Tag: IT@Cork

  • Embedding Google Calendars

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    Spectacular! I’ve just noticed that it is possible to embed Google Calendars in a blog post or website! http://www.google.com/calendar/embed?src=irish__en%40holiday.calendar.google.com&title=Irish%20Holidays&height=614 This is going to be very useful for events like the it@cork conference, or multi-week events like the blog training course I delivered a few months back. I’m sure there are lots of other applications. What…

  • Marcio Galli's talk in Cork

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    Fair dues to Damien Mulley and it@cork for putting on a great Firefox event last night. Marcio Galli is a Consulting Software Developer at Mozilla Foundation based in Brazil. He gave a fascinating talk entitled “Talk: Read, Write, and Recycle the Web with FireFox 3“. Watch the it@cork blog for a detailed review of the…

  • Blog training course discussion area

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    Paul O’Mahony is one of the people sitting in on the Blog Training Course I am running for it@cork. Paul has been blogging for a while now and I first met him at the Irish Blog Awards earlier this year. Paul made a suggestion in the comments on his own blog that I put up:…

  • Cork – the ideal location for your IT business?

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    it@cork has published the results of its member survey. 165 members completed the survey giving a detailed insight into the how I.T. is faring in Cork. The main points are: 70% of respondents indicated that their businesses achieve average-to-excellent value from recently qualified IT graduates 30% of respondents indicated that their organisations had openings for…

  • Blog training course

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    it@cork are running another Blog Training course commencing on Wednesday May 9th. I will be giving the training and it is open to members of it@cork for a charge of €50 and to non-members for a charge of €100. The course will be run over 5 consecutive weeks on Wednesday mornings at 09:30 for an…

  • ASP.Net AJAX seminar in Cork

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    it@cork are running a half day seminar on ASP.Net AJAX on Friday March 23rd. ASP.NET AJAX is Microsoft’s free framework for creating Web 2.0 sites which are cross-browser compatible (cross-browser, yes, from Microsoft!). Speakers include author Jeff Prosise, Yagiz Erkan from DeCare and Rob Burke from Microsoft Ireland. Sign up for the event is on…

  • Salim joins Yahoo!

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    I see Salim reporting that he has started a new job with Yahoo! Congrats Salim. Salim has been hired to head up Yahoo! Brickhouse – a new semi-autonomous Yahoo! R&D house which will create new apps for Yahoo! or to be spun off. Yahoo! Pipes was a Yahoo! Brickhouse project, for example. Salim has been…

  • Podcasts for internal company communications

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    I listened to Conn’s podcast interview with Michael Byrne of QBC Ltd over the weekend. It was great. Conn and Michael are using podcasts in a very innovative way to radically improve internal company communications. I’m really looking forward to Conn’s presentation at the it@cork Podcasting for Business event tomorrow night now!