Willy-Peter Schaub's Cave of Chamomile Simplicity

Why are we not producing solutions locally anymore?

During strategy meetings at JCSE and saArchitect it was confirmed again and again that South-Africa has top IT people that need to stand second to noone.

Why is it then, that the industry and even large IT vendors take opportunities to the overseas IT market first, usually ending up spending huge budgets on international solutions. This outflow of funds is not only hurting the local economy, stalling the IT growth, but is probably a major factor for the brain drain we are battling with in South-Africa.

As a community (saArchitect and saDeveloper) I believe that we need to give this problem some serious thought and ensure that we can demonstrate what we know that IT South-Africa is capable of delivering with the support of industry. We should be exporting our solutions, not our “brains on a stick”.

".NET Enterprise Solutions ... Interoperability for the Connoisseur" ... we need input from the SA community.

New DRP Sessions scheduled by MTU

VS2005 ADO.NET and Unit Testing     300 New Technology intro   2005/06/01 16:00 1.5 hours Conference Center
VS2005 ADO.NET & Binding Plumbing   300 Introduce new material 2005/06/08 16:00 1.5 hours Conference Center
Enterprise Library - Custom Library 300 Information Transfer   2005/06/15 16:00 2.0 hours Conference Center

See http://sus-serv/sites/drp/Lists/DRP%20Sessions/Allitemsg.aspx for details.

Visual Studio 2005 Beta 2 Experience Kit

saArchitect Events - Interoperability & Indigo

MTU Internal Ascend Schedule

As requested we are adding the “MTU” category which is intended for all the BB&D and MTU'tonians working remote, with no access to our intranet sharepoint team sites.

Herewith the latest Whidbey schedule:

Complete    Windows Client    CLR Improvements        2005/04/14    09:00-10:00
Complete    Windows Client    Design, Deployment      2005/04/21    09:00-10:00
Complete    Windows Client    Data Access             2005/04/28    09:00-10:00
Complete    Windows Client    VSTO                    2005/05/19    09:00-10:00
            Windows Client    Compact Client          2005/06/02    09:00-10:00
            Windows Client    Exam, Overflow          2005/06/15    09:00-10:00
            ASP.NET Client    What's New, UI          2005/06/23    08:00-09:00
            ASP.NET Client    Navigation
                              Master Pages            2005/06/30    08:00-09:00
            ASP.NET Client    Login, Membership       2005/07/07    08:00-09:00
            ASP.NET Client    Web Parts, Localisation 2005/07/14    08:00-09:00
            ASP.NET Client    Exam, Overflow          2005/07/21    08:00-09:00
            Team System       Process, Management,
                              Source Code             2005/07/28    TBD
            Team System       Design, Deployment      2005/08/04    TBD
            Team System       Build and Test          2005/08/11    TBD
            Team System       Exam, Overflow          2005/08/18    TBD

saArchitect - Q&A for VSTS Session

VS.NET BETA2 Media has shipped and is "working"

Those of us who have spend days downloading and days trying to resolve the error 2337 error will be pleased to note that the “media” we received yesterday installs flawlessly ... q;-) Cowabunga, we now have BETA smiles again and unit testing is back in our midst.

Special thanks to the Microsoft Ascend team, to Lillian at MSSA and my colleagues who assisted in the BETA-2 download and problem resolutions.

VS.NET BETA-2

For all those that have gone through the pain of downloading BETA-2 for VS.NET ... which takes days ... please be aware that your installation is likely to fails 3/4 through when the installation is installing Unit Testing features. The error we have reproduced on all machines we have tried to install BETA-2 on and an error which is well documented on discussion forums worldwide and on Microsoft MSDN is error 2337.

To avoid this error, deselect the last option under testing components, unit testing and the installation will complete successfully. Obviously without unit testing features ... q;-(

I have received a notice from Microsoft that the BETA-2 media has been dispatched, so the Ascend and BETA members should receive a working media in due course.

New Horizon book special offer ...

We are running a special offer on our “.NET Enterprise Solutions ... Best Practices for the Connoisseur” until June 2005. See “Special Offer“ on http://www.drp.co.za/default.asp?id=media/content_media for more information.

Please visit us at DevDays and on www.drp.co.za for latest news on Book 2 and on our new DRP Snippets.