Videos and demos from TechEd now available

Posted Sunday, August 07, 2005 7:26 PM by Daryll McDade
Thanks to Brian for the head's up on the release of the videos, presentations and demos from the ASP.NET, Visual Web Developer, and IIS talks at TechEd 2005 . Tags: ASP.NET , TechEd Read More...
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X-10 Hardware + Express

Posted Sunday, August 07, 2005 6:58 PM by Daryll McDade
The Coding4Fun guys are at it again . This is about the coolest thing I've ever seen! First it's cool because it's the first video podcast entry (yes, the feed will include a video file in your podcast catcher). Second it's cool because you can combine Read More...
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Visual Studio 2005 - One teacher's perspective

Posted Monday, August 01, 2005 11:08 AM by Daryll McDade
Tom Indelicato , Computer Science teacher from New Hampshire, was kind enough to write up his impressions on the newest version of Visual Studio . Nice quick overview of the key feature updates. Just wait Tom--it's going to get even better! ;) Tags: Visual Read More...
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