Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Check out this post which details all the download links for Silverlight 2.0 Beta 1. Yay! Naturally this includes an update runtime, an SDK, the source code to the new controls, documentation, some tools for Visual Studio 2008 and the Expression Blend 2.1 March Preview. [tags]Silverlight[/tags]
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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 ...
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Thursday, February 21st, 2008
The latest and greatest CTP of SQL Server 2008 (code-named Katmai) is now available for download and testing. This is commonly referred to as CTP6 and is the first update since CTP5 in November 2007. You can download the CTP6 bits over here. To find out what is new and ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Hot off the press at the Game Developers Conference 2008 is that Gears of War 2 is going to be released exclusively for Xbox 360 in November. The official press release follows: SAN FRANCISCO — Feb. 20, 2008 — Today at the Game Developers Conference (GDC) 2008, Microsoft ...
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Wednesday, February 20th, 2008
Finally the marriage between Xbox LIVE and XNA has been announced. Major Nelson live blogged it from GDC (Game Developers Conference) in San Francisco on his twitter feed and promptly posted about it. It was just announced at GDC that we are introducing a new, open distribution service ...
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Tuesday, February 5th, 2008
Both the Windows Server and Windows Vista teams released new builds today. The much-awaited Windows Server 2008, formerly known by the code-name Longhorn Server, was released to manufacturing today, as was the highly anticipated service pack 1 update to Windows Vista. If you are running Windows Vista you can ...
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Sunday, February 3rd, 2008
What is the deal with the South African government? Am I becoming an alarmist by writing this post and expressing my opinion? I honestly don't know but I just feel the need to write my thoughts down. Last week the country, who had power, watched Derek Watts and the Carte ...
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Thursday, January 3rd, 2008
I received an awesome e-mail on Tuesday from Microsoft. It read as follows: Congratulations! We are pleased to present you with the 2008 Microsoft® MVP Award! The MVP Award is our way of saying thank you for promoting the spirit of community and enhancing people’s lives and the industry’s ...
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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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Monday, November 26th, 2007
Just got word of a new feature that will be included in the Xbox 360 Dashboard update next week. Its called Friends of Friends and it seems to an interesting step from Microsoft into the social networking market. Basically the new setting allows users to take a peek at ...
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