Archives
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MVPs to get early peek at Office 12
Some rumors around about MVPs having a Beta copy of Office 12 in their goodies bag?
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4 Google tricks
Again by Pete Freitag this time about Google search tips:
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20 CSS Tips and tricks
A good compilation of different tips by Pete Freitag:
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Next gen web application
If you want an idea about Web 2.0 applications, check Writely, an online collaborative word processor (still in Beta).
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Cool gadget for Ipods podcasters
Check this new mike by Belkin to plug directly on top of your Ipod. Great for podcasts, I presume.
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Galway meeting... the video
You can now check by yourself the excellent lecture done by Kieran Lynam last Friday on ASP.Net 2.0 (apologies for the medium quality, I am still working on it, but hey it’s watchable and the sound is ok. NOTE: if you know a free tool to change the video brightness and contrast, let me know)
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Galway feedback and my new toy
This post is dedicated to my good friend Tiernan, which I am sure will be dead jealous when he will read this post :-)
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Internet Explorer Developer Toolbar Beta
Woow, this come as a main tool for IE. I get the same kind for Firefox, but in Internet Explore even better.
This is a screen grab of one of my current project. You can see the ruler, it’s really well done just darg and rop to take any measure. The red lines are to indicate the cells in tables, and the I also askk to show the size of each image. You can really show a huge amount of information. My gosh whay we can’t have this nifty tool two or three years ago!
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Put a book in your pocket
I know we are living in a hi tech world but many times it’s really convenient to have some printouts we can carry everywhere.
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Atlas architecture
This post presents a high level overview of whats in Atlas today, along with the architecture diagram from a PDC session.
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Ajax article
Interesting reading on Ajax written by Vishwas Lele
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Do you know Baidu?
If no read this interesting inside thought on Baidu, the most popular search engine in...China.
Yes Google is not as people think a dominant force everywhere. It seems that the question of Google buying will raise some issues and seems unlikely. Western culture is not an all advantage in the Asia. -
Is IE 7 a Firefox Killer?
This is an interesting thought by Preston Gralla on O'Reilly.
Nobody knows really the answer yet, but if Microsoft can release IE7 quickly, including all the promises made to keep it more compliamt with the standards, and also ioncluding the cool new stuff like the thumbnails views and the tabbing, yes it should at least keep the standard user at home.
The big question is to see if IE 7 as it was showed at the PDC will be fully powered only byVista and not with XP?
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Microsoft embrace open source ?
"MPI is key middleware that was designed by a consortia of all the supercomputing vendors in the 1990s to allow the easy portability of code. It abstracts away things like low-latency interconnect, and our focus is making it super easy for ISVs to move their code," Kyril Faenov, Microsoft's director for High Performance Computing, told eWEEK in a recent interview at Microsoft's campus in Redmond, Wash.
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Sparkle make sense of Avalon
Now Avalon sorry WPF make sense with Sparkle. If you still don’t know what is Sparkle check urgently this video on Channel 9.
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Does AJAX can help me there?
It has been a while since I published some screen grabs of some of my professional projects (you know the one you do to pay your mortgage).
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Xbox 360 - launch dates official
22 November in the U.S., 2nd of December in Europe, and 10th of December in Japan
Read more
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Bindows
No it's not a typo it's really Bindows ( I guess an armada of faithful Microsoft lawyers are on their way to their office by now).
Bindows using AJAX is an api to let you running desktop applications in a webpage. But hey at an heavy cost of 695$!
The Bindows™ Framework provides you with:
- A class based, Object Oriented API
- A complete windowing system with a wide array of supported widgets including menus, forms, grids, sliders, gauges and more.
- The leading toolkit for developing zero-footprint SOA client-side applications.
- Native XML, SOAP and XML-RPC support
- Single user to enterprise level support.
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MAX just tested hmmm
MAX is usely a good idea of what you can do in some future applications. But the glitch I found with MAX is the way to share my galleries by email.
If my granny who has just understood the principles of email, has to painfully download a bloated WinFX (took me a long time to get it on my machine even with broadband) I say sorry no, bye bye MAX.
In my opinion Picasa is more useful.
