DreamSpark

DreamSpark is an invention from Microsoft enabling students from all over the world (estimated up to 35 million) to get software design and development tools at no charge (or a very little fee). It was originally designed for college students, but now it also includes highschool students.  And now it's comming to Denmark. At this point it is in the testing phase, but hopefully shortly be a reallity.

For more info see Martin Esmann's blog or the official site.

Microsofts Next Web Vision

Mister Steve Ballmer is arriving in Denmark at the 29th. of september, too give a talk of Microsoft's next web vision, And I'm for one is looking forward to hear what he has to say. And I promise to give a summary of the event to you.

Steve Ballmer

Imagine Cup 2009

I'ts now official! Me and another student partner at DTU are now in the works of finding a project for our participation in Imagine Cup 2009. We must admit that finding a subject from the top ten UNESCO millennium goals is not easy!! We are now discussing if should go for healtcare or the environment, which both are highly intriguing subjects. So wish us good luck ;-)

Now its out of the bag!!!

Now why would I mention an opensource phone when I'm blogging about Microsoft and ASP.NET? It's simple, the uses Linux as a operating system, but there is also Mone! Mono is a port of Microsofts C# language, where the only big differens is that you are not able to use Windows.Forms framework, but instead you use GTK# when you create your GUI.

This phone now means that you can use your skills in C# to create the applications on the phone. You can do a complete rewrite of all the software on the phone, or just make a couple of applications that you might think could be in handy on your phone.. Now thats news for geeks and wannabees..  For Instance, I have a daugther who is currently four years old, but as she becomes older, she'll be needing a phone, and she'll go to parties... The phone has a built in GPS chip, and 3D Graphic chip... I'm thinking - I write a program using the GPS to moniter where she is when she says that she's sleeping at a freinds house!!! hehe... Okay thats maybe not what I would do, but it has endless possibilities. So get the phone and start making your own phone....

For more infomation take a look at www.openmoko.org  and www.mono-project.com