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Imagine Cup on The Register
As you may or may not know, the winners of the UK Imagine Cup are blogging about their trials and...
Author: edunhill Date: 04/24/2006
Academic Papers and Search
When you start researching projects for university; or even when you have a question on some arcane...
Author: edunhill Date: 04/13/2006
Introduction to the CLR
The CLRThe Common Language Runtime (CLR) coupled with the Common Type system (CTS) provides the...
Author: edunhill Date: 04/05/2006
A Personal Review of F# by Adnan Osmani Microsoft Student Partner
When I first heard about F# - the new functional programming language from Microsoft, I thought it...
Author: edunhill Date: 04/05/2006
Developer Developer Developer Days
On Saturday 3rd June Microsoft will be hosting, at our UK campus, the UK .NET community who get...
Author: edunhill Date: 03/21/2006
Logic Puzzle!
Have been musing about various logic puzzles latelty and thought I would open one up to the...
Author: edunhill Date: 03/17/2006
UK Imagine Cup Winners on the BBC!
Was browsing through my usual RSS feeds when I noticed something a bit closer to home! The UK...
Author: edunhill Date: 03/16/2006
UK Imagine Cup Boy Discovered!
Ever heard of Jo Hemmerlein? Neither had we, until the other day he dropped the UK academic team a...
Author: edunhill Date: 03/16/2006
T in the Park or Reading Festival Anyone?
Win £100 worth of entertainment vouchers - Sign up to the Student News todayYou could win the chance...
Author: edunhill Date: 03/13/2006
Have I got news for you!
Imagine Cup UK Finals 06, first hand review and results! Arriving at St. Anne’s Manor, after what...
Author: edunhill Date: 03/13/2006
A Fibonacci Solution in Monad!
Little did I know, but one of my compatriots cracked my mini-challenge to re-implement the fib....
Author: edunhill Date: 03/09/2006
Newsletter Unplugged!
After a bumper edition of the student newsletter, I thought it would be a great idea to share some...
Author: edunhill Date: 03/09/2006
CIDER to help the XAML go down - An introduction to CIDER from the Doctor!
Dr. Andy Sithers writes a great article on XAML and CIDER. The Article! From the newest student...
Author: edunhill Date: 03/02/2006
The results are in!
Just dropping a quick reminder to anyone who entered the 'Win a X-Box 360' student newsletter...
Author: edunhill Date: 02/27/2006
Imagine Cup Email - 9 Days To Go
Only 9 days to go to the Round One deadline! If you have already completed & submitted your...
Author: edunhill Date: 02/27/2006
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....
Author: edunhill Date: 02/24/2006
Xbox 360s – What do you think
Sara Barsley, President of Derby University Computing and Gaming Society reviews the new Xbox 360 On...
Author: edunhill Date: 02/23/2006
More, no less!?
First question, does LS work?! I am happy to say the answer is yes as you can see from the screen...
Author: edunhill Date: 02/23/2006
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...
Author: edunhill Date: 02/23/2006
Presenting at the UK Imagine Cup finals - oh my....
Nearly every Computing degree in the UK requires, at some point, students to get up in front of...
Author: edunhill Date: 02/21/2006
More Hints, Tips & Info for Imagine Cup
Hello, Hope things are going well! :-) Here is some more important information for you around the...
Author: edunhill Date: 02/16/2006
Hints and Tips for creating your poster presentation for the Imagine Cup UK SDI
Following on from the day when Ian and I...
Author: edunhill Date: 02/13/2006
UK Imagine Cup Email Reminder to student competitors
Thanks for signing up to the Imagine Cup Software Design Challenge (SDC) - here is some important...
Author: edunhill Date: 02/12/2006
Sheared!
Whats blue, white and read all over?! The Mint Source blog! FYI: The ukstudenzine blog has been...
Author: edunhill Date: 02/10/2006
Want to meet the UK finalists for the Imagine Cup 2006?
Your invitation to The Imagine Cup UK Final Event The UK Software Design Challenge (SDC) is the most...
Author: edunhill Date: 02/07/2006
Make Some Noise - Adding sound to your VB application
Brad McCabe writes a great introduction to using sounds in .NET. He discusses the use of...
Author: edunhill Date: 02/07/2006
How many web services does it take a blogger to change a light bulb?
Answer: 5 Blog Engine: To post that they will change a light bulbSearch Engine: To find instructions...
Author: edunhill Date: 02/02/2006
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...
Author: edunhill Date: 02/02/2006
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...
Author: edunhill Date: 02/02/2006
Win an Xbox 360 competition closing soon - enter NOW
https://blogs.msdn.com/ukstudentzine/archive/2005/12/19/505421.aspx The competition closes on the...
Author: edunhill Date: 01/26/2006
How to enter the UK Imagine Cup - Easy as...
Ian and I accomplished our goal of doing the minimum amount of work to complete the Round 1...
Author: edunhill Date: 01/26/2006
Microsoft Designer Tools now available as a CTP
Microsoft WinFX technology is going to provide a framework on which to build the next generation of...
Author: edunhill Date: 01/25/2006
Cheating the Imagine Cup...
...well sort of! :) Ian and I are about to embark on a journey hopefully many of you students out...
Author: edunhill Date: 01/18/2006
Bug Hunt!
Pedantic literary types love to dissect the simplest of English phrases and run amok with their...
Author: edunhill Date: 01/09/2006
What’s in a name?
Choosing a name for your Imagine Cup team can be a complex, and important decision. The following is...
Author: edunhill Date: 01/06/2006
Games Resources and all that jazz...
Having played my X-Box 360 to death over Christmas (yes I finally got one!), and in the process...
Author: edunhill Date: 01/06/2006
UPDATE: (DVDGone) PDC post conference DVD up for grabs...
...to the first UK reader to email in to ukacinfo@microsoft.com (please supply a postal address). I...
Author: edunhill Date: 01/05/2006
Cryptic Christmas Cryptography
Having had my presents list go missing numerous times, and invariably ending up with a bag of coal...
Author: edunhill Date: 12/16/2005
Robert Scoble, Texas Food and Geek Dinners
A couple of months ago a couple of colleagues from work Steve Lamb and Eileen Brown suggest I...
Author: edunhill Date: 12/13/2005
How to register for the Imagine Cup....JUST DO IT!
With only a slight hint of tourettes this is a no nonsense quick'n'easy guide for all students who...
Author: edunhill Date: 12/12/2005
Nice Threads man!
Andrew D. Birrel covers threading in C# with a very informative paper covering the core...
Author: edunhill Date: 12/07/2005
Multithreading with .NET Compact Framework 2.0
An in-depth article, which covers the use of Multi-threading in the Compact framework. The article...
Author: edunhill Date: 12/07/2005
The Third Sense...
Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell get the low-down from real world developers about their...
Author: edunhill Date: 12/07/2005
Imagine Cup - doctor information overload
In the next in our series of problems faced in the medical profession which is preventing people...
Author: edunhill Date: 12/05/2005
Finally a great gift guide!
Having seen many gift guides for geek they tend to be either far too expensive, or the writer really...
Author: edunhill Date: 12/05/2005