Over at The Z Buffer , Andy Dunn posted an interview he did with me a few weeks back about my work on the Symphony graphics and signal processing engine. It features hefty doses of .Net, and a graphics engine built with Managed DirectX. And Symphony is...

Well, ladies and gentlemen, after a gruelling overtime slug and a five-minute presentation from each team, the judges met, deliberated, threw shapes, threw chairs, reached consensus, and finally declared Team 3 the winners of the inaugural Guerilla Coding...

Faster than you can say " infinite cat ," our intrepid code artists have entered their final lap as the competition is extended by a whopping half an hour! Yes, you heard me right, folks: with the sun now set, the mysterious Team 4 now appearing from...

Well, speaking as a cheeky judge , I have to say that the competition is looking pretty hot as we gallop into the second lap. The cleverly-named Team 2 is ahead by a nose, with their rivals chomping at their bits and bytes to take the lead. The bets are...

This is Robbie B reporting for you live from Dublin, here at the starting blocks of the first developers.ie Guerilla Code Party. The competitors are starting to arrive and we're all set for this marathon of coding madness to begin. The competition will...

[Links updated after MLE's web site was dismantled 1 Feb.] A old friend, who once played a major role of my life, passed away a week ago . And what do you do when you lose a friend in Ireland? You have a wake. A wake that goes on for ages . In the warm...

As Paschal reports, Monday night’s INDA discussion topic was the use of the CLR in SQL Server 2005 . Nick Grattan gave a characteristically thoughtful talk that walked us through the steps involved in hosting .Net assemblies on SQL Server. Nick’s also...

Just a quick note in case you haven't heard: even if you don't have an MSDN subscription, the November Community Tech Preview (CTP) of WinFX and Avalon is yours for the downloading . It's still early days, but you can get a peek at what's being built...

It’s been a day for seeing RSS feeds being used in interesting ways. This dude has taken Bungie’s RSS feed that reports Halo 2 player stats, and brought it into an Excel application so that you can analyze your fragging ability using all sorts of pretty...

Microsoft announces a month-long Webcast series focusing on interoperability – why it matters to businesses, common strategies and methods, and guidance on specific implementation scenarios between the major platform players. This series will feature...

Daniel Lehenbauer, normally the guy responsible for pointing lights and cameras on 3D Avalon scenes, has the camera turned on him instead in this Channel 9 sneak peek into the life of an Avalon 3D software design engineer. Dan presents a number of the...

Placeholder: This was in the process of becoming a collection of useful Visual Studio 2005 resources. But that collection already exists! Get the beta of Visual Studio 2005, and heaps of useful information, by going here: http://msdn.microsoft.com...

It’s the start of a New Year and we’re hitting the ground running with developer events. There are a few coming up in Dublin, including some security training events. This week I’m going to try to firm up dates for a few other events around the country...