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Wednesday, January 26, 2005 5:19 PM

Who needs C++ anyway?

Eric Gunnerson has an interesting blog entry comparing C# and C++. The Computer Science department at CSULB currently uses C++ for most of the programming courses. I think it would be interesting to switch to C# as the default language. Would you rather
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Tuesday, January 11, 2005 10:12 AM

Now this is a resume page

Resume pages are always so formal... here's one from a sociology student at Seattle University that really gets makes the professionalism shine through! (it's like Tablet PC gone mad) -Kevin
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Thursday, January 06, 2005 8:46 AM

How nerdy are you?

Take a test and find out how nerdy you are. You can also determine the extent of your love for money with another test . -James (Cal. State University, Long Beach)
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Tuesday, January 04, 2005 2:41 PM

Can't make Las Vegas for CES?

If you can't attend the 2005 International Consumer Electronics Show in person you can still watch Bill Gates live on January 5, 2005 at 6:30 P.M. Pacific Time. -James (Cal. State University, Long Beach)
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Monday, December 20, 2004 12:49 PM

Are you on the naughty or nice list?

There is more than one way to get on Santa's nice list as this FoxTrot comic illustrates. -James (Cal. State University, Long Beach)
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Sunday, December 19, 2004 7:18 PM

Ever wanted to port an app from Linux to Windows (.NET)?

Over the past week Josh Blake of James Madison University has ported an application from Linux to Windows primarily using C# . I had to learn a lot about the Win32 API...and I'm talking some intense stuff, like Access Control Entries (ACE), Desktop API
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Friday, December 17, 2004 11:58 PM

Special Holiday Episode of MSDN TV

Don Box and Chris Anderson demo the basics of writing custom layout code in Avalon. There is also a rendition of a classic holiday poem at the end of the episode. -James ( Cal. State University , Long Beach )
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Thursday, December 16, 2004 9:51 AM

Themes for XP

James, one of our contributing students, just blogged about the new Christmas Theme available for Windows XP over on his theSpoke blog (it's always fun when you have multiple blogs, and keep track of what you post where!). He also points to the Energy
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Tuesday, December 07, 2004 10:30 PM

Need a Regular Expression?

Tonight I was working on creating a regular expression to parse URLs for a program and I could not get one part to work properly (probably because I am tired... since I have pretty much been up for about 42 hours right now). When I mentioned this to James
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Monday, December 06, 2004 3:37 PM

Insomniac Nation - updates

Just some completely random cool links I came across Microsoft ’s Ian McDonald is blogging – he knows a thing or two about shipping products (think: Windows) Can’t get enough of Cryptonomicon? Read Slashdot’s interview with Neal Stephenson If you haven’t
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Wednesday, November 24, 2004 7:55 AM

Getting down to the wire...

It has just been one of those days... I am very happy that we are on Thanksgiving break today, because I do not think I could have made it through one more day of classes. Yesterday was the first delivery day for a group project at school and of course
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Wednesday, November 10, 2004 6:18 PM

From the chronicles of Insomniac Nation: Morbid Warnings Icons

Saw this referenced up on Flickr , and I thought anyone (student otherwise) could enjoy! :) http://www.flickr.com/photos/nadav/sets/28034/ -Kevin (MSFT)
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Thursday, October 14, 2004 7:19 AM

Insomniac Nation: some random links to keep you entertained

Embed yourself in this code: Get the Windows Embedded Introductory Kit . 2 hours of nothin' but .NET: .NET Rocks! Hosted by MSDN . Ever heard of Podcasting? Neither had we, but it's sweeping the developer world . Total irreverence and Visual Basic, together
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