November 2007

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• Community

  Juval Lowy talk tonight

  11.29.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  A quick reminder for Juval Lowy’s community talk that is happening tonight at Microsoft’s offices in Bryanston. If you have been dabbling with WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) or you would just like to learn more about what it is, then make sure you register and come on through to meet a Software Legend and […]

• Community

  27 Dinner by candlelight

  11.28.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  Tonight’s 27 Dinner, 27-15 Jozi, was by no means the usual affair. A bumper crowd was expected but unfortunately our lovely power utility company Eskom decided that its the night to start doing some more load shedding. So sometime after 7pm when the event was just getting underway, the power went out in Melrose Arch. […]

• Gaming

  Xbox LIVE Friends of Friends

  11.26.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Just got word of a new feature that will be included in the Xbox 360 Dashboard update next week. Its called Friends of Friends and it seems to an interesting step from Microsoft into the social networking market. Basically the new setting allows users to take a peek at your friends list so they […]

• Software

  Visual Studio 2008 released

  11.19.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Yeah its official, Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 was officially released today. You can read Somasegar’s announcement post over here. If you have been chomping on the bit waiting for the release then head on over and download 90-day trial editions, the Express editions and the full ISOs which are available to […]

• Software

  SQL Server 2008 November CTP

  11.19.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Its about time that the long awaited CTP5 of SQL Server 2008 (code-named Katmai) was released. I’ve been seeing blog posts about MVP only builds for the last couple of days and now finally I got an e-mail notification of the November CTP that is available to download from here.
  I can’t wait for my download […]

• South Africa

  It’s plane stupid

  11.17.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  What’s up with the South African airline industry lately? All I see lately are reports of problems and I’m considering staying on the ground for the near future. Just take a look at the following headlines taken from The Times over the last couple of days:

  07 Nov - Plane in trouble over Cape Town / […]

• Development

  SQL Server 2008 Compression

  11.16.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Jonathan Allen and Chad Boyd have interest blog posts on the new SQL Server 2008 compression features.

  Row level compression drastically reduces the meta-data needed for variable length columns. Instead of storing the length of each field in 2 bytes, it now takes a mere 3 bits. Fields themselves are also smaller. Storing a 1 in […]

• Community

  BizTalk Server User Group Launch

  11.14.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Recently a couple of BizTalk developers got together on the SA Developer .NET forums and put together the idea of forming a BizTalk user group and it seems to be happening. I got word from Ryan CrawCour that Microsoft is getting involved and together they are launching the new user group starting off with the […]

• Development

  Juval Lowy to present WCF for the South African community

  11.14.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  Thanks to Dariel Solutions who are bringing Juval Lowy out to South Africa to present a 5-day master class. Juval is recognised by Microsoft as a Software Legend and one of the world’s top .NET experts. For those that are not so lucky to be able to make it to the 5-day course will […]

• Development

  Net60 Beta 1 released

  11.14.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Local mobile innovation company, Red Five Labs, has today released a beta 1 build of their of implementation of the .NET Compact Framework 1.0 which runs on Symbian S60 3rd edition devices like the Nokia N95 series of mobile phones. This is an important product for enterprise developers that would like to deploy on […]

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