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• Armadon & Fatal1ty

  Need I say more..... Lucky Fatal1ty.. rAge Rocked and I got to meet soo many big names in the game Dev world. what a great bunch of dudes. I will most certainly spend more time with them!!! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Oct 01 2005, 06:31 PM by ruari with | with no comments Filed under: Development, SADeveloper

• Getting Ready for rAge

  Tonight the sadeveloper members that confirmed their involvement with rAge met at the Dome for a briefing. This looks to be one killer event. Hope to see you all there. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Sep 28 2005, 09:20 PM by ruari with | with 4 comment(s) Filed under: Development, SADeveloper

• Encarta 2006 & DotNet

  The other day I went out and bought Microsoft Encarta 2006 for the family. Time to get em educated I thought. Well I should have expected it but still it took me by surprise when the first thing the install did was pop up a message that read “Updating DotNet Framework”. There you have it, for those that thought DotNet was just a flash in the pan ...... think again it's going to be everywhere.... Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Sep 28 2005, 02:16 PM by ruari with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development

• SQL 2005 Events for South Africa

  Yip, it's happening in South Africa!! SQL 2005 launch events, check out the details below!! Durban: DATE: Wednesday, 28 September 2005 TIME: 14h00-17h30 VENUE: The Hilton, 12 - 14 Walnut Road, Durban RSVP: To register online click here , or call 0860 2255 67 Johannesburg: DATE: Tuesday, 27 September 2005 TIME: 14h00-17h30 VENUE: The Forum, DD Campus, Wanderers Building, c/o Sloane Street and Main Road, Bryanston (click here to view map) RSVP: To register online click here , or call 0860 2255 67 Cape... Posted Sep 21 2005, 12:19 PM by ruari with | with no comments Filed under: Development

• WinFS Beta 1 available for download

  If you an MSDN subscriber you can now go download WinFS Beta 1 from the MSDN download site. Enjoy Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Sep 01 2005, 07:51 AM by ruari with | with 2 comment(s) Filed under: Development

• Microsoft and Valve

  You into gaming? How about half life (Oh ye) Well this has just come through, so you .Net developers out there - time to get excited ! Valve Names Microsoft Visual C++ 2005 Express Edition the Preferred Development Environment for “Half-Life 2” Modifications. Some links for you: http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2005/aug05/08-31ValveCPlusPlusPR.mspx http://www.dystopia-game.com/forum/viewtopic.php?t=2252 http://msdn.microsoft.com/coding4fun/half-life/default.aspx Pieter, Go Wild... Posted Aug 31 2005, 11:43 AM by ruari with | with no comments Filed under: Development

• VS2005 beta2 and Vista beta1

  This weekend I decided to install the Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 that came with the beta experience registration in my MSDN copy of Windows Vista Beta 1. During the install I got errors with MSXML 6.0, and the install was not overly successful. So some hunting was done. This is how I got around it. If you go onto the Vista CD to \support\winfx\wcu\msxml and run msxml6.msi, then re-launch the VS2005 install, all goes well. :-) After doing some internet searching I found others that had found a work... Posted Aug 28 2005, 10:11 AM by ruari with | with no comments Filed under: Development

• Finally the set is complete!!

  At last the last the volumes have arrived, my set of the entire .NET Base Class Library Reference in print is complete!! Why you ask? well it's in print and with .NET team developers comments included, really coool stuff!! Just in time for ver 2.0 to be released. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Aug 27 2005, 11:33 AM by ruari with | with no comments Filed under: Development, General

• Direct Internet Message Encapsulation (DIME)

  How does one relax after a rough day at the office, well you go for a swim, rough it with the kids and settle down to explore a protocol you had not noticed before. This is what I found. So DIME is a protocol, it’s uniqueness is it’s joint design proposal by Microsoft and IBM to be able to send and receive SOAP messages along with attachments of almost any format, binary, XML fragments, even other SOAP messages. DIME like SOAP still uses standard transport mechanisms such as HTTP and... Posted Aug 26 2005, 02:44 PM by ruari with | with no comments Filed under: Development

• Steve Ballmer in South Africa!!

  The Secret is out, just in time I was about to burst !!! “Developers Developers Developers!!!!!” Steve Ballmer is hitting South Africa !!!! Check It out!!! Event : - IT Professional and Developer Date: 3 October 2005 Venue : Gallagher Estate How many people will attend the presentation ? There is space for only 2500 people Who should attend? All IT Professionals and Developers How do you ensure that they are invited? Register for MSDN Connection : www.microsoft.com/southafrica/msdn/connection... Posted Aug 25 2005, 08:37 AM by ruari with | with 8 comment(s) Filed under: Development, SADeveloper

• sadeveloper DotNet Juniors JHB

  Saturday sadeveloper ran the first meeting of the DotNet Juniors leg in Johannesburg. The Topic presented was OOP (Object Oriented Programming) fundamentals. In which we covered the pillars of oop in great detail, showing the fundamental rulings and code examples of the pillars power in action, and some neat tips and tricks as a bonus. There is also a question that will be posed on sadeveloper for discussion. “What is the link between Inheritance and polymorphism?” Many thanks to the... Posted Aug 22 2005, 08:41 AM by ruari with | with no comments Filed under: Development, SADeveloper

• Shhh my secret.

  I have a secret, an awesome secret, one every developer will want to hear. AND I'M NOT TELLING........ Heck if you ask nicely, very nicely, I might just post it to sadeveloper for you.... G2BG. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it! Posted Aug 19 2005, 02:39 PM by ruari with | with 7 comment(s) Filed under: Development, SADeveloper

• Firefly Runs Tech Day at Limpopo

  The Firefly Tech day at Limpopo day was an outstanding success. Mr Devan Naidoo did an opening talk on designing a gaming space. Prof Siweya then presented a talk on AI in the coding world. And I managed to get my say where I presented a talk on the Success of Communities(Firefly) / Imagine Cup in the growing of the local software economy. Following the talks a LAN session was run by Izak where the students got to try out their gaming skills. This ended up in the winners taking on the Hosts (Us)... Posted Aug 10 2005, 07:46 PM by ruari with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development, General

• Home again (Imagine Cup 2005 : The end)

  Well I loved Japan , what a great place, I really enjoyed the Imagine Cup (No time for sleep). But as they say in the classics “All good things come to an end” and this years Imagine cup has done just that. The South African team sure learnt a lot, met a lot of great people and are looking forward to next year which will be held in Delhi India . From what I can ascertain the theme for next year will be “imagine a world where technology enables us to live healthier lives”.... Posted Aug 04 2005, 02:53 PM by ruari with | with no comments Filed under: Development, General

• Imagine Cup 2005 Day 5 (Final Event)

  Imagine cup day 5 (The Finals) Wow, and again WOW. Microsoft sure knows how to do things. What an amazing event. So without further delay let me announce to you the winning countries of the software design category for Imagine Cup 2005: 3 rd place goes to China …… 2 nd place goes to Greece ……. And the winner of the Imagine Cup 2005 goes to ……………… ………… ………… RUSSIA !!!................. What an... Posted Aug 01 2005, 11:28 AM by ruari with | with 1 comment(s) Filed under: Development, General