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Pssst. Are you a student or academic? Like robots? Interested in learning how to build the embedded systems and robots of the future? Then why not attend the Microsoft Windows Embedded European Tour which is coming to Ireland on Friday, November
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I am finishing putting together the video from Josh Holmes’ recent visit to Dublin. If you’re looking for his slides, you can find them here . In the meantime, I wanted to post a link to a couple of posts Josh has. First of all, here’s a link
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I received excellent news late Friday of last week. Josh Holmes , RIA (Rich Internet/Interactive Application) Architect Extraordinaire, is coming to visit us in Dublin in early October. He will be speaking on the topic of “Developing RIAs
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It’s been a couple of months since I’ve gotten the chance to write any new programs for my Lego Mindstorms robot. The Artbots were in town this weekend, and I thought that would be the perfect place to get some excellent inspiration. Artbots is an international
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This past weekend I had the wonderful opportunity to attend the first ever Dublin Fashion Bloggers Brunch, hosted by the very lovely and stylish Annmarie O’Connor, whose blog on fashion is wonderful and glamorous. Annmarie and I had been e-mailing
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A couple of weeks ago, Dublin hosted Ireland’s first ever MIX event! MIX is Microsoft’s conference for all things web-related and takes place annually in Las Vegas. We had a smaller, one-day version of the conference at Cineworld with
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Ever been to an OpenCoffee event? Went a while back but haven’t gone in a few months? Have no idea what I’m talking about? OpenCoffee is an informal get-together which happens all around Ireland. The people that arrive to chat are from
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http://www.darklight.ie/index.htm The Darklight Festival is a four-day event celebrating cutting-edge film, animation, art & technology. While it’s in town there will be a wide variety of workshops, screenings, events, talks etc. There
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If you thought you noticed some Internet superstars wandering around Dublin last week, you weren’t dreaming. XTech was in town and with it came folks from all over the world representing web development, open source, Web 2.0 and open standards organizations.
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Alan Crowley from DeCare Systems in Cork is in Dublin for the evening to talk with the Microsoft SQL Server User Group. The discussion is on “Visual Studio for Database Professionals”, and includes the following topics: Introducing DB Pro as a part
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If you, like me, were really bummed that you didn’t make it to Mix08 in Las Vegas this year, get excited! We are bringing Mix to you! Mix Essentials is a one-day event being held in the National College of Ireland on Friday, May 23rd. It’s
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I was really lucky to get to go to the Ireland Imagine Cup Championships last week here in Sandyford. There were some great projects shown off, all with the idea of improving the environment. Microsoft Student Partner Alan Spillane did a great job of
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OpenCoffee Club Dublin has been a bit quiet lately. Too quiet. It's time to shake it up again. At the very fun & first ever Monthly Open Wine Tasting last night (many thanks to Lar Veale !), a lot of people were talking about how much they had missed
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On Friday, April 4th, I attended Day Two of the 3rd annual Irish Microsoft Technology Conference . It was another jam-packed day with lots of well-known speakers who are experts in their fields. Ben Sykes kicked off the first session on Friday with a
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With apologies for getting this up so late and for the camera work (in retrospect, this was probably the worst place I could have put the camera for this talk), below is Fergus Burns' keynote address for the opening night of the Irish Web Technology Conference
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