I’m very proud and excited to be part of the Aussie FullCodePress team that will be going up against our Kiwi counterparts on 18th August in Sydney. The Australian and New Zealand teams were announced today, after the draw.
What is FullCodePress?
The concept is simple. Web teams take each other on, at the same location, to build a complete website in 24 hours. No excuse, no extensions, no budget overruns.
The website will be for a nominated charitable or not-for-profit organisation.
This is very exciting! Time to start stocking up on caffeine for that weekend. All the best to both teams!
A local Canberra team, Team Audio Programming Assistant (APA) from the University of Canberra, have won Microsoft Australia Imagine Cup. APA presented their entry to a panel of judges at Microsoft’s Remix conference in Melbourne. The team used Visual Studio SDK to customise Visual Studio 2005 so that it could be used by vision impaired programmers.
The team demonstrated their entry by covering their laptop screen and using verbal commands to write code, including the use of the Intellisense autocompletion feature. In addition, the team presented a customised IE browser which read out links on a web page and lets users fill in input fields and dialog boxes. APA also designed a web site specifically for blind developers, consisting of tips, tricks, and tutorials for teaching the blind how to write code.
It’s good to see local tertiary talent take off! Well done to APA.
Source of information: APC mag article and Ars Technica article.