Madiba Day Clean Up

Monday, July 19th, 2010

On Sunday a bunch of us got together to celebrate Madiba Day at Zoo Lake as part of the 67 Minutes for Mandela campaign: Mr Mandela has spent 67 years making the world a better place. We're asking you for 67 minutes." Nelson Mandela turns 91 ...

Photos from the Johannesburg 27dinner

Friday, November 27th, 2009

On Wednesday night a bunch of geeks, nerds and wannabe geeks packed into the upstairs section of Primi Piatti in The Design Quarter Fourways for the final 27dinner of 2009. This time there were no formal talks just lots of socialising and some really awesome grub. It also proved ...

Scott Hanselman to visit South Africa

Friday, December 5th, 2008

Scott Hanselman is a well known blogger and owns the podcast Hanselminutes. He works for Microsoft as a DevDiv Community Liaison and he has offered to spend some of his vacation time with the SA Developer .NET community. He will be in Johannesburg on the evening of Monday ...

Silverlight 2 with Brad Abrams reminder

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.

Silverlight 2 with Brad Abrams

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 ...

Devs4Devs

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 ...

Grand Theft Auto launch follow-up

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 ...

Grand Theft Auto IV launch events

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 ...

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 ...

I’m here, really I am

Wednesday, December 19th, 2007

Its been a while since I made a post here and its all a result of not having an ADSL line at home. Why? Well I moved house at the beginning of December and got the phone line installed as soon as possible. Unfortunately our dear incumbent operator Telkom ...