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Great news from the guy who can hardly pronounce 'Dun Laoghaire'
With a well-earned tip of the cap to the land in which Microsoft applications are localized into...
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/28/2005
Scott Guthrie on the Atlas Project
If you’re interested in AJAX-style web development, as recently made famous by high-profile sites...
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/28/2005
Everybody wants to be more creative
At the end of a rough day, it's worth a link to point out that nobody says it better than Hugh....
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/27/2005
At Track Level with Team Doom on the warpath in Scotland
A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to meet Team Doom, the Irish winners of the local Dare to be...
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/27/2005
More SpecSharp and tree-viewed thoughts
A couple of quick links (with apologies for the radio silence; it's been a little hectic): Jamie...
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/26/2005
Sign up today for Issue #1 of the new, localized MSDN Flash Ireland!
I'm delighted to announce the arrival of the new, localized MSDN Flash Ireland! If you want a...
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/20/2005
More on C# 2.0, SpecSharp, and C-Omega from Anders
I really enjoyed Eamon O'Tuathail's presentation last Wednesday on the future of C#, which included...
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/17/2005
Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP
I’m an avid photographer, but you wouldn’t know it from my photographic record of late. Part of my...
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/16/2005
MapPoint WebService SDK: working around Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 WSDL behavior
Say hypothetically you're working on an application that will consume a MapPoint WebService using...
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/13/2005
Clare lists the upcoming events, and here's why you should attend
Clare has posted a list of upcoming MSDN community events in Dublin, Belfast, Galway, Cork and...
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/13/2005
MSDN Academic Library on its way...
The .NET Academic Library is on its way to 20 Universities and Colleges this afternoon. For now, our...
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/09/2005
Visual Web Developer as HTML editing tool
An old friend told me tonight that she was having to author a set of static web pages "the old...
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/08/2005
A picture worth ~100,000,000 words
The .NET Academic Library has arrived! This is the collection of books we'll be sending this week to...
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/07/2005
Microsoft Ireland Academic Resources and links
While .NET inclusion on the curriculum may be growing, it's not keeping up with industry demand: 34%...
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/02/2005
Student webcast slides and survey results
I've posted the slides from yesterday's student webcast up at this link. In my previous writeup this...
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/02/2005
Yesterday's Microsoft 20 Years in Ireland Student Webcast
Congratulations to Ciaran Usher of IT Tralee, winner of the trip to TechEd Europe!! And thanks to...
Author: RobBurke Date: 06/01/2005
Goldbergian Half-Life 2 Physics Abuse
In the spirit of Rube Goldberg comes some technical wizardry and hilarity in the form of this...
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/29/2005
Students in Ireland: Amsterdam in July, anyone? Your last chance to join in Microsoft's 20 Years in Ireland Academic Celebration!
Students in Ireland and Northern Ireland: This is your last chance to join in Microsoft's 20 Years...
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/29/2005
A Developer's Lap Around SQL Server 2005: Slides, Sample Code, Starting Points and Wookies
Thanks to everyone who came out to the Developer's Lap Around SQL Server 2005 presentation in Dublin...
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/24/2005
Avalon and Indigo Beta 1 Release Candidate available!
Now you can experiment with Avalon and Indigo yourself, using Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2! Download...
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/23/2005
MSN Virtual Earth announced at D3
This is just too cool not to blog: MSN Virtual Earth is announced by Bill Gates at the D3 conference...
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/23/2005
IT@Cork and Kerrysoft WinFX slide decks
A number of people have asked for a copy of the slide deck from my WinFX presentations last week in...
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/23/2005
SQL Server 2005 developer discussion tomorrow night
There's more than one way to look at a database (and I don't just mean using different OLTP database...
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/23/2005
The Tralee WinFX event is on Thursday
With apologies: The WinFX event in Tralee is on Thursday (as always), not Friday as previously...
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/18/2005
20 Years in Ireland Academic Celebration Update
The Microsoft 20 Years in Ireland Academic Celebration is going strong, with faculty and students...
