Wednesday, July 30th, 2008
Last night I attended the Johannesburg 27dinner and as usual I took too many photos. All in all there were three talks presented by Kate Elphick, Jason Hobbs and Charl Norman. Unfortunately the restaurant patrons upstairs made it very difficult for people at the back of the restaurant to ...
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Friday, June 20th, 2008
Just a quick reminder that there is still space available for the SA Developer .NET session Silverlight 2 with Brad Abrams. Please take a moment and RSVP over here on the forum thread.
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Friday, May 30th, 2008
Yes you heard it here first! Brad Abrams, the man, the legend, is coming to South Africa and is taking time out of his busy schedule for SA Developer .NET events in Johannesburg and Cape Town. Before you ask how I can speak so highly of the man, take ...
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Sunday, May 25th, 2008
Microsoft is hosting a Saturday morning event for speakers in the Gauteng region to come and show what they are passionate about. Currently there are 5 out of 10 speaker slots filled, so why not put your name down and present something you're passionate about for a mere 20 minute ...
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Thursday, May 15th, 2008
I just got an email notification from the Rosetta@home project that I've been featured as the user of the day. Congratulations!You've been chosen as the Rosetta@home user of the day! Your profile will be featured on the Rosetta@home website for the next 24 hours. Its just a pity ...
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Sunday, May 11th, 2008
I know, its been over a week now and I still haven't posted the pictures on the web from the launch event. My bad!
The event was very well attended, unlike some previous attempts. MooDy and the team at ZAPS with the help I believe from Megarom had done an awesome ...
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Saturday, April 26th, 2008
For those in and around Johannesburg there are going to be some launch parties happening for one of the most anticipated sequels in the gaming industry. Yes I can only be talking about Grand Theft Auto IV. According to my sources the local distributor, Megarom, will be teaming up ...
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Tuesday, January 15th, 2008
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 ...
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Monday, January 14th, 2008
Recently we decided to put up a virtual Linux server in one of our hosting environments. The host machine is a Windows Server 2003 x64 edition running Virtual Server 2005 R2 x64 SP1. We chose to install CentOS 5.1 which is community Linux distribution based on Red Hat Enterprise ...
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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 ...
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