Events

What’s going on?

We host many different kind of events on our campus and participate in career/recruitment fairs throughout the world. Read more about previous events and stay tuned on what we have coming up.

Upcoming events

MDCC Open House for Students
17-04-2012
Do you speak code? And do you want to find out if you have what it takes to be part of a team that defines the frontline of world-class software development?

Internships, student and graduate positions are at stake, so sign up for an afternoon of serious networking and head for our Open House Event on 17 April from 15.30-18.00 at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen, Frydenlunds Allé 6, 2950 Vedbæk (directions here).

If you win our coding challenge, you will get an Xbox and Kinect. But why settle for that if you can walk away with a job offer? And don’t worry about getting a ride. If you are from DTU a bus will pick you up at 15.00 and drop you off again at 18.20. Just be at the parking lot in front of building 101 at DTU at 15.00 on 17 April.

Sign up here or by sending an email to mdcc@microsoft.com, please write ”Open House” in the subject line and your name and contact info in the email.

We look forward to seeing you at our campus!

Program

15.30 Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen and what we offer

15.50 What you will become a part of

16.05 Meet a student worker

16.20 Meet an engineering manager and hear what it takes

16.35 What you do from here

16.50 Microsoft Student Partner Program

17.00 Closing, networking, pizza and coding challenges

18.00 Bus leaves for DTU
MatchMaking at ITU, Copenhagen
12-04-2012
Meet Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen at the MatchMaking event on the IT University in Copenhagen and hear about the typical job roles at Microsoft’s biggest development center in Europe.
More info on http://itu.jobbank.dk/33941/it-match-making/
Customer Day 2012
29-03-2012
At Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen we like to ensure that our products are constantly up to date with our customers’ needs. And the best way to understand the opportunities and challenges that our customers are facing is to experience their businesses first-hand.

If you are a customer, we hope that you, or someone from your organization, will accept our invitation to participate in our Customer Day that takes place on March 29 2012.

Customer Day is your opportunity to connect directly with our software developers. And it is our opportunity to gain a deeper understanding of how our products are being used in a real organizational setting.

Highly skilled Microsoft Dynamics team members will visit your company to get a hands-on introduction to your business and engage in a two-ways dialogue on how our products support your day-to-day operations.

We ask for three hours of your time. In exchange, we guarantee that we will listen and let your input and feedback on our products fuel our continuous research on how to increase the efficiency of our solutions.

Proposed Customer Day program:
- Introduction to your daily work practices supported by Microsoft Dynamics AX or NAV
- Feedback and dialogue with the Dynamics AX or NAV team members
- Optional guided tour of your company facilities

Practical information:
You will receive the visit of 3-5 Microsoft Dynamics team members and discussion will be in English. As the visiting team members are software developers, focus of the visit will be on the technical and practical aspects related to the use of our products and solutions. On the day, we will ask you to sign a Non-Disclosure Agreement.
For more information and sign-up to Customer Day, please send an email to:

mdcc@microsoft.com

In the subject line, please write Microsoft Dynamics NAV Customer or Microsoft Dynamics AX Customer in correspondence with the product used in your organization. We will then get back to you as soon as possible to agree on a program that suits you and your company best.

Thank you for participating in Customer Day 2012!
Career fair at DTU, Copenhagen
28-03-2012
Visit our booth at the DSE career fair at the Technical University of Denmark and meet our role models or try out our coding challenge. This is your chance to proof your coding skills, win some cool prizes and maybe walk away with a job offer.
More info on http://www.studerende.dk/messe
Copenhagen Career Days
09-03-2012
Meet Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen and Microsoft Denmark at Copenhagen Career Days and hear about your career opportunities with Microsoft.
More info on http://karrieredagene.dk/
Danish Developer Conference
29-02-2012
Are you a developer and curious to know more about where Microsoft is heading with Windows Phone, Windows Desktop, Windows Azure and Visual Studio? Want to dig deeper into Microsoft technologies and trends such as HTML5, ASP.Net MVC, WebMatrix and Windows? Then you should take a day out of your calendar and join our local and international developer heroes on our Danish Developer Conference that takes place on the 29th of February in Horsens, Jutland.
Get top training and learn from the experts of the very programs that you’re working on, get an insight into our newest products and technologies and share knowledge and experiences with peers. Exciting keynotes, hands on labs and in depth working sessions will make sure that you spend an intense day of learning – and fun.
This is also your chance to connect with representatives from Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen. Visit our booth for a chat about the career opportunities at Microsoft's biggest development center in Europe.
For more information and sign up, visit www.danishdevconf.com.
TechTalk: Dynamic languages for statically typed minds by Niclas Nilsson
11-01-2012
Dynamic languages are used quite a lot nowadays, but many developers are still skeptical. After all, these languages are toy languages, aren't they? But is there some truth to the claims that dynamic languages can make you more productive? If so, what mechanisms in these languages make it true? How can a language where not even a simple type error can be caught at compile-time not be outright dangerous to use? How do you know what to pass to a method, when the method signatures do not contain types? And how is programming with interfaces accomplished in a dynamic language?

