Friday, August 8th, 2008
The other day during the Tech-Ed South Africa 2008 closing keynote it was announced that SQL Server 2008, formerly code-named Katmai, had gone gold and would release onto MSDN the same day. This is awesome news and the team has worked hard on this release. The most important ...
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Wednesday, March 5th, 2008
Just announced at MIX'08, Internet Explorer 8 Beta 1 is available for download after the keynote completes. It looks like they've added some very cool new features with sites like Ebay and Facebook already taking advantage of them. I kinda like the idea of having my friend's status updates ...
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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, January 2nd, 2008
Sometimes Windows can be a complete pain, well Windows XP specifically. Today my colleague presented me with an spy-ware issue on his PC that he needed help with removing. After trying the usual tools like HijackThis it became clear that this little critter wasn't going to be going away that ...
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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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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
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 ...
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Thursday, November 8th, 2007
Angus Logan, Senior Technical Product Manager for Windows Live, just announced on his blog the first CTP for a cool set of add-ins for Visual Studio 2008 (formerly code-named Orcas) for getting started with Windows Live in your own applications. Windows Live™ Tools for Microsoft® Visual Studio® are ...
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Wednesday, October 31st, 2007
For those of you that were at Tech-Ed or at his SA Developer talk, Angus Logan demonstrated publishing Silverlight content directly into the Silverlight Streaming service cloud from inside Microsoft Expression Encoder. He has just announced that a new preview version of the plug-in is available for download along with ...
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