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Craig Murphy

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• Good swag? What is it? What are your favourite swaggy items?

  Posted: 07 May 2009 at 10:00 by Craig Murphy

  Swag: that stuff given away at IT Pro and Developer conferences. Swag is typically the free stuff that conference organisers give away “willy nilly”. Expensive prizes may also be referred to as swag, but you may have to work for them (answer questions) or simply be lucky (name drawn out of a “hat”) But [...]

• Programming Challenge - Original Pascal Submission

  Posted: 17 Apr 2009 at 22:35 by Craig Murphy

  Earlier this week I set a Programming Challenge using an example from my first year in academia. So far it has attracted 60 or so comments and solutions! I’m particularly impressed with the range of languages that have been used. Regular day-to-day offerings in C# are there, C# with LINQ, PowerShell and VBScript. [...]

• Fancy a free Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer?

  Posted: 16 Apr 2009 at 07:02 by Craig Murphy

  Colin Mackay invites you to blog about DDD Scotland in exchange for a local delicacy: A Tunnock’s Caramel Wafer* to anyone who blogs about Developer Day Scotland between now and 20th April 2009. You must send me a link to the blog post and the prize can be collected only at Developer Day Scotland on 2nd [...]

• Zurich - June 29 - July 3 - WCF Master Class with Juval Löwy

  Posted: 15 Apr 2009 at 07:54 by Craig Murphy

  What: WCF Master Class with Juval Löwy (English) http://www.idesign.net/idesign/DesktopDefault.aspx When: June 29 - July 3, 2009 Where: Zurich, Switzerland (here, to be exact!) IDesign and John F. Martin present Master WCF in five intense days with Juval Löwy covering WCF programming, design guidelines, pitfalls, original techniques and best practices. You will see how to take advantage of built-in features such as service [...]

• Programming Challenge!

  Posted: 13 Apr 2009 at 13:24 by Craig Murphy

  Twenty years ago, during my first year in academia, my Pascal tutor set us some top-notch assignments. Your mission: Write a program which draws a diamond of the form illustrated below. The letter which is to appear at the widest point of the figure (E in the example) is to be specified as input [...]

• UK - April 18th - WebDD @ TVP

  Posted: 30 Mar 2009 at 00:41 by Craig Murphy

  What: WebDD’09 - With all the latest stuff from MIX 09 Microsoft’s annual MIX event is where they reveal their future strategy & technology - what’s happening with Silverlight, Expression, Live, MSN and advertising. If you are unable to go then we’ve timed WebDD’09 so we get the latest juice - some of the speakers will be at [...]

• C# Lists, updated to use LINQ

  Posted: 29 Mar 2009 at 23:06 by Craig Murphy

  During 2006 I wrote a post about C# Lists. Of course, technology moves on, C# is no exception to that rule. Whilst the examples I used in the 2006 blog entry still work today, LINQ heralds further levels of elegance and reduced the number of lines of code required to achieve the same results. Here are [...]

• Net Developer Roles - C# 3.5, ASP.NET MVC, AGILE, TDD - East Kilbride - NetIDme Ltd.

  Posted: 20 Mar 2009 at 06:55 by Craig Murphy

  .Net Developer Roles, Competitive Salary @ NetIDme Ltd. C# 3.5, ASP.NET MVC, AGILE, TDD East Kilbride, Scotland, UK http://www.netidme.com We are looking for a number of .Net developers, both senior and junior, to join our team in Scotland,UK developing exciting products in the digital identity and communications arena. You should be happy working for a cutting edge, dynamic, [...]

• 057 - Matt Lacey on Windows Mobile…

  Posted: 11 Mar 2009 at 22:44 by Craig Murphy

  Podcast feed - subscribe here! In this show I’m talking with Matt Lacey about Windows Mobile, the devices that you might meet if you are developing for the mobile market, the challenges that present themselves and the solutions that are in place. Matt also tells us what tools we need in order to develop or [...]

• 056 - Paolo Barone on academia, XNA, Silverlight, Twitter and Windows 7

  Posted: 09 Mar 2009 at 00:32 by Craig Murphy

  Podcast feed - subscribe here! In this show, I’m joined by Microsoft Academic Evangelist Paolo Barone. We talk about Paolo’s role promoting Microsoft and .net in academia, XNA, Silverlight, Twitter and close with a chat about Windows 7. You’ll also get a chance to hear my [dreadful] attempt to close the podcast in Paolo’s [...]

