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.NET (8)

Date	Title
2010-10-29	Validate email address in VB.net
2010-09-15	Insert copyright symbol into VB Code
2010-08-10	ASP.NET Response.Redirect to new window
2010-04-28	Making a tag cloud in ASP.NET
2010-04-13	ASP.NET Server control for rounded corners
2010-03-10	Configuring DCOM for outputting to XL from ASP...using a batch file
2010-03-05	Configuring DCOM for outputting to XL from ASP
2010-02-13	Documenting .NET code

AdSense (2)

Date	Title
2010-12-06	Adding AdSense to BlogEngine.net - Part 2
2010-02-12	Adding AdSense to BlogEngine.net

Android (9)

Date	Title
2011-10-07	RADDroid
2011-07-02	Basic4Android
2011-05-30	All about Android podcast
2011-04-12	Mono for Android
2011-01-30	Smartphones in the enterprise
2011-01-30	Android Developer Tips
2011-01-03	NSBasic App Studio for VB developers
2010-12-20	Android Development Course for Beginners
2010-12-12	Getting started with Android Development

Art (2)

Date	Title
2010-05-11	Modern Masters
2010-04-29	Simon Schama's Power of art

BlogEngine.NET (9)

Date	Title
2010-12-01	Adding “AddThis” links to BlogEngine.net
2010-03-10	Configuring blogengine email alerts for comments etc
2010-03-04	How do I Extend Blogengine.Net to collect statistics of visitors?
2010-02-25	Using Windows Live Writer with BlogEngine.Net
2010-02-24	Creating customised themes for BlogEngine.Net
2010-02-24	Creating an RSS feed with comments only from BlogEngine.Net
2010-02-12	BlogEngine.NET extension SEO pack
2010-02-12	BlogEngine.NET SEO
2010-02-09	Configuring blogengine email alerts for comments etc

Books (4)

Date	Title
2011-07-03	Top 10 historical novels according to Andrew Millar
2011-06-14	The 100 greatest non-fiction books (Guardian.co.uk)
2011-05-18	Top Technology Tomes
2011-03-01	Trinity Secondhand book sale

Business (2)

Date	Title
2010-04-28	Advice on starting a small business in Ireland
2010-03-01	BizStartup.ie: Business Start-up site

CSS (7)

Date	Title
2011-12-11	WebPutty–CSS editing and hosting service…
2010-12-06	JavaScript Versus CSS3
2010-07-29	Google Font API
2010-07-01	CSS Frameworks
2010-06-21	Creating CSS Buttons using an icon set
2010-06-21	CSS Buttons
2010-03-10	CSS References, Tutorials, Cheat Sheets, Conversion Tables and Short Codes

Data Visualisation (2)

Date	Title
2010-12-05	New Data Visualization Website
2010-03-02	Improving data visualisation

Databases (3)

Date	Title
2011-01-16	Why Twitter moved to NoSQL
2010-11-30	Free eBook: Database Fundamentals
2010-05-23	NoSQL movement

Design (1)

Date	Title
2011-01-06	Dieter Rams and Apple

Events (1)

Date	Title
2011-09-25	Innovation Dublin 2011

Gardening (7)

Date	Title
2011-09-25	NHS plant finder
2011-05-05	Guardian Green Shoots Photos
2010-03-22	New Irish online gardening store
2010-02-27	Inish Beg island estate
2010-02-26	New gardening series from Monty Don
2010-02-12	Landscape Gardening Course
2010-02-10	Juan Grimm

History (6)

Date	Title
2011-12-06	Irish Treaty Negotiations: British Pathé Treaty newsreel
2010-03-23	Search engine collects historical resources
2010-02-25	Albrecht Durer: Irish Soldiers and Peasants
2010-02-20	Rare footage of JFK
2010-02-20	The Chieftains: San Patricio
2010-02-16	Daniel Ellsberg and the Pentagon Papers

HTML (1)

Date	Title
2011-02-09	Free HTML Email Templates from Mail Chimp

HTML5 (5)

Date	Title
2011-12-11	Learning HTML5
2011-11-29	HTML5 in 5…by Addy Osmani
2010-12-05	HTML5 Templates
2010-04-07	HTML5 killed the Flash star? (Part 2)
2010-02-26	HTML5 killed the Flash star? (Part 1)

Humour (1)

Date	Title
2011-01-03	Where’s the “Any” Key?

