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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:50 AM

TFS WIWA or TSWA ... what's in these FLA's (four lettered acronyms)?

We have long spoken about a TSWA (Team System Web Access) application that allows you to enforce the client access license fine print, which states that you can access work items that you have created without needing to invest in a client access license (CAL). Microsoft has released a CTP (Community Technology Preview) release of the WIWA (TSWA Work Item Only View) tool, for which you can also read the public specification here . "Please" remember that CTP == Customer Technology Preview...
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Tuesday, October 14, 2008 9:45 AM

Rhodes ... T-48 hours

We are doing final preparations and are busy sorting the handouts for the two sessions we will be hosting at Rhodes: Team Foundation Server Session: Introducing a real world development environment. TFS/VSTS/TeamPrise/Tools introduction and positioning Team project creation and discussion around planning TFS/VSTS/TeamPrise interoperability Management, Development and Testing using the ALM solutions Automated Build and Testing Linux Interoperability Session: Using TFS 2008, TeamPrise and Java. .....
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Friday, October 10, 2008 2:25 PM

South African SQL Server User Group revived

Gail (our very own SQL MVP, aka GilaMonster) is reviving the SQL Server User Group, with a meeting at 18:30 on Tuesday the 21st of October.   The session is titled "Effective Indexing". For more details teleport to here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Friday, October 10, 2008 7:11 AM

Tech·Ed Online: What are MVPs and what does it take to be one?

Microsoft has posted the first of three Tech Ed Online sessions we were involved in ... tough seeing and listening to myself. Thanks Ruari, Henk and Zayd for a great chat and recording q;-) Microsoft has posted the video to Tech·Ed Online: What are MVPs and what does it take to be one? . You can find the video on the Portal page and the Library page. Please be sure to let us know if you have any questions or concerns with the contents q;-) www.microsoft.com/techedonline The other two videos...
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Thursday, October 09, 2008 3:57 PM

RDBMS 101 - Relational Set Operators

Busy with DBMS implementation and management studies I stumbled across the following statement " To be considered minimally relational, the DBMS must support the key relational operators SELECT, PRODUCT and JOIN ". Although there are eight (8) documented relational operators, only a few database systems support all eight. What was the trigger for this blog post is the PRODUCT operator, which I could not remember in Microsoft SQL Server ... so SQL Server is not minimally relational?!? Here...
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Wednesday, October 08, 2008 8:48 AM

Honorary List ... it is time to thank a lot of people for their efforts in the SA Community for 2008!

It is unfortunate that most heroes are never mentioned or known to the world, with them operating under cover, deep behind enemy lines and often unselfishly fighting for everyone but themselves. I am, however, not nostalgic and talking about the war heroes of the many wars that have raged on planet Terra, instead I am referring to the heroes in the information technology world, making a huge difference to the South-African IT communities. My definition for a hero is a person who goes beyond the expectations...
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Tuesday, October 07, 2008 1:10 PM

SAArchitect - News and request for member registration!

  If you have been, are or would like to become a member of the SA Architect community, then please register yourself on our new community site (see point 3 above). The site can be found at http://www.saarchitect.net . We are displaying the SA Architect hosted events or events that SA Architect members have access to on the home page of the new site (see point 2 above). Please keep an eye on the events and advise as to what is good, bag or ugly ... q;-) Lastly if you are in the academic world...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 3:41 PM

Community Academic Program

October 2008 we are visiting Rhodes university ( www.rhodes.ac.za ) for another technology awareness program, as shown on the following flyer: For this battling with the image and information hidden within the flyer, here are a few extracts: ACADEMIC TECHNOLOGY PROGRAM SERVICES Planning and Proposals for IT Environments Hardware Sponsorship Hardware installation Software installation. Evangelism and Mentorship for Software development concepts Software development technologies Application Life Cycle...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:31 AM

.NET Enterprise Books for the Connoisseur ... all available in PDF!

We have just released the PDF, soft copy, eBook style books for the following three books on www.drp.co.za and www.saarchitect.net . On the later server find the books here and remember that www.drp.co.za is geared at American region and www.saarchitect.net for the MEA region. .NET Enterprise Solutions ... Best Practices for the Connoisseur ISBN: 0-620-33013-9, published September 2004. Authors: Willy-Peter Schaub, James Pereira Information technologies change frequently and rapidly, but the principles...
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Wednesday, October 01, 2008 10:28 AM

Goodbye SAArchitect, welcome SAArchitect!

Thanks to some amazing work from two our our SAArchitect leads, Robert MacLean (who still has not uploaded his own profile and mugshot) and Zayd Kara, we are finally able to say goodbye to the old SA Architect site: ... and welcome to the new community site:    The new site allows registrations, contains the same value-add content and much, much more in the future and boasts the infamous " Bulldog " aggregator control to aggregate a number of community lead RSS feeds, applicable...
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Tuesday, September 30, 2008 9:18 AM

South-African IT Community servers ... stats to be proud of!

A colleague asked me today for some stats on quick reference poster hits and downloads. Well after looking at the two community servers we are responsible for, namely www.saarchitect.net and www.drp.co.za , I found that the statistics are actually very promising. So much so, that I am posting some of the stats in this post, so that everyone can see the "value-add" the two environments are bringing to the local and international community. To all the Community leads and MVPs feeding these...
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Monday, September 29, 2008 7:36 AM

Java - Collections

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/09/25/java-equality-amp-cloning.aspx and focusing on the question of "which collection should be used for what"? Java ships with a number of standard collections, made up of bags, sets, lists and maps. The Bags are unordered collection of elements that allow duplicates, but are seldom used directly. Other than this "Blitz" introduction we will not cover bags any further. Visual Map (click images for a more user friendly view...
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Friday, September 26, 2008 1:55 PM

MSDN Community DVD - September 2009

We, SA Architect, have copies of the latest MSDN Community DVD if you are looking for a copy. It consolidates the March, May and July community CDs. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 1:05 PM

Webcast: Using Scrum with Visual Studio Team System

Mike Azocar (one of the authors of the VSTS Lightweight Scrum template) will be presenting: Scrum-tastic Development with Visual Studio Team System and Light Weight Scrum Thursday, September 25 th , 2008 | 9:00am – 10:00am (PDT, Redmond time) https://www.livemeeting.com/cc/mvp/join?id=NR4H9T&role=attend&pw=4402ml-2S65 Miss it at your own peril! Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Thursday, September 25, 2008 7:59 AM

Logic - Brainteaser

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/09/25/java-equality-amp-cloning.aspx . Consider the following binary tree:   Brainteaser exercise What logic could you develop to find the common parent node of two nodes, i.e. FindCommonNode(node:4,node:7) => node:3, or FindCommonNode(node:5,node:9) => node:1. A possible solution Find number of steps of node 1 to root. Node 4 = 3 steps. Find number of steps of node 2 to root. Node 7 = 5 steps. Advance the Node with the most steps...
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