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Photos of the brain-computer interface from the Dublin Visual Studio and SQL Server launch event
At long last, I've posted the photos of some of the many participants who tried out the Mind Balance...
Author: RobBurke Date: 12/01/2005
What if you could focus AFTER you shoot?
This is ludicrously cool: researchers at Stanford have developed a camera that lets you focus after...
Author: RobBurke Date: 12/01/2005
Security in SQL Server 2005: What can your DBA access?
Great question today after the launch event in Cork! Part of my demo of the more granular security...
Author: RobBurke Date: 12/01/2005
MSN Messenger Activities are cool!
Back at the PDC, I wrote about the Messenger Activity API contest. They're mid-way through the...
Author: RobBurke Date: 11/23/2005
Every Day is makeITsecure day
You may have heard last week about makeITsecure day, an initiative that united the Irish government...
Author: RobBurke Date: 11/21/2005
ASP.NET 2.0 Provider model - the guts, the glory, the goodness
It looks like I'm going to be presenting the Web Developer content at the Belfast launch next week,...
Author: RobBurke Date: 11/17/2005
Great Expectations
It's not every day that some of the greatest minds in the gaming Artificial Intelligence community...
Author: RobBurke Date: 11/15/2005
Express Editions of Visual Studio and SQL Server 2005 Free To Download today!
Great news for students, hobbyists, casual developers and curious newcomers! The Express Editions of...
Author: RobBurke Date: 11/08/2005
Visual Studio Team System Hands-On Training
I'm going to be offering two days of free hands-on training in Visual Studio Team System in Dublin...
Author: RobBurke Date: 11/06/2005
Launch of the Launch: November 7th Community Events in Belfast, Cork and Galway
Events related to the Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 launch are going to be coming fast and...
Author: RobBurke Date: 11/01/2005
LINQ PDC Preview for Visual Studio 2005 RTM available... already!
Amazingly, there's already a drop of the LINQ PDC Preview that works with the RTM version of Visual...
Author: RobBurke Date: 10/30/2005
How to automatically uninstall Visual Studio 2005 Beta versions using the Automatic Uninstaller tool
For those of you who installed any pre-RTM versions of Visual Studio 2005, including Beta 2, I...
Author: RobBurke Date: 10/28/2005
Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 RTM and are available to download for MSDN Subscribers!!
Visual Studio 2005 and SQL Server 2005 have been Released To Manufacturing! They're available to...
Author: RobBurke Date: 10/27/2005
Resurrection
"Do you think we can get it working again?" I asked Scott, as he opened up the Marsellus Wallace...
Author: RobBurke Date: 10/23/2005
Your One-Stop Shop for Team System Architecture
Visual Studio's Team System for Architects piece is great stuff. As the first deliverable of...
Author: RobBurke Date: 10/21/2005
So you want to install all the WinFX bits from PDC yourself.
So you're hoping to explore the pre-release WinFX goodies - WPF, WCF and WWF - from the comfort of...
Author: RobBurke Date: 10/14/2005
SteveB Dublin Visit Photos and MSDN Flash Editorial
In this week's MSDN Flash Ireland editorial, I reflected on Steve Ballmer's visit to Dublin and...
Author: RobBurke Date: 10/14/2005
Last day of WinFX labs in Dublin today
Thanks to Paschal for the blog entry about our WinFX hands-on labs that we are running this week and...
Author: RobBurke Date: 10/14/2005
Speaking of what's new in SQL 2005...
Local Regional Director Nick Grattan, who just so happens to be a SQL Server 2005 guru, has recently...
Author: RobBurke Date: 10/13/2005
Encrypting strings in an ASP.NET 2.0 configuration file
Today, a small group of us learned heaps walking through the WCF hands-on labs from PDC05. In the...
Author: RobBurke Date: 10/13/2005
On SQL Server 2005 Web Service integration
My Cork and Galway SQL Server 2005 presentations featured thoughtful questions on Web Service...
Author: RobBurke Date: 10/13/2005
The WinFX hands-on labs in Dublin are going to be great.
I've been working this week with our incredibly dedicated lab staff (especially one Antonio...
Author: RobBurke Date: 10/06/2005
Peter Jackson, Fran Walsh executive producers of Halo movie
...which begs the age-old question: Master Chief's minions versus the Riders of Rohan; who would...
Author: RobBurke Date: 10/05/2005
SQL 2005 Sequel presentation tonight in IMPERIAL Hotel, Cork City
For those of you from the Cork City area, come on out to the IMPERIAL Hotel tonight at 7:00 for a...
Author: RobBurke Date: 10/03/2005
Dublin Hands-On Labs, October 12th (Introductory .NET) and 13th/14th (WinFX)
We're going to host two full-day Hands-On Labs in Sandyford in October. The labs are open to anyone...
