February, 2008

Wow is all I can say. I was honestly expecting around 20 people to this event and was quite pleased with the idea that I might get that many women turning up. It's two days away and we've more than doubled that , so much so that I actually had to close...

In just a few short hours, the Irish Web Technology Conference kicks off! I am really thrilled about this because there are lots of really amazing speakers that Ireland is quite lucky to have come pay us a visit!! The Opening Address and Keynote with...

Dr. Joaquin Quiñonero-Candela is an Associate Researcher at Microsoft Research Cambridge. He works with the Applied Games Group. He and his team are doing quite a lot of interesting work as you will see in his talk, titled "Learning to Race." He talks...

Dave Mitchell came all the way from Seattle during his Thanksgiving holiday to talk with students at the XNA tour. He is a director at Microsoft for XNA, and he certainly knows his stuff. Dave gave the opening keynote of the XNA European Tour, where he...

Rob Miles is a Microsoft MVP, and as he says in his highly entertaining talk below - it's what all Microsoft Student Partners should aspire to be. Watch as Rob tells bad jokes and demos XNA Game Studio on his MacBook Pro. I laughed out loud at his descriptions...

Last week I posted that the first ever Ireland Girl Geek Dinner was coming to Dublin during the Irish Web Technology Conference . If you haven't registered yet, there's still time! Go to http://www.irelandgirlgeekdinners.com & click on "Register"...

Back in November, Dublin was host to an event called the XNA Game Studio Tour. It was a full day jam-packed with superb XNA experts talking about the upcoming XNA Game Studio 2.0 release, showing off features and real-life examples of XNA applications...

Time for some new eye candy - here are my latest favourite Silverlight sites. Silverlight Valentine: Don't you want to send a sparkly, Silverlighty Valentine? Go on and share the love. This site pulls a picture of your choice from Flickr or Windows Live...

I know you've all been waiting for it, so hurry up and register at http://www.irelandgirlgeekdinners.com/ ! The dinner is taking place in conjunction with the Irish Web Technology Conference. It is on Wednesday, February 27th. We have two venues, but...

Last year I started working on a side project to keep track of my family. I stopped at some point because I didn't want to put too much information on the public site. Now that v6 of the Virtual Earth control is out, I have picked the project back up...

Wow, I can't believe it's February already! I have been on the road or sick (or both!) just about every day for the last three weeks, so it's been quite hectic. I'm almost back to 100% and thank goodness, because there is a lot more excitement coming...