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/17/2005
Events in Belfast, Dublin, Cork, and Tralee
[UPDATE: The WinFX event in Tralee is on Thursday (as always), not Friday as indicated here! My...
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/16/2005
Want to teach/learn computer science? Try game development!
It’s a big week for computer gaming. Tomorrow, everyone from Frodo to Snow Patrol will be out to see...
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/11/2005
Things I wish they'd taught me
Here's this really interesting academic paper by Microsoft's Eric Brechner on Things They Would Not...
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/03/2005
Game Development in C# Webcast series
Now this is a Webcast Series after my heart: Video Game Development: Learn to Write C# the Fun Way...
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/03/2005
From Interop to Indigo
There's been a run of great technical discussions in Dublin. As Bill writes, Dino Chiesa's...
Author: RobBurke Date: 05/02/2005
MSDN Science, Research and Engineering Webcasts
The month of May will feature a series of MSDN Webcasts that deep-dive into the science, research...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/26/2005
Brian extends the Essential .NET Library for Developers
Brian made a significant contribution to our effort to put together the library of books that has...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/25/2005
Upgrading Visual Studio 2005 Express Edition Beta1 or CTP to Beta 2
If you're upgrading from Beta 1 (or a CTP) to Beta 2 of Visual Studio 2005, you have to be careful...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/24/2005
AJAX for ASP.NET
NIMTUG’s Damien McGivern has been building an AJAX library for use with ASP.NET. If you don't know...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/24/2005
Microsoft 20 Years in Ireland Academic Celebration
I'm delighted to announce the Microsoft 20 Years in Ireland Academic Celebration!! Through this...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/22/2005
Microsoft's 20 Years in Ireland Academic Celebration
In celebration of the 20th Anniversary of Microsoft in Ireland, Microsoft Ireland invites all...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/21/2005
Application Access Management?
In an important company meeting this week, a manager asked all of us in the auditorium to turn our...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/21/2005
Tips for making your .NET applications perform
One Microsoft blog I have found particularly useful is Rico Mariani’s Performance Tidbits. Rico is a...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/21/2005
Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Goes Live!
And now, a software release that needs no further introduction; please welcome Visual Studio 2005...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/18/2005
gamedevelopers.ie
Last Friday, Clare and I attended the gamedevelopers.ie meeting in the Digital Hub. They've got...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/14/2005
Clare Dillon, Young IT Person of the Year
Please let me echo Bill's congratulations for my effervescent colleague Clare Dillon, who last night...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/14/2005
Last night's NIMTUG SQL Server 2005 Demo: Slides, Samples, Quadraphonic Babies
Being the moose-loving Canuck that I am, I occasionally chew my knees on flights between Dublin and...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/12/2005
NIMTUG SQL Server 2005 talk, Monday evening
Just a quick note to invite all of you in the Belfast area to a presentation I'm giving on Monday...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/09/2005
Towards the Ultimate Academic .NET Library Starter Kit (2005 Ed'n)
I got some great feedback - mostly straight to my Inbox - following my post on which subjects and...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/08/2005
ASP.NET 2 Web Parts: Adding multiple instances of a part to a web zone
Yet another long-overdue response to a question I was asked about ASP.NET 2 while on the road: can...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/07/2005
Essential Academic Resources
Suppose, hypothetically, that you had a chance to fill an academic library with all the books and...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/07/2005
Heaps of new videos for Channel 9's First Birthday!
This is just too good not to pass on: To commemorate Channel 9's first birthday, Robert Scoble...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/06/2005
SQL Server 2005 Developer Webcasts and Virtual Labs
April is a great month to be learning SQL Server 2005. Watch our SQL Server 2005 Developer Webcast...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/04/2005
Congratulations to Kieran and Jamie, two new Irish MVPs!
Sincerest congratulations are in order to two new Irish MVPs, Kieran Lynam and Jamie Plenderleith!...
Author: RobBurke Date: 04/04/2005