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Looking for post AP exam activities? Hunt for the Wombat is here!

Posted Friday, April 07, 2006 2:54 PM by Daryll McDade
What can teachers and students work on now that the AP exam is over? Hunt for the Wombat is a 4-6 week project designed to give AP Computer Science students the opportunity to apply their programming skills, gain broader awareness and understanding of Read More...
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KPL on Channel 9 again

Posted Saturday, March 04, 2006 4:36 PM by Daryll McDade
In case you missed it check out 2/3 of the KPL team on Channel 9 (44 minutes). Lots of stuff on the next version--nice! Read More...
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ASP.NET 2.0 "How Do I..." Video Series

Posted Tuesday, February 21, 2006 3:08 PM by Daryll McDade
Brian Goldfarb from the ASP.NET team just posted about a new series of "How Do I..." videos . I just watched the " Web parts and Personalization " and if it's any indication of the rest of the series, this is going to be EXCELLENT! Enjoy! Read More...
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Mint Source for Express

Posted Thursday, November 10, 2005 11:38 AM by Daryll McDade
Huh? Mint Source is a cool tool from the UK Developer team--built by an intern actually--that let's you play around with Express to build a system tray RSS aggregator. Fresh... :) Read More...
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Visual Studio Express Editions are here!

Posted Tuesday, November 08, 2005 7:39 PM by Daryll McDade
Gosh, it seems like this took FOREVER! Glad that the Visual Studio Express Editions are finally here and REALLY glad that they are available FREE ! :) From Dan Fernandez’s blog : I am proud to announce that today, November 7th 2005, we officially Read More...
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Visual Studio 2005 for the Web Developer

Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 11:50 AM by Daryll McDade
If you’re into application development, of course you know that today is a big day . Especially exciting, IMO, if you’re into Web development. Lots of things are updated; -the Visual Web Developer Express (VWDX) page (I dig the purple—I Read More...
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Orange County Choppers - proud users of Microsoft technology

Posted Sunday, November 06, 2005 8:37 PM by Daryll McDade
Maybe you’ve heard of Orange County Choppers , which is the featured bike builder on American Chopper which airs on Discovery Channel. OCC are proud users of Microsoft technologies . They are definitely at or near the top of the list of “cool” 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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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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Instant J# conversion tool

Posted Friday, July 29, 2005 7:55 PM by Daryll McDade
This is pretty cool. Instant J# helps generate J# code from Visual Basic code. Given the huge VB community out there and the plethora of code samples floating around, this could be a great learning tool. For students and faculty looking to bring their Read More...
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MainFunction Webcast series calendar

Posted Wednesday, July 27, 2005 8:37 PM by Daryll McDade
After much anticipation we've locked down the Webcast calendar over on MainFunction (you'll need to sign-in). All of the pieces have been lined up including our ability to grant continuing education units (CEUs) --we'll be getting things started on Monday Read More...
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Windows Vista beta 1 now available for MSDN Subscribers

Posted Wednesday, July 27, 2005 1:56 PM by Daryll McDade
That includes MSDN Academic Alliance subscribers as well. Download beta 1 from MSDN Subscriber Downloads , check out the Windows Vista Developer Center on MSDN and subscribe to the RSS feed for the latest updates. Tags: Windows Vista , Microsoft Read More...
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First BattleBot Built with Microsoft .NET Technologies Is TechEd Guest of Honor

Posted Friday, June 10, 2005 6:04 PM by Daryll McDade
Still catching up on all of the activity at TechEd. Came across this story on the first .NET Battlebot. Nice touch with the XBOX controller used to drive it! I am a BIG fan of Battlebots and I've had a chance to meet the creators. They are doing some Read More...
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Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 skill building tools now available

Posted Wednesday, June 08, 2005 5:06 PM by Daryll McDade
Microsoft Learning has just launched a new set of e-Learning products on the Whidbey Developer Center . There's a total of 62 hours of in-depth online training on the newest features of Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005, with hands-on virtual labs Read More...
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