All these questions and many more will be examined and answered by a presenter who himself has done the transition from statically typed languages to dynamic languages, and who had all these questions and felt the skepticism - but has been convinced by the answers the languages themselves gave.

This talk will highlight the fundamental differences between dynamic languages like Ruby, Python and Javascript and more commonly used, statically typed, curly bracket languages like Java, C# and C++, and also how you can use them together.

Basic knowledge of a language like Java, C# or C++, is recommended.

When: January 11 2012 from 9.00-10.30
Where: Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen, Frydenlunds Allé 6, 2950 Vedbæk

Sign up here

Registration deadline: January 10 or as long as seats are available.
Questions: Please contact tectalk@microsoft.com or call +45 45678000.

About Niclas Nilsson
Niclas is a software developer consultant, educator and writer with a deep passion for the software development craft. He started working as a developer in 1992 and drawn from experience, he knows that some choices make significant difference in software development, like languages, tools and processes. This is the reason behind his affection for dynamic languages, test-driven development, code generation and agile processes. Niclas has used dynamic languages since he encountered Python and Ruby in 2002. He tweets as @niclasnilsson and blogs at http://niclasnilsson.se.
TechTalk: Second Generation Lean Product Development by Donald Reinertsen
07-12-2011
Lean methods have been used for over 50 years in production processes, producing huge economic benefits. They are based on many principles that are transferable to product development. In fact, these methods are the only practical way to simultaneously achieve large improvements in the speed, quality, and cost of product development. However, using lean methods in product development requires some insight. Certain methods that work in Lean Manufacturing are toxic in a product development environment. For example, if we try to eliminate all variability we will, as an unfortunate side effect, eliminate all innovation.
This talk will introduce you to the science and practical methods of Lean Product Development. It draws upon ideas from a variety of domains including queuing theory, telecommunication network design, computer operating systems, and lean manufacturing. It will introduce you to a number of key lean methods such as queue management, batch size reduction, WIP constraints, and cadence. It is intended to provide a quick introduction to some important new ideas.

When: December 7 2011 from 9.00-10.30
Where: Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen, Frydenlunds Allé 6, 2950 Vedbæk
Sign up here
Registration deadline: December 1 or as long as seats are available.
Questions: Please contact tectalk@microsoft.com or call +45 45678000.

About Donald Reinertsen
For three decades Don Reinertsen has focused on improving the management of product development. His best-selling books have been perpetual favorites for hardcore engineering professionals. They lie dog-eared and underlined on engineering bookshelves around the world. Thousands of people have his public seminars at Caltech, The Management Roundtable, and overseas. Don constantly pushes the state of management thinking and delivers a rare combination of rigor, practicality, and clarity. His latest awarding winning book, The Principles of Product Development Flow: Second Generation Lean Product Development, has been praised as, “… quite simply the most advanced product development book you can buy.”

Previous events

Two TechTalks in one by Simon Peyton Jones
09-11-2011
Thank you for participating in the TechTalk with Simon Peyton Jones, Principal Researcher, Microsoft Research.

The video recordings of the sessions are now available on Channel9 so if you missed out on the talks or want to revisit them, please go to:

Topic 1: Classes, Jim, but not as we know them
Haskell is now quite widely used, but its most important contributions are the ideas that it embodies. In this talk Simon will focus on one of these ideas, namely type classes, with a few anecdotes and reflections along the way about the process of developing the language.
Type classes are probably Haskell's most distinctive feature. The original idea is very neat and, better still, it led to a long series of subsequent generalizations and innovations. Indeed, although the language is now nineteen years old, Haskell's type system is still in a state of furious development. For example, Simon is involved in adding type-level functions to Haskell, as he will briefly describe.
He will explain what type classes are, how they differ from the classes of mainstream object oriented languages, why he thinks they are so cool, and what the hot topics are. He will give plenty of examples, so you don't need to already know Haskell.

