Posted in Canada, Ireland, Microsoft, Personal, Tech on Oct 22nd, 2007 6 Comments »
I have long suspected that the Irish are mad, and now I have proof.
At some point during the National Productivity Centre crunch time, I received a mail from Irene Dehaene, informing me that I’d been nominated for the Best Blogger award at the IIA and Enterprise Ireland Net Visionary awards next month.
I was overwhelmed, and [...]
Posted in Ireland, Location-based, Microsoft, Tech, Tech Events, WPF, Windows Live on Oct 8th, 2007 2 Comments »
You’d be forgiven for being surprised to find out that I haven’t yet begun my travels to Spanish-speaking parts of the world, and haven’t even dipped my toe in the water for more scuba.
Instead, I’ve been working as an independent consultant for the past few weeks, helping to complete the development of the first application [...]
Posted in Canada, Gaming and XBox, Ireland, Location-based, Microsoft, Personal, Tech, Travel on Aug 8th, 2007 16 Comments »
I’m writing this post in case anyone else out there wants to know what will happen to a European XBox 360 (in my case, from Ireland) if it’s moved to North America (in my case, Canada). [update] The story started out not particularly great, but now, a few updates later, it is significantly better. By [...]
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Gaming and XBox, Ireland, Microsoft, Personal, Tech, Tech Events, XNA on Jun 21st, 2007 10 Comments »
As part of my Last Stand demo, I showed how to integrate Nintendo’s Wiimote controller into XNA, first to navigate a butterfly around an environment by tilting and rolling the controller, and then to walk a creature across a tightrope wire by holding the Wiimote like a balancing pole.
I won’t be posting the code to [...]
Posted in Ireland, Microsoft, Moose, Personal, Research, Tech, Tech Events on Jun 8th, 2007 6 Comments »
When the XNA-fuelled fireworks were over at yesterday’s Last Stand in Dublin (literally and figuratively) I was totally lost for words. When does that ever happen?!
What I really want to say most is thank you - especially to Clare Dillon, Philip McKeown, Fergal Breen and everyone else at Microsoft, MTUG, IrishDev and beyond who made [...]
Posted in Artificial Intelligence, Ireland, Personal, Tech, Tech Events on May 22nd, 2007 11 Comments »
Talk Abstract:
By day, he helps mild-mannered developers build n-tiered architectures using .NET technologies.
But by night, the real Rob comes out. The one that works endlessly - nay, furiously - with XNA and the Microsoft Robotics Studio. And now, with backpack and camera over shoulders, he’s going freelance, making the IMTC, in fact, Rob’s Last [...]
