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Keeping Connected to Microsoft in Ireland

The whole Developer and Platform group have joined forces to start an MSDN Ireland Group Blog , including new developers Martha Rotter and Ronan Geraghty (who I must say are off to an amazing start with the group). Inimitable community guru Clare Dillon Read More...
Posted Friday, June 15, 2007 1:17 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

After the Last Stand

When the XNA-fuelled fireworks were over at yesterday's Last Stand in Dublin (literally and figuratively) I was totally lost for words. When does that ever happen?! What I really want to say most is thank you - especially to Clare Dillon, Philip McKeown, Read More...
Posted Friday, June 08, 2007 10:04 AM by robburke | 1 Comments

Rob's Last Stand: XNA, Microsoft Robotics Studio, 360s, Wiis, and Dancing Robots

Talk Abstract: By day, he's helped mild-mannered developers build n -tiered architectures using .NET technologies. But by night, the real Rob comes out. The one that works endlessly - nay, furiously - with XNA and the Microsoft Robotics Studio. And now, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 22, 2007 10:32 PM by robburke | 3 Comments

Dublin Event, May 28th: Windows Server 2008 Jumpstart

There are some exciting things coming for developers in Windows Server 2008 , which recently reached Beta 3 under its codename Longhorn Server. If you're able to reach Dublin next Monday, you may be interested in the upcoming Longhorn Server Jumpstart Read More...
Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 1:07 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

Leaving Las Vegas

I've just touched down in Dublin after the long haul back from the MIX conference. I had an amazing week - days of MIX, nights of Vegas - but it's with some relief that I'm back here now. On Wednesday morning I snapped this shot of a woman painting in Read More...
Posted Friday, May 04, 2007 10:52 AM by robburke | 1 Comments

Silverlight Airlines Keynote Demo Online

Last night, Delay announced the publishing of the Silverlight Airlines Demo from Monday's keynote. He and a colleague, Ted Glaza, built the demo in three weeks, beginning with nothing and building on top of the Silverlight .NET platform as it was still Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 02, 2007 4:44 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

Communities of Purpose: Social Networking Panel

From left to right on the Social Networking: Enabling the Two-Way Street panel at MIX07 : Dave Morin, Facebook ; Evan Williams, Twitter ; Aaron Emigh, Six Apart ; Joseph Kleinschmidt, Leverage Software ; Marc Canter, Broadband Mechanics These guys have Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 9:36 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

Silverlight Developer Reference Diagram

Click to download. With props to Expression Product Manager Arturo Toledo for putting this together, and thanks for the cool poster version they're giving out here at MIX! Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 6:27 PM by robburke | 2 Comments

MIX Misc Monday

Myspace presentation: Serving up the long tail's mp3 and other rich content at scale is an awesome task. And by "awesome" I mean the original, "awe-inspiring" sense of the word. Myspace is using the Concurrency and Coordination Runtime from Microsoft Read More...
Posted Tuesday, May 01, 2007 5:59 PM by robburke | 2 Comments

MIX07 Keynote: Favourite Moments (and photos)

After this morning's MIX07 keynote, I am reinvigorated about the power and potential of Silverlight . Here are my favourite moments: Scott Guthrie debugging a Silverlight application's .NET code that was running on a Mac in the Safari browser, changing Read More...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 9:36 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

MIX07 Welcome Swag

Swag found in my MIX07 Welcome Pack: 1 Silverlight / Mix07 T-Shirt (obligatory) 1 copy Vista Ultimate (cool) 1 copy Expression Studio (double cool!!) 3 coloured "discipline" armbands to identify the like-minded at MIX (Blue=Developer, Green=Business, Read More...
Posted Monday, April 30, 2007 7:02 AM by robburke | 5 Comments

WPF/E - Martha Rotter in Belfast and Dublin

Martha Rotter from the WPF/E team is presenting in Belfast tonight and Dublin tomorrow. You're going to be hearing a lot about the technology codenamed " Windows Presentation Foundation / Everywhere " at the upcoming Mix07 conference, and this is the Read More...
Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 1:45 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

Windows Live for Developers: The Good, the Intriguing, and the Way to get Started

On Friday, I showed IT @ Cork the Windows Live Platform for developers. The "one link to rule them all" for those who want to get started mashing a wide variety of services into their web-based applications is the Windows Live Developer Center on MSDN Read More...
Posted Monday, March 26, 2007 10:26 AM by robburke | 5 Comments

TechReady4 Kicks off in Seattle - Caption this photo of Steve Ballmer on fire.

The TechReady conference is off to a great start. I've shaken off the jetlag and am overwhelmed by the smorgasbord of sessions. Here's a photo of Steve Ballmer firing us up during this morning's keynote. He's still got it!! TechReady is an internal technical Read More...
Posted Monday, February 05, 2007 10:54 PM by robburke | 2 Comments

Express Yo'self at Designertopia with new Expression Betas

Two days of designer/developer fusion kick off today at the Designertopia conference in London . Just in time for Designertopia comes good news from the Expression design tools front: Expression Design hit Beta 1, and Expression Blend hit Beta 2. Both Read More...
Posted Thursday, February 01, 2007 11:16 AM by robburke | 1 Comments
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