October 2007

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• Software

  Silverlight Streaming plug-in for Expression Encoder

  10.31.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  For those of you that were at Tech-Ed or at his SA Developer talk, Angus Logan demonstrated publishing Silverlight content directly into the Silverlight Streaming service cloud from inside Microsoft Expression Encoder. He has just announced that a new preview version of the plug-in is available for download along with an introduction video on how […]

• South Africa

  TWiT-or-tweet

  10.31.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Oh well it should really be called Trick-or-Treat but I couldn’t resist the play on words and the completely unrelated reference to the weekly tech podcast and Twitter.
  I’m not sure if I can relate to what Halloween really is about. As South Africans we don’t really celebrate Halloween. So much so I had to search […]

• Entertainment

  Missing Links

  10.30.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  On Saturday night my amazing girlfriend took me to dinner and the theatre to celebrate my birthday last week. We found ourselves at the Liberty Life Theatre on the Square to watch Mark Sampson’s production called Missing Links.
  I never knew what to expect and found myself laughing my head off. Mark Sampson surely knows how […]

• Development

  Expiring VS2008 beta 2 VPCs

  10.30.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Sometimes Microsoft knows how to screw things up. Not only were the Visual Studio 2008 (code-named Orcas) Beta 2 Virtual PC (VPC) images rather excessively large for the average South African developer to download and too big to fit onto a single DVD for community distribution, but now they are expiring on the 1st of […]

• Gaming

  South African Xbox 360 buyers guide

  10.26.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  With the recent announcements of the Arcade and Value bundles on the local South African gaming market I thought a buyers guide might be useful. So I’ve taken the liberty to summarise the various console offerings for those considering buying a new console and perhaps dispel a few common misconceptions about various aspects of […]

• Gaming

  Updated Xbox 360 Arcade bundle

  10.25.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Unfortunately there were errors in the press release I posted in my Xbox 360 Arcade lands in South Africa post. The Xbox 360 Arcade bundle includes two full non-arcade games, Project Gotham Racing 3 (Classic) and Dead or Alive 4 (Classic), and the titles are not preloaded onto the console as it was stated […]

• Gaming

  Xbox 360 Arcade lands in South Africa

  10.24.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Well you can’t say I didn’t predict this in my previous post. Kudos to Microsoft for putting forward a totally awesome special for the family. This will definitely compete head-on with the Nintendo Wii this festive season. And the great news is that its available from this Friday.
  JOHANNESBURG — Oct. 24, 2007 — Just in […]

• South Africa

  Tech-Ed 2007 day 3

  10.24.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Its honestly amazing how time flies when you are at Tech-Ed. I found that day three just flew past in comparison to day two; I suppose it has to do with the sheer number of sessions I attended.
  The first talk worth mentioning today was one by Angus Logan where he shared information about the Windows […]

• Gaming

  Xbox 360, the perfect gift this festive season

  10.23.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  I received a press release from Microsoft today regarding the South African Xbox 360 specials for the festive season. The press release says that there will be two new retail offerings but only goes on to describe one, I can only imagine that another press release will be out within the next week or so […]

• South Africa

  Tech-Ed 2007 day 2

  10.22.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Today the sessions started bright and early at 08h00 which is way too early if it was work but strangely enough I found myself downstairs devouring the buffet breakfast just after 07h00. I missed attending a few sessions that I would have liked to have attended purely due to logistical issues. I didn’t know where […]

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