June, 2008

Expert Zone chats are live chat sessions about various Windows topics.  They are always one hour, and they’re cool because they give you the opportunity to actually chat with folks working on building the products.  You can ask them questions...

Recently I had the honour of being a guest on WebDevRadio with Michael Kimsal.  If you’re not familiar with WebDevRadio, it’s a great podcast series covering a wide variety of areas interesting to web developers.  I have been listening for several...

A couple of weeks ago, Dublin hosted Ireland’s first ever MIX event!  MIX is Microsoft’s conference for all  things web-related and takes place annually in Las Vegas.  We had a smaller, one-day version of the conference at Cineworld with...

Ever been to an OpenCoffee event?  Went a while back but haven’t gone in a few months?  Have no idea what I’m talking about? OpenCoffee is an informal get-together which happens all around Ireland.  The people that arrive to chat are from...

I know people have mixed feelings about this, but I wanted to mention it anyway as I am a huge Windows Live Writer fan.  The Live Writer team recently released a plug-in for automatically creating a new Tweet on Twitter to point to your blog post...

http://www.darklight.ie/index.htm The Darklight Festival is a four-day event celebrating cutting-edge film, animation, art & technology.  While it’s in town there will be a wide variety of workshops, screenings, events, talks etc.  There...

Here in Sandyford I’ve been on the edge of my seat waiting for the Silverlight 2 Beta 2 release and on Friday, June 6th it finally arrived! Of course ScottGu’s blog is an excellent source of information for what to expect from this release: http://weblogs...

Apologies for the quietness around here – I’ve had a lot going on including planning for FY09, events and conferences, beta 2 releases (!), customer projects, guests in town and currently I’m living out of boxes in the middle of moving apartments. ...