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Springboard from mortarboard to onboard, Hilary Pike & Diane Curtis, Academic Developer Evangelists

Retro fun: Tom Brokaw Introduces the Internet

Great clip from The Daily Tube:  Remember life before Facebook, Twitter, what about before ‘the...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 06/19/2009

Technical Book Club: Code Complete – Measure Twice Cut Once: 6 Influences on Software Methodology

Steve discusses costs associated with iterative and sequential development approaches. He presents...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 06/18/2009

How-to Restore and Find Deleted Email in Outlook 2007

Help!!  I permanently deleted an email I need, I need to find an email I deleted, how to...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 06/17/2009

Technical Book Club: Code Complete – Measure Twice Cut Once: Problem Definition, Requirements, and Changing Requirements

The next sections are fairly straight-forward.  Here’s a summary of some of the keypoints:...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 05/21/2009

How Do I? Developer Videos

The How Do I? Series has extended their reach to YouTube with their DeveloperVideo Channel. This is...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 05/18/2009

Technical Book Club: Code Complete – Measure Twice Cut Once: The Importance of Prerequisites

In answer to the question from last week’s section, according to Code Complete, software...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 05/15/2009

How to get started with .NET using Terrarium

Random .NET Ramblings talks about Terrarium, a game created to learn .NET programming.  He used...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 05/13/2009

How to Setup NUnit VWD Express MVC

The release of ASP.NET MVC Preview 3, included improved support for NUNIT Templates.  A Coder’s...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 05/12/2009

Technical Mom Picture Time: Mom’s with O’Reilly Books

Pictures of technical moms with their pictures are starting to arrive!  Check them out at:...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 05/08/2009

Technical Book Club: How to Participate

Our Technical Book Club is underway with our first book Code Complete, but it’s never too late to...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 05/07/2009

Technical Book Club: Code Complete – Software Construction: Building Software

Code Complete is all about Software Construction.  What? You probably never faced a course on...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 05/07/2009

Windows 7 RC goes Public

Windows Connected announces the release of the Windows 7 Release Candidate (RC) is now open to the...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 05/05/2009

US Imagine Cup Announces Top 3 Teams at the Microsoft Student Competition

The results are in for the top 3 US finalists in Imagine Cup, Multi-Point Web, Special Child, and...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 05/05/2009

Technical Mom Picture Time: Send in Pics with O’Reilly Books

O’Reilly is collecting pictures of Technical Moms for their O’Reilly Mother’s Day Page and...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 05/04/2009

Microsoft Student Partners Demonstrate Technologies They Love

Microsoft Student Partners in the US had a Demo-off to create videos of coolest technologies that...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 05/04/2009

O’Reilly Offers Mother’s Day Discounts on Technical Books

In just 24 hours, O’Reilly responds to my tweet for mother’s day discounts on technical books! ...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 05/01/2009

Challenge: Technical Books Discounts for Technical Moms

My challenge to you:  What discounts can you offer for technical moms on Mother’s Day to tell...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 05/01/2009

Technical Book Club: Code Complete – Software Metaphors

My husband was a philosopher before becoming a computer scientist and uses the following metaphor to...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/30/2009

Visual Studio 2010 RTM and .NET 4.0 now available through DreamSpark, MSDN, MSDN AA, and TechNet

The long awaited developer tooling is here!  The Visual Studio 2010 and .Net Framework 4.0 RTM...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/30/2009

Free Learning Snacks around Key Windows 7 capabilities

Microsoft Learning offers Free Learning Snacks around key Windows 7 capabilities Learn more about...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/29/2009

Windows 7 RC reveals 100% application compatibility

“I want to upgrade by one of the programs I use doesn’t work on Windows 7.” “I upgraded to Windows...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/29/2009

Stay up to date on Windows 7 RC

Some resources for keeping up-to-date on Windows 7: Develop For Windows 7 -...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/29/2009

Windows 7 RC Changes Since the Windows 7 Beta

Engineering Windows 7 has a list of 27 changes since the Windows 7 Beta.  See the full article...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/29/2009

New Videos: Get Started with Visual Web Developer Express 2008

Visual Web Developer Express 2008 is a free web tool that allows you to build CSS, HTML ASP.NET, C#,...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/28/2009

Windows 7 RC

I’d like to say that being a Microsoftee, I have the most recent news about Windows 7 RC. ...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/27/2009

10 Programming Proverbs Every Software Student Should Know

To complement our reading of Code Complete through the technical book club, here is a great listing...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/27/2009

In Remembrance of the Inventor of Cliffs Notes

Before the “For Dummies” series swept the category of yellow books, a smaller more targeted set of...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/25/2009

Technical Book Club: Code Complete - Motivation

The first book for our technical book club will be Code Complete: A Practical Handbook of Software...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/23/2009

The 10/20/30 Rule of PowerPoint

As it turns out many people find my blog by searching for this rule, so I thought I’d make a post...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/23/2009

First all girls team in the US Imagine Cup Finals

I was excited to see Mary Jo Foley’s post about the All-women's team making the Imagine Cup contest...

Author: Diane Curtis Date: 04/22/2009

Oprah and FIRST Robotics, Microsoft Unlimited Potential

FIRST (For Inspiration and Recognition of Science and Technology) Robotics competition is one of...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/22/2009

LEGO Rock Band Video Game Announced

An awesome combination of LEGO® and Rock Band® , check out this announcement....

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/21/2009

Microsoft IT Arcade Game - ServerQuest II

Keith Combs , one of our IT Professional Evangelists and fantastic blogger announces the release of...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/21/2009

Designing User Experiences and Mobile Applications

“Ask anyone over 25 what digit they use to ring a doorbell and most people will pop up their index...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/20/2009

IE8 Web Slices, Accelerators, ESPN, and eBay

Internet Explorer (IE) 8 has a number of cool features including Color-Coded Tabs that group...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/17/2009

Technical Book Club: Code Complete Book #1

The first book we’re reading for our Technical Book Club is Code Complete. Order it today if you...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/16/2009

Virtual Developer Round Table in Reaction Grid

Are you interested in Silverlight development?  Join our virtual .NET community in Reaction...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/15/2009

Microsoft Student Partners: An Interview

Prasid, Paul, Tracy and I run the Microsoft Student Partners Program for the US.  Paul and two...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/14/2009

MIX 09 Announcements

MIX 09 had some great announcements for web developers and we designers, I thought I’d post a...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/07/2009

31 Days to Build a Better Blog Challenge

I follow @problogger on Twitter and am starting off the 31 Days to Build a Better Blog...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/06/2009

Mission: Springboard from Mortarboard to Onboard

I started this blog because I wanted a place to encapsulate all the opportunities that Microsoft has...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/06/2009

10 Skills Developers Will Need in the Next Five Years

Aimee Sprung, our Students 2 Business Lead pointed out a great article about much needed...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 04/03/2009

Silverlight for MySpace Developer Platform

Exciting announcement from Michael’s blog about MySpace and Silverlight. “Now you can build...

Author: HilaryPike Date: 03/31/2009

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