For those of you who are anxiously waiting to get your hands on Visual Studio 2005 beta2 - the time is now! You can sign up here to get the software sent out to you (with a lot of extra goodies). What do you get if you sign up? Visual Studio...

Last year, Ireland's Eamon O'Tuathail won the title of European Security Champion of the Year at TechEd, beating 1000s of European developers to walk away with a cheque for $10,000... which just goes to show you - the luck of the Irish is pretty potent...

Just got the following notice from a colleague of mine who works with partners here in the Irish Microsoft office. Sounds like a pretty good new benefit.... ------------------- We are very excited to announce the roll out of the ISV Advisory...

I just wanted to put in a word of thanks to IrishDev for nominating me for the ICT Expo Young IT Person of the Year award, and to everyone in the Irish developer community who supported the nomination. Receiving the award on Wednesday night was a great...

I am delighted to announce that the Visual C# and Windows Forms teams are coming over from Seattle to do a tour of Europe and Africa and we have been lucky enough to get the event for both Dublin and Belfast (following the amazing turn out in Belfast...

Just a quick reminder that Rob will be back up in Belfast on Monday evening to give a talk to the NIMTUG User Group on SQL Server 2005. I've included the overview below, but you can register or find out more at: http://nimtug.org/11-april-2005.aspx ....

Great news! Kieran Lynam and Jamie Plenderleith have been awarded MVPs for their work with the Irish developer communities. Many of you may know Kieran as one of the original founders of Irish Developer Network four years ago. Since then Kieran has...

Don't miss your chance to hear about DotNetNuke , one of the world's most popular .NET open source projects, straight from one of the core development team.... The DotNetNuke content management system is one of the most popular .NET open source projects...