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Robert Burke's MSDN Weblog
TechEd Europe - let's synchronize our blogging efforts!
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over 7 years ago
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[Aside: Have you signed up for the localized MSDN Flash yet?] There are more than 80 representatives from Ireland and Northern Ireland planning to attend TechEd Europe next week! Great stuff. Clare and I will be there as well (not to mention Ciaran...
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Great news from the guy who can hardly pronounce 'Dun Laoghaire'
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over 7 years ago
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With a well-earned tip of the cap to the land in which Microsoft applications are localized into over 30 different languages, Microsoft announced today the Irish Language Interface Pack for Windows , and the imminent (September) release of the same for...
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Scott Guthrie on the Atlas Project
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over 7 years ago
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If you’re interested in AJAX-style web development, as recently made famous by high-profile sites like Flickr, A9 and much of the Google portfolio (and discussed here previously), you’ll definitely want to read what Scott Guthrie and the ASP.NET team...
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Everybody wants to be more creative
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over 7 years ago
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At the end of a rough day, it's worth a link to point out that nobody says it better than Hugh . Here's the creative hub (in my very humble opinion) of his ever-worthwhile thoughts. Although I'm not likely to be as blessed as other Canadians , tonight...
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At Track Level with Team Doom on the warpath in Scotland
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over 7 years ago
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A couple of weeks ago I had the chance to meet Team Doom, the Irish winners of the local Dare to be Digital competition. The five lads - four from Ballyfermot College of Further Education , and one from Dundalk Institute of Technology - are now competing...
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More SpecSharp and tree-viewed thoughts
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over 7 years ago
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A couple of quick links (with apologies for the radio silence; it's been a little hectic): Jamie Plenderleith , one of our Irish MVPs, did some investigation into SpecSharp earlier this year, and posted some thoughtful links in his blog. Jamie's been...
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Sign up today for Issue #1 of the new, localized MSDN Flash Ireland!
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over 7 years ago
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I'm delighted to announce the arrival of the new, localized MSDN Flash Ireland! If you want a localized, customizable, bi-weekly summary of what's new on MSDN, click here to sign up now ! Starting with this issue (published momentarily) the MSDN Ireland...
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More on C# 2.0, SpecSharp, and C-Omega from Anders
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over 7 years ago
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I really enjoyed Eamon O'Tuathail's presentation last Wednesday on the future of C#, which included glimpses of C-Omega and SpecSharp, two Microsoft Research language projects. C-Omega is a strongly typed, data oriented programming language that bridges...
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Microsoft RAW Image Thumbnailer and Viewer for Windows XP
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over 7 years ago
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I’m an avid photographer, but you wouldn’t know it from my photographic record of late. Part of my excuse for the recent drought (apart from boring excuses like starting a new job) is being spoiled last summer in Canada with borrowing my Dad’s Nikon D70...
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MapPoint WebService SDK: working around Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 WSDL behavior
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over 7 years ago
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Say hypothetically you're working on an application that will consume a MapPoint WebService using some flavour of Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2. And further suppose that the MapPoint Web Service, after being added as a Web Reference to your project, is giving...
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Clare lists the upcoming events, and here's why you should attend
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over 7 years ago
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Clare has posted a list of upcoming MSDN community events in Dublin, Belfast, Galway, Cork and Waterford ! Here are my answers to some frequently asked questions I get about these events: Q: Who is welcome? A: Everyone! Q: Who tends to...
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Brendan Tuohy, Irish Secretary General, blogging on MSN Spaces
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over 7 years ago
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Brendan Tuohy , Irish Secretary General of the Department of Communications, Marine and Natural Resources, has started a blog at MSN Spaces . His blog already contains discussions of a meeting with Archbishop Desmond Tutu , a report on Ireland's welfare...
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MSDN Academic Library on its way...
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over 7 years ago
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The .NET Academic Library is on its way to 20 Universities and Colleges this afternoon. For now, our office looks like a scene out of Half Life 2. All I need is a gravity gun. If I find one, the next person who calls me Postman Pat is gonna get it...
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Visual Web Developer as HTML editing tool
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over 7 years ago
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An old friend told me tonight that she was having to author a set of static web pages "the old fashioned way" because of the need to avoid sloppy HTML code. By "the old fashioned way" she meant Notepad. Being so accustomed to Visual Studio myself,...
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A picture worth ~100,000,000 words
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over 7 years ago
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The .NET Academic Library has arrived! This is the collection of books we'll be sending this week to the 20 largest Universities and IT Colleges in Ireland and Northern Ireland. Thanks again to all of you who helped us arrive at this collection...
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Student webcast slides and survey results
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over 7 years ago
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I've posted the slides from yesterday's student webcast up at this link . In my previous writeup this morning, which I've summarized in an article , I included links to the many resources I mentioned during the webcast. Here are the results of the...
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Yesterday's Microsoft 20 Years in Ireland Student Webcast
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over 7 years ago
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Congratulations to Ciaran Usher of IT Tralee, winner of the trip to TechEd Europe!! And thanks to the many students who attended the webcast today. As you could probably tell, I enjoyed the discussion and your many thoughtful questions. The key takeaway...
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