Silverlight, Nokia and Apple

Wednesday, March 5th, 2008

Well things seem to be picking up for Microsoft's Silverlight technology. I enjoyed Silverlight 1.0 but detest JavaScript so my attention immediately turned to the Silverlight 1.1 Alpha build that came out last year at MIX'07. Awesome stuff, managed code in the browser with a lightweight multi-platform ...

Net60 Beta 1 released

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 ...

Tech-Ed 2007 day 2

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 ...

Jaiku Mobile is hungry

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, ...

Traffic conspiracy

Monday, October 8th, 2007

Its a conspiracy I tell you. I'm sure that the mobile phone networks are in some way in on it. What am I talking about, well bear with me a moment while I explain. I was reading this post from my good friend Tim about how he sat ...

Dinner with Angie

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 CubaƱa which is a Havana lounge and Latino caffe located in the recently opened Cedar ...