How I learned to stop worrying... favicon.ico 2008-11-06T23:16:35.7335000-00:00 Paul Duggan ... and love the Celtic Tiger http://blog.pduggan.net/ DasBlog When Hope and History Rhyme http://blog.pduggan.net/PermaLink,guid,3a59cea3-2a14-47e8-9d3b-290244e350b3.aspx 2008-11-06T23:16:35.7330000-00:00 2008-11-06T23:16:35.7335000-00:00

I'm sure Seamus Heaney had a day like November 4th 2008 in mind when he wrote of how now and again hope and history rhyme.

Northern Ireland, South Africa, The Berlin Wall, Barack Obama

Long time no blog... http://blog.pduggan.net/PermaLink,guid,26795b38-c6fe-43d4-b73e-9557367fcae0.aspx 2008-05-26T09:04:02.9500000+01:00 2008-05-26T09:04:02.9507500+01:00

Long time no blog. Just a post to confirm I'm alive!

GMail Tip #1 http://blog.pduggan.net/PermaLink,guid,80da117d-8f1c-406e-b407-ebee34975b3d.aspx 2008-01-31T17:17:50.8798750-00:00 2008-01-31T17:17:50.8798750-00:00

If you are running two separate GMail accounts you can stay logged in to each permanently by using Firefox for one and Internet Explorer for the other.

Happy New Year - 2008 - The Year of the Rat http://blog.pduggan.net/PermaLink,guid,cf736322-931d-48fd-9fcf-c84ab3c2e8a8.aspx 2008-01-04T09:34:55.4100000-00:00 2008-01-04T09:34:55.4106250-00:00
A Very Happy New Year to all my reader(s).
2008 Rocks already!

New Years Resolution - more, longer blog entries.

 Facebook apps are quite easy http://blog.pduggan.net/PermaLink,guid,b63d513b-78aa-4f70-9c04-516505c10fb0.aspx 2007-11-14T00:24:07.8660000-00:00 2007-11-14T00:24:07.8662500-00:00
Essentially, Facebook takes your URL and puts it in an iFrame.
Anyway, I've written my first Facebook app and in fact its my blog. I am actually writing this entry inside Facebook!
More anon if anything interesting comes of it.

 Is it just me, seriously? http://blog.pduggan.net/PermaLink,guid,0946d930-88fe-459e-ab6a-a3dcfbab9511.aspx 2007-11-06T23:31:40.5660000-00:00 2007-11-06T23:32:57.2150093-00:00

Got this error four times today. Count them, one - two - three - four. Thats so far. Grist to the mill of the anti-Vista crowd. BlueScreen? More like NoScreen!

Serves me right for poking fun at the java crowd.

Some nice Irish Irony http://blog.pduggan.net/PermaLink,guid,341a955a-9d5b-45ad-a306-fc1162e59d9d.aspx 2007-11-05T21:13:17.9880000-00:00 2007-11-05T21:45:12.7856250-00:00

Did you hear the one about...?

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Joel Spolsky 2.0 http://blog.pduggan.net/PermaLink,guid,08d31b9b-a094-4197-a372-05fa312e0362.aspx 2007-11-05T21:01:51.4106250-00:00 2007-11-05T21:01:51.4106250-00:00

Seems Joel is doing a Java gig as well while he's in town! Now whats the connection between Joel and Java? Should be a lively affair.

Click here

Joel Spolsky is coming to Dublin http://blog.pduggan.net/PermaLink,guid,dc7e0304-e954-4706-b576-b152cd15ece0.aspx 2007-10-22T22:07:06.7380000+01:00 2007-10-22T22:07:06.7381250+01:00

You know you gotta go: http://worldtour.fogbugz.com/

 DotNetRocks - don't walk, run! http://blog.pduggan.net/PermaLink,guid,b684f670-3311-46a9-bf02-1e4b5158ebec.aspx 2007-09-18T11:39:33.0000000+01:00 2007-11-06T23:37:26.9373869-00:00
If you are a software developer earning even part of your living working with Microsoft .NET, or even if you just do it for fun, and you don't listen to DotNetRocks podcasts, start running, not walking, in the direction of DotNetRocks now!
Hosts Carl Franklin and Richard Campbell deliver highly professional, humorous and educational shows.
You can download from the site or, my preferred method, subscribe in iTunes.
A perfect complement to HanselMinutes
 
P.S. Note to self - Check out DNRTV from the same stable when I get some time.
 
Update 06/11/2007
Don't subscribe in the iTunes library itself - you'll only get the last twenty episodes. Rather, grab the RSS feed from the DotNetRocks site and then subscribe using the Advanced menu option in iTunes. That way you can see all the shows.
Amazon EC2 is the business http://blog.pduggan.net/PermaLink,guid,14175791-cb98-4d22-b197-a47145e73621.aspx 2007-09-17T21:06:45.0000000+01:00 2008-01-07T21:16:27.0981250-00:00
I have been playing on and off with Amazon EC2 for some time now, having been lucky enough in the first place to get an account. I originally had an Amazon AWS account for S3, the storage part of the service. Hence the lucky bit -- getting an invite for EC2 -- the elastic compute cloud.
For me it has been a highly educational experience, coming from a Windows background. It gives me a remote linux workstation to play around on with plenty of storage and bandwidth available.
Install Apache? No probs.
Install MySQL? No probs.
OpenOffice? Easy.
All in all an interesting experience. Not free though, you pay by the hour and it can add up over time.
Well worth checking out.
I am planning a blog post showing how to get Ubuntu up and running and then connecting to the server using VNC. I've done it a few times and I know it would be of interest to a lot of people.
As ever... Stay tuned.
 
Update:
Here's a very cool link on this topic.
This is a test of blogging from GMail http://blog.pduggan.net/PermaLink,guid,025ed263-25a4-441b-92f5-e3c7d7f2b89f.aspx 2007-09-17T12:25:08.0000000+01:00 2007-09-17T12:32:44.1646250+01:00
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