Ideas (5)

Date	Title
2012-01-08	Marshall McLuhan
2012-01-08	Edge
2010-07-30	Grant Scheme - Cultural Technology – 2010
2010-07-29	Open source asp.net social network apps
2010-02-22	Your Country Your Call

IIS (7)

Date	Title
2011-12-11	HTTP Error 404.3 - Not Found
2011-01-13	Setting up IP Address restrictions on IIS7
2010-11-29	Creating and Configuring Web Sites in Windows Server 2003
2010-04-02	IIS Host header names
2010-03-04	Getting around limitations of IIS 5.1
2010-02-18	Configuring SMTP on IIS 5.1
2010-02-18	Testing SMTP on IIS 5.1

Irish Diaspora (3)

Date	Title
2011-09-11	Jim Dwyer on 'About New York'
2011-03-06	Monsignor Hugh O’ Flaherty
2011-03-06	Sir Hans Sloane

iPhone (0)

Date	Title

JET SQL (1)

Date	Title
2010-07-08	Jet SQL Data Types

jQuery (4)

Date	Title
2010-08-12	Mastering jQuery
2010-03-10	25 Tutorials and Resources for Learning jQuery UI
2010-02-19	jQuery Plugins
2010-02-11	jQuery Essentials Presentation

Mobile Development (14)

Date	Title
2011-02-11	The death of Nokia
2010-12-11	Create mobile apps without SDKs (Part 2)
2010-11-17	Which mobile platform should I develop on?
2010-11-17	Visual Basic Community Technology Preview for Windows Phone 7
2010-11-16	Create mobile apps without SDKs
2010-11-16	Nokia to focus solely on Qt
2010-07-16	Stanford iPhone Application Development
2010-05-18	iPhone Programming Course for Beginners
2010-05-16	Symbian Developer Tools for Web Developers
2010-05-16	Simon Judge Mobile Development Primer
2010-03-02	Nokia Process Guidelines
2010-02-25	Wholesale Applications Community
2010-02-24	NetSize Guide for 2010
2010-02-24	Gartner phone sale stats for 2009

Movies (14)

Date	Title
2011-10-15	Midnight in Paris
2011-09-10	The Story of Film
2011-09-05	Carlos The Jackal Trilogy…A must see
2011-08-01	A short history of French cinema (Guardian.co.uk)
2011-05-22	The Adventures of Tintin: The Secret of the Unicorn
2011-04-17	Adele Blanc-Sec
2011-02-28	The Battle of Algiers
2011-02-15	Hammer Horror in Donegal…Wake wood
2010-12-28	A Fistful of Dynamite…in Dublin?
2010-12-28	It’s a wonderful life
2010-03-03	Shutter Island Trailer
2010-02-27	Flyover scene from Invictus
2010-02-23	MicMacs
2010-02-22	Jean Pierre Jeunet New Movie: Mic Macs

Music (40)

Date	Title
2011-12-18	Maria Callas - L'amour est un oiseau rebelle - Habanera - Carmen - Bizet
2011-11-13	massive attack vs burial 'four walls'
2011-10-07	Rostropovich Bach Cello Suite No.1 Prelude
2011-09-29	Sub Focus
2011-09-25	Frànçois & The Atlas Mountains - Piscine
2011-06-29	Björk - Crystalline
2011-05-09	High Contrast - Now You Say You Love Me
2011-05-02	Death Cab for Cutie - You Are A Tourist
2011-04-18	Radiohead's Record Store Day songs 'Supercollider' and 'The Butcher'
2011-03-25	Beach House - 10 Mile Stereo
2011-02-28	Hand Covers Bruise (HD) - From "The Social Network" OST
2011-02-27	And So I Watch You From Afar - A Little Solidarity Goes A Long Way
2011-02-16	Radiohead new album: The King of Limbs
2011-02-09	The Naked and Famous – Punching In A Dream
2010-12-06	Embedding BBC iPlayer Program
2010-12-03	Warpaint - Undertow
2010-11-11	Daft Punk - Tron Soundtrack
2010-11-02	Gotan Project - Triptico
2010-11-02	Magnetic Man- Flying into Tokyo
2010-09-20	September Play List
2010-05-28	Florence and the Machine: Drum Song
2010-05-11	Gorillaz - Plastic Beach Orchestral Trailer (HD)
2010-04-29	Boards Of Canada - Dayvan Cowboy
2010-04-01	Rules Don't Stop
2010-04-01	Alexisonfire - The Northern (Official Video)
2010-03-09	Gorillaz - Stylo (HD)
2010-03-08	Wild Beasts - We Still Got The Taste Dancin' On Our Tongues
2010-03-08	Wild Beasts - 'The Devil's Crayon'
2010-03-06	The Temper Trap - Sweet Disposition
2010-03-05	Foals Spanish Sahara
2010-03-03	Battles - Atlas
2010-02-26	Bullion - Are You The One?
2010-02-25	Major Lazer — Pon De Floor
2010-02-25	Them Crooked Vultures — Dead End Friends
2010-02-25	Bombay Bicycle Club - Evening/Morning Music Video
2010-02-25	Mint Royale: Singing in the Rain
2010-02-23	General Fiasco - Ever so shy
2010-02-20	The Chieftains: San Patricio
2010-02-12	Gil Scott-Heron - "Me And The Devil" **OFFICIAL HD VIDEO**
2010-02-12	Jonsi - "Go Do" official video

