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May the road rise to meet you...

It's time for me to sign off from this blog. I'll be over on www.robburke.net and wish you all the best. Read More...
Posted Friday, June 15, 2007 1:30 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

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

Five-digit number

Here was my XBox Live Gamertag this morning: According to Dave , that makes me a sad git, and he's probably right, but according to Guitar Hero, it also makes me: Rock on. Read More...
Posted Saturday, June 09, 2007 12:16 PM by robburke | 0 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

Microsoft Surface

Out of Steve Bathiche and Andy Wilson's work on Surface Computing comes an elegant 30-inch diagonal display table that reacts to touch -- and will hit the market in Winter 2007. It'll be on show at Siggraph in August. Check out the demo (done in Flash Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 30, 2007 9:51 AM by robburke | 15 Comments

Nikon's RAW (NEF) Vista Codec Updated

Nikon has released an updated version of their RAW (NEF) Codec for Vista that resolves an issue that caused it to suddenly stop working last week. Apparently the problem had something to do with an expired certificate. The new Codec is still labeled version Read More...
Posted Saturday, May 26, 2007 8:30 PM by robburke | 2 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

All good things ...

It has now been almost three years since I joined Microsoft to work with developers in Ireland. During that time, Microsoft has unleashed one-and-a-half new Visual Studios, presented the world a new Vista, and most recently they've shed some SilverLight Read More...
Posted Monday, May 21, 2007 1:45 PM by robburke | 15 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

Dev.Live.com gets a Facelift

I was looking up some information about one of the Windows Live services (Custom Domains, specifically) and noticed they've completely re-vamped the Windows Live for Developers site. If you haven't visited, that's the "one link to rule them all" I have Read More...
Posted Wednesday, May 16, 2007 12:31 AM by robburke | 0 Comments

Three Technologies that will change photography

Quite an interesting article in the Microsoft PhotoBlog: Program Manager Jordan Schwartz describes 3 Technologies that will change Photography . The three he cites are Mini Projectors, Liquid Lenses and GPS. And it's worth the link just for the mad-cool Read More...
Posted Monday, May 14, 2007 6:39 PM by robburke | 3 Comments
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Silverlight Developer Resource-a-rama

I've been absorbing Silverlight from the perspective of a developer who wants to use .NET code to build Silverlight applications. Here are the most useful resources I've found this week: 0. The Documentation Silverlight alpha documentation and samples Read More...
Posted Friday, May 11, 2007 1:10 PM by robburke | 9 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 | 4 Comments
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