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April 30th was a very competitive day in Dublin. Students from around Ireland competed in Microsoft’s annual Imagine Cup competition at the Science Gallery in Trinity College. The Imagine Cup is a contest open to students all around the world.
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Last week I had an XNA talk at DCU. They had left me with a few questions to answer which I had left on my machine which went into the shop. I got it back yesterday and here are the questions: What is the accepted file size for games
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If you’re a student studying computer science, development, IT, software design, web design or anything along those lines, sign up for the Microsoft Ireland Student Newsletter . This twice-monthly newsletter contains guest articles by fellow students,
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I spent this past weekend in Limerick attending SkyCon 2009 , which was a really fun and diverse conference, organized by the University of Limerick Computer Society (Skynet). Besides having great topics such as Demoscene, Swarm Robots , Open Source,
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This year Microsoft Ireland has some really enthusiastic and hard-working Student Partners. I have been quite impressed by all of the ones I have met so far. IT Sligo Student Partner Cristina Luminea has put together what looks to be a fantastic
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Pssst. Are you a student or academic? Like robots? Interested in learning how to build the embedded systems and robots of the future? Then why not attend the Microsoft Windows Embedded European Tour which is coming to Ireland on Friday, November
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I have some cool news for students today. As a student, it can often be hard to keep up with what’s new and exciting at Microsoft, what is the interesting new technology, and where to find great deals and offers. So together with Liam Cronin, Microsoft
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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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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
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I was really lucky to get to go to the Ireland Imagine Cup Championships last week here in Sandyford. There were some great projects shown off, all with the idea of improving the environment. Microsoft Student Partner Alan Spillane did a great job of
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If you haven't heard yet, for the third year in a row, Dublin is hosting the Irish Microsoft Technology Conference , or IMTC next week! For those of you who haven't been to an IMTC before, you can expect tons of high-quality sessions showcasing the latest
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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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