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Nicholas on Channel 9!

Welcome to everyone coming across this blog after seeing me speak with Adam Kinney about photoSuru, the application I was building while at Microsoft this past year.  If you haven’t seen the video yet, you can check it out here. My regular readers (yes, all… ZERO of you) will by now have noticed that I haven’t [...]
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The "I didn’t know it could do that" WPF Post

At the end of my last co-op term, I was in a good position.  I was a pro at WPF — I’d spent 4 solid months working on a WPF application in the financial sector, and was probably the best WPF developer on the team — even though the others on the team had [...]
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The Trouble with WPF

I’ve been working with WPF quite a lot lately, in no small part because I’m now on an internship with the WPF team at Microsoft.  This post is not about the work, though — it’s been great — but rather, the one glaring flaw that I keep seeing, over and over, with WPF.  Before [...]
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Microsoft == Royalty?

With a new term comes a new co-op job, and for me, that’s Microsoft. After receiving offers from a number of companies (as the previous post can attest), I decided that my best course of action was to fly halfway across the continent to live in what is proving to be a very grey and [...]
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The Interview Stats are In

Talk to any co-op at Waterloo and they’ll tell you that the best, and the worst, thing about Waterloo is co-op.  Sure, you get the opportunity to work with some of the best companies around (anywhere), and if you’re lucky (or in Engineering) you can graduate without any debt — but it can be quite [...]
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