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André Furtado

Occupation:	Software Engineer / Architect
Age:	27
Location:	Brazil
Interests:
Juliana running traveling software development beer with friends.
Newbie Microsoft employee (WinSE team). Has a PhD research on putting game development (XNA) together with software engineering (DSL Tools). Holds a BSc and MSc in Computer Science for the Federal University of Pernambuco (UFPE). Addicted to software competitions, being the world champion of Imagine Cup Japan 2005 (Office Designer) and Imagine Cup Korea 2007 (Embedded Development), winner of the first Brazilian XNA Challenge and of the Imagine Cup 2005 Brazilian Finals (Software Design), second place in Imagine Cup 2007 Brazilian finals (Software Design) and in the Brazilian finals of the Intel + UC Berkeley Entrepreneurship Challenge 2005. Has worked as a technical/business consultant for the Partec-MyTV startup. Microsoft Student Partner Lead until 2007, Sharp Shooters .NET user group lead (first .NET group in Brazil), Certified MSF Practitioner, Microsoft Certified Professional, Certified IBM-DB2 Specialist, Sun Certified Java Programmer. Long-term life goal: to find a nice long-term life goal.

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Added a blog entry "TBot: your translation buddy / TBot: seu companheiro de tradução"

Imagine if you had a friend always available at MSN Messenger to translate things for you. Cool, yeah? The good news is that such a thing is becoming true! Microsoft has released TBot, which is a tr

September 03 12:51 PM

Added a blog entry "The funniest videogame bugs / Os bugs mais divertidos dos videogames"

Being paid to test videogames sounds like the perfect job, yeah? But if it was that easy, we wouldn't see (and laugh at) videos like the one below. Hilarious, BTW! If crackers of all nature

August 31 5:42 PM

Added a blog entry "VSX DevCon is coming! / VSX DevCon está chegando!"

VSX DevCon is a great opportunity to get a deep dive into the Visual Studio extensibility world. I'm really looking forward to attending to the event, which belongs to the fascinating area of provid

August 30 5:30 AM

Added a blog entry "MSLibrary: one more reason to work for Microsoft / MSLibrary: mais um motivo para se trabalhar na Microsoft"

In a previous blog post, I've embedded a video in which some of the Microsoft perks (fancy name for employee benefits) were presented. Today, I've found another perk which is not very evident at f

August 27 11:26 PM

Added a blog entry "Trivial question about XML Comments / Questão trivial sobre comentários XML"

These days I was asking myself: besides placing XML comments in the code, what an API developer should do so that its consumers (clients) are able to check the API documentation in the Object Brows

August 25 3:12 AM

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