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Last year, Microsoft provided a program to help new start-ups get developer tools, discounts and a business network at practically no cost. BizSpark helped over 300 Irish start-ups in the last twelve months. This year, the Spark family is extending to
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At Future of Web Design Belfast & last week in Dublin, I gave an overview of SketchFlow & SuperPreview. I promised to share my talk notes & slides & demos with folks, so here they are. This covered a lot of information, so
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I just realized that a red polo means something different in Ireland than it does in the US, doesn’t it? We may have to temporarily rename Scott Guthrie’s red polo while he’s here in Dublin in two weeks. I loved this video that Scott created of
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I couldn’t help but laugh at the Manchester GUATHON event registration page for Scott Guthrie . Scott is dropping by Manchester after his visit to Dublin, and they did a great job compiling a list of “things you might not know about Scott Guthrie”
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This is HUGE news – Scott Guthrie is coming to Dublin to do an afternoon with .NET developers in Dublin city centre! I couldn’t be more excited! You can register here: http://short.ie/scottgu Who: THE GU! What: A full afternoon workshop covering
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Just as a reminder and for those of you who are not MTUG members, Microsoft Technology User Group Dublin is running a free event tomorrow evening with me in the Morrison Hotel from 7:30pm. Here’s a summary of the talk I’m giving: SketchFlow: Building
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I just returned from an amazing holiday in Iceland where I spent 12 days road-tripping, climbing glaciers , exploring fjords , sea fishing for cod, and monkfish, snorkeling between continents , eating unbelievable food , hiking lava fields and enjoying
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http://microsoftpdc.com/ The Professional Developers Conference (PDC) is one of those tech events where magic happens. It’s a forward-looking conference with industry leader speakers which brings audiences from around the world to learn about the
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Ever since MIX09 a few months ago, I’ve had lots of designers and developers asking me for preview copies of SketchFlow, demos, early access to Silverlight 3 builds and much more. I’m thrilled that Silverlight 3 was officially released on Friday joined
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The very famous Kathleen Dollard is visiting Ireland! Kathleen, who is well known for her book Code Generation in .NET , her “Ask Kathleen” column in Visual Studio Magazine, and much more, is doing a tour of Ireland and the UK. She will be speaking
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As designers and developers know, it’s so critical to stay up to date on the latest technology, newest tools and ideas to keep yourself, your ideas and your applications fresh. MIX Essentials , happening in Dublin on Wednesday June 24th is all about that.
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I spent this past weekend in Donegal, where my friends and I came across a really neat stone circle outside of Raphoe. It was crying out to be Photosynthed. I stood in the centre of the circle, taking a lot of photos. After uploading
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But cool technology is worth writing about, so here we go. If you were watching the MIX09 Live Keynote yesterday ( http://live.visitmix.com/ ), you saw a couple of awesome applications which really take rich, Internet applications to a new level.
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I know this is a bit of old news for some, but I was showing a friend the New York Times Reader this weekend and realized I had never mentioned that they have gone back to having a free version. If you’ve never seen the NYT Reader application, it’s really
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I now have the previously top secret agenda for the Silverlight Assault Course I mentioned yesterday. The course will be on Saturday, January 17th in Dublin and on Sunday, January 18th in Cork. We have some exciting news about our NxtGenUG
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