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New Microsoft Gadgets site
Apparently the speaker in the keynote yesterday got wrong the address of the new website dedicated to the cool gadgets for Vista sidebar.
This is the right one
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NEW: Google Blogs Search
What search operators are supported?
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VISTA Demo now live
I am following like many the PDC keynote and the VISTA demo is very cool.
Surely what I see there is not n Beta 1 (Sidear, 3d view, etc...) Now the UI start to make a diference with Windows XP. I wonder wha machine specs they use fo the demo.
So now in the Sidebar you can implement 'gadgets' and not 'widgets' :-)
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Bill Gates Keynote today at the PDC - What is the right time?
Some confusion on the time for Bill Gates Keynote.
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Office 12 pictures
If you are curious about the new soon-to-be release Office 12, check this link.
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Orcas already in sight
We are still waiting for the release of Visual Studio 2005 and already we are teased with next release Orcas (sometime around 2007).
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SmartPart version 1.1
I am starting a new Sharepoint project soon, so this is more than welcome.
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Intellisense for SQL
Damn, I was quite sure Intellisense was part of the new SQL 2005 release. Seems to have been forgotten in the release?
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So what will be revealed at the PDC?
Apparently some news about Visual .Net 9.0, .Net Query language. Read this interesting article on InfoWorld to know more.
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First Ipod Nano fan website
Some people aren’t sleeping at all. Check this first dedicated Ipod Nano website :-)
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New Vista screenshots ...
It seems that some people believe that Microsoft will release a Beat 2 at the PDC. Well I can’t talk for Microsoft, but I doubt it.
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Vint Cerf join Google
Seems to be a small news but I think for Google it’s a big step, taking on board one of the Internet pioneer, Vint Cerf.
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INDA Conference - Treasure Chest
You still have time to enter our competition to win the Treasure Chest INDA organise for its first birthday conference.
The questionnaire has been sent to a lot of people and the list of prizes winners will share start to be impressive: -
VISTA multiple versions
Look like Microsoft marketing did it again! They like to confuse everything and everybody. Now after the multiple Visual Studio releases, we have now the multiple Vista versions :-(
Why making things simple when you can make it complicated ? No less than 7 versions. Microsoft guys, can't you just ditch some and give us only 2 or 3?
As a geek, of course my choice will go for Vista Ultimate. And what's going on with the basic version? How somebody can decide for a user that he can launch only 3 applications with the Starter version?
If it's true, what define an application? This is silly, look like April's fool (well with Microsoft you never know) and won't work at all!
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VS 2005 RC for MSDN subscribers but...
OK happy members of the MSDN cult, you can now download VS 2005 RC but but read carefully!
Apparently no Go Live licence with this release, and more confusingly it's the Team System version.
What's going on? I was sure to read that VS 2005 Team System was not ready yet and need another Beta?
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Javascript library
I think I see a lot of cool Javascript scripts since years, but searching for a specific script, I found this amazing Javascript library, a sum of everything you really need for your client side scripts.
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INDA Dublin - Sharepoint lecture by Mark Andrews and Tiernan O'Toole - 11th of October
Start Time: 11th of October – 19:00 – Location: INDA Dublin - venue TBC
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NEW - Inda Membership Card
I announced at our last meeting the launch of a new INDA Membership card.
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Last meeting in Dublin - ASP.Net 2.0 - slides, audio and code available
Thanks to Kieran Lynam for a great session last Tuesday about ASP.Net 2.0
Now all INDA members can have access to the audio recording, and download the slides and the code.
I can tell you the code is really a great start if you want to know more about ASP.Net 2.0
Don't forget, if you missed this lecture, you have still a chance to see again Kieran in Galway on the same subject. Register here
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Steve Ballmer in Dublin
Great! The Irish Developers Community get the kudos by Steve Ballmer, Microsoft CEO who will visit Ireland on the 7th of October.
To mark the event Microsoft Ireland host a full MSDN day event.
Steve will be giving the keynote session for this event which will feature presentations on Security, SQL Server 2005 and Microsoft Visual Studio 2005 Tools for the Microsoft Office System.
