April 2005 - Posts

• Architect Council

  Another great Architect Council. Thanks to everyone for attending. Dino Chiesa did a fantastic session on Service Orientation moving from the concepts, through to design, current standards and Web services. He also talked about Interop in some detail Read More... Posted Friday, April 29, 2005 3:55 AM by bobrien | 5 Comments

• Architect Certification

  I've talked with many Architects in Ireland over the last year about professional advancement, certifications etc. Many of you may have seen this article on a recent announcement of the Microsoft Certified Architect Program (MCAP). (The Americans refer Read More... Posted Thursday, April 14, 2005 2:16 PM by bobrien | 1 Comments

• Clare wins the Irish "Young ICT Person of the year" award

  Last night, Clare won the Irish "Young IT person of the year" award. Congratulations, fully deserved for all the great work that Clare has done over the past 18 months with developer communities in Ireland. Read More... Posted Thursday, April 14, 2005 5:21 AM by bobrien | 1 Comments

• Jobs and Transactions

  As Clare already talked about. There is a large number of development jobs open in Microsoft Ireland at the moment. Many of them are in the new R&D area recently announced. So if you are thinking of a change, I can recommend Microsoft as an amazing Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 12, 2005 3:34 AM by bobrien | 6 Comments