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Galway ICT Productivity Conference: 12th Oct for Devs, Architects, IT Professionals

The Galway ICT Productivity Conference, which will take place on Thursday October the 12th, promises top-class speakers for Developers, Architects and IT Professionals . The theme of the day is ‘Increasing Productivity through Technology,' which is looked Read More...
Posted Monday, October 02, 2006 7:00 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

Last night's ''Business Benefits of RSS'' discussion in Cork

I was one of the presenters at last night's IT@Cork Business Benefits of RSS event. Tom Raftery has posted photos and follow-up information already ! My goal was to outline the Microsoft RSS Platform, as presented last week at Mix06 by the Microsoft RSS Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 28, 2006 6:12 PM by robburke | 2 Comments

The Inimitable Irish Community

For the first half of this week, I took part in Microsoft's Connect conference, which brought together .NET community leaders and "Evangelist"-types like me from all over Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Ireland and Northern Ireland were tremendously Read More...
Posted Thursday, March 16, 2006 5:28 PM by robburke | 5 Comments

Irish Blog award winners announced, posted, blogging about it

Congratulations to the winners of the inaugural Irish Blog Awards ! The event took place in Dublin's Alexander Hotel on Saturday night, and the blogs are abuzz with reports of the evening's success. I wish I could have been there myself -- alas, I'm still Read More...
Posted Monday, March 13, 2006 5:19 PM by robburke | 1 Comments
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Some Developer Highlights from around the island this week

The Web Developer Competition, now well and truly launched, has caught the attention of bloggers including Darrell McCrone , Brian Delahunty , Damien Mulley , Kieran Lynam , and John Brennan ! It’s a sweet deal: build a website using the free Visual Web Read More...
Posted Wednesday, March 08, 2006 4:01 PM by robburke | 14 Comments

Irish Blogging Awards

Damien Mulley , organizer of the Irish Blogging Awards , kindly offered me the opportunity to take part in the judging. But bear in mind that, in true blogging style, almost two thousand people have contributed electronically to the voting! The award Read More...
Posted Tuesday, March 07, 2006 9:44 AM by robburke | 1 Comments
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Jesper Johansson on Tufte's Presenting Quantitative Information Course

Clare recently mentioned that Jesper Johansson , an exceptional Microsoft Security Technology presenter, attended a Presentation Skills course. What she didn't mention is that it was Dr Edward A Tufte 's course on presenting quantitative information. Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 11:48 AM by robburke | 0 Comments

Ireland Architect Forum 2006: Software Factories: Morrison Hotel, Dublin: 1 March

If you're an Architect in Ireland - or perhaps a Devarchitect who sits somewhere between the worlds of Architect and Senior Developer - then, first of all, you should be subscribed to Bill O'Brien's Blog , and second of all, on the 1st of March you should Read More...
Posted Wednesday, February 15, 2006 10:12 AM by robburke | 0 Comments

How can we improve the localized MSDN Flash Ireland?

In today's issue of the biweekly MSDN Flash Ireland , I took the opportunity to ask what our subscribers think about our localized newsletter. We've been using MSDN Flash Ireland to keep people informed of new developer technologies and community events. Read More...
Posted Friday, February 03, 2006 6:01 PM by robburke | 3 Comments
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Office System 2003 and the Connected Productive Enterprise - Friday breakfast seminar in Belfast

The Visual Studio Tools the Office System is going to make the development of bespoke Office solutions a whole lot easier. That's the developer perspective; but how does VSTO fit into the bigger picture of making Information Workers more productive? There's Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 24, 2006 5:01 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

John Grace at INDA on .NET build tools -- More like that!

At last night's INDA Cork meeting, I was co-presenting with local expert John Grace, who spoke with great authority and passion on .NET build tools, including Nant, FXCop, NDoc, and installers. John's a great speaker, and has over 8 years of real-world Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:40 PM by robburke | 1 Comments

WSE 3.0 talk at the INDA Cork Usergroup Meeting

Last night, I spoke about service-oriented development using Web Services and WSE 3.0 at the INDA Cork usergroup meeting. I always enjoy coming down to Cork for these presentations, and INDA Cork's Joe Gill wrote some kind words and posted some photos Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 17, 2006 12:23 PM by robburke | 0 Comments

Mix 06

IE7 WPF Windows Live mobile devices Windows Media Center Windows Vista digital identity mash-ups XBox 360 AJAX RSS Mix 06 March 20-22 in Las Vegas Designers, Developers, Decision Makers It's Web 2.0 in the flesh, baby, and it's got 'tude to spare :) Read More...
Posted Thursday, January 12, 2006 10:45 AM by robburke | 0 Comments

Irish .NET Usergroup Activities Next Week - Cork, Dublin, Limerick

January will see a number of .NET usergroup events in Ireland, some of which are listed here, on the developers.ie site . I’m going to be in Cork and Limerick next week myself, and Aiden O'Connor will be speaking in Dublin on Windows Workflow Foundation, Read More...
Posted Tuesday, January 10, 2006 10:42 AM by robburke | 3 Comments

Welcome, Dave Northey, Microsoft Ireland's new IT Pro Evangelist!

I wanted to extend a very warm welcome to Dave Northey , the newest member of Microsoft Ireland's Developer and Platform Group! Dave has been working with Microsoft in Ireland for almost ten years, and brings that wealth of experience to his new role Read More...
Posted Friday, January 06, 2006 11:43 AM by robburke | 0 Comments
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