We are engaged in the design of a new object-oriented educational programming language called Grace.Our motivation is frustration with available languages, none of which seems to be suited to our target audience: students in the first two programming c…

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http://www.neowin.net/news/windows-…med-for-verizon”Shammo also told Reuters that Verizon plans to make its new Windows Phone 8 handsets available later this year, in time for the holiday season, which should see the devices on sale shortly after Mic…

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Lang.NEXT is a programming languages conference, a geek festival for programming language designers and implementers from across the industry and academia. The goal is to share ideas and learn. The presentations, conversations, debates and ar…

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Today we’ll chat with Stevie Bathiche. Stevie is the Research Manager in Microsoft’s Applied Sciences Group. His job is to discover and explore and right away when talking to Stevie you can tell he really /really/ loves his job. The ASG is behind some …

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If you’re a web developer, Mads Kristensen and Jorge Gabuardi are about to be your new best friends. In this episode of Web Camps TV, Mads and Jorge introduce you to all the new features available in Visual Studio 11 for web developers. From the improv…

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As we start the new year, it’s a great time to step back and review where we want to go with Coding4Fun, what kind of content we’re passionate about, and most importantly, what we can do to inspire and enable everyone to get busy coding for fun themsel…

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In this series I’ll be asking thought leaders around Microsoft about how they got here and where they think things are going. If there are interesting people you’d like to hear from ping me at LarryLa (at) Microsoft.com with suggestions for people and …

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On Tuesday December 13th, join us LIVE from the Microsoft Redmond Campus to learn how to get started building applications for Windows Azure from Microsoft technical leaders Scott Guthrie, Dave Campbell, and Mark Russinovich! The entire event will be s…

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Words provide endless ways to tell somebody what you’re thinking or feeling. But sometimes a picture says it all. In the world of smartphones, emoticons—also known by their Japanese name emoji—are one way quick and fun way to express yourself in …

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Ryan and Travis Lowdermilk from the Windows Phone Dev Podcast have revealed some new consumer-oriented features that will appear in the next major release of Windows Phone (version 7.5), codenamed Mango. According to the two, Mango will include two new … Continue reading →

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