News (12)

Date	Title
2011-12-23	Ireland needs to consider Argentina for a sense of perspective
2011-11-02	Steve Jobs cartoon in New Yorker… :)
2011-10-16	Dennis M. Ritchie R.I.P.
2011-10-07	Steve Jobs R.I.P.
2011-09-25	Cry of the Curlew
2011-05-27	EU Cookies Directive
2010-12-21	Ireland Under Snow
2010-12-10	Guardian Tech Weekly in Dublin
2010-12-09	Guardian Tech In Ireland
2010-12-03	More snow for Dublin
2010-03-03	Guardian API
2010-03-03	TechCentral.ie

Photography (10)

Date	Title
2011-04-29	Alejandro Chaskielberg
2011-04-17	Robert Capa Movie
2010-12-09	Barcelona When The Pope Comes to Town
2010-11-26	Ards Forest Park, November 2010
2010-05-24	Robert King
2010-04-21	Winter sunshine on Ards Forest Park Beach
2010-04-05	Earth Hour: Images from around the world
2010-03-22	Isabella Beach, Ards, Co. Donegal
2010-03-08	Robert Capa Biography
2010-03-07	Quinault by Yoshihiko Ueda

Poetry (5)

Date	Title
2011-10-10	A Psalm of Life - Henry Wadsworth Longfellow (1807-1882)
2010-12-28	Prospice
2010-06-27	Requiem: Anna Akhmatov
2010-05-31	The Good-Morrow by John Donne
2010-05-11	Invictus

Programming (3)

Date	Title
2011-04-29	Agile Manifesto
2011-01-03	What is a Full-stack programmer?
2010-12-12	Programming IQ test: Round 1 & 2

QI (30)

Date	Title
2012-01-08	Borgesian Maths
2011-12-16	Christopher Hitchens R.I.P.
2011-11-21	Alan Turing…Britain’s Greatest Codebreaker
2011-11-14	Probably the best office in the world?
2011-11-08	Starlings over the Shannon
2011-10-25	The Century Of The Self
2011-09-11	Jim Dwyer on 'About New York'
2011-07-03	Douglas Engelbart: The Mother of All Demos
2011-06-09	All Watched Over By Machines of Loving Grace
2011-02-27	Dr. Hubert (Hubie) O’ Connor
2011-02-27	Gordon Foster
2010-12-20	Frederick Jeremiah Edwards
2010-12-12	The Atlantic Monthly
2010-11-18	Rockwell Kent in Donegal
2010-10-22	Why are fonts in MS Word?
2010-10-22	One ad, one showing...huge impact
2010-10-09	The Birth of Ideas
2010-05-31	Genius of Britain
2010-04-27	Raymond Loewy: Father of industrial design
2010-04-05	Dublin: One City, One Book
2010-04-03	Winklevoss twins in Oxford-Cambridge boat race
2010-03-15	Ulysses: Sweny’s Pharmacy
2010-03-08	Stephen Fry interview in .Net Magazine
2010-03-03	Guardian API
2010-02-28	Boston College Guide To James Joyces' Ulysses
2010-02-27	Irelantis @ Alliance Francaise
2010-02-27	Fordlandia
2010-02-26	Some cool blogs
2010-02-25	Orson Welles at the Gate Theatre
2010-02-25	IBM SmarterCity

Security (1)

Date	Title
2011-10-09	In praise of ComboFix…

SEO (4)

Date	Title
2010-02-22	SEO tool: wordstream
2010-02-12	BlogEngine.NET extension SEO pack
2010-02-12	BlogEngine.NET SEO
2010-02-12	Microsoft SEO Toolkit

SMTP (1)

Date	Title
2012-01-11	SMTP server details for Yahoo!, Gmail etc

SQL Server (49)

