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See Windows Vista...

Posted Wednesday, May 31, 2006 12:24 PM by Daryll McDade
This is cool ! Not just because I am a big fan of Tom Skerritt but the rendering and interactivity is pretty sweet. tags: [ Vista ] Read More...
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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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Hmm...'Bumvertising'?

Posted Wednesday, April 12, 2006 10:04 AM by Daryll McDade
Not sure what to make of this . I'm caught somewhere between the ethics and creativity of it. In any case, as a marketer this is fascinating. 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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New Software Assurance Benefits for Microsoft® Academic Volume Licensing Customers

Posted Thursday, March 16, 2006 9:32 AM by Daryll McDade
summary Microsoft executives recently introduced new benefits for customers with Software Assurance. This brief provides an overview of the Software Assurance benefits that will be available to education customers as of March 2006. It also reviews some Read More...
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Attachment(s): NewSoftwareAssuranceBenefits_AcademicVLBrief_Final.doc

The story behind untitlednet.com

Posted Friday, March 10, 2006 4:22 PM by Daryll McDade
If you are among those that don't have an Xbox 360 yet, there is a tool available at http://untitlednet.com that will check the inventory at Best Buy, Circuit City and FutureShop. It's cool because it's cool but it's *especially* cool because it was created 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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UW Student ROCKS the launch

Posted Monday, November 07, 2005 1:48 PM by Daryll McDade
Nice work by Brian Goldfarb and Carolyn from the University of Washington on their demo during Steve’s keynote speech at the launch kick off in San Francisco. Give it up for Carolyn—student gets on stage with SteveB to ROCK THE LAUNCH! :) I was very impressed Read More...
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