Geek of the Week - Aamer Abbas, University of North Carolina

kevinbri — Fri, 11 Feb 2005 21:57:00 GMT

Getting these started up again - this week it's Aamer Abbas, a Microsoft Student Ambassador from the University of North Carolina.

In his own words...
My name is Aamer Abbas and I'm a senior at the University of North Carolina. Though I have many interests, I spend a lot of time working with PHP + MySQL every week. My latest interest, though, has been in Microsoft ASP.NET 2.0. In contrast to PHP, ASP.NET offers a significantly better platform in terms of code maintainability and flexibility. With Microsoft's SQL Server technology rapidly expanding, an ASP + SQL Server backend can't be beat. I'd like to encourage students out there to take advantage of MSDN Academic Alliance to give ASP and SQL Server a try!

Geek of the Week: Jennifer Chang, San Jose State

kevinbri — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:39:00 GMT

INTRODUCING: Hola! My name is Chia-chen Chang, a.k.a. Jennifer. I am a graduate student at San Jose State University in San Jose, California. I am a Microsoft Student Ambassador as well as a Teaching Assistant for three classes, including a .NET class. I came up with an idea of using ADO.NET to retrieve data from an Excel file which I store students' grades at, and using ASP.NET validation controls to validate input data. It only took me half an hour to finish this web application with VS.NET 2003. I believe that the release of Visual Studio 2005(Beta 1) will make .NET developers' life much easier!

(Geek of the Week is a way to highlight some student developers out there - it's more "Geek of the Month" than week. But that doesn't rhyme as well).

--Kevin (Microsoft)

MSDN Student Flash : Geek of the Week

Geek of the Week - Aamer Abbas, University of North Carolina

Geek of the Week: Jennifer Chang, San Jose State