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I have received numerous emails asking me why I'm not blogging here so often anymore. I recently set my own site so that I can begin trading off my own name. BUT I'm still going to cross post my important article here at DotNet.org.za because I firmly believe that this is where us South African developers should discuss .Net topics. Besides that, there is such a wealth of knowledge in the blogs contained here that I am going to try my best to live up to the standards set by the likes of Armand...
So here's the deal. I'm a developer at an insurance company. We are two full time developers, one full time report writer and then our manager develops whenever he has the time. Now we trying to get a new policy in place whereby users are not just allowed to call us directly. They have to make use of a system called SysAid. Now for those of you that don't what sysAid is, basically its a small app on which users can log help requests that then gets sent to us. Now that we starting to enforce...
Thats right! After looking at the eNaTIS website trying to figure out why someone would want to deface already ugly looking sight, I looked at the source of the page and what do I see? meta content="Joomla! - Copyright (C) 2005 - 2006 Open Source Matters. All rights reserved." name="Generator" So our new Traffic Website is powered by a *FREE* *OPEN SOURCE* Content Management System?! Thats right folks! This *FREE* *OPEN SOURCE* implementation of Joomla! for the traffic department...
Thats right! I just got engaged to the most amazing woman I've ever met. I mean DUH! Thats why I'm planning on marrying her. :) Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
"well once again time has eluded me. <insert general excuse about too much work here>. So I’ve now decided to get Certified so now I just need to get hold of all the books that I need for studying and then of course the time to study. I’m also using a Trial version of an application called “ Ecto ” to write this post........" Read more at http://stevenmcd.net/wordpress/?p=9 Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
I learnt something very interesting and useful today. If you want to see which websites link to yours, simply go to www.google.com and in the search criteria enter link:http://www.yourAddressHere.com and hit search. It works quite well. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Blogging has become quite a passtime for many people but us developers tend to use it for a more technical purpose. Writing small articles and tutorials to hopefully gain a little bit of respect from our peers and mostly to evangelis whatever set of tools or technologies we are using. But what about internal tools? Many large developement houses have their own set of inhouse tools but you cannot blog about that online. So a good friend of mine, Andre ( http://mailowl.co.za/ ) came up with the following...
Well ScottGu's latest update on ORCAS is now available and it makes for incredibly interesting reading! Extension Methods and the new System.LinQ namespace are discussed. Read his article here Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
http://www.fring.com is a startup company similar to the local mxit but instead of offering texting services they offer VOiP services. It integrates with GTalk, Skype, MSN and their own custom service. I tested it out quick with my mate over GTalk and it worked very nicely. Its a free service but I'm not sure for how long as its in BETA phase. At the moment it looks like it has only been developed for Nokia phones but there is an "other" option. Had a chat to my bud for a minute or two and if only...
Last week Thursday evening we had our first SaDev meeting at the MS building and we watched a Channel 9 interview with Scott Hanselman and Jeffrey Snover. I must say, power shell looks awesome. The video was interesting but the great part of the evening came we when Craig and Andre started showing off Power shell and we started discussing its uses. To all the people that didn't come, you seriously missed out. Tech Reel is going to become a regular thing where watch a video and discuss it afterwards...
It seems that many people who are using Office 2007 are unaware that they can blog from within Word. Although Armand made a post about this a while back I'm just going to repeat his post. This is quiet useful because it looks like you working while you're actually blogging ;) Blogging from Word 2007 Just a quick note on the setup for blogging to this site from Word 2007 or other MetaWeblog API clients' tools: In Word Community Server is listed as a provider which makes it rather simple, just select...
David Chappell wrote a VERY interesting article on use of SOA. read here Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
Right, well I just discovered F#. No, its not Fortan.Net. check out the 3min intro http://www.secretgeek.net/fsharp_3mins.asp also wiki: http://strangelights.com/fsharp/Wiki/default.aspx Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
a New ADO.NET CTP! Looks interesting, seems i need to start playing around with this. Will hopefully download it later and take it home. Download Here This package is the first Community Technology Preview (CTP) of ADO.NET vNext and includes the preview build of the ADO.NET Entity Framework along with samples and whitepapers. The ADO.NET Entity Framework supports Object Relational Mapping scenarios using ADO.NET Entities, in this build you can: - Query of persistent Entities using LINQ to Entities...
OK! Its official. Static variables are really really really evil. and naturally I found out the hard way. Now I have used static variables in a few places. Usually just to keep track of who has what permissions on the current page, the PrimaryKey of the entry they working on and so forth. To my surprise, we have discovered that these static variables are carried between user sessions. And by that I don't mean you log off and log back on and the variable still has a value. I mean, that when a...
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