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Last night ALT.NET and Dublin MTUG held a joint event in the Radisson Blu hotel in Dublin city centre to show off Windows Phone 7 and talk about building applications and games. Despite being serenaded by an ice cream truck, deafened by alarm sirens and evacuated from the building due to the faulty alarm...

We’ve had such amazing visiting speakers lately, and joining us shortly is Jesse Liberty , self-confirmed Silverlight Geek. Jesse is visiting Dublin, Belfast and Cork to talk about Silverlight development, and as Jesse has created a lot of the training content on http://silverlight.net , you won’t get...

I am thrilled that Tim Heuer is coming to visit Dublin to kick off the Dublin Microsoft Technology User Group’s first meeting of 2010! As a Senior Program Manager at Microsoft for the Silverlight Team, Tim joins us for a talk about What’s New in Silverlight 4 and Using Silverlight for building Line-of...

November just started and it’s shaping up to be quite a busy month already. The Silverlight Jumpstart course I mentioned previously on my blog kicks off its second round this week at the Westbury.  The course is full for both in-person attendees and LiveMeeting attendees, however if you’re interested...

The Scott Guthrie event on Monday, September 28th filled up in three days.  We have a waitlist for the event at the moment. So for those of you who would still like to see Scott, he has graciously agreed to host a second event on Sunday evening.  We’ll be at the Radisson Blu Royal hotel (formerly...

Just as a reminder and for those of you who are not MTUG members, Microsoft Technology User Group Dublin is running a free event tomorrow evening with me in the Morrison Hotel from 7:30pm.   Here’s a summary of the talk I’m giving: SketchFlow: Building Web and Desktop Applications from Concept to...

ASP.NET expert and Microsoft certifications guru Niall Merrigan is visiting Ireland this week from Norway and is dropping by the Microsoft Technology Users Group this week in Dublin.  He’ll be covering Defensive Programming , which is a great topic for developers no matter what platforms you’re...

The very famous Kathleen Dollard is visiting Ireland!  Kathleen, who is well known for her book Code Generation in .NET , her “Ask Kathleen” column in Visual Studio Magazine, and much more, is doing a tour of Ireland and the UK. She will be speaking at user group events in both Dublin and Cork as...

I wanted to let you know about a great event coming up in Cork: Microsoft MVP Niall Flanagan will be presenting on Monday, October 13th at 19:00 in the Imperial Hotel on the topic of SQL Server – Index Internals & Performance. Summary: This talk will cover the structures and benefits of various kinds...

I received excellent news late Friday of last week.  Josh Holmes , RIA (Rich Internet/Interactive Application) Architect Extraordinaire, is coming to visit us in Dublin in early October.  He will be speaking on the topic of “Developing RIAs with Silverlight 2.” This is an excellent opportunity...

Alan Crowley from DeCare Systems in Cork is in Dublin for the evening to talk with the Microsoft SQL Server User Group.  The discussion is on “Visual Studio for Database Professionals”, and includes the following topics: Introducing DB Pro as a part of Team System Overview of DDLC Microsoft Visual...

Check out Clare’s video with Chris Dalby of Yellow Park from last week's IMTC. Chris is not only a Microsoft MVP and the founder and Director of Yellow Park, but also the genius behind the "Chinposin'" phenomenon that has taken Twitter/Flickr by storm. (If you have no idea what I'm talking about, you...

It's no secret that there are a million and one things occurring in Ireland for developers over the next couple of weeks. I'm going to pimp a few in case you've missed any of these so that you can get them on your calendar. TechLudd: TechLudd is a total non-event, what more can I say? Come...

I mentioned earlier that I would have more details on the upcoming Silverlight event in Dublin and now I do! The event is Thursday, September 27th at 19:30 at the Cineworld Complex on Parnell Street. It's of course a free event and following that we'll have a fun drinks reception. Cineworld is where...

I posted a few pictures from IMTC here: http://www.flickr.com/photos/martharotter/sets/72157600343582811/ - enjoy!

For those of you who were not at IMTC yesterday at Cineworld Dublin, you missed a fantastic event!! We had a great turnout and some really amazing talks and demos. We will be working on getting videos and pictures online soon. For those of you who were there - thanks very much for coming! We hope...