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07 January 2008
App Camp 2008
After last year's successful Facebook Developer Garage there were some requests for more technical sessions that covers the technologies used for developing applications on the Facebook platform. Now Mentez and Microsoft are arranging App Camp 2008 which is a more detailed event covering best practices... Read More...
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14 November 2007
Facebook Developer Garage - Johannesburg
The inaugural Facebook Developer Garage Johannesburg Meetup is happening tomorrow (2007/11/15) at the Internet Solutions Chill Room at The Dimension Data Campus in Bryanston, Johannesburg. It's an opportunity to connect with developers in and around Johannesburg and discuss, share and extend your... Read More...
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08 October 2007
ASP.NET MVC Framework
This would be very heartening news for anyone dreading the prospect of having to back to ASP.NET Webforms after working with RoR or MonoRail. Scott Guthrie 's team is working on a proper MVC Framework for ASP.NET. Some of the goals of the framework (lifted straight from Jeffrey Palermo's blog... Read More...
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19 September 2007
High Scalability Architectures
Got sent an interesting link to http://highscalability.com yesterday. It's worth checking out if you are interested in the design decisions and general approach taken by some of the really high-traffic sites on the web. Some examples: Amazon Architecture Digg Architecture YouTube Architecture Flickr... Read More...
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08 September 2007
IRB Rugby World Cup Calendar
Found this useful iCal export with all the IRB Rugby World Cup Fixtures. The calendar is updated with results as the fixtures are played out. Now you can safely schedule meetings without worrying about RWC clashes. [ iCal Link ] Powered by Qumana Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! ... Read More...
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05 September 2007
Official Support for Moonlight
Yesterday Microsoft released to the Web Silverlight but in the same press release announced support for Mono's Moonlight project as the official Silverlight implementation on Linux. This shows quite a significant commitment from Microsoft to really make Silverlight a true cross platform solution... Read More...
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04 September 2007
Visual 2008 / C# 1.1 Compiler
It happens. Some of us have to do it. In this modern age taint the Visual Studio 2008 IDE by having to compile .NET 1.1 C# code. As this is pretty much a quick once-off thing I didn't go to the full extend of creating 1.1 project templates like back when Visual Studio 2005 was released. Instead here... Read More...
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29 August 2007
Paterva Evolution
I'm usually a little skeptical presentations about internet security. Not because it doesn't concern me but typically these talks revolve around not handing out your credit card details to strangers, avoiding lengthy email exchanges with foreigners who claim to be keeping millions for you and... Read More...
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21 August 2007
Unified C# Language Specification
The Unified 3.0 C# Language Specification which combines the 1.1, 2.0 and 3.0 evolutions of the language into a single volume is available for download. This document covers every aspect of the C# language and apart from being free is also a better reference than any book you can buy. Here you will find... Read More...
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17 August 2007
Windows Live ID CardSpace Support
Finally you can sign-in to sites that support Windows Live ID i.e. any Microsoft site, using an Information Card. Hopefully after this kind of commitment from Microsoft we will start seeing more sites add support for Information Cards. Like OpenID it would only be really successful once there are enough... Read More...
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13 July 2007
Hitting the Rails
I'll be giving a talk about Ruby on Rails at the SADeveloper User Group on Wednesday 15th August 2007 at 18h30. We'll be covering what Rails is and then run through an application from "the napkin to the cloud". i.e. We'll be covering a full Rails application from design through... Read More...
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03 July 2007
FeedBurner FreeBurner
FeedBurner users, which basically means almost the entire blogosphere, got a little bonus in their feed readers today after the recent acquisition of FeedBurner by Google. Two of its previously for-pay services is now completely free, TotalStats Pro and MyBrand. If you head over to the Analyze tab under... Read More...
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02 July 2007
Mobile.rb
The power of Ruby in the palm of your hand. It doesn't get much cornier than that but here is two projects to get some Ruby applications going on your Symbian or Windows Mobile 5 device... Ruby for Symbian OS An official release from Symbian to accompany their " Runtime environments on Symbian... Read More...
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26 June 2007
TwitterGram Web Service
The past couple of days I've been following Dave Winer's Twitters on his progress with Twittergram - In a nutshell it's to the micro-blogging service Twitter what podcasting is to blogging. A 140k post linked to a 200k audio clip. His PuppyGram use-case sample illustrates a possible usage... Read More...
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26 June 2007
Feature Complete ASP.NET CardSpace Control
In more Information Card related news Dominick Baier released a feature complete update to his ASP.NET CardSpace control. His control is probably the cleanest way of enabling your ASP.NET site as a Relying Party in the Indentity Metasystem. Key features includes: Clean markup and independence of the... Read More...
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