Dream. Build. Play. is back for 2011
Honestly if you are a student you REALLY want to enter the Imagine Cup game development competition . Really you do
CodeRetreat – Programmers Honing Their Craft Together
I participated in my first CodeRetreat in PHX recently. I had way more fun than I expected to and it was a safe environment for me to learn new languages. I really liked getting to pair with skilled developers who travelled from as far away as Mexico to attend.
Music: Every OS Sucks …
Let’s start the year with some fun. Read More……( read more )
Top Ten Indications You Are A Computer Industry Newbie
Just for fun and because I am old[ish]. But more seriously, because people should know the history of computer science and the computer industry so as not to repeat mistakes
British IT humour
Enfield and Corbett. Classic…and given Google is a verb, ironic that it didn’t make it in to the sketch! Tweet
Minifig yourself
I got sent a minifig of myself recently and they’re scarily good.
PAX Day 1
Friday at PAX was busy. Things started for me getting off a red-eye flight from Redmond landing at 9:30am in Boston. I headed right over to Microsoft NERD for Major Nelson’s morning Tweet-up
Teaching Kids Programming – Teaching Girls to code in Danish
Llewellyn and I spent last week at (snowy!) Microsoft Copenhagen , preparing to teach Danish DigiGirlz coding (see picture below). Here’s what happened and what we learned. We were part of a very successful event. 100% of the participants said ‘ I would like to attend another DigiGirlz event’ and also 100% personally told me that they would volunteer to proctor at a future DigiGirlz event
Browser Choice Screen: Neue Details zur Browserwahl in Windows 7,Vista und XP
Heute hat Microsoft weitere Details zum kommenden “Browser Choice”-Update bekanntgegeben . Mit diesem Update kommt Microsoft dem Wunsch der Europäischen Kommission nach, die Wahl des Browsers in Windows Betriebssystemen noch einfacher zu machen. Aus diesem Grund wird demnächst per Windows Update ein Auswahlbildschirm ausgeliefert, mit dem Windows User ihren favorisierten Browser auswählen können
Dilbert on Twitter
Dilbert has been riffing on cloud a bit last week.
The Demise of the Test Lab – An Ode to when Testers worked in test labs
Since I have been in software it has been readily accepted that in order to test software one needs hardware. At most software companies this means that there is a test lab filled with computers and devices to assist in the testing.
Så skapar du en förloppsindikator för Windows 7 aktivitetsfält med .NET
En av de många små nyheterna som gör Windows 7 så mycket trevligare att arbeta med är möjligheten att ha en “progress bar”, eller förloppsindikator (i ett försök att använda en hyfsad svensk översättning), i Windows 7 aktivitetsfält. Vad det handlar om är att kunna ge användare en direkt visuell återkoppling till att ett program arbetar med något och hur långt det har kommit
