Algorithms videos!

I refer to (as I think) a very fantastic material to learn algorithms, if you don't know this link you should owe FCI-H blog a lot :p
Here http://ocw.mit.edu/OcwWeb/Electrical-Engineering-and-Computer-Science/6-046JFall-2005/LectureNotes/index.htm you'll find videos with high and low-quality and also PDFs.

To download videos you should change the link from
http://mfile.akamai.com/7870/rm/mitstorage.download.akamai.com/7870/6/6.046j/f05/lecturenotes/ocw-6.046-07sep2005-220k.rm
to
http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/6/6.046j/f05/lecturenotes/ocw-6.046-07sep2005-220k.rm

You can say it as replace "http://mfile.akamai.com/7870/rm/mitstorage.download.akamai.com/7870/6/6.046j/f05/lecturenotes/ocw-6.046-07sep2005-220k.rm" with "http://ocw.mit.edu/ans7870/6/6.046j/f05/lecturenotes/ocw-6.046-07sep2005-220k.rm"

Acknowledgement
I got that from this blog http://amazingstuffs.blogspot.com/

Although I'm a java fan c++ is of course faster

Whatever that there is an opinions that Java or any JITs languages gonna be faster than c++
that is totally wrong and i'd like to write on this but Dejan Jelovic have written a great article on this so here what I want to say :D

http://www.jelovic.com/articles/why_java_is_slow.htm

Microsoft® XNA™ Resources

Here is some XNA resources.

Articles

• Let's Make a Game with XNA by Dan Waters
• Microsoft XNA: Ready for Prime Time? by Nickolas Landry
• Introducing XNA Game Studio Express by George W. Clingerman
• MVP Corner: Perspectives from a .NET Guy at GDC by Nickolas Landry
• Heard on .NET Rocks!: Frank Savage on Programming the Xbox 360 by Carl Franklin

Blogs

• XNA Team Blog
• Mitch Walker
• George Clingerman
• Tom Miller's Blog
• Let's Kill Dave! (David Weller)
• Michael Klucher's XNA Blog
• Shawn Hargreaves Blog
• XNA Diaries (Gary Kacmarcik)
• Learning XNA - Webcasts and Tutorials

Community

• DevelopMental Game Camp
• XNA Creator's Club Online
• XNA Developer Center
• Ziggyware XNA News and Tutorials

Games

• Dungeon Quest (Video)
• XNA Racing Game (Video)
• XNA Ship Game
• Marblets

Videos

• XNA, Part 1 from GameTrailers.com (QuickTime Movie)
• XNA, Part 2 from GameTrailers.com (QuickTime Movie)
• http://msdn2.microsoft.com/en-us/xna/bb245766.aspx

Competitions

• Imagine Cup
• Dream Build Play

Other

• http://www.xnalinks.net/xl/

This year's Microsoft Recruiting Trip In Egypt

For those of you interested to work @ MS, the recruiting trips are back, it will be in Egypt/Turkey during January, so if your interested send your CV to egyptres@microsoft.com (if you in live Egypt).

For those living elsewhere, for more info about the issue, & to get to know the new recruiter for the region, check:

http://blogs.msdn.com/jobsblog/archive/2007/12/27/upcoming-international-recruiting-trips.aspx
http://geeklectures.info/2007/12/27/upcoming-international-recruiting-trips/