Wow - thanks to everyone who attended my Atlas presentation at ApacheCon Europe today. I was overwhelmed by the full house and the warm reception. And it was kinda cool to be the Microsoft guy running Apache and PHP on his laptop :) Here are my slides (zipped .ppt) . I started with a brief Introduction...

The videos and slides from the Mix06 conference, which was held in Vegas last March, are now online at http://sessions.mix06.com/ . Now I can go back and soak up all the sessions I wasn't able to attend while I was there! For those of you who saw Scott Guthrie 's presentations at the INDC about...

Next week, on the 3rd and 4th of May, four of our technical communities - the ICS , INDA , IrishDev , and NIMTUG - are joining forces to host their largest .NET developer conference ever at the Morrison Hotel in Dublin. If you're a developer, a project manager, a technical architect or a company director...

I was one of the presenters at last night's IT@Cork Business Benefits of RSS event. Tom Raftery has posted photos and follow-up information already ! My goal was to outline the Microsoft RSS Platform, as presented last week at Mix06 by the Microsoft RSS team. Through a variety of innovations across...

I'm a sucker for Microsoft Research talks; they're so cool. So I attended the MSR talk here at Mix06, hosted by Behrooz Chitsaz, Director at Microsoft Research. Microsoft spent $7Billon last year on R&D. Behrooz started by putting that in perspective, by remarking on the rapid rate of annual increase...

Next Monday, I am going to be presenting in Cork on Microsoft's increasing integration of RSS into the platform. As part of my research, I had a great chat with one of the Microsoft RSS Team members yesterday in the hands-on lab area, and today I attended Walter VonKoch's talk on the Windows RSS Platform...

I just attended Robert Ingebretsen's excellent Mix06 presentation on Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF/Avalon) for Designers. Robert worked closer to the metal than I would have expected for a talk oriented toward designers. I believe his goal was to explain the concepts and abstractions, and make...

Check out Live Ideas and, if you're a developer, the developer resources for Live - http://msdn.microsoft.com/live Here's the March Community Tech Preview of Atlas , for building rich AJAX-enabled ASP.NET applications. There is a GO LIVE license for this CTP. Look at what Brian had to say about what...

Summary notes (posted as taken) ( photos ) Changing experience as web evolves and "website" and "app" concepts merge - includes broadband - is cross-device - Media Centre PC or MCPC Extender ("10-foot experience") - mobile phone - often involves multimodal input (incl. voice) 2 categories of experience...