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Ireland joins The Mesh
19 August 08 10:59 AM
Yesterday, the Live Mesh team expanded their Technical Preview to include Ireland (and Canada and India). What does this mean? It means that if you are in one of the countries covered, you can sign in to Live Mesh and try it out. If you have more than Read More...
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Rain, lovely rain.
09 July 08 11:20 AM
My friends in Redmond were complaining about the heat around the Seattle area during the week, and oh, my heart reached out for them in sympathy. Not. Ireland is having rather a wet summer so far, and the forecast has it continuing for another month or Read More...
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Gamefest 2008 and DIY train tickets
08 July 08 03:39 PM
I'm delighted to be able to attend Gamefest 2008 in Seattle this July. I'm looking forward to the XNA tracks very much. If you are in Europe, the event travels to London in early August . But now more about living in Dublin. Dublin, as it turns out, has Read More...
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NEO is dead
07 July 08 01:36 PM
Yes, it's true - no more NEO. Now it's "On-Boarding". So, apart from being a hugely ugly word, what is "On-Boarding"? When you join Microsoft, there is a huge amount of information to take in. From company values, to pension information, to health care Read More...
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Whoops, that's gotta hurt. Yes, it did.
02 July 08 11:03 AM
I'll tell you something else about Dublin: the roads are surprisingly slippy. This morning I was cycling to work, and whilst taking a nice, fast right-hand bend, the tyres on my bike completely lost grip, and I did a spectacular grating slide across the Read More...
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Moving to Microsoft Ireland
01 July 08 03:16 PM
As part of my career change, I also changed countries: specifically, I've moved from Redmond, Washington, I've moved to Dublin, Ireland. Although I was born and raised near Belfast, I'm still a stranger here. Belfast is in Northern Ireland, which is part Read More...
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DirectX in a hurry
30 June 08 04:29 PM
So, being a Program Manager working with XBox games teams - that's got to be one of the coolest jobs going, eh? Well come back to me in six months, and I'll let you know :-) For the moment, as well as lots of PM-y type things, I'm trying to get myself Read More...
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Social networking in the real world: TechLudd
26 June 08 09:53 AM
By nature, I’m not what you would call a social chap. Meeting new people is something I find stressful, and of course, I am perhaps the worst person for remembering names in the entire universe (it’s a good thing my mummy sews a label with my name into Read More...
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Welcome back, me.
24 June 08 01:30 AM
When we last heard from our intrepid blogger, he was doing something with Windows Mobile docs in Redmond. Then it all went quiet.. Well, good news everyone: I’m back. It’s all change though - this time I’m a Program Manager, working with the Microsoft Read More...
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Whoops..
19 October 07 02:30 AM
Ah, well this is interesting. If you can read this, I managed to adjust the date when this blog entry would be posted to a week after I left Microsoft. At this moment, I'm probably enjoying some very unhealthy fried food in Belfast. So thanks again for Read More...
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So long and thanks for all the fish!
12 October 07 04:30 PM
OK heroes, this is my last blog entry as today is my last day at Microsoft. I’ve greatly enjoyed the last eight years here, and sorry I can’t say longer. However, it’s back to Ireland I go. If you would like to stay in touch, please feel free to visit Read More...
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Windows Mobile 6 Docs: Now in Seven Languages
12 October 07 10:29 AM
Good news if English isn't your first language, or, I guess, you want to test your foreign language skills. Using a rather cool machine translation system from Microsoft Research, the Content Publishing Team have managed to convert the Windows Moble 6 Read More...
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Windows Mobile Documentation: MSDN Shuffle
11 October 07 07:48 AM
Back to work for a moment: if you now go to the MSDN site and check the Windows Mobile docs - in fact, the entire Windows Mobile and Embedded docs - you'll see one important difference: nothing. Well, hopefully you won't spot anything out of the ordinary. Read More...
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Can I be honest here for a moment?
10 October 07 09:00 AM
Someone suggested in a comment to a previous posting that I write about the current state of the industry, and as I’m leaving the company, I might as well be completely honest. That would be a great idea, but remember that I only have the viewpoint of Read More...
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How can I make you love me?!
09 October 07 09:12 AM
Last month was my last full month at Microsoft, which means it was also the last full month in which I had a chance of getting more hits on my blog than my manager. I didn't manage it! Despite the fact that he didn't have a single new post, he still beat Read More...
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