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The Nomatic*IM research group at the Laboratory for Ubiquitous Computing and Interaction is conducting a survey on IM usage. The survey takes less than 10 min. to fill out and participants are entered into a raffle for $50 gift certificate to the UCI bookstore. If you are intersted in participating, you can access the survey […]

A comp sci major without gadgets is like peanut butter without jelly. The two are good by themselves but much better together. With that said, here’s an opportunity to buy more gadgets on the biggest sales day of the year.
http://gizmodo.com/gadgets/black-friday-plan/the-gizmodo-ultimate-black-friday-deal-guide-324697.php
Enjoy!

Many thanks to WICS for sponsoring Avanade’s Tech Showcase event last night. On behalf of my colleagues, I also want to thank everyone who was able to make it!
For those of you who couldn’t make it to the event, the demo shows how to develop a Vista Facebook Gadget using WPF and the Facebook […]

In the tech world today, Ruby on Rails has now joined the prestigious buzz word club that has members such as SOA (Software Oriented Architecture), SAAS (Software as a Service), and Web 2.0.
When Ruby on Rails started gaining steam, a lot of people said that it would be a major competitor to J2EE (Java Enterprise […]

Find out by taking the Programmer Personality Test! 
Here are my results:
Your programmer personality type is:
DHTB
You’re a Doer.
You are very quick at getting tasks done. You believe the outcome is the most important part of a task and the faster you can reach that outcome the better. After all, time is money.
You like coding at a […]

Starting salaries surge for computer science grads
A recent study of post-college careers from the National Association of Colleges and Employers also noted by the Chronicle found that computer-science grads saw their average starting salary offers grow by 4.5 percent last year alone. The new average salary for a job right out of college is now […]

Going back to school? Why not look at seeing whether you can get a scholarship for your education!
FinAid | Scholarships
Undergraduate scholarships and graduate fellowships are forms of aid that help students pay for their education. Unlike student loans, scholarships and fellowships do not have to be repaid. Hundreds of thousands of scholarships and […]

The Best Places to Launch a Career
Our ranking is based on three extensive surveys: of career services directors at U.S. colleges, the employers they identify as the best for new graduates, and college students themselves. This year we were able to examine the records of many more companies, which allowed us to expand our list […]

Are you an alumni of UCI and member of LinkedIn? Join the UCI Alumni Association LinkedIn Group at http://www.linkedin.com/e/gis/28617/19E632324A36. Feel free to pass to another alums and if you have any questions, please contact UCIAA at alumni@uci.edu

I needed to take a screen shot of something today at work. The application I was trying to screenshot was only available installed on a remote server which I only had remote desktop access to. To make matters worse (or more interesting ;)), the server is only accessible through a VPN which I […]