Yes, the rumours are true. As my soon-to-be-new boss, Roger Lawrence, has just announced tonight, I've accepted an offer to come on board the Australian DPE team at Microsoft as the Academic Develope

Imagine Cup is an awesome competition run by Microsoft, and open to university students world wide. Every year, students can enter one of half a dozen or more categories to show how they can innovate

I stumbled on an article posted last week that talked about the top ten technologies that would be in place by 2013, and the top five technologies that would be gone by the same time. "Wow!" I thought

Without a doubt, yes. And whether it's Twitter, Plurk, FriendFeed or some other derivative branch off the same trunk, I think it's hard not to be affected by its inclusion in your communications with

I was recently asked if I could provide an important trait that goes into the make up of a great developer. While there are obvious characteristics around knowing your technology and programming theor