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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Wednesday, November 14th, 2007
If you're going to be at the coast this festive season then you might want to catch some of South Africa's premier rock bands in action. The press release below has all the details about the Xbox Summer Fest 2007, however there are some pre-tour events being held at News ...
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Friday, November 9th, 2007
Sometimes I wonder whether our local communications regulatory body has a clue or a backbone at all. When the Independent Communications Authority of South Africa (ICASA) eventually released their ADSL Regulations last year there was a requirement on local bandwidth which stated: Local bandwidth usage shall not be subject ...
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Tuesday, October 30th, 2007
On Saturday night my amazing girlfriend took me to dinner and the theatre to celebrate my birthday last week. We found ourselves at the Liberty Life Theatre on the Square to watch Mark Sampson's production called Missing Links. I never knew what to expect and found myself laughing my head ...
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Sunday, October 21st, 2007
Its the end of day 1 of Tech-Ed 2007 South Africa and I must say it is what I expected it to be. Apparently there are almost 2000 delegates here this year which is an impressive improvement over the 1600 delegates last year and the most delegates at any ...
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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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Thursday, October 4th, 2007
Its not something to be too surprised about when we consider the international success of the franchise, however I think there are still many sceptics out there that don't believe that Halo 3 will be as successful in South Africa due to the market not really experiencing its predecessors ...
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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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Monday, September 24th, 2007
Last week Wednesday Microsoft invited a select few community members to their offices to pre-play the latest in the Halo series, Halo 3. To protect the millions of dollars invested in the various international and even local launch efforts we were required to sign an NDA (non-disclosure agreement) which ...
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Friday, September 21st, 2007
On the 24th of September 2007 its a public holiday, Heritage Day in face. But a bunch of people have decided that is really just a great day to have a braai and are encouraging all South Africans to get friends and family together and to cook up a ...
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