Date	Title
2012-01-10	Brent Ozar SQL Server Blog
2011-12-31	SQL Server index limited to max size of 900 bytes?!?
2011-12-11	SQL Server cheat sheet
2011-12-11	Portrait of the SQL Server Developer as a DBA
2011-05-09	Use Openrowset to select from Access into SQL Server
2011-03-30	Configuring SQL server files for best performance
2011-02-25	"surface area configuration…an exception occurred in SMO while trying to manage a service"
2011-02-17	More on collation
2011-02-09	Matching SQL server 2005 version to service pack
2011-02-01	SQL server 64-bit and linked servers
2011-01-14	Backing up SQL server database to a mapped network drive
2010-12-27	SQL Server Patch: Cannot delete EULA.txt
2010-12-14	SSMS Tools Pack
2010-12-07	Adventure Works for SQL Server 2008
2010-12-02	Northwind Database for SQL Server 2005 Express
2010-11-30	How to transfer the logins and the passwords between instances of SQL Server 2005 and SQL Server 2008
2010-11-18	SQL Server 2008 Developer Training Kit
2010-11-02	White circle in Management Studio
2010-10-06	Delete duplicate rows in T-SQL
2010-09-29	How can you get current stored procedure name via T-SQL?
2010-08-13	SQL Server Management Objects (SMO)
2010-07-28	Get list if users currently logged into SQL Server
2010-07-12	SQL Server 2005 Unattended Install
2010-07-06	Use T-SQL to turn on XP_CMDSHELL
2010-07-06	Raising error to jump to CATCH block
2010-07-05	Finding creation date of SQL Server user accounts
2010-05-21	SQL Search™
2010-05-21	T-SQL: Challenges
2010-05-19	Finding code in SQL Server
2010-05-13	T-SQL: Add column to a table with default value
2010-04-19	Collation, collation, collation!
2010-04-18	SQL Server Management Studio Tips
2010-04-04	Free tools for SQL Server
2010-03-31	T-SQL: Updated extended property for a table
2010-03-15	Encrypting stored procedures and functions
2010-03-15	T-SQL: Check if database exists
2010-03-09	T-SQL: SUSER_ID
2010-03-05	T-SQL datediff function
2010-03-04	Error with VIA protocol on SQL Server
2010-03-04	Using T-SQL to get comma separated list of all columns in a table
2010-03-03	Next version of SQL Server
2010-02-19	Replacing xp_cmdshell with SQLCLR
2010-02-18	Finding currently logged in user with T-SQL
2010-02-18	Using T-SQL to get database name
2010-02-18	Getting the SQL server instance name using T-SQL
2010-02-15	SQL Server dates
2010-02-12	BCP error: Unable to open BCP host data-file
2010-02-12	Exporting data from SQL Server to Access using a Linked Server
2010-02-09	Outputting from SQL server to Excel

T-SQL (6)

Date	Title
2011-12-11	'CREATE SCHEMA' must be the first statement in a query batch
2011-05-18	T-SQL: Change column type
2011-05-05	T-SQL to drop all non-system databases in SQL server instance
2011-04-22	Return All Values in a Column as a Delimited List
2011-02-25	T-SQL function to return name of log file for a database
2010-12-12	T-SQL Test

VB6 (5)

Date	Title
2010-12-02	Runtime Error 429: Activex Componenent Can’t Create Object
2010-09-17	Validate email address in VB6
2010-08-19	VB6 Code Samples
2010-06-21	VB6 versus VB.net: Differences
2010-02-18	Using Command Line Arguments in VB6

Visual Studio (1)

Date	Title
2010-04-18	Visual Studio Shortcuts

Web Development (7)

Date	Title
2011-09-05	How to create QR codes
2010-11-27	Microsoft WebMatrix
2010-06-21	Icon Set for web design
2010-05-12	Rendering fonts: Firefox versus IE
2010-03-05	Configuring DCOM for outputting to XL from ASP
2010-03-03	Guardian API
2010-02-26	HTML5 killed the Flash star? (Part 1)

Windows (6)

Date	Title
2012-01-18	How to get CLSID for an application
2011-12-19	How to partition a hard drive in Windows 7
2010-10-30	You may need to install a Directshow decoder for this audio format error
2010-07-29	Complete Windows XP Drivers for Dell Inspiron 1545
2010-04-21	Reverting to XP from Vista
2010-04-18	Error booting from CD when rolling back from Vista to XP

Uncategorized (1)

Date	Title
2010-11-30	School of Computer technology