QuMIX, supplemental ;)

Martha Rotter Introduction

Martha is a DPE in Microsoft Ireland, and has a great background in the company. She previousily worked as a Lead SDET (Software Developement Engineer in Test) for WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), and a Lead SDET for Silverlight. She has a great enuthasium for technology, and if you have any deep questions about Silverlight - shes the girl to ask!

XNA

XNA Game Studio Express is a new game development solution targeted primarily at students, hobbyists, and independent game developers. XNA Game Studio Express is based on Visual C# Express 2005 and lets developers create games for both Windows and Xbox 360. XNA Game Studio Express contains the following:

• The XNA Framework, a set of managed code development libraries that make it possible for game developers to be more productive when creating games for Windows and the Xbox 360.
• The XNA Framework Content Pipeline, a set of tools that allow developers to more easily incorporate 3D content into their games
• XNA Game Studio Express also contains a full set of documentation, how-tos, and starter kits that demonstrate how best to use the content pipeline and XNA Framework.
• XNA Game Studio Express runs side-by-side with other versions of Visual Studio without interference
• XNA Game Studio Express has now been released, and can be found here. It supports both Windows and Xbox 360 game development.

Robotics Studio

The Microsoft Robotics Studio is a Windows-based environment for academic, hobbyist and commercial developers to easily create robotics applications across a wide variety of hardware. It's also the source of Martha's Power.

Second part of this three part series ;)

Vincent Vergonjeanne Introduction

'Programming from the age of 12 year old, spending my adolescence coding Video Games in the basement of a friend artist, I created my own company at the age of 19 year old, during the Internet Bubble. Not a strong commercial success but an extremely valuable experience. I then worked for the Video Game and the Internet industry. After 2 years, I decided to stop working and finish my studies to get my Bachelor/Master degree at EPITA (Famous French IT University).

Diploma in pocket, I travelled in Australia where I worked for the mobile phone and the automation industry. Finally today I'm working for Microsoft in Ireland on the competitive and challenging field of Web Analysis.

Specialties:

Advanced Visualizations, Video Game Development, GDI+, Silverlight, WPF, DirectX, .NET, C#, AJAX, DirectX, J2ME ...'

Silverlight

Silverlight is a cross-platform, cross-browser plugin for delivering rich media content over the internet. It's 1.0 version is programmed in XAML and Javascript, while its latest version, 1.1 can be developed using Microsofts C# programming language.

Basically put, its Microsofts version of FLEX, but if your used to VisualStudio and C# - its so much better!

Hi Guys,

I'm pleased to announce that Queens will be holding a reMIX event on Campus on November 28th, I'm calling it QuMIX which is technically not an offical name but I'm using it anyway :)

In a run up to the event date I'll be hoping to post some information about the people talking, as well as some information about what they will be talking about. The first thing I'm going to do in this blog post is point to a session done in UCC which is just 1/3 of what will be happening in Queens!

The Multi-National, Multi-Talented, Multi-Lingual, Multi-Skilled All Star lineup for the QuMIX event is:

Vincent Vergonjeanne

Martha Rotter

Liam Cronin

Schedule and Info to come!

Thanks,

Mike