My Blog is now at http://paulfallon.com

Omri Gazitt is the product unit manager on the advanced Web Services team. The folks at Channel9 ask him, What is Microsoft doing with Web Services? you can see the video at http://channel9.msdn.com/ShowPost.aspx?PostID=34980#34980 Ciao, P.

In my last blog posting, How should we think of Transactions ? I mentioned Volatile transactions and how I currently think they can be perceived in different ways! Do they have ACID, ACId or ACI properties? In case you do not know what Volatile Transactions...

So now the news is out, there is going to be a PDC 2005 There are currently no more details available , but you can signup for updates as the details develop.

A new section of the .NET Framework Developer Center went live today, it focuses on 64-bit .NET Framework programming . Over to Frank Redmond for the details: <extract> Check out the MSDN .NET Framework Developer Center ’s new 64-bit .NET Framework...

From Jan till July of next year, the Route64 Training Tour is visiting over 20 cities providing: Windows 64-bit Hands-On Training is a 3-day training designed to provide the most comprehensive contents of of what it takes to fully leverage Windows on...

At http://www.microsoft.com/seminar/events/series/msdn64bitwin.mspx you will find a series of Webcasts that focus on 64bit computing on Windows. Tune in to this webcast series and learn of the advantages that 64-bit computing brings: Run existing 32-bit...

Dublin - Monday 15th November, Sugar Club, Leeson St, Dublin 2, 7pm. Belfast - Tuesday 23rd November, The Vue Cinema, Odyssey Pavillion, 7pm. Galway - Wednesday 24th November, Cinemobile, The Huntsman Bar, 7pm. Cork - Thursday 25th November,Triskel Arts...

Pascal and the Irish Developers Alliance members have been busy. The site is live and you can find forums and blogs for Irish developers. Nice one folks!

Congratulations to our local DPE in Ireland , they really have out done themselves this time!! On Wed. the 3rd of Nov , we have a full day event that is jam packed with great sessions and exceptional speakers. The list of speakers includes Eric Rudder...

Well lots of folks gave feedback that they would like to see C# support for Edit and Continue in Whidbey , and its on the way. See Soma's blog for the announcement . Congrats to all involved.

From November 1-5, the MSDN Team is delivering a webcast series that will help you take advantage of the sweeping change in technology offered by 64-bit computing. · Run existing 32-bit code without modification on 64-bit Windows · Write native 64-bit...

Yesterday, the Application Compatibility Testing and Mitigation Guide for Windows XP Service Pack 2 was published. This guide considers potential application compatibility issues that may arise after a Service Pack 2 deployment. The guide provides mitigation...

MSDN Webcast: Overview of XP SP2 for Developers - Level 200 Date: Tuesday, July 6, 2004 Time: 11:00AM-12:30PM Pacific Time (GMT-8, US & Canada) Description: Review the changes that Windows XP Service Pack 2 delivers and what they mean for you. Windows...

Server Performance Advisor can be found here . It was released a few days ago. <Extract> Overview Service Performance Advisor is a server performance diagnostic tool developed to diagnose root causes of performance problems in a Microsoft®...

Eamon O’Tuathail, an Irish .NET Architect, won the Microsoft EMEA Security Champion competition that was held at Teched in Amsterdam last week. Here , you can see Eamon's prize-winning performance at the final. With over 60,000 entrants from across...

Wow, what a fantastic use of technology :) Let the people voice their concerns about daily life in dublin and how the people that own the services in Dublin can make life easier for its people :) This site was only launched in the last 2 or 3 weeks...

As posted by Tim Sneath : "In respond to popular demand from attendees who want to plan their schedule in advance, I've taken an extract of the current session database as an Excel spreadsheet . Hope this helps you make the most of TechEd Europe!"

After my last blog, I just happened to have a look on blogs.msdn.com to see whats up there. I saw Tim Sneath 's blog entry about how he maintains a list of .NET developers in the UK who blog. This is great, does a list of Irish .NET bloggers exist, I...

If you are, lets us know? As Bill O'Brien has posted, we know that there are 50+ people from Ireland going to attend, and this is our largest attendence ever :) Let's do the Paddy's abroad thing and met in an Irish pub? hmmm, ???. At the time...

Whether you are a sound engineer or software engineer, before the big event, you have to go on stage in front of a select few (the diehard fans/users/tester) and make sure that all of your hard work behind the scenes actually works and does what its supposed...

This is a great little tool that has been in beta for a long time :). I haven’t seen its release been discussed in any blogs (or at least the ones that I read). It covers a lot of the low hanging fruit, those small little things that can creep into a...