Archive for November, 2007
TechEd / MSP talk, IT Sligo.
Posted by: | CommentsThe talk went well today. Nice mixture of both students and lecturers turned up and it was wonderful to get the experience of speaking to a group like that. I hope to eventually end up lecturing in some capacity or other and so I really did value the opportunity to cut my teeth so to speak.
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I covered all areas promised, TechEd itself, The key technologies that I looked at during TechEd week and some that I didn’t. Then I went on to speak about the Microsoft student partner programme (MSP), what it is, what it means, what it’s all about etc. I finished up by talking about opportunities at MS for graduates.
Really I guess it was three talks in one and in an ideal world I would have split them up. But people are busy and have commitments so I condensed as much into this as possible. One talk is better than no talk.
I have uploaded my slides to Skydrive, you can download them here.
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IT Talk
Posted by: | CommentsAfter my recent trip to Barcelona and TechEd, I shall be giving a talk at the I.T. on Tuesday in c1004 at 1pm.
I shall use the opportunity to discuss new technologies, coming technologies, The Microsoft Student partnership (MSP) etc. In the interest of efficiency, I will focus on technologies that are of interest to us as students and lecturers at IT Sligo. I will touch briefly on some areas while I may get a bit more in depth in others. The talk is open to lecturers and computing students or anyone that has an interest in computing.
I shall make my slides available via this blog after the event. A brief outline of the talk is as follows. This is a rough guide and subject to minor changes.
1. Welcome / Introduction
2. TechEd
The event
The sponsors
3. Key Technologies
VS2008 (VSTS)
IIS7
WPF/Xaml
Silverlight
Expression Suite
Popfly
3.1 BT SDK
Make phones ring
Answer phones (Menu’s, Conference)
Send/receive text to app
4. Future technologies
Software+ Services
SQL Server 2008
Windows Live
Virtual Earth
5. Student Partner Programme
About / History / Future
Personal story
Opportunities for students
MS internships/Graduate programmes
MS Research
6. Re-cap
7. Q&A
As the rally leaves
Posted by: | CommentsI walked out of the college on Thursday and I kid you not, there was 7 (that I counted) helicopters in the air with another 3 hovering at about 10 feet on the GAA pitch. Whichever way you look at it, it was dam exciting and the noise was huge.
Our college as you may or may not know, was the base for the rally, all the garages and teams were set up there and so we had wonderful access all week to walk around and see the spectacle. The Citroen and Subaru garages were sights to behold, Their catering tents alone were impressive.
It’s a great feeling to be walking into the college of a morning and on your was you pass a Citoren rally car with Loeb/Elana written on the side. I’d love to have taken a few pictures but I kept forgetting my camera. Never mind, there will be a glut of pics all over the web. Here is a good a place to start as any – http://www.rallyireland.org
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Thanks to Padraig Ryan for this link to Rally photos on Flickr.
Present arms
Posted by: | CommentsNow that I am back at school (boy have I some serious catching up to do), I have spoken to one or two lecturers and we agree that it would be most beneficial to do a quick presentation to some students and some of the lecturers on the whole TechEd experience. I plan to put together a quick slide or two about TechEd, Microsoft, where they are going in terms of future technologies and policies, and perhaps talk about some of the cool (wow factor) experiences and demos I saw last week. I’ll keep you posted as to who this goes, may try and get a snap or two also.
Present arms
Posted by: | CommentsNow that I am back at school (boy have I some serious catching up to do), I have spoken to one or two lecturers and we agree that it would be most beneficial to do a quick presentation to some students and some of the lecturers on the whole TechEd experience. I plan to put together a quick slide or two about TechEd, Microsoft, where they are going in terms of future technologies and policies, and perhaps talk about some of the cool (wow factor) experiences and demos I saw last week. I’ll keep you posted as to who this goes, may try and get a snap or two also.
Sal
Posted by: | Comments Here’s a few great pictures of the one and only Sal the wonder dog, my famous and by now infamous Labrador. Gallery here
The day after the week before
Posted by: | Commentsand so for me TechEd is all over. It’s saturday afternoon and time to reflect and catch up on some normality. Was a great week and I’m grateful for it. So what now, lets see . . . .tap tap tap; laundry, vacuuming, feed the dog, get the fire lit. aah its good to be home.
I gotta get back into study mode now also. We have an essay to write on organizational culture. I had done a bit of research in the library the week before Barcelona so I’d better get started on that. 
Music
Posted by: | Comments| For those of you who have an interest in music, I’m a musician, singer/songwriter. I have had commercial aiprplay and am a member of IMRO. I’d appreciate it if you’d listen to a few of my tracks and throw me some feedback (be as critical as you wish). Click on my songs folder |
The day after the week before
Posted by: | Commentsand so for me TechEd is all over. It’s saturday afternoon and time to reflect and catch up on some normality. Was a great week and I’m grateful for it. So what now, lets see . . . .tap tap tap; laundry, vacuuming, feed the dog, get the fire lit. aah its good to be home.
I gotta get back into study mode now also. We have an essay to write on organizational culture. I had done a bit of research in the library the week before Barcelona so I’d better get started on that.
Student partners interview
Posted by: | CommentsThe MSPP is an award-recognised program for students who are passionate about technology and who are active in student communities. Jennifer Perret, Caroline Phillips & Pascal Kuyten, MSPP, discuss the program and what MSPs are doing at TechEd Developers 2007. See here