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PDC next week - Irish bloggers
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Firefox 1.5 Beta 1 out
The first beta release of Firefox 1.5 . The new Firefox features improved popup blocking, drag-and-drop tab shuffling, SVG support, a feature that will delete private data with a keyboard shortcut, a "Report a broken Web site wizard," faster Back/Forward action, and more. Also included are lots of bugfixes and security updates.
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10 little known CSS tricks
Cool stuff, help me for one project, ten tips you know or you don’t know.
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New Ipod? Yes - Introducing the Ipod Nano - Ipod phone? Yes - ROKR
Steve Jobs keynote has just started in San Francisco and something will be announced becuse the apple Store has just closed for an hour.
I am such a kid, every year I got trapped by those peky keynotes (since well something like 1981!) -
Rich AJAX Internet applications
This is what claims BackBase and I admit it looks really like some Flash applications.
Amazing UI!
The BackBase Community Edition is available for free and consists of a set of Javascript files to start with thier APIs.
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Pair programming
Extreme XP? Order this cool funiture (surely a piece of art in few years) :-)
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Why Good Programmers Are Lazy and Dumb
Lazy, because only lazy programmers will want to write the kind of tools that might replace them in the end. Lazy, because only a lazy programmer will avoid writing monotonous, repetitive code – thus avoiding redundancy, the enemy of software maintenance and flexible refactoring. Mostly, the tools and processes that come out of this endeavor fired by laziness will speed up the production.
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25 SQL Commandments
Here Suresh Aiyer shows how to write efficient SQL statements, some kind of coding practices. Even if it's targeted for Oracle, it can of course be applied for SQL Server.
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30 second AJAX Tutorial
Is AJAX so complicated ? In this post a bloke try to demonstrate how to implement AJAX in 30 seconds!.
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Comparison of different SQL implementations
I was looking for something like that recently for a small project to see if my SQL Server database could move smoothly to Oracle, and yes does the job by compring all the differences between various SQL implementations (SQL Server, Oracle, MySQL, etc...).
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INDA meeting tonight with Kieran Lynam
Don’t forget our user group meeting tonight in Dublin. Regarding the Library, I added two new books offered generously by Microsoft Ireland, Software Factories and Patterns&practices.
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CSS tutorial
Nice CSS step by step tutorial from Web Page Design For Designers. Simple and efficient for newbies.
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Another AJAX goodie this time an online calendar
AJAX is really the cool thing in for developers and here we go with an online calendar Kiko
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First AJAX Instant Messenger
ajax im ("asynchronous javascript and xml instant messenger") is a browser-based instant messaging client. It uses the XMLHTTPRequest object in JavaScript to send and receive commands to and from the server. No refreshing of the page is ever needed for this "web application" to work, as everything is updated in real-time via JavaScript.
Pretty basic at the moment but good idea anyway to demonstrate the feature. Strange enough works only with Firefox and Safari and not Internet Explorer ?? (They reject the blame on IE for some Javascript incompatibility; I don't understand really why but I am sure it's easy to fix)
Download (zip file)
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INDA is an all Ireland group !
As INDA community leaders, we were all happy to meet yesterday in Kilkenny and you can see it clearly on the picture :-)
Thanks to (from left to right): Mike Hughes (INDA Galway), Brian Delahunty (INDA South East) Joe Gill (INDA Cork) (an indeed myself from INDA Dublin (behind the camera) for a great session where we exchanged some cool ideas for the members of our growing Irish .Net community. -
Google Adsense hmm..
I am not really convinced by putting ads to a community site, but hey I decide to give a try on Developers.ie at least on few sections.
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INDA 1st Birthday Conference - The Treasure Chest first prizes !
INDA Conference - Invitation:
I invite you to join us in celebration of INDA's first birthday. To mark the end of the first year for INDA, we have organised a day long conference on 'Exploring cutting edge development in .Net Technologies' open to all developers with an interest in .NET. -
.Net jobs offers
If you are looking for a .Net job (contract or permanent) in Ireland I recommend you visit www.developers.ie
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[ANNOUNCEMENT] - INDA Special Guest - Robert Scoble