Author: RobBurke Date: 09/30/2005
Waterford SQL, Games for Health, Virtual Epidemics, Visions of Science
I'm down to Waterford tonight to talk about SQL Server 2005 at the local INDA usergroup. If you're...
Author: RobBurke Date: 09/29/2005
Team Foundation Server Beta 3, and the roadmap to TFS release
For those of you working with early releases of Team Foundation Server, Rick LaPlante offers the...
Author: RobBurke Date: 09/27/2005
Steve Ballmer Dublin Academic Event - almost full up
The Steve Ballmer Academic Event in Dublin, "Creating Innovation with Real Impact", is taking place...
Author: RobBurke Date: 09/27/2005
PDC 2005 developer summary and pre-release dev links: To Vista, and beyond...
PDC 2005 was a conference focused not just on today's technologies, but also the roadmap to Vista...
Author: RobBurke Date: 09/23/2005
The little-known Windows Image Acquisition (WIA): images from devices to XP in a few lines of code
One of my projects in a former life involved streaming video data off a webcam in real-time to make...
Author: RobBurke Date: 09/21/2005
Steve Ballmer in Dublin - Academic Event! - 'Creating Innovation with Real Impact'
As you've probably heard by now, Steve Ballmer, Microsoft's enthusiatically pro-developer CEO, will...
Author: RobBurke Date: 09/19/2005
MSN Messenger Activity API - an ideal platform for interactive communication apps
Ever wanted to build an application that could reach 170 million users of MSN Messenger? The...
Author: RobBurke Date: 09/14/2005
A smorgasbord of tasty PDC tidbits and photos!
The internet is abuzz with news from the early proceedings here at the PDC in Los Angeles. Keep up...
Author: RobBurke Date: 09/14/2005
Microsoft Ireland PDC Party, Tuesday@6PM. In other news, Los Angeles braces itself for developer overdrive!
PDC is kicking off in Los Angeles in a matter of days, and as with TechEd Europe, I'll be down at...
Author: RobBurke Date: 09/09/2005
Updated code for Tom Miller's Managed DirectX Kickstart book
One of the books that became part of our .NET Academic Library was Tom Miller's Managed DirectX...
Author: RobBurke Date: 09/07/2005
MSR European PhD scholarship programme, and the seashore
One of my favourite professors from grad school, Hiroshi Ishii, draws a beautiful analogy that...
Author: RobBurke Date: 09/07/2005
Clemens: Visual Studio Overload and the Specialization Gamble
I have nothing but head-nodding agreement to add to Clemens Vasters' article on Visual Studio...
Author: RobBurke Date: 08/31/2005
Visual Studio Express: the preferred Half Life 2 modding platform
Today, at Tech Ed Australia, Microsoft announced that Valve, makers of the exquisite game Half Life...
Author: RobBurke Date: 08/31/2005
He's not dead, he's just resting
...And I'm actually pining for the fjords, would you believe! Meanwhile, as I'll mention in the next...
Author: RobBurke Date: 08/10/2005
vista, vista, vista, vista, vista
vis·ta (vst)n. A distant view or prospect, especially one seen through an opening, as between rows...
Author: RobBurke Date: 07/22/2005
Belfast NIMTUG talk Monday July 25: Extreme Programming with Sam Gentile
Just a quick note for everyone in the Belfast area - you'll be interested to know that Sam Gentile,...
Author: RobBurke Date: 07/20/2005
Game/AI blog from Bungie's Damian Isla
If you're curious about artificial intelligence in games - from expressive creature smarts to...
Author: RobBurke Date: 07/14/2005
TechEd Europe Report: Most Memorable of the Rest (and MS Ireland Party pics!)
I've been distracted from my attempts to finish my wrap-up to last week's TechEd Europe, and in the...
Author: RobBurke Date: 07/14/2005
TechEd Europe Report: Bill Hilf: Open Source, and Increasing Operational Efficiency
Bill Hilf, "Linux and Open Source: A Technical Perspective" In addition to being an exceptional...
Author: RobBurke Date: 07/06/2005
TechEd Europe report: Andrew Lees Keynote: Ready for Business
Andrew Lees Keynote: Ready for Business Andrew Lees' opening keynote session at TechEd Europe 2005,...
Author: RobBurke Date: 07/05/2005
TechEd Europe about to kick off
We've touched down in Amsterdam, and tomorrow morning will see the start of TechEd Europe,...
Author: RobBurke Date: 07/03/2005
TechEd Europe - let's synchronize our blogging efforts!
[Aside: Have you signed up for the localized MSDN Flash yet?] There are more than 80 representatives...
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/30/2005