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Wednesday, November 19, 2008 9:21 AM

PDC2008 Videos ... arrived!

After dealing with a frustrating delay at DHL South-Africa, we have finally received the external drive sent by Martin Woodward (MVP Team System) containing 202 videos. If you want a copy, please contact the SA Architect leads (Zayd, Henk, Robert or I) ...preferably bring your eternal drive and we can copy the media while having a chat over coffee. Thanks Martin for sending the drive! Team System MVPs "ROCK" as we all know ... a close family, even though we are scattered across the planet...
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Tuesday, November 04, 2008 6:57 AM

TechED (South-Africa) Online ... more videos have shipped.

On October 10th the first of three TechEd Online videos, we were involved, in was released by Microsoft, titled " What are MVPs and what does it take to be one? ". The last two have shipped as well: Why collaborate with the opposition? This talk will discuss the drive for interoperability and heterogeneous solutions, the reasons behind the interoperability drