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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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 ...
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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 ...
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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 ...
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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
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 ...
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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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Monday, October 22nd, 2007
Today the sessions started bright and early at 08h00 which is way too early if it was work but strangely enough I found myself downstairs devouring the buffet breakfast just after 07h00. I missed attending a few sessions that I would have liked to have attended purely due to logistical ...
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Sunday, October 7th, 2007
With the recent surge in AJAX enabled web sites I have to wonder if web user interfaces are still as intuitive as they were when we simply had to fill in a form and press the Save or Submit button. Nowadays user interfaces, like the one pictures below from Community ...
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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 ...
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Monday, October 1st, 2007
On Thursday night we were invited to attend the South African Halo 3 launch party which was a combined event featuring the release of the new album A world next to yours by The Parlotones. The event was well attended and there were plenty of Xbox 360 consoles running Halo ...
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