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Imagine Cup Finalists -Chile

v-ingab@microsoft.com — Tue, 26 May 2009 18:35:00 GMT

The winners are:

• 1st Place & our local representative in Egypt
Prismo, A software to helps change the interaction between children and computers in a collaborative learning environment.

• 2nd Place
Terranova, an internet game that promotes the use of natural resources in a sustainable manner.

• 3rd Place
GLEFT Team with SIARE project, an engine that processes video inputs to extract biomechanics data used to improve sports capabilities.

Imagine Cup Finalist - Mexico

v-ingab@microsoft.com — Tue, 26 May 2009 16:51:00 GMT

First Place -Team representing Mexico in Cairo in July 2009

A project from Universidad Panamericana, that helps children to take their therapy while using real interaction in a simulated environment and a chroma key technique. Children can choose puzzles, spelling contests and math games and interact with them by using their hands a PC, a green wall and a web cam.

Microsoft makes available PHP development kit for its Azure cloud

v-ingab@microsoft.com — Fri, 15 May 2009 14:21:00 GMT

Microsoft has taken the wraps off a new software development kit (SDK) for testers interested in building apps in PHP for the Azure cloud.

Microsoft made the announcement at TechEd India this week — a show running simultaneously with TechEd 2009 in Los Angeles.

Microsoft collaborated on the PHP SDK with RealDolmen. Microsoft provided the funding for the development of the SDK (like it is doing with a Java SDK for Azure being developed by Schakra).

The PHP SDK for Windows Azure, known as PHPAzure, is an open source project, available for download from Microsoft CodePlex. The SDK “provides consistent programming model for Windows Azure Storage (Blobs, Tables & Queues), according to the CodePlex site.

On Microsoft’s Port 25 blog, Open Source Community Program Manager Peter Galli said Microsoft also is annoucing “the launch of a series of projects that offer samples and a toolkit that enable PHP developers to include Silverlight controls, Microsoft Virtual Earth maps and IE Webslices and Accelerators in PHP web applications; as well as automatically generated a simple “Create, Read, Update, Delete (CRUD)” PHP application from a table in SQL Server.”

Today’s build of the PHP SDK is considered a Community Technology Preview. Milestone 2 is due out in late July, and the final in late August of this year.

On-line open talk about testing (Spanish)

v-ingab@microsoft.com — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:34:00 GMT

Title: Alan Page and Javier Andres Caceres Alvis in an open talk session about Software Testing.

Description: In this session, the "testing guru" Alan Page will be answering questions about testing by using day by day samples. Presented by Javier Andrés Cáceres Alvis.

Starts at:
Day/Time: May 20th 06:00-08:00 PM (GMT -5, Bogota)

Live Meeting URL: https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/microsoft/join?id=ZF7D83&role=attend&pw=TbjF%5B9t_m

IE 8 Blog by Microsoft Student Partner

v-ingab@microsoft.com — Tue, 12 May 2009 13:30:00 GMT

8 Blog by Microsoft Student Partner

http://conociendoie8.blogspot.com/