MSDN Student Flash : heard@thespoke

Heard at theSpoke

kevinbri — Fri, 08 Jul 2005 19:42:00 GMT

Dave is taking a new job working for the Xbox division. He's started to blog about what that work is all about. It looks like he's in for some fun time and will have a lot of interesting things to talk about in the coming weeks and months. If you are at all interested in game programming you may want to watch his blog.

Meanwhile, Morris Sim is introducing a lot of information about the upcoming Imagine Cup finals in Japan. He's got information and links to videos. Even if you are not going to Japan you will want to check these out. Who knows, it may help motivate you to enter next year's event.

Speaking of video, Channel 9 has a new video interview with Microsoft CEO Steve Ballmer.

- Alfred Thompson (Microsoft)

Bill Gates and the Windows Embedded Student Challenge

kevinbri — Fri, 17 Jun 2005 20:58:00 GMT

Justin Creasy is blogging about the Microsoft Windows Embedded Student Challenge (WESC 2005) event going on this week-end in Redmond. In this installment he talks about Bill Gates visiting the teams who have come from all over the world. Justin was part of the team that won this event last year. Since then he and his team have graduated and started their own company.

- Alfred Thompson (Microsoft)

Justin is also an example of the sort of people who, while in college, blog at theSpoke.

TechEd

kevinbri — Mon, 06 Jun 2005 22:49:00 GMT

Over at theSpoke, Brian Scarbeau is blogging about TechEd. Sounds like he was impressed with the opening keynote.

- Alfred Thompson

Are you a creative person?

kevinbri — Thu, 17 Mar 2005 14:41:00 GMT

As many of you know the Visual Gaming event in the Imagine Cup uses "tissues" which are the maze that the nano robots have to move through. There is a contest for people to create their own tissues that can be used in round two. You do not have to be a programmer at all to do this. The needed files can be created with Paint and Notepad. All you need to create are a BMP file that shows the color coded tissue and a text file that explains what is where in the tissue. Check it out and have some fun with it. Details at the AZN Team Leader blog.

Alfred (Microsoft)

New Project Hoshimi Manga

kevinbri — Mon, 14 Mar 2005 17:33:00 GMT

Richard has posted some drafts of the new Project Hoshimi manga at theSpoke. Images only - no dialog. Still I wonder what clues you can find there. If you are into the Imagine Cup Visual Gaming event you will want to check these out.

Alfred (Microsoft)

Do you think theSpoke sucks?

kevinbri — Tue, 15 Feb 2005 21:54:00 GMT

You can help make theSpoke better and apply to be on theSpoke's first Student Advisory Board. The full details are on Mario Jobbe’s blog, but they are looking for smart, technical students to:

- Attend MSN Messenger meetings every other week to discuss and shape plans for theSpoke v2
- Help the development and marketing teams make important decisions
- Assist with testing and localization
- Be the first to know about what's happening next on theSpoke
- Take on special projects to help make theSpoke better

-James (California State Univ., Long Beach)

Got a Party Coming Up?

kevinbri — Fri, 14 Jan 2005 14:08:00 GMT

Daryll McDade links to a post on Engadget about the coolest piñata ever. I think I might pick up one of these for the next geek party I throw at Grand Valley.

--Eric (Grand Valley State University)

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

kevinbri — Mon, 20 Dec 2004 03:18:00 GMT

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, Windows Services, default system policies and how to programmatically change them, differences in API behavior between Win XP and Server 2003, Discretionary Access Control Lists (DACL), impersonating another user in order add some ACE's to the DACL, accessing logon SID, using .NET Interop in order to import a Win32 dll and API functions into my C# project, all the different variants of .NET Remoting, and a bunch of other arcane things.

Check out his article over here at TheSpoke.NET.

--Eric (Grand Valley State University)

Heard@theSpoke

kevinbri — Mon, 06 Dec 2004 23:30:00 GMT

It’s been a busy month for theSpoke, so here’s the quick summary of some of the most interesting stuff going on:

Interested in how theSpoke works? Download theSpoke API Starter Kit (beta), then share your ideas for how to improve theSpoke community in the Developer Hub.
theSpoke turned 1 year old this month! Read about it (and lots of other stuff) in Morris’ blog.
Looking to share some cool code or maybe an image or two? Check out the My Space feature just added to theSpoke.
Want to see some active bloggers just to get started? Try David, Allister, or Travis.

The most prolific theSpoke bloggers

kevinbri — Thu, 14 Oct 2004 14:15:00 GMT

Direct from Mario on theSpoke team, here's a good way to get started by looking at some of the most prolific and popular student blogs on the site:

Punzki - http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/punzki/MyBlog.aspx

Ogman - http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/ogman/MyBlog.aspx

Bernard - http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/Bernard/MyBlog.aspx

AdamMB - http://www.thespoke.net/MyBlog/AdamMB/MyBlog.aspx

Issue 1, Volume 1, October 14th 2004

theSpoke Featured Downloads

kevinbri — Mon, 27 Sep 2004 06:49:00 GMT

http://www.thespoke.net/windowsmarketplace/

One more great reason to hang out at theSpoke.net - a team of students selects a download to showcase. Get the download, then check out the team's blogs to find out what else is going on.