Software for Students
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