Topic 2: Fun with type functions
Today’s most widely used technology, by far, for static program verification is the ubiquitous type checker. Alas, static type systems inevitably exclude some good programs; and allow some bad ones. Thus motivated, Simon will describe some fun he has been having with Haskell, by making the type system more expressive without losing the benefits of automatic proof and compact expression.

About Simon Peyton Jones
Simon Peyton Jones, MA, MBCS, CEng, graduated from Trinity College Cambridge in 1980. After two years in industry, he spent seven years as a lecturer at University College London, and nine years as a professor at Glasgow University, before moving to Microsoft Research (Cambridge) in 1998.
His main research interest is in functional programming languages, their implementation, and their application. He has led a succession of research projects focused around the design and implementation of production-quality functional-language systems for both uniprocessors and parallel machines. He was a key contributor to the design of the now-standard functional language Haskell, and is the lead designer of the widely-used Glasgow Haskell Compiler (GHC). He has written two textbooks about the implementation of functional languages.
More generally, he is interested in language design, rich type systems, software component architectures, compiler technology, code generation, runtime systems, virtual machines, and garbage collection. He is particularly motivated by direct use of principled theory to practical language design and implementation -- that's one reason he loves functional programming so much.
His home page is at http://research.microsoft.com/en-us/people/simonpj/.
School Internship at Microsoft
Week 46
In week 46 we are offering 9th graders the opportunity to spend four days as an intern with us.

The previous three years, Microsoft in Denmark has been part of the “IT school internship” organized by the Danish IT trade organization ITB. The purpose of the internship is to show the young people how it is to work in the IT industry and to arouse young people's interest in pursuing a career within the industry.
The kids will be spending the first two days (Nov. 14 & 15) at MDCC where they will learn how to program their own game by using the visual programming language Kodu, then they will spend one day at an IT University and finally the last two days at Microsoft Denmark where they will learn how to solve a business case.
Read more about the initiative and sign up on http://choosedifferent.com/#/choosedifferent
Go camping with IT
17-10-2011
You don’t need a tent to join the University of Århus’ IT camp 2011 from the 17th to the 19th of October. And you don’t need to be a nerd either. In fact, what you do need is to be a Danish speaking young woman between 15 and 19 who is curious to know more about the diversity of opportunities offered by an IT-education.

At MDCC we’re constantly looking for more talented women to join our team which is why we’re one of the sponsors of this “IT-camp for women” in Århus. If you fit the description below, or know someone who does, we strongly encourage you to visit www.itcamp.dk for more information. Who knows, it may be your first step into an exciting career in software development!
IT Match Making
06-10-2011
Meet Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen at the IT Match Making event at ITU in Copenhagen. More information at http://itu.jobbank.dk/33941/it-match-making/
Nova100 ProForum
17-05-2011
Meet MDCC at Nova100's ProForum event. MDCC is a Nova100 Gold Partner. More info.
MDCC open house for students
26-04-2011
Do you speak code? And do you want to find out if you have what it takes to be part of a team that defines the frontline of world-class software development?

Internships, student and graduate positions are at stake, so sign up for an afternoon of serious networking and head for our Open House Event on

26 April from 15.30-18.30 at Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen, Frydenlunds Allé 6, 2950 Vedbæk (directions here).

If you win our coding challenge, you will get an Xbox and Kinect. But why settle for that if you can walk away with a job offer? And don’t worry about getting a ride. If you are from DTU a bus will pick you up at 15.00 and drop you off again at 18.45. Just be at the parking lot in front of building 101 at DTU at 15.00 on 26 April.

Sign up here or by sending an email to mdcc@microsoft.com, please write ”Open House” in the subject line and your name and contact info in the email.

We look forward to seeing you at the MDCC campus!

