I'm back in Dublin and juggling a bunch of things: follow-up from this month's ASP.NET talks, preparing for next month's wave of talks, and generally trying to get things done and avoid shaving yaks . But I'm still an AI and graphics geek at heart, so...

I'm looking forward to tonight's developers.ie meeting in Dublin, where Paul Fallon will be leading a discussion about transactional programming in the .NET framework . Paul recently gave a talk on the same subject in Belfast that led to some great feedback...

As Clare wrote this morning , we're down in Cork this week for the final leg of the March MSDN/TechNet tour . If you're within striking distance of Cork town, hopefully we'll see you tonight or tomorrow at the National Software Centre . (If you haven...

Thanks to everyone in Galway for your patience with my follow-up to last week's ASP.NET presentation. My excuse for the delay involves leprechauns. Here are some links to more information about ASP.NET 2.0 that I found useful. The MSDN Developer Centre...

If you're interested in transactional programming, you're in for a treat. Paul Fallon , who's handled more transactions than most major banks, is giving a presentation called Transactions in .NET - Today and in the Future at next Monday's NIMTUG meeting...

Many thanks to everyone who attended the packed ASP.NET 2 session in Belfast last Tuesday! I've had a number of requests for the Olive website code that we wrote during the 3-hour coding bonanza. I’ve handed it off to Damien McGivern, who has hosted the...

News continues to pour in from this year's Game Developers Conference , which is taking place this week in San Francisco. Here are some Microsoft tidbits: J Allard announced details about the Next-Gen XBox . The XNA Studio game development suite, an extension...

A Titantic-class iceberg isn't the only thing bound for Belfast these days. The .NET roadshow gets underway in that city next week with a barrage of events for developers. We're starting with an Intro to .NET event on Monday night that is inspired by...

Sligo's lush-green scenery was once an inspiration for poet William Butler Yeats, who penned much of his famous work around the limestone plateau of Benbulben and the windswept Lake Isle of Innisfree . But nowadays, those who arise and go to Ireland's...

From Silicon Republic : "War driving — the refined art of finding and using unsecured private wireless local area networks (WLANs) – will be rife across Dublin City this weekend as part of a high-tech treasure hunt competition. "Entitled WaveHunt , the...