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I love my Zune. It goes everywhere that I go. It gets me up-to-speed on tech news on the way to work, helps me ignore weirdos on the Luas, keeps me motivated at the gym, and drowns out annoying cell phone rings & electronic games on trains
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I recently had the opportunity to meet with Microsoft Ireland’s new team of Student Partners. They were incredibly enthusiastic, and I’m looking forward to the great things they’re planning on doing over the next school year. I talked to the students
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The great guys over at the NxtGen User Group in the UK have written a fun Silverlight version of the classic game “Manic Miner” which you can check out on their site here: http://www.nxtgenug.net/ManicMiner/ What is really cool about the game is
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I have only had the brand new XNA Game Studio 3.0 CTP installed for a c ouple of days, so I don’t have a whole lot to report on just yet about major differences and changes. It does make it a lot easier that this one works with Visual Studio 2008,
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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Yesterday in Trinity College something landed. Something big. Something new and fun. Something that might keep me up late at night... The XNA European Tour began right here in Dublin, filling two 150-person lecture halls for the entire day with 300+ students
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Man, I disappear for a few days and all the excitement happens! Not only did Microsoft ship Visual Studio 2008 and .Net 3.5 Monday , but the XNA team also released the Game Studio 2.0 Beta!! If you want to try it out, you can download it here and see
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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
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I added five new apps this week to my Top Ten Silverlight Sites: Farseer 2D Physics Engine - Farseer built a series of seven demos, each one shows a different set of bodies interacting. The individual demos have descriptions plus keyboard & mouse
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This is awesome news! On Monday, November 26th, Trinity College in Dublin will host an XNA event for students and professionals. Speaking at the conference will be none other than Dave Mitchell from the XNA team in Redmond. Other speakers are still being
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