Program

15.30 Microsoft Development Center Copenhagen and what we offer/ Charlotte Mark, Managing Director

15.50 What you will become a part of and what it takes/ Michael Nielsen & Søren Abildgaard, Directors of Engineering

16.25 Meet a Software Development Engineer

16.35 Meet a Student Worker

16.45 What you do from here/ Helle Uldbjerg-Widesen, Staffing Manager

17.00 Microsoft Student Partner Program/ Martin Esmann, Academic Development Evangelist

17.10 Closing, networking, pizza and coding challenges

18.30 Bus leaves for DTU
DSE career fair
13/14-04-2011
Visit the Microsoft booth at the DSE career fair at the Danish Technical University. More info.
Copenhagen Career Days
11-03-2011
Visit the Microsoft booth at the Copenhagen Career fair in DGI Byen and learn more about the career opportunities we offer. More info and sign up on www.karrieredagene.dk.
TechTalk: Advanced .NET Debugging by Brian Rasmussen
25-11-2010 at MDCC in Vedbæk
What do you do, when your .NET application crashes on the production servers and you can't reproduce the bug in-house? How do you detect memory leaks in a .NET application, when you can't inspect the memory usage from Visual Studio? In this demo-intensive presentation we take a look at how WinDbg and SOS can be used to troubleshoot several hard-to-debug, real world problems in .NET applications.

About Brian Rasmussen
Brian Rasmussen is a chief software engineer at SimCorp in Copenhagen and a Microsoft MVP for C#. He spends most of his time working on developer tools, proof of concept projects and advanced debugging of .NET code. Brian is a frequent speaker at conferences and events, and an active member of the Danish .NET community. He frequently blogs about C#, the .NET Common Language Runtime and low-level debugging of managed code at http://kodehoved.dk

Watch the videos here
http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MDCC-TechTalk-Advanced-NET-Debugging-part-1

http://channel9.msdn.com/posts/MDCC-TechTalk-Advanced-NET-Debugging-part-2
TechTalk: NUI: What’s in a Name? by Bill Buxton, Principal Researcher Microsoft Research
04-10-2010 at MDCC in Vedbæk
Natural User Interface, or NUI, is one of the favourite flavours du jour in certain interaction design and user experience circles. On the one hand, the term signals a change from the Graphical User Interace, or GUI, that has been prevalent since the early 1980s. In many ways, that is good. Not that the GUI is going to go away (any more than the QWERTY keyboard, I predict). But progress does, as they say, progress. And just because there was a great idea that took hold, does not mean that that is all that there is.

But beyond the name, what is this new thing? As far as I can see, the answer depends on who you ask. Ask enough people, and you will see that it can mean anything - which means, by the way, that it might mean nothing. I don’t view it that way. Yes, there are a lot of diverse views. But that also means that there is a lot of diverse conversations accompanying them, and I see that as healthy. Complacency is rarely a worthy aspiration for design. But out of the collective conversations one would hope that there is some convergence - which might be another term for insight or growth.

The purpose of this talk is to throw my own thoughts into the fray - for better or for worse. Taking my cue from the term itself, I’ll start like a good naturalist, and strip the term bare, and build from there. Starting with diving into the essence of the term natural.

Watch the video here

About Bill Buxton
Bill Buxton is the author of, Sketching User Experiences: Getting the Design Right and the Right Design, published jointly by Morgan Kaufmann and Focal Press as well as a columnist on design and innovation for BusinessWeek.com. He is Principal Researcher at Microsoft Research and has a 30 year involvement in research, design and commentary around human aspects of technology, and digital tools for creative endeavour, including music, film and industrial design. More information on Buxton and his work can be found at www.billbuxton.com
TechTalk: RESTful Application Protocols: From Design to Implementation by Ian Robinson
05-10-2010 at MDCC in Vedbæk
Challenging the notion that REST is suitable only for simple CRUD-based data services, in this TechTalk Ian Robinson will show how to implement a complex business process as part of a RESTful application. Using techniques drawn from the forthcoming O'Reilly book "REST in Practice", he describes how to model business processes as domain application protocols, implement them in terms of resource lifecycles, and execute them using HTTP idioms, media types and link relation values.

Watch the video here

About Ian Robinson
Ian Robinson is a Principal Consultant with ThoughtWorks, where he specializes in the design and delivery of service-oriented and distributed systems. He has written guidance for Microsoft on implementing integration patterns with Microsoft technologies, and has published articles on business-oriented development methodologies and distributed systems design - most recently in The ThoughtWorks Anthology (Pragmatic Programmers, 2008).
TechTalks
MDCC hosts 4 TechTalks for software developers during the year. Previous TechTalks include:
- The future of programming languages by Anders Hejlsberg
- F# by Don Syme
- Cloud computing by David Chappell
- IronPython by Harry Pierson
- .NET Service Bus by Juval Lowy
The MDCC TechTalks are open for everybody and participation is free.

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