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21 August 2006
Invasion of the Robots!
By Matt Duffin. In July’s issue of the newsletter, we introduced you to the Invasion of the Robots Contest and its British counterpart, Team Britbot . These competitions invite you to create a conversational robot, or ‘bot’, that can be used with MSN Read More...
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03 July 2006
[Article(".NET Attributes")]
There have been many articles on Attributes, so rather than go through the rigmarole of re-hashing a subject I have will give a quick introduction. After that I have knocked up a quick demo which will hopefully get you moving in the right direction! At Read More...
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05 April 2006
Introduction to the CLR
The CLR The Common Language Runtime (CLR) coupled with the Common Type system (CTS) provides the basis for numerous languages to work on the .NET Framework. But what is the CLR? It is an environment that compiles and runs executable code similarities Read More...
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16 March 2006
UK Imagine Cup Boy Discovered!
Ever heard of Jo Hemmerlein? Neither had we, until the other day he dropped the UK academic team a hello. Quote from Jo’s e-mail: “… obviously someone came up with the idea to give the Imagine Cup UK a face ( http://www.microsoft.com/uk/academia/imaginecup/2006/default.mspx Read More...
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13 March 2006
Have I got news for you!
Imagine Cup UK Finals 06, first hand review and results! Arriving at St. Anne’s Manor, after what can only be described as the most tedious taxi journey of my life, I was looking forward to meet the teams who would be fighting it out to be this years Read More...
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09 March 2006
A Fibonacci Solution in Monad!
Little did I know, but one of my compatriots cracked my mini-challenge to re-implement the fib. sequence in MSH using recurssion! If you are interested, jump over to his blog and check out the solution : Warning: Solution! Read More...
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27 February 2006
The results are in!
Just dropping a quick reminder to anyone who entered the 'Win a X-Box 360' student newsletter competittion, ( it only took an e-mail to enter!) that the results are in. The results will be in the next studentzine which will be out sometime today (it's Read More...
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24 February 2006
Cider to help the XAML go down!
An Introduction to XAML, Cider and all things WPF: by Andy Sithers Let me begin with a confession. I’m laughably untalented as an artist – I constantly struggle to out-draw my 6-year old, and my 3-year old’s appreciation of colour and form leaves me standing. Read More...
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23 February 2006
More, no less!?
First question , does LS work?! I am happy to say the answer is yes as you can see from the screen shot (Fig 1.1) LS prints out the contents of the current directory in a nice neat way. Re-direction of text and piping work too, but with an added twist. Read More...
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23 February 2006
Monad and a bit of BASH
Total Cost of Ownership, pretty GUI’s and of course the browser wars are always on the forefront of people’s minds when debating Microsoft. Unlike the usual debates the one thing for me which I miss from the Linux world, is the power and neatness of the Read More...
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16 February 2006
More Hints, Tips & Info for Imagine Cup
Hello, Hope things are going well! :-) Here is some more important information for you around the Software Design Challenge - let us know if you have any questions at uksdc06@microsoft.com Many of you will be already thinking about what you need to do Read More...
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02 February 2006
Things you should know about C# 2.0
When developing an application there are often many ways to tackle a problem. The below link is a great introduction to a few concepts that any good C# developer should learn. Not only will they improve your productivity but they will also influence the Read More...
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02 February 2006
Get your electric beaters out!
MIX 06 is upon us, and what better way to celebrate the rise of Web 2.0.0.1, AJAX, Atlas with a competition. Turn the oven onto pre-heat; and I will get you clued-up. What is MIX 06? The web is evolving and new versions of Internet Explorer and Firefox Read More...
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20 January 2006
Leading the search for the next Bill Gates!
Demonstrating what can be achieved with .NET and its use in large enterprise systems or as a platform for new technology start-ups is something that can be done with whitepapers, evidence, demonstrations, testing but what isn’t always shown is how much Read More...
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12 January 2006
SHEEP INVADES Microsoft UK! & Win a 360
It was a typical morning in Thames Valley Park, the UK Headquarters of Microsoft. Business men talked margins, developers talked Hex and all was peaceful. An overwhelming smell of fresh grass and drops of sunlight sprinkled the air. No one realized what Read More...
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