April 2005 - Posts

• Visual Studio 2005 Beta2 Experience Now Live - sign-up today!

  For those of you who are anxiously waiting to get your hands on Visual Studio 2005 beta2 - the time is now! You can sign up here to get the software sent out to you (with a lot of extra goodies). What do you get if you sign up? Visual Studio 2005 Beta2 Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 26, 2005 8:43 AM by Clare Dillon | 3 Comments

• Calling Irish Security Experts - your chance to win a laptop and a trip to TechEd 2005

  Last year, Ireland's Eamon O'Tuathail won the title of European Security Champion of the Year at TechEd, beating 1000s of European developers to walk away with a cheque for $10,000... which just goes to show you - the luck of the Irish is pretty potent Read More... Posted Monday, April 18, 2005 5:16 PM by Clare Dillon | 2 Comments

• ISV Advisory Hours benefit - for partners with ISV Competency

  Just got the following notice from a colleague of mine who works with partners here in the Irish Microsoft office. Sounds like a pretty good new benefit.... ------------------- We are very excited to announce the roll out of the ISV Advisory Hours benefit Read More... Posted Friday, April 15, 2005 9:37 AM by Clare Dillon | 1 Comments

• Thanks!

  I just wanted to put in a word of thanks to IrishDev for nominating me for the ICT Expo Young IT Person of the Year award, and to everyone in the Irish developer community who supported the nomination. Receiving the award on Wednesday night was a great Read More... Posted Friday, April 15, 2005 5:08 AM by Clare Dillon | 0 Comments

• Visual C# and Windows Forms in Visual Studio 2005 Tour - Coming to Dublin and Belfast

  I am delighted to announce that the Visual C# and Windows Forms teams are coming over from Seattle to do a tour of Europe and Africa and we have been lucky enough to get the event for both Dublin and Belfast (following the amazing turn out in Belfast Read More... Posted Thursday, April 14, 2005 9:17 AM by Clare Dillon | 1 Comments

• Reminder of Monday's NIMTUG event on SQLServer 2005 in Belfast

  Just a quick reminder that Rob will be back up in Belfast on Monday evening to give a talk to the NIMTUG User Group on SQL Server 2005. I've included the overview below, but you can register or find out more at: http://nimtug.org/11-april-2005.aspx . Read More... Posted Saturday, April 09, 2005 5:24 AM by Clare Dillon | 0 Comments

• Two new Irish developer MVPs appointed!

  Great news! Kieran Lynam and Jamie Plenderleith have been awarded MVPs for their work with the Irish developer communities. Many of you may know Kieran as one of the original founders of Irish Developer Network four years ago. Since then Kieran has been Read More... Posted Tuesday, April 05, 2005 5:36 AM by Clare Dillon | 0 Comments

• Don't miss INDA's DotNetNuke talk here in Dublin tomorrow evening!

  Don't miss your chance to hear about DotNetNuke , one of the world's most popular .NET open source projects, straight from one of the core development team.... The DotNetNuke content management system is one of the most popular .NET open source projects Read More... Posted Monday, April 04, 2005 5:16 AM by Clare Dillon | 0 Comments