October 2007 - Posts
The fun of creating applications should be within everyone's reach - professional and non-professional developers. Historically Microsoft has invested a lot in creating tools for professional developers - think Visual Studio. Now, Microsoft is working on a tool to support non-professional developers, called Popfly. The idea is simple: Create applications online without writing a single line of code! Then deploy the application to different environments, like Facebook.
I know, the idea of creating no-code applications, might not excite you if you are a professional developer. Yet, it will excite someone close to you - think wife, husband, friend, child, ... Check it out.
How many days before Christmas? Just enough to do another round of DevChats 
This time round we're doing the event in every major city in South Africa. That is Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town, East London, Port Elizabeth and Bloemfontein. I know you have deadlines to meet before Christmas. Yet, don't miss out on this DevChat. We will be introducing you to a lot of the fabulous features in Visual Studio 2008 - releasing in the next few months.
Smaller cities
Bloemfontein - 12 Nov 07
East London - 14 Nov 07
Port Elizabeth - 16 Nov 07
Larger cities
Johannesburg - 19 Nov 07
Durban - 20 Nov 07
Cape Town - 22 Nov 07
Space is limited! Book your seat today!
Microsoft is opening up the .NET Framework libraries for developers to see the actual source code. Amazing!
Developers will now be able to download and view the source code - even step into this code when debugging. Microsoft is releasing the source code under the Microsoft Reference License. It means you can view the code, but cannot change/recompile it. It will be available along with .NET Framework 3.5 and Visual Studio 2008 later this year.
Read the announcement on Scott's blog.