• UK, London 20-24 April 2009: Windows OS Internals & Advanced Troubleshooting

  Posted: 06 Mar 2009 at 11:17 by Craig Murphy

  What: US MVP David Solomon is running a Windows OS Internals & Advanced Troubleshooting When: April 20th -24th Where: London, UK Description: A public offering of David Solomon Expert Seminar’s hands-on Windows OS Internals & Advanced Troubleshooting class is taking place in London on April 20-24. Gain a deep understanding of the internals of the core operating system components and how to [...]

• 055 - Andrew Burnett on SEO, Twitter, Talk 107

  Posted: 06 Mar 2009 at 09:02 by Craig Murphy

  Podcast feed - subscribe here! In this show, Andrew Burnett shares his experiences of Search Engine Optimisation, Twitter and radio broadcasting. Andrew’s claim to fame, or “ego stroke” as Andrew refers to it in the podcast, is appearing at the top of a list of Top 83 tweets of 2008! Twitter to implement OAuth? I mentioned Twitter [...]

• 3 * DDD - DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper!

  Posted: 05 Mar 2009 at 09:59 by Craig Murphy

  April and May 2009 are shaping up to be busy months for DeveloperDeveloperDeveloper! First up, on the 4th of April, there is DDD Belfast. With a dedicated MVC track, this promises to be a event not to be missed! The full agenda can be found here. To register (to attend), please click here. [...]

• DDD Belfast - Voting Opens!

  Posted: 12 Feb 2009 at 08:59 by Craig Murphy

  I am pleased to announce that voting for DDD Belfast is now open! Vote for the sessions that you would like to see on the agenda! http://www.developerdeveloperdeveloper.com/belfast/Users/VoteForSessions.aspx

• DDD Scotland - 2nd May 2009 - Voting Open

  Posted: 05 Feb 2009 at 20:04 by Craig Murphy

  Following the success of DDD Scotland in 2008 and the seven DDD events held in Reading, this second DDD for Scotland promises to be an amazing developer-focused event! In order to arrive at democratic agenda (for the event on 2nd May 2009), you are invited to vote for the sessions that you would like to see [...]

• [UK] SQLBits “the DDD for SQL” : Session Voting Open!

  Posted: 26 Jan 2009 at 06:58 by Craig Murphy

  SQLBits, the community conference for the SQL world needs yours help! In order to arrive at democratic agenda (for the event on 28 March 2009), you are invited to vote for the sessions that you would like to see on the day! Vote here: http://www.sqlbits.com/information/publicsessions.aspx

• Win32/Conficker.B/Downadup infections

  Posted: 20 Jan 2009 at 14:06 by Craig Murphy

  In short: make sure your system is patched for MS08-067 - use Windows Update to help you. ————————————————————————— Abstract Based on feedback Microsoft are concerned about the rise in reported infections due to the worm Win32/Conficker.B also known as “Downadup.” Though systems which have already applied the out-of-band re

• Music and comedy don’t understand politics…what are you doing on 20/01/09?

  Posted: 12 Jan 2009 at 23:35 by Craig Murphy

  To celebrate a great day in history in the greatest city in the world, the Ibbamo Trust is hosting one of the largest celebrations for the inauguration of Barack Obama as the 44th President of the United States of America. This party will have the award winning Lemar, the platinum selling N-Dubz, YolanDa Brown, DJ Ironik, [...]

• Call For Speakers: DDD Ireland “ah go on!”

  Posted: 12 Jan 2009 at 09:02 by Craig Murphy

  After Galway last year we’re taking DDD to Belfast this year and you can be involved. The call for speakers is open and awaiting your submissions. Like all DDD events there here will be NO Microsoft speakers presenting, just speakers from the [.NET] developer community; although we will have many of the Irish Developer Platform [...]

• [UK] Feb/Mar 2009 MSDN Events (inc. Professional Developers’ Day discount!)

  Posted: 12 Jan 2009 at 08:58 by Craig Murphy

  Mar 23 Microsoft Professional Developers’ Day @ DevWeek 2009 London Register for PDD before 27 February to receive the discount rate of £219 + VAT. The Professional Developers’ Day (PDD) is a Microsoft exclusive, single-day event designed to give you an early preview of Visual Studio 2010 and .NET Framework v4.0 as unveiled at the [...]