Monday, November 19th, 2007
Yeah its official, Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 was officially released today. You can read Somasegar's announcement post over here. If you have been chomping on the bit waiting for the release then head on over and download 90-day trial editions, the Express editions and the full ...
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Monday, November 19th, 2007
Its about time that the long awaited CTP5 of SQL Server 2008 (code-named Katmai) was released. I've been seeing blog posts about MVP only builds for the last couple of days and now finally I got an e-mail notification of the November CTP that is available to download from here. ...
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Saturday, November 17th, 2007
What's up with the South African airline industry lately? All I see lately are reports of problems and I'm considering staying on the ground for the near future. Just take a look at the following headlines taken from The Times over the last couple of days: 07 Nov - ...
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Friday, November 16th, 2007
Jonathan Allen and Chad Boyd have interest blog posts on the new SQL Server 2008 compression features. Row level compression drastically reduces the meta-data needed for variable length columns. Instead of storing the length of each field in 2 bytes, it now takes a mere 3 bits. Fields themselves ...
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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
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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Wednesday, November 7th, 2007
We all knew that Gears of War was coming to the Windows PC gaming platform and now its official. Yes it should be in stores later this week and will run on Windows XP and Windows Vista machines. One thing that is awesome about Games for Windows LIVE (basically ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
Oh well it should really be called Trick-or-Treat but I couldn't resist the play on words and the completely unrelated reference to the weekly tech podcast and Twitter. I'm not sure if I can relate to what Halloween really is about. As South Africans we don't really celebrate Halloween. So ...
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Wednesday, October 24th, 2007
Well you can't say I didn't predict this in my previous post. Kudos to Microsoft for putting forward a totally awesome special for the family. This will definitely compete head-on with the Nintendo Wii this festive season. And the great news is that its available from this Friday.
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