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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!.
Still have to try to see if it's true.