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Making Firefox Even Faster!
Jun Yang writes about how to make Firefox even faster. He links to a post that he found over at The...
Author: kevinbri Date: 01/04/2005
Advice for College CS Students by Joel
Joel Spolsky from Fog Creek Software (Joel on Software blog - a great read on an ongoing basis for...
Author: kevinbri Date: 01/04/2005
Harvard Law Professor Draws Crowds to Class
NPR is running a story right now on Morton Horwitz, a Professor of Law at Harvard Law School, that...
Author: kevinbri Date: 01/04/2005
It's NOT about you, but IT is!
As a student I have been asked by various professors about how they could improve their class and/or...
Author: kevinbri Date: 01/03/2005
Advice for Students in Computer Science
Joel on Software has a nice write up with a lot of great information for students pursuing a degree...
Author: kevinbri Date: 01/02/2005
First round deadline extended
Shreyas Vijaykumar posted on his blog that the first round deadline has been moved for Office...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/29/2004
Inside story on SP2
Paul Thurrott has an interesting interview with Todd Wanke, Ryan Burkhardt, and Jon Murchinson about...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/23/2004
Version 2.0 of Paint.NET available for free download
As mentioned on Rick Brewster's blog, Paint.NET v2.0 is now available for download. Paint.NET is an...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/20/2004
Are you on the naughty or nice list?
There is more than one way to get on Santa's nice list as this FoxTrot comic illustrates. -James...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/20/2004
Finished the holiday shopping yet?
If you haven't finished your holiday shopping yet, hopefully you are not seeking any of the products...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/20/2004
Ever wanted to port an app from Linux to Windows (.NET)?
Over the past week Josh Blake of James Madison University has ported an application from Linux to...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/19/2004
Special Holiday Episode of MSDN TV
Don Box and Chris Anderson demo the basics of writing custom layout code in Avalon. There is also a...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/17/2004
Blogging required in a Northwestern course
Nitish comments on a course at Northwestern requiring students to blog. Would you be interested in...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/17/2004
Imagine Cup Algorithm Invitational Update
The Imagine Cup team is soliciting user feed back based on two UIs that will be used for the...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/16/2004
Themes for XP
James, one of our contributing students, just blogged about the new Christmas Theme available for...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/16/2004
The power of grad students...
Students at University of Illinois Chicago dug under the covers of various UNIX applications and...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/16/2004
P2P in 15 Lines of Code
Peer-to-Peer technology while viewed by many as a bad thing, becuase it tends to provide an easy...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/15/2004
Chat with the Visual Studio 2005 team!
The Visual Studio 2005 (ex-Whidbey) team will be chatting on December 15th about the new templates...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/15/2004
Researchers claim Linux has fewer bugs
From Slashdot: Wired has an article stating that according to a four-year analysis of the 5.7...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/14/2004
Apple Student Blogs
Apple is trying out an interesting concept in blogging, not unlike MSDN Student Flash. It just got...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/14/2004
Is your department a member of MSDNAA?
MSDN Academic Alliance school member search site now includes the URL's for MSDNAA Software Centers....
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/13/2004
Find anything, anywhere, fast!
Finals are almost over so now what are you going to do? How about some nice beta software to play...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/13/2004
Could you survive The Code Room?
Three MSDN event attendees are taken to an inner-city warehouse, equipped with a partially-charged...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/10/2004
Don Box on technical presentations and nudity
Ian Ceicys informed me about a great Channel 9 video where Don Box talks about his philosophy on...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/10/2004
Butlerville Elemntary School - cool use of a blog in education
We're always on the lookout for unique ways to make use of blogs in education. This is a nice one:...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/08/2004
Imagine Cup in the news
Dennis Pham was on the front page of his school newspaper, The Poly Post, talking about Imagine Cup....
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/08/2004
EggHeadCafe.com Launches .NET Programming Contest
Each month, the editors at eggheadcafe.com will choose a programming problem that is designed to...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/08/2004
Need a Regular Expression?
Tonight I was working on creating a regular expression to parse URLs for a program and I could not...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/07/2004
The Buzz - ConferenceXP
Conference XP is an initiative from Microsoft Research to push the boundaries of collaboration in...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/06/2004
Imagine Cup Updates
Into Software Design? Download the sample application spec now (OneNote format).Like gaming? Jump...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/06/2004
Heard@theSpoke
It’s been a busy month for theSpoke, so here’s the quick summary of some of the most interesting...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/06/2004
SF Challenge Coming Soon...
The MSDN Student Flash team would like to release a new bi-weekly or tri-weekly challenge post and...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/06/2004
FREE fun for Windows XP
Get the Winter Fun Pack 2004 and have more fun with Windows XP this winter season! Spice up your...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/04/2004
Try out a cool new (and free!) blogging engine
MSN Spaces just launched in beta. It's got great integration with the latest version of MSN...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/03/2004
Have you tried the MSN Messenger Beta?
Check out the latest MSN Messenger Beta. I just started running it and it's pretty sweet. --Eric...
Author: kevinbri Date: 12/02/2004