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Congratulations Winners!!

After going through tons of entries, we decided to select not just one winner, but to give away MCTS vouchers to the top 4. Here are their names with their blogs (in order of preference.)

1. Ankit Prakash
2. Abhilash KR
3. Senthil Kumar
4. Sreenidhi BS

Congratulations  to winners once again. And For all we promise to be back with bigger and better events this fall from the MSP team. Till then BING!!

Blogging contest – Microsoft User Group : Win MCTS vouchers

Got a flair of technology? Got something cool to share? Well here’s something to make it all the worthwhile.

Contest details:

Make a blog entry about your take on any Microsoft technology. Make it informative and worth a read. You stand a chance to win a free Microsoft Certified Technology Specialist (MCTS) certification voucher. There are few goodies for the taking too

Eligibility:

Student currently enrolled in any technical course within India.

Selection criterion:

Entry(s) with maximum points will be chosen. Point split-up is as follows

Content: 10

Clarity: 05

Relavent media : 10

Originality: 05

Authenticity: 05

Member of tech-club: 05

Early submission : 02

Multiple blog entries: 03 per entry

SUBMISSION:

Mail a link of your blog entry to kiran_uvce@student-partners.com with the subject line “Blogging contest – Microsoft User Group” by May 31 2009, 22:30 IST. Multiple entries are permitted.

Pls note: Microsoft Student Partners are not eligible. They can promote the event in their respective tech clubs.

The Mock Stock Coding Challenge

Hey guys as promised earlier The UVCEMUG and IEEEUVCE team have come p with an open source coding challenge for you folks. You can compete either solo or teams (max size 3). Contest is open only for UVCEians. Prizes include learning materials, resources and certificates and also a chance to see your application in action for this years IMPETUS. The time line is certainly short and we’ll evaluate you on a continuous basis. So competitors are supposed to come up with their own problem statement for their ideas of MOCK STOCK software. Here’s a briefing on what exactly a problem statement is:

Problem Statement

The problem statement should be a concise description of the design problem and its context. Be sure to include only the functional requirements of the device and not components of the solution.

The aim of problem definition is:
# to clearly define the problem for the team to focus on.
# to publicize what the team is working on.

What to do:
# be sure that the problem defined is measurable and observable.
# address the questions of:
who (the user),
what (the functionality of the device),
where (the environment),
how much (the cost).
# quantify the problem with facts and numbers where possible.

What not to do:
# do not state the problem as a question.
# do no give a solution or cause of the problem in the statement.
# do not address why or how.

10 points for the first statement to be received at http://groups.google.com/group/uvcemug/ and 15 points for the best. So get to work guys.

THE MOCK STOCK THEME
Mock Stock :-

Want to feel the highs and the lows of the stock market?? Want to see how it feels to be the biggest gainer or the biggest loser in a particular days trade?? But you would be putting your fortunes at stake.
How would it be to experience it without the fortune and your future attached to it??? MOCK STOCK is a game that can give you this experience.Get an initial amount of virtual cash from us.Trade smartly to make a good profit. Make the highest profit to winthe prize.

The M.U.G.

Hey folks in order to connect with you better we have launched out student tech club, the Uvce Microsoft User Group (MUG) Please join us at http://groups.google.com/group/uvcemug

Virtual PC 2007 – An evaluation

Microsoft’s Virtual PC is a marvelous piece of software. I’ve always experimented with virtual PC’s such as vmware, and Sun’s Virtual box. All these gave me a single headache, the free versions didn’t allow to run the Virtual machines in a full screen. I believe Sun’s newer version has got this problem tweaked out but then so has this kid on the block Microsoft Virtual PC 2007. With native support for full screen and features as the following:

->Ability to switch priorities between the background host system and the virtual machine as needed.

->Ability to change machine settings while running itself such as tweaking memory allocation and allocation of virtual drives.

->Seamless integration with the host windows os and the capability to run even Linux of windows {oops thats what we use every vm, for he he…}

What can be improved:

->provision for virtual CPUs: this is something missing in today’s virtual machines. Some users might want to try out the 64 bit versions of software on their 32 bit machines. A provison could be done mapping the host cpu into a virtual one (a performance issue for sure but something to really think on the lines for…)

-> And a request tot the development community – don’t let your little gizmo’s tell that Windows XP sp3 is an unsupported OS and then still run on it

What this blog is about?

Hi everyone, For all those who know me from the corners of the blogosphere to the newcomers around, i thought it would be better if my first blog entry in this new blog of mine gave an overview of what this blog is going to be about. Well, this blog will be a sincere effort of providing a insight into core Microsoft technologies and tips, tricks, coding knowhow and lots more from the Microsoft stable. Happy reading.

Regards,

Kiran

Microsoft Student Partner

Bangalore