What an exciting week this has been!  Photosynth has been fully released by Microsoft Live Labs this morning. If you’re not familiar with Photosynth, it is a cool piece of technology which takes a collection of photographs and uses them to build...

This past weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the first ever Dublin Fashion Bloggers Brunch, hosted by the very lovely and stylish Annmarie O’Connor, whose blog on fashion is wonderful and glamorous.  Annmarie and I had been e-mailing...

For this episode of the Microsoft Ireland Podcast, I describe the new features and updates in Internet Explorer 8.  IE 8 Beta 1 came out earlier this year, and we’re eagerly awaiting the next version.  This podcast tells you a bit about what...

Today I was delighted to see that several of my colleagues have won awards in ComputerWeekly.com’s annual IT Blog Awards for 2008!  Congratulations to all the winners, especially: Steve Clayton: Geek in Disguise (Steve not only won best company blog...

I’ve blogged a bit before about Live Mesh and how cool it is.  Up until now it has been available as a Tech Preview only in the USA, the UK, Australia and New Zealand.  Today I’m pleased to announce that Live Mesh is now available in Ireland...

A few weeks ago the brilliant Sabrina Dent had a great blog post where she challenged bloggers in Ireland to post their work spaces. As I was right in the middle of moving, I didn’t have a picture to post, and since then I’d had guests in town so my apartment...

For this episode of the Microsoft Ireland Podcast, I talk about some recent initiatives inside of Microsoft for PHP developers, many of which don’t get nearly the publicity they deserve. I discuss the latest release of Expression Web 2 which includes...

Yesterday Microsoft released its .NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 .  It is now available for download here: http://go.microsoft.com/fwlink/?LinkId=124150 .  The new version of the framework includes: ASP.NET Dynamic Data Core improvements to...

Okay this is seriously awesome. Two great tastes, that taste great together: LOLCats + Deep Zoom. Great idea, Rob Burke ! Rob is as big a fan of LOLCats as I am, so I was not surprised when he told me he was working on a LOLCat Silverlight application...

For folks who haven't yet registered for the PDC, this week is the time to do so!  If you register before August 15th, you'll save $200 on your conference ticket.  This is a great deal, and the PDC will certainly sell out shortly after so get...

Curious about your website visitor statistics?  Want a free solution? Microsoft’s adCenter Analytics (formerly Project Gatineau) is currently in beta but has some excellent functionality now that you can use just by filling out the registration form...

The great guys over at the NxtGen User Group in the UK have written a fun Silverlight version of the classic game “Manic Miner” which you can check out on their site here: http://www.nxtgenug.net/ManicMiner/   What is really cool about the game is...

derStandard.at recently posted an interview with Moonlight & Mono lead Miguel de Icaza.  It’s definitely worth a read.  Miguel talks about the arrangement between the Moonlight project and Microsoft, how Microsoft is providing the media...

For this episode of the Microsoft Ireland podcast, I sat down with David Szabo. David is an Engagement Manager at Microsoft Consulting Services here in Ireland. Today he talks to us about Office Communications Server, what it is and how development with...

A lot of live websites have moved to Silverlight 2 beta 2, and there are some great new sites that have shown up over the last few weeks since the new version has been released. Ryanair Destinations: I love Ryanair for many reasons, but mostly because...