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New Channel 8 Sidebar Gadget

Check it out – there is a cool new gadget with content from Channel 8, downloadable for your Vista machine.  It flips through the latest content on channel8.  When you click on an item that grabs your interest, you will get more information Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 07, 2008 8:30 PM by martharotter | 1 Comments

Fourth XNA Video: Dr. Joaquin Quiñonero-Candela

Dr. Joaquin Quiñonero-Candela is an Associate Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge. He works with the Applied Games Group. He and his team are doing quite a lot of interesting work as you will see in his talk, titled "Learning to Race." He talks Read More...
Posted Monday, February 25, 2008 9:37 AM by martharotter | 0 Comments

Third XNA Day Video: Dave Mitchell

Dave Mitchell came all the way from Seattle during his Thanksgiving holiday to talk with students at the XNA tour. He is a director at Microsoft for XNA, and he certainly knows his stuff. Dave gave the opening keynote of the XNA European Tour, where he Read More...
Posted Friday, February 22, 2008 9:07 AM by martharotter | 1 Comments

Next XNA Day Video Posted: Rob Miles

Rob Miles is a Microsoft MVP, and as he says in his highly entertaining talk below - it's what all Microsoft Student Partners should aspire to be. Watch as Rob tells bad jokes and demos XNA Game Studio on his MacBook Pro. I laughed out loud at his descriptions Read More...
Posted Tuesday, February 19, 2008 8:58 AM by martharotter | 0 Comments

First of the XNA Day Videos Posted!

Back in November, Dublin was host to an event called the XNA Game Studio Tour.  It was a full day jam-packed with superb XNA experts talking about the upcoming XNA Game Studio 2.0 release, showing off features and real-life examples of XNA applications Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 14, 2008 9:19 AM by martharotter | 0 Comments

QuMIX! MIX at Queen's University in Belfast

Today I went up to Belfast with Vincent Vergonjeanne and Liam Cronin to present at QuMIX '07. Mike McMeekin , who is a Microsoft Student Partner at Queen's University Belfast did a fabulous job setting up the afternoon, so special thanks go to him and Read More...
Posted Wednesday, November 28, 2007 6:41 PM by martharotter | 1 Comments

UCC Students Learn About XNA and Silverlight

On Monday I went to Cork to visit students at UCC. Despite some technical difficulties involving scheduling and room changes, Microsoft Student Partners Nathan Forde and Sarah Fitzgerald managed to get together a great crowd! We spent about a half hour Read More...
Posted Friday, November 16, 2007 5:26 AM by martharotter | 1 Comments

The Final Imagine Cup Results!

Wow - Ireland really cleaned house at the Imagine Cup finals! Team Red Dawn ( Mohammed Al-Tahs and Marouf Azad) from the Dublin Institue of Technology finished SECOND in the world for the web development competition! This was out of 155 teams, which is Read More...
Posted Monday, August 27, 2007 8:03 AM by martharotter | 0 Comments
 
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