Dublin Pubs, Nightclubs & Bars. See Our Dublin Pub Map & Pub Reviews, Prices & Many More Details. ProperPint.com!Another great mashup.one comment - would be cool to use “pints” instead of “stars”… like the old pub spy in the Sunday World ...

Thanks to everyone for a fantastic turnout at the 'Software Factories' Architect Forum on Wednesday last in Dublin. We had 90 Architects listen to Beat  (his blog has the 'why restaurants aren't run by developers story) and Ingo discuss this in some depth. As requested the slides are available to download (beware it’s a 23MB .zip file).You will have heard reference to Jack Greenfield’s book on the same subject and that’s a great way to delve deeper. The guidance automation toolkit a ...

alphaWorks : AJAX Toolkit Framework : OverviewAn IDE / toolkit for building Ajax enabled applictions, based on the Eclipse Framwork(tags: Ajax Eclipse Toolkit Framework IDE)RIFE : AboutFramework that implements the most commonly needed web features(tags: Application Framework J2EE java Open-Source programming software web webdev)origazi - All Discussionsorigazi - web 2.0 appliction allowing conferencing online(tags: Web2.0 [...] ...

It's the right of every blogger (tech bloggers or not) to be opinionated. Every one has some strong opinion or bias towards something, there's no escaping it.In the tech-blog world, there's always been one primary biased opinion (what I choose to call a religious war). Choice of programming language. Most prevalent (that I see) these days is VB.net vs C#. But if you're a .net programmer at all you lord it over java guys. And so on.Other things can cause opinions to be cited too. A common on ...

I have finally built my new workstation. And here are the photos i took while building it . the photos where takin on my Canon EOS350D, uploaded with iPhoto and iWeb, and hosted on .Mac. ...

check out this second article from the Lazy Admin (the first was enabling BITS caching , which i linked to here) showing you how to enable HTTP compression , both incomming and outgoing (your clients, from your network, request external sites to be compressed and sent to them, and, users from outside your network can request your site, compressed, to them. handy!) on ISA 2004 SP2 ...

To my readers who are residents of Ireland or Northern Ireland: 

Are you developing ASP.NET web sites using the free Visual Web Developer Express Edition?  Want to win an Xbox 360 ?  Or maybe a high-spec laptop?

Stay tuned for lots more on this... but for now, get coding, get hosted, and win free stuff ! :)

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Check out this MacWorld article showing you the guts of the new intel powered Mac mini . Very cool. still wanting one! :) ...

I'm delighted to inform you that Michael Rys is coming to Ireland next week.  He's a Program Manager for SQL Server's Query Technologies (SQL and XQuery).  He was Program Manager for many of the XML features in SQL 2000 and 2005 as well.On Wednesday the 8th, he'll be speaking at the INDA Dublin usergroup on Building Distributed Service-Oriented Database Applications using SQL 2005.  The event starts at 7:00; click the link for more information.On Friday the 10th, he'll be sp ...

I have finally recived all the parts for my Dual Opteron SFF (Small Form Factor) workstation. 2Gb ram, 2x2Gz Opteron processors, 300Gb hdd (currently only 5200RPM, but working on getting 7200RPM soon), DVD Rom drive (working on CDR/DVDR soon too) and an NVidia GeForce 6600 Graphics card, 8X AGP with 256mb ram. Very cool stuff! photos to come soon! I currently have the x64 version of the Feburary CTP build of Windows Vista, and so far so good. no problems with drivers, and everything is nice and ...

If you're into WinFX, then you've heard by now that the February CTP (Community Tech Preview) is out and about.Mike Swanson, among many others, provided the full list of links you'll need.Mike had mentioned that the there are performance improvements in this version, so I waited to write this 'til I got a chance to see for myself.  I finally got around to it, and boy, he wasn't joking.  It runs a lot smoother.Borrowed from Mike, here is the full list of links you'll need: ...

Windows LiveWindows Live Beta - what Microsoft is up to in the web 2.0 space(tags: ajax web2.0 web windows microsoft msn)Microsoft CareersMicrosoft Careers Page(tags: jobs work ireland microsoft) ...

Like a good Dallas series (just joking) the Origami project has just now entered in week 2.

Nothing really new, it's all about the places you can use this Origami device, and I think we all already know it has to be mobile.

The clip finish by a new date 9th of March, so it means that we won't probably learn nothing today about the device. I believe this will be revealed at the Cebit show in two weeks time.

Anyway check here if you are interested

 

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There are also a couple of INDA events coming up you might be interested in – Michael Rys is a member of the Microsoft SQL Server team:Mar 07 – Dublin – How to talk about Agile to your boss (Paul Browne)Mar 08 – Dublin – Building Distributed Service-Oriented DB Applications using SQL 2005 (Michael Rys)Mar 10 – Cork – Overview of SQL 2005 and a deep dive into XML and XQuery in SQL Server 2005 (Michael Rys) Check out www.developers.ie for more details and links to register (they are ...

From March to June we are running a competition for folks who want to try out the new free Visual Web Developer tool. If you haven’t already had a chance to take a look at it, you should do so! Just by downloading and registering the tool you can get access to thousands of euros worth of icon suites, royalty-free images, e-books and other resources. If you build a site and host it (there is also free hosting available), you can enter into the draw for the Xbox360s – we are giving away loa ...