Microsoft Research has released their WorldWide Telescope program, avaliable in the link below;

http://worldwidetelescope.org

It's pretty unreal!

Mike

Hi Guys,

I'm pleased to announce that Queens will be holding a reMIX event on Campus on November 28th, I'm calling it QuMIX which is technically not an offical name but I'm using it anyway :)

In a run up to the event date I'll be hoping to post some information about the people talking, as well as some information about what they will be talking about. The first thing I'm going to do in this blog post is point to a session done in UCC which is just 1/3 of what will be happening in Queens!

The Multi-National, Multi-Talented, Multi-Lingual, Multi-Skilled All Star lineup for the QuMIX event is:

Vincent Vergonjeanne

Martha Rotter

Liam Cronin

Schedule and Info to come!

Thanks,

Mike

One day gone already, boy where does it go!

So we only really made it to the keynote and a hand's on tutorial before spending a good 2 hours looking for our hotel, then another hour getting back to the conference centre, but there was some good bits in the keynote.

Microsoft will release VisualStudio 2008 to MSDN (should probaly include MSDNAA) at the end of this month, a good 3 months before its RTR. If you are looking to run some Javascript projects, or update a few of your existing applications to .net 3.0 then its really worth picking this up as quickly as possible. The beta 2 release was very stable, so it can only get better.

They also demo'ed some new extensibility for VisualStudio, that will allow 3rd party companies to deploy modules to visualstudio, such as the already developed World of Warcraft mod editor. Which was surprisingly well intregrated and included things you would expect from visualstudio like full Intellisense and libarys.

They also talked a bit more popfly, and showed the new popfly explorer for visualstudio.

What would you think of free .net hosting for students? With MS SQL 2005, ISS 7.0, AJAX, Project Server & Sharepoint? At no cost?

 That is what I would like to offer and with the help of Microsoft, I think we can. The benefits would be outstanding to any student developer who wants to get a taste for .net and .net with other Microsoft Technolgies.

 If you would like to see this happen then please leave a comment with something supportive and I'll compile them into my submission with Microsoft.

Thanks,

Mike

Clare Dillon has announced the join microsoft europe page with some great videos from the team of what its like to work in Microsoft.

 You can find the video's here:

http://www.joinmicrosofteurope.com

 It's proof that Microsoft is taking Ireland seriousily as a development base!