Wednesday, October 22nd, 2008
I have two Call of Duty World at War multiplayer beta keys to giveaway. Note that these keys are for the Xbox 360 multiplayer beta and you need a hard drive, bandwidth to download the beta (890 MB) and an Xbox LIVE Gold subscription to play. In my experience ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Just announced at MIX'08, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is available for download after the keynote completes. It looks like they've added some very cool new features with sites like Ebay and Facebook already taking advantage of them. I kinda like the idea of having my friend's status updates ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Check out this post which details all the download links for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1. Yay! Naturally this includes an update runtime, an SDK, the source code to the new controls, documentation, some tools for Visual Studio 2008 and the Expression Blend 2.1 March Preview. [tags]Silverlight[/tags]
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
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 ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
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 ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
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 ...
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Tuesday, October 16th, 2007
For those not in the know, Jaiku was recently acquired by Google and suddenly gained popularity. One of the reasons why I believe Jaiku is better than other similar services such as Twitter is because they have a decent mobile phone client. The current build of Jaiku Mobile, 0.80 beta, ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
After three very busy days rAge 2007 is now over, if you missed it, then you missed out. Once again the Xbox 360 console dominated the consoles at the exhibition with almost every stand featuring at least one.
It was quite a shock to not see an official presence for ...
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Thursday, September 20th, 2007
Why does the Microsoft Visual Studio team not follow the best practices internally? When creating a Silverlight 1.1 UserControl under Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 it generates the following code by default. System.IO.Stream s = this.GetType().Assembly.GetManifestResourceStream("Project1.UserControl1.xaml");
this.InitializeFromXaml(new System.IO.StreamReader(s).ReadToEnd());
Most developers would realise that this is ...
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Saturday, September 15th, 2007
As you may have noticed earlier this month, Microsoft released new builds of the Windows Live series of programs that it seems are destined to form the Windows Live Suite 2008. The individual components and their build numbers are listed below for prosperity Windows Live Photo Gallery ...
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