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Thanks for everyone that made it out to the Continuous Integration talk ! It was great to have a former employee of Thoughtworks (the guys who developed CruiseControl) in the audience, and it seemed as if many people derived value from the event. Thanks to FoschiniDATA for the venue and the snacks! The slide decks I used for the talk can be found here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
I'll be chatting about Continuous Integration (yes, once again!) next week to the SADeveloper crowd, and it would be great to see you there! Details are as follows: When: 19th September 2007 18h30 - 20h00 Venue: FoschiniData Lefic Building 340 Voortrekker Road Parow East Cape Town (right next to Sanlam Shopping Centre) Topic: Continuous Integration RSVP: Please RSVP here The Extreme Programming (XP) Development Methodology defines many concepts, one them being Continuous Integration , which will...
SaDeveloper hosted a developer-session on Saturday on Developing SharePoint Solutions and Office Business Applications (OBA) using .NET at Microsoft Cape Town , which was very well received. It's the first of a series of in-depth enterprise-related sessions you can expect, and because of the length of these, they will take place on Saturdays. (The session received excellent ratings and in general it seems that events on Saturdays might become more popular than some might have anticipated). Thanks...
I went to my first Cape Town 27dinner last night, and thoroughly enjoyed every single minute of it. Many thanks to Dave Duarte who organises these - you rock dude!! I was completely blown away by the turnout - I think there was just about 100 people, some of them driving from quite far. So what is 27dinner? Though there are some arranged speakers, it's a free-form opportunity to hook up with fellow entrepreneurs operating mostly in the field of technology (specifically web). Here is a summary...
I did two talks on AJAX at DevDays in Durban a few weeks ago: one was an introduction to the ASP.NET AJAX framework that Microsoft released, as well as some of the open-source controls available in the Control Toolkit . The second talk was a bit more interesting, discussing Security in AJAX-enabled web applications in general. Both these went pretty well, considering that my laptop blew up the evening before, and I sat awake in my hotel all night configuring a new laptop to demo on the next day....
Make sure you go to the premier developer event of the year - it's soon, too! See you there! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
I think people really enjoyed our LINQ Talk last night! The slide deck I used (containing C# 3.0 language innovations) can be found here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
I'll be doing yet another talk on Linq tomorrow evening, this time joining up with Hilton . For those who haven't seen Linq yet, come along and check out this revolutionising new concept. And more importantly: snacks will be provided by the kind folks at Microsoft. Date: 19th April 2007 18:00 - 19:30 Venue: Microsoft, Mowbray, Cape Town ( directions ) Presenters: Ernst Kuschke & Hilton Giesenow Topic: LINQ Find out about the general-purpose query facilities added to the .NET Framework that apply...
At the last summit (2005) we got tons of "NDA" info, and this year everyone arrived eagerly awaiting news of the same callibre. The timing for the developer-side of it all (which affects my arena, as I ama C# MVP), however, is such that there really isn't too much new information to gather. We're getting close to the Orcas release date, and the C# team is mainly concentrating on that. Sure, there are lots of thoughts on the future, as well as .net 4.0 (which I can't really disclose) but most energy...
Tech Ed 2006 had lots of beer, lots of sun and lots of really cool smart people. It also had no time for sleep, no women, and no chalk-and-talk agenda for delegates. This year the Chalk-and-Talk sessions' topics or location were not included in the agenda, and delegates thus were mostly unaware of them. Nonetheless, Armand and myself had some smart engineers (guys who have built their own robots) coming to our Robotics chalk-and-talks - guys who know more about robotics in general than we do...
After adequate whining by the South African market, the XBOX360 is about to be launched in SA. One of the reasons that this hasn't happened before is that the SA market is considerably small compared to the US, European and Asian markets. The first 6 years of XBOX has been a solid loss to Microsoft (a $1.262 billion loss for the year ending in June 2006) with the goal of getting a foothold in a hard-to-penetrate market dominated by a few big boys. I think they have accomplished the foothold,...
The next SADeveloper meeting takes place tomorrow night: When: 19th October 2005, 18:00 – 19:00 Venue: (NB!) Torque IT, Rivonia ( Map ) Presenter: Michael Tocik Topic: Crystal XI and .NET Level: Intermediate Objective: At October's Community meeting we'll be exploring the new features in Crystal Reports XI and working with reports in Windows Forms and ASP.NET. Since this is the week before Tech-ED it is also an opportunity to meet up with other people who are going, get into the spirit of things...
The Tech Ed 2005 sessions has recently gone live, and I see that there will be some really cool speakers out this year! Armand and myself have teamed up to introduce folks to LINQ in C# 3.0. The LINQ Project is a codename for a set of extensions to the .NET Framework that encompass language-integrated query, set, and transform operations. It extends C# and Visual Basic with native language syntax for queries and provides class libraries to take advantage of these capabilities. We will be presenting...
Need I say more? It was a great day! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
We started the day with some Executive Keynotes. The interesting thing is that MOST of it wasn't boring at all, and we had the opportunity to ask questions to Steve Ballmer , Jim Allchin , Kevin Johnson , and a few others. Jim's demo really impressed me. One of the highlights was a Vista feature called Prefetch. Prefetch optimises the way your virtual memory / pagefile works in that it doesn't (as it currently works) load stuff that has been in use over the last few minutes. Oh no. It actually builds...
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