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Inspiration Tour back on the Road
09 October 08 10:12 PM
Yesterday saw the first of this academic years Inspiration Tour events at Bradford University. This year we're running two sessions; one focusing onrich application development using Silverlight / WPF and the other on XNA games development. The content
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Inspiration Tour Wrap Up Video
11 June 08 09:43 AM
Regular readers of this blog will know that a huge amount of my time this year was dedicated to taking new technologies on the road and showing students how to get started with them. In the end we travelled over 15,000 miles to speak to 4000 students
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All Inspiration Tour Sessions Now Online
08 February 08 10:34 AM
To follow on from my previous post about the Inspiration Tour on Channel8 I just wanted to let everyone know that all of our sessions are now online: Introduction Silverlight Windows Embedded XNA Technorati Tags: Inspiration Tour , Channel8
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Inspiration Tour Now Online!
24 January 08 02:20 PM
As many of you already know this year we have been touring UK universities on the Inspiration Tour talking about Silverlight, XNA, Windows Embedded and how these technologies are relevant to the student audience. We've had a lot of great feedback about
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Shift Happens Presentation
21 January 08 11:14 AM
Whenever we give a presentation on the Inspiration Tour we like to run a deck called 'Shift Happens' as the audience enters the room. This particular presentation has been doing the rounds online for quite some time and states some key facts which demonstrate
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Happy new year - now get to work ;)
06 January 08 10:32 PM
Hopefully like me you've all had a great Christmas but I'm guessing that also like me today was the last day of your holidays :(. I thought that to kick off the new year I'd remind you about some upcoming deadlines (Aren't I kind!). Round One of the Imagine
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UKStudentZine Article - Tech on Tour
18 December 07 11:10 AM
I recently wrote an article about the developments in technology since we have been running the Inspiration Tour with information about expected advancements in 2008. The UKStudentZine is a monthly newsletter for students published by Microsoft which
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XNA Game Studio 2 Released and Entry to Dream-Build-Play 2008 Opens!
14 December 07 10:00 AM
Yesterday the much anticipated XNA Game Studio 2.0 launched adding support for all versions of Visual Studio and online multiplayer gaming . To learn how to get started, install Game Studio 2.0 visit and get some code samples visit http://creators.xna.com/Education/GettingStarted.aspx
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Inspiration Tour Update
10 December 07 12:17 PM
As we're nearing the Christmas break I thought I'd put together a post about the tour so far... Since the third of October we've visited 20 universities all over the country, travelled in excess of 6000 miles and spoken to nearly 2000 students. The reaction
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XNA Game Studio V2 Beta Now Available
20 November 07 12:05 PM
XNA V2 beta is now available for free download here and the best thing is you don't even have to uninstall the current version of XNA Game Studio Express as the two will work fine side by side. The beta only allows you to build games for Windows but does
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XNA V2 Update...
16 November 07 11:13 AM
Yesterday the XNA team announced the impending release of XNA V2 beta to the public. They have confirmed the beta will be feature complete but as with all past XNA betas will only support building games for Windows (Xbox 360 support will come with the
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Popfly Now in Public Beta!
18 October 07 09:46 AM
For those of you who know what Popfly is the title says it all... as announced today at the Web 2.0 summit by Steve Ballmer you can now sign up for immediate access here . For those of you not familiar with Popfly it is a new online tool (built in Silverlight
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The Ultimate Steal Blogging Competition
10 October 07 10:41 AM
Those of you who regularly read this blog or generally keep your ear to the ground will know that Microsoft is selling Office Ultimate to students for £38.95 through theultimatesteal.co.uk . As if that wasn't enough, today sees the launch of a new competition
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Inspiration Tour Resources
04 October 07 02:31 PM
Yesterday saw the first of our Inspiration Tour dates kindly hosted by Manchester Metropolitan University. I thought it would be a good idea to pull together a bunch of resources on the technologies we talk about as a central reference for those who attend
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