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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.

Nice CSS step by step tutorial from Web Page Design For Designers. Simple and efficient for newbies.

AJAX is really the cool thing in for developers and here we go with an online calendar Kiko

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)

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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.

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.

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.

If you are looking for a .Net job (contract or permanent) in Ireland I recommend you visit www.developers.ie