Microsoft Student Associate Program

Microsoft is known for constant innovation and its revolutionary technologies in the world of personal computers, phones, tablets and other gaming devices. Ever since it was founded in 1975 by Bill Gates, Microsoft has dominated the software market by transforming the way we use electronic devices. Four decades tech savvy people used to run MS-DOS machines and four decades hence kids play around scrolling on tile-like interface on tablets and smartphones. Everyday technologies that people use these days are:-

1. Skype
2. MS Office
3. Cortana the personal assistant
4. Internet Explorer
5. Xbox 360
6. Bing

I had my first hands-on personal computer when I was in 5th grade at school. I used PC mostly to play games like pacman on windows 98 machine and occasionally to scribble colorful lines in MS-Paint. And now that I have ended up being a Computer Science student, Microsoft technologies like Visual C#.Net, Visual Studio, MS Office, Windows 7, 8 and 8.1 have been very helpful and have made my life easier than before. Microsoft isn't just limited to OS and search engines, there are others too in the category like Windows Azure, Outlook, MS Access, MS Sql Server just to name a few.

Truly speaking, Microsoft has impacted my life to a great extent. Technologies like Visual Studio and Microsoft Virtual Academy has helped me a lot to develop Windows Phone 8 apps. Programs like Dvlup helped to get rewarded for my app developing skills. And later on Windows UCrew program helped me lead the change with Windows 8/8.1. I loved it how my friends and other college mates came to me with their issues regarding Windows 8 installation and other such related problems and how I would fix them showing my prowess as a tech guy. During the trials I introduced my friends to the power of latest Windows operating system.

With this opportunity of being Microsoft Student Associate, I would like to conduct seminars and workshops to promote Microsoft's proprietary software and help students learn about using those software bundles to make their life easier and to create an impact in the lives of millions of people around. I will keep posting about the latest buzz related to Microsoft technologies and products through Social Networking sites and blogs.

Here I am , to bring a change to create an impact!

And you can apply for the Microsoft Student Associates Program here online. The deadline for registrations of Microsoft Student Associates Program has been extended till June 30, 2014. - See more at: http://eduinfo.asia/2014/05/microsoft-student-associates-program/#sthash.ZYRIphum.dpuf

Fix for WAMP Server localhost NOT found error

On my first installation of WAMP server on Windows 8 machine I got this,"local host NOT found error". After a lot of brain wracking session I realized that the port number 80 was already in use by Microsoft's IIS. To fix this error either disable ISS service or else change the port number to which phpmyadmin page will listen. Open httpd.conf configuration file from wamp or else go to C://wamp/bin/apache/apache2.4.9/conf/httpd.conf file and open it with notepad. Edit the line "Listen 0.0.0.0:80" to listen to and unused port for instance "Listen 0.0.0.0:8088" and save it. Now go to the browser and type localhost:8088 and Bingo!! PhpMyAdmin page will show up as expected.

And if you're so hell bent on listen to port 80 only then go to Run and open services.msc. Scroll down to go to the bottom of the page and find World Wide Web Publishing Service. Right click on it to go to the properties and disable it on start-up. Restart all wamp services and Open up any browser to type localhost and land on phpmyadmin page.

Enjoy Web Development and build applications with ease and test it on your local machine first. Happy Coding !!!

Swift - An object-functional programming language

Apple introduces a new language for programmers who write apps for OS X and iOS , the two operating systems for its flagship iPhone and MAC computers. The newly announced language is akin to Java syntactically but is mostly influenced by Objective-C. Developers can start coding in swift and in Objective-C as well as they coexist side by side. Programs written in Swift have a [dot] jif extension.
Swift takes the best features from the C and Objective-C languages. It includes low-level primitives such as types, flow control, and operators. It also provides object-oriented features such as classes, protocols, and generics, giving Cocoa and Cocoa Touch developers the performance and power they demand.
As the name suggests, Swift is indeed swift in performance and is reportedly 3.9 times faster than Python codes. The code looks natural and modern. Here's one example of Swift code:-

• let people = ["Anna": 67, "Beto": 8, "Jack": 33, "Sam": 25]
• for (name, age) in people {
• println("\(name) is \(age) years old.")
• }
• 


Unique features of this language:-

1. Safe
2. Modern
3. Powerful
4. Interactive
5. Fast

Developers can use Swift code immediately to implement new application features or enhance existing features. When iOS 8 and OS X Yosemite -- new OS releases also detailed today -- are released this fall, developers can submit apps using Swift to the App Store and Mac App Store. Tutorials for using Swift are included in the Xcode beta release.