DevDays 2009 iPhone Developer Workshop

image courtesy of Apple

[SiliconRepublic] reports that On the 23rd and 24th of April, Digital Circle, in conjunction with the Digital Media Forum and Create Ireland, are holding Ireland’s first iPhone developers’ workshop in both Dublin and Belfast.

DevDays 2009 is Ireland’s first iPhone developers’ workshop, hosted by Digital Circle, in conjunction with the Digital Media Forum and Create Ireland. Catering for everyone from complete novices to experienced hands looking for some extra advice, this free event gives attendees the chance to meet iPhone developers and interact with official Apple engineers.

read more at [devdays] via [siliconrepublic]

@dubtwestival pics n’ things

I went to the Dublin Twestival (@dubwestival on twitter) last night. It’s described as a ‘festival’ of twitterers to meet, drink and chat, and to give to charity.

In fairness ‘festival’ is a bit of a stretch, the Dublin Twestival was hilarious for the pure fact that me and Phil were quite possibly the youngest people at the event, of about 120+ and had somewhat of a 30-40s singles club vibe for a while.

That said, it was good fun! Free drinks were definitely had, while they were available. It was all for a good cause, the water charity, so a couple of raffles were held…..I won twice!!! how awesome is that?!

We spent most the night just joking about how we were the youngest there, talking geek, and how the crowed seemed much more ‘normal’ than we expected.

I won a ‘vibrating directors chair’ and a normal wooden directors chair – carrying them home, in addition to my bag which was already overladen with two laptops (my new laptop was delivered to work a couple of hours earlier), after having a few drinks, was…interesting!

Met a couple good people too: @redmum @martharotter @qhussain @kevin_noonan

Heres a few pics I took with my blackberry (not an iphone!! )

Dublin Twestival – Thurs 12th Feb

The Twestival is a global twitter community initiative to get twitterers to meet face to face and to donate to charity.

The Dublin Twestival will be held at 6pm on Thursday 12^th February 2009 at the Sycamore Club which has a max capacity of 250 people and free WIFI ‘natch.

The official Dublin Twestival blog mentions that there is no dress code, but you must be an active Twitter user.

More info at the [official Dublin Twestival 2009 website], you can also purchase tickets from [Amiando]

Edit: and yes, I’m going to be there

First time we’ve had Snow Balls in years!!

Somehow I’ve managed to avoid most of the weather that Ireland has been experiencing recently, whether by shere bone idle laziness or because we’re just that bit closer to the coast, snow around here has been little more than a light dusting. That was until today, that is!

Vote for Google’s St. Patricks Day Logo

Past to Present
Ireland is represented by the two chimneys of Dublin Bay which are a great symbol of Dublin, our capital city. The Luas represents the new and modern Ireland while the horse represents the famous Irish horse fairs that have been on for hundreds of years – it is a symbol of our past and future.

• Name: Kelly Kiernan
• Age: 16
• School: St. Paul’s Secondary School
• County: Dublin

Google are taking public votes for which logo it’ll display on Saint Patricks Day 2009.

The entries are from junior 1st/2nd, 3rd/4th/5th & 6th class, 1st/2nd/3rd year and transitional/5th/6th year students respectively from all over Ireland. The images are categorised by their revelant classes, and the images reflect this.

My personal favourite, shown to the right here, by Kelly Kiernan (Age 16) was in the transitional/5th/6th year section.Ironically, perhaps from a school I went to for a sum total of one day, back in days of old. Perhaps not, it’s still an awesome picture though!

vote for your favourite at [Google]