Archive for the ‘Community’ Category

Xbox MVP

Thursday, January 3rd, 2008

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 ...

Event – Building Custom LINQ Operators

Wednesday, January 2nd, 2008

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 ...

Juval Lowy talk tonight

Thursday, November 29th, 2007

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 ...

27 Dinner by candlelight

Wednesday, November 28th, 2007

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 ...

BizTalk Server User Group Launch

Wednesday, November 14th, 2007

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 ...

Dinner with Angie

Sunday, October 7th, 2007

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 ...