Things moved so fast (or I was too slow) to write about the start of the 24-hour competition that took place from 14h GMT+9 on Monday 6th to 14h GMT+9 on Tuesday 7th. The competition involved students from practically all categories, including mine: Interface Design. Here are a couple of pictures I uploaded to Flick before starting: The cubicles of all 6 Interface Design contestants. This is our booth, before the competition started.

I’m in a plane heading to Seoul right now to participate in the finals of Imagine Cup 2007 and this will be the first of, hopefully, many posts covering the event. A couple of remarks: since I am a contestant and not a journalist, I will not have a lot of time for writing, so for a while all posts will be only in English (the text will be available on all three feeds, though); and since Internet access will apparently be difficult to come by with, I will probably be posting by batches when I get the chance to go online.

An interesting idea by the Imagine Cup team: map the locations of all teams on their way to Seoul this weekend for the Imagine Cup finals. It would have been even better if they had asked us to actually locate ourselves on the map, because I’m sure nowhere near the south of France right now. So, idea for next time: a mash-up using plazes and Virtual Earth, now that would have been cool…

Por supuesto que Intellisense todavía existe en Visual Studio 2008. Si algo ha cambiado, es tal vez un cierto número de mejoras. Por ejemplo, ya me ha pasado miles de veces y apuesto a que a ustedes también: estoy escribiendo código, la ventana de Intellisense aparece. Aprecio que la ventana esté ahí porque generalmente me ayuda a programar más rápido, pero en este preciso momento me gustaría ver el código que está debajo.

Of course Intellisense is still there in Visual Studio 2008. If anything, it’s undergone several nice improvements. For example, it has happened to me thousands of times and I bet it has happened to you too: you are writing code, the Intellisense window pops up. You appreciate that it’s there because you like how it helps you write code faster, but at that precise moment you’d really wish it would get out of the way so you could see the code that’s underneath.

Bien sûr qu’Intellisense existe toujours sous Visual Studio 2008. S’il y a quelque chose qui a changé, c’est peut être un certain nombre d’améliorations. Par exemple, ça m’est arrivé plein de fois et je parie qu’à vous aussi : vous écrivez du code, la fenêtre Intellisense apparaît. Vous en êtes reconnaissant parce qu’elle vous permet en général de coder plus vite, mais à cet instant précis vous aimeriez qu’elle disparaisse pour voir ce qu’il y a derrière.

I left some IE7 tabs open before I took the plane to Costa Rica and, while closing them today, I stumbled upon Channel 8 again, where a new video is already online. This video, that presents Bill Gates and Craig Mundie talking about Imagine Cup, reminded me that I forgot to make a very important announcement because it happened right when my blog died: I qualified for the Imagine Cup finals in Korea!

Dejé algunos tabs de IE7 abiertos antes de coger el avión para Costa Rica y, mientras los cerraba hoy, volví a caer en la página de Channel 8, en la que ya se puede ver un nuevo video. Este video, en el cual Bill Gates y Craig Mundie hablan de Imagine Cup, me recordó que se me había olvidado hacer un anuncio muy importante ya que sucedió justo cuando mi blog se murió:

J’ai laissé quelques onglets IE7 ouverts avant de prendre l’avion pour le Costa Rica et, en les fermant aujourd’hui, je suis encore tombé sur Channel 8, où l’on peut déjà voir une nouvelle vidéo. Cette vidéo, dans laquelle Bill Gates et Craig Mundie parlent d’Imagine Cup, m’a rappelé que j’avais oublié de faire une annonce très importante parce que c’est arrivé juste quand mon blog est mort : Je suis qualifié pour la finale d’Imagine Cup en Corée !

I don’t know when this went online because I’ve been mostly disconnected lately, with the moving and all, so I haven’t been able to keep up with the blogosphere, but still I would like to present you a new Microsoft site. First, do you know about Channel 9 and Channel 10? Channel 9 was one of Microsoft’s first initiatives to open up to the general public. Today it’s a website where developers, IT pros and other geeks can learn everything about past, present and future Microsoft technologies via videos, forums, blogs, etc.