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Visual Studio 2005 Express Announcement--it's staying FREE!

Posted Wednesday, April 19, 2006 11:44 AM by Daryll McDade
From Dan Fernandez : "We are incredibly excited to announce that effective April 19th, 2006, all Visual Studio 2005 Express Editions including Visual Basic, Visual C#, Visual J#, Visual C++, and Visual Web Developer Express will be free permanently!" Read More...
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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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Best Bill Gates interview yet

Posted Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:36 PM by Daryll McDade
If you haven't checked out the "Seventeen minutes with Bill Gates" interview on Channel 9, I *highly* recommend doing so. Very open, honest, relaxed interview--really enjoyed it. Don Dodge has a nice Cliff's Notes summary here . Read More...
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An hour of my time well spent...

Posted Tuesday, February 21, 2006 2:29 PM by Daryll McDade
It would be a good use of an hour of YOUR time as well to check out this Behind the Code interview with Anders Hejlsberg . JEEZ...that guy has done a LOT of interesting stuff. Read More...
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Microsoft Academic Geek cruise

Posted Friday, February 03, 2006 10:30 AM by Daryll McDade
A very cool effort by my team--a "geek cruise" to connect with professors on the topic of Gaming in curriculum. It is ALSO cool that this was picked up by Forbes (I guess there was a bit of an inside track!). Pat Phillips has 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 , 5 good posts Read More...
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Project Hoshimi Programming Battle for High School students!

Posted Friday, January 20, 2006 11:23 PM by Daryll McDade
I've been promising this for a while but it's FINALLY here! Here’s the quick scoop; Info for students: You will compete, directly online, with students all over the US to see who has the best programming skills. brings together an imaginative background 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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Why go to class? Just get the podcast!

Posted Wednesday, November 02, 2005 10:24 AM by Daryll McDade
Not sure how many other universities are doing this but University of Washington is offering lectures via podcast . Missed class? No worries—just download it to your iPod! “Lectures in Kane have often been videotaped for student viewing, but that means Read More...
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It's baaaaack!! Imagine Cup that is.

Posted Tuesday, October 25, 2005 9:07 PM by Daryll McDade
Pretty excited that Imagine Cup is coming soon. What is Imagine Cup? If you don't know... “Microsoft’s Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition. It’s an opportunity for top young minds from around the globe to use technology to Read More...
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Is Microsoft cool to students?

Posted Wednesday, September 28, 2005 3:54 PM by Daryll McDade
Apparently not. The Saturday after PDC some of my colleagues on the Academic team met with a group students to discuss “digital lifestyle”. Chris Avis was there and took some good notes. A couple of things strike me about this; 1) Windows Read More...
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