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  South African Communities on Virtual Tech-Ed

  01.15.08 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  A couple of us local community enthusiasts quickly put together a last minute idea for a Fish Bowl video at Tech-Ed 2007 South Africa last year. The video finally went live on the site today. You can watch it by clicking here.
  Thanks to Hilton, Nicholas and Willie for helping get the word out there […]

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  Xbox MVP

  01.03.08 | Permalink | 12 Comments

  I received an awesome e-mail on Tuesday from Microsoft. It read as follows:
  Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award!  The MVP Award is our way of saying thank you for promoting the spirit of community and enhancing people’s lives and the industry’s success every day.  Your extraordinary efforts in […]

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  Event - Building Custom LINQ Operators

  01.02.08 | Permalink | Comment?

  There is nothing like starting the SA Developer new year off with a bang, this time its a talk on building custom LINQ operators using C# 3.0.
  The LINQ features of C# 3.0 allow specialized constructs to be integrated into the structure of the language, such as the ability to run complex SQL queries against the […]

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  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 […]

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  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. […]

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  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 […]

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  Dinner with Angie

  10.07.07 | Permalink | 1 Comment

  Last night a bunch of the Gauteng SA Developer .NET chapter members got together for a dinner meet and greet social with the visiting Western Cape chapter lead Angela Gerber.
  We decided to try out Cubaña which is a Havana lounge and Latino caffe located in the recently opened Cedar Square mall behind Fourways Mall. The […]

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