Here's a tremendous compendium of ASP.NET 2.0 info and resources linked from ScottGu's blog, inspired by the resources he most frequently links to when answering questions on forums.asp.net . Here are some of the headlines: Getting Started with...

I really enjoyed last night's Web 2.0 discussion in Dublin, co-hosted by IrishDev.com and the Irish Internet Association usergroups! My compliments to everyone involved, including speakers Fergal Breen , Paul Browne , John Brennan and Fergal O'Byrne ...

I gave a presentation yesterday to a packed room of students and faculty of the Univeristy College Dublin School of Computer Science and Informatics. I love speaking with student audiences - they ask the most insightful questions, don't pull punches,...

I've just finished reading Jeff Hawkins' book, On Intelligence , in which Hawkins develops his theory of how the brain works. In it, he describes what he calls the memory-prediction framework , and outlines how artificial intelligence researchers might...

I've had a couple of requests for the code to my Sudoku Solver to use as a test of a simple ASP.NET 2.0 application built with Visual Web Developer 2005 Express Edition. It's very simple indeed (I included only the brutish solver in the zip) - and it...

Oh, that is just gorgeous.

The Northern Ireland Microsoft Technologies User Group has a cunning acronym and a sharp new website . And they've recently grown and grown to the point they now have dedicated Developer and IT Pro-focused events. Tomorrow (Thursday) night, our IT...

Clare recently mentioned that Jesper Johansson , an exceptional Microsoft Security Technology presenter, attended a Presentation Skills course. What she didn't mention is that it was Dr Edward A Tufte 's course on presenting quantitative information....

If you're an Architect in Ireland - or perhaps a Devarchitect who sits somewhere between the worlds of Architect and Senior Developer - then, first of all, you should be subscribed to Bill O'Brien's Blog , and second of all, on the 1st of March you should...

Apologies for the radio silence recently - it's been very hectic! I've been exploring a couple of things. SQL Mobile Merge Replication is amazing stuff. Using a "Publication" and "Subscription" metaphor, it allows you to synchronize parts of a SQL...

Rob Relyea, in his great blog on all things Avalon/WPF , recently posted a piece on Attached Properties , a concept which makes Avalon's property system tremendously extensible. In the article, Rob notes a community developer's lament that Attached...

Kieran Lynam points out that Internet Explorer 7’s ctrl-F search is deeply dinosaured , and points me to the first podcast I’m ever going to listen to . Tom Raftery is tired of companies who don’t care to listen to their customers and continues to...

In today's issue of the biweekly MSDN Flash Ireland , I took the opportunity to ask what our subscribers think about our localized newsletter. We've been using MSDN Flash Ireland to keep people informed of new developer technologies and community events...

Totally random: I met a gentleman today who is part of a government body that investigates air traffic-related accidents. They have found Flight Simulator 2004 to be very effective simulator for re-creating particular accidents - and in some ways,...