October 2007 - Posts

FreePlay Lounge - the movie!
31 October 07 08:57 PM

Video: Free Play Lounge, GameCity07 Paul Foster recorded the event I mentioned earlier . Looked like a great party! Read More...

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Filed under: Student

Faculty: Promoting Imagine Cup to your students
29 October 07 12:14 PM

We get a lot of requests from faculty to promote the Imagine Cup to their students. To that end, we've pulled together several resources that will make it easier to promote to your students. URL to promote to students to register http://www.microsoft.co.uk/uk/academia/imaginecup/2008/quiz/default.mspx Read More...

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Filed under: Teaching, Imagine Cup

Attachment(s):ImagineCupFaculty.zip.zip

Xbox 360 + Students + Paul Smith = Freeplay lounge and GamesCity event
28 October 07 04:49 PM

Unfortunately I wasn't able to attend but it looked like a cracking event (pulled together mainly by Claire on our team !). A great event hosted by Nottingham council and Nottingham Trent University. We hosted a bunch of academics and students at two Read More...

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Filed under: Teaching, Imagine Cup, Student, XNA

Are you interested in teaching Silverlight? Then read on...
25 October 07 03:44 PM

Kate put up a post on our Academic blog around a new teaching program we are planning to roll out in the next couple of months and she is looking for feedback and a gauge of interest with any UK academics - specifically both our traditional audience of Read More...

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Filed under: Teaching, Silverlight

Xbox 360 Elites have arrived...
25 October 07 02:01 PM

The prizes for the Imagine Cup UK Quiz and Registration have started to arrive - I have a bunch of Xbox 360 Elites on my desk and waiting for people to register to do the monthly prize draw Take the Quiz :) Read More...

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Filed under: Imagine Cup

Mix:UK session videos now available
23 October 07 11:33 AM

Like many people...well, most actually missed the cool event which was Mix:UK in September. Ian Moulster posted that the sessions were recorded and now live: We recorded most of the sessions at the recent Mix:UK event and have now made them available Read More...

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Filed under: Events

Microsoft jobs in Europe for Silverlight development and Live
23 October 07 11:31 AM

Students in the UK might be interested in this post from Claire Dillon to see that Microsoft do have developer roles in product groups outside of the bubble that is Redmond. "Few people know that Microsoft have quite a few core development centres outside Read More...

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Filed under: Windows Live, Silverlight, Student

Check out the Microsoft.com (UK) homepage to see the Imagine Cup
21 October 07 09:22 PM

Yay! Our project is live and being advertised - if you are a student, go register ! Read More...

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Filed under: Imagine Cup

Silverlight and me appear on Partner TV (again)
17 October 07 07:10 PM

The second shorter video ( first one is here ) with James Senior and I talking about Silverlight and what you can achieve with a few of the stock demos and me messing about with my old Mac and showing cross-platform debugging of Silverlight. Partner-TV: Read More...

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Filed under: Developer, Silverlight

Imagine Cup UK launches - Students Enter Now!
17 October 07 09:59 AM

Do you like technology? Want to kick start your career while at university? Fancy the opportunity to win a week in Microsoft headquarters in Seattle (Redmond) shadowing the Popfly team ? Or just want to show that your university is better than its biggest Read More...

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Blogging contest - win £1200 and more
15 October 07 09:38 AM

" On your blog site, describe how you will use Office Ultimate 2007 to excel in your academic studies" If you are a UK student and want to spread the word about the great £38.95 offer for Office 2007 , then this is a great way to go about doing that. Read More...

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Filed under: Student, Blogging, Software

Our very first Channel 8 video posted
08 October 07 09:02 AM

Last month, saw the first every Mix:UK event in London with designers and developers from all around the UK coming to hear about the latest developments on the Microsoft platform. Two of our Microsoft Student Partners were lucky enough to get to go and Read More...

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