20-04-2010 at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen, Frydenlunds Allé 6, Vedbæk 2950

Are you studying at DTU? Do you want to know what we are developing at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen and which career opportunities we can offer you as a student or as a graduate? Then visit our Open House Event on April 20 from 15.30 – 18.00. We have lots of exciting stuff on the agenda and there will also be time for pizza, networking and fun coding challenges. First prize in the coding challenge competition is an XBOX, but who knows, you might even end up with a job offer.

To make it easy for you to visit us, we have booked a bus that will pick you up at the parking lot in front of Building 101 at DTU at 15.00 and take you back at 18.00.

We look forward to seeing you on April 20!

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Program

15.30 Introduction to Microsoft and Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen, Charlotte Mark, Managing Director

- These are the products we develop, Kim Ibfelt, Director of Program Management 
- Development methods, Michael Nielsen, Director of Engineering

16.20 Meet Henrik Metzger, Software Development Engineer

16.30 Meet Aida Seifi Labrosse, Software Development Engineer in Test

16.40 What I look for in a candidate, Christian Heide Damm, Senior Development Lead

16.55 Career opportunities at Microsoft, Scott Simmons, Staffing Lead

17.10 Microsoft Student Partner Program, Martin Esmann, Academic Developer Evangelist

17.20 Closing, networking, pizza and coding challenges

“All my bags are packed, I’m ready to go……”

I’m am very exited to get to Tech ED Berlin 2009 (which is now sold out!). I’ve been trying to wrap my head around what track and sessions I should attend, because there are MANY! to chose from. As a person I believe it’s importent to focus on the fact that this is a unique opportunity to evolve your knowledge. Therefore I have chosen to expand my choice of sessions to not just include areas of immediate focus, but to also include areas of common interest.

I spend a few hours on the track & sessions page, figuring out pros and cons on sessions that unfortunately collided on day and hours. But I think I hit an amazing agenda for the entire week:

TechEd Europe Keynote - Welcome to the New Efficiency

Enabling Rich Business Clients with Windows Presentation Foundation

Top 10 Design Mistakes Made By Web Developers and How to Avoid Them

Windows 7 Demo Mania

Embedding Windows 7 into Devices

Tips and Tricks for Building High Performance Web Applications and Sites

Pumping Iron: Dynamic Languages on the Microsoft .NET Framework

F# for Parallel and Asynchronous Programming

Microsoft Visual Studio Team System 2010 Team Foundation Server: Become Productive in 30 Minutes

Unit Testing Best Practices

The Windows API Code Pack: How Managed Code Developers Can Easily Access Exciting New Windows Vista and Windows 7 Features

Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Kernel Changes (*PDC at TechEd)

Windows 7: The Power Management Workout!

Building High Performance Parallel Software

Windows Embedded: "Demos Only"

Parallel Computing for Managed Developers

Achieve new levels of desktop optimization with Intel Core™ 2 processors with vPro™ technology and Windows* 7

Case of the Unexplained... Windows Troubleshooting with Mark Russinovich

The one session that I look really forward to is Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 Kernel Changes!! I’ve been following the discussion on the internet, and following the videos from Channel 9 on Windows 7.

The official note on the session leaves me with the impression that this is going to be really good:

“This session goes beneath the hood of Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 to describe and demonstrate the key changes in the kernel. Topics include: scalability improvements such as removal of the global scheduler lock, support for more than 64 logical processors, and user mode scheduling, virtual service accounts, core parking and timer coalescing for power efficiency, trigger-started services, core architecture changes to modularize Windows ("Minwin") and more.”

And the embedded part with demo’s are also something to be looking forward to:

“This demo-packed session presents all sorts of devices, tools, and technologies used in today's and tomorrow's embedded projects. If you want to learn how Windows Embedded can be used to build stunning devices or if you are just a geek, you can't miss this session.”

And yes, I’m a geek!

I’m really looking forward to this mix of Desktop, embedded, web technology and architechture sessions. And not forgetting all the demo presentations that makes this Tech ED a must-see event.

Appart from all of these sessions, I will be on the lookout for the expo areas, where I will get a chance to have a look at what all other developers are doing right now.

I’m also loking forward to meeting all the other Microsoft Student Partners from all over the world. And this will ofcourse introduce them to my network, and me to theirs.

If you find the subjects listet above interesting, then I will attempt to blog on every single one of them, and hopefully provide you with awesome pictures from the whole event. If you find subjects of interests missing in my list, I will suggest that you have a look at some of the other Microsoft Student Partner blogs. We are well represented at the Tech ED event, and maybe they will attend more convenient subjects. You can find links to there blogs on the left column.

Tja dette er så mit første indlæg på denne blog. Jeg vil da starte med at fortælle at jeg som studerende altid er spændt på både nye og gamle ting i IT verdenen, og da jeg så fik muligheden for at kunne sætte mig ind i ASP.NET, og samtidig fortælle om hvad der sker, så kunne jeg ikke sige nej. Jeg vil nu slå fast at det ikke kun drejer sig om ASP.NET, men også andre spændende ting fra Microsoft. F.eks. Windows Vista og C#. Det er ting jeg ikke direkte bruger i mit studie, men som så fylder min sparsomme hobbytid ud. Det vil nu nok også i starten bærer præg af at jeg er midt i eksamensræset, men jeg håber da på at kunne bidrage med noget fornuftigt.