May 1, 2009
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On Thursday 23rd April I ventured out to the iPhone developer conference DevDays 2009 which was organised by the Digital Media Forum and Create Ireland. This was to be my first view of Apple from a development viewpoint and wanted to share my musings on the subject.
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Bear in mind my background approaching this – I [...]
March 9, 2009
Three of us from SmartCube went to FOWA on friday and really enjoyed it. The day started Well with Ryan Carson giving tips for new businesses based on his experience. One or two points were surprizing, such as the fact that putting free on your site can put users off! Among the highlights were Simon Willison, [...]
March 5, 2009
Really looking forward to going to the Future of Web Apps event tomorrow. Have heard great things about the previous events held in other countries.
Some great speakers including David Heinemeier Hansson from 37signals and Blaine Cook who worked on twitter… should be good place to get some tips.
See you there!?
November 28, 2008
We missed out on a golden spider last Thursday night - the winner in our category was Litriocht. Big congrats to them, the site looks great and its certainly something new. Commiserations to the other submissions in our category:
www.blueface.ie
www.emissionzero.ie
www.manna.ie
www.mattress.ie
www.solocheck.ie
www.styleplus.ieÂ
Some great sites.
We had a good time and met some great people, the Trocraire gang and Look West [...]
November 7, 2008
We attended an event in Dublin last night organised by Microsoft. They were launching a new program called BizSpark to support start-up tech companies. Basically you get the Visual Studio tools, SQL, MSDN free for three years if you are approved. You also get good reductions from their business partners on the program - Dell, [...]