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Tech-Ed Online - South African Videos Available

During Tech-Ed various speakers and guests of the event are invited to participate in video interviews regarding various technologies and subjects related to the event or the IT industry. These videos are then uploaded to the MSDN library for free download. This year some of the more well know community...

Posted to To Dev or not to Dev (Weblog) by Willie Roberts on 08-31-2008
Booting Services on Vista Development Laptops

As an enterprise developer, I've always had SQL Server on my laptop (which is my main development machine). For years, SQL Server has been an indispensable tool for enterprise development, since the kind of application you tend to write in this line of business always has a relational database...

Posted to YahBlog - Explore with new eyes (Weblog) by yah on 02-29-2008
Automated Enterprise Testing Framework

AETF Overview A few years ago, whilst on a large scalability project, we developed an automated test framework that was able to simulate a large number of concurrent multi-user enterprise environment with the aid of simulation robots. Each scenario was controlled from a "Central Core Controller"...

Posted to YahBlog - Explore with new eyes (Weblog) by yah on 02-27-2008
TomTom One

I finally managed to get my hands on the TomTom One last week. This is so cool. Being relatively new to the UK, this is definitly a must have. The TomTom One is basicly the entry level device in TomTom's satnav range. But it has most of the functionality of the others in the range. My version came...

Posted to Janus Pienaar (Weblog) by janus on 11-14-2006
TechEd Roundup

TechEd ended last week, but I've only just had a chance to catch my breath after returning home on Monday. Now that I've worked through my e-mail backlog, here's my synopsis of the conference. Throughout the week I attended breakout sessions primarily in the "Connected Systems" and "Architecture" tracks...

Posted to Peter McMahon (Weblog) by peter on 07-13-2005
Shipping out to TechEd Europe

I'm going to be flying out to Amsterdam for TechEd Europe on Saturday afternoon, so I'm hoping the decent weather in the Netherlands holds up. I'm going to be helping out in the “Ask the Experts” area for about 10 hours during the conference, which takes place from Tuesday to Friday next...

Posted to Peter McMahon (Weblog) by peter on 07-02-2005
New solid-state "hard drive"

Anandtech have a quick look at a solid-state “hard drive” from Gigabyte. Essentially they've developed a PCI card with RAM slots on it, and a DDR-to-SATA converter; you plug the card into a SATA controller, and to the controller it appears just as an ordinary hard drive would. A friend of...

Posted to Peter McMahon (Weblog) by peter on 05-31-2005
Indian villagers to get broadband connections for ~R10 per month; South Africa still stuck in ice age

The Business Standard is reporting that Indian villages are to receive 100Mbps fiber connections in a new broadband rollout project which will give villagers broadband Internet access for just ~R10 per month. The project is scheduled to be completed by the end of next year. Meanwhile, back on the Dark...

Posted to Peter McMahon (Weblog) by peter on 01-04-2005
Inside Whidbey Development

Scott Guthrie , the Product Unit Manager for ASP.NET, has posted a couple ( 1 , 2 ) of really interesting blog entries on the status of Whidbey (ASP.NET 2.0) and his team's testing practices. The team has over 100 000 test cases, which together test over 500 000 scenarios (covering the full range of...

Posted to Peter McMahon (Weblog) by peter on 10-30-2004
Google Desktop Search

I've been using Google Desktop Search for about a week now, and my impression of it thus far has been very positive. It's worth downloading for the Outlook e-mail search feature alone, but I've also found it very handy when looking for code snippets or other random pieces of information I have stashed...

Posted to Peter McMahon (Weblog) by peter on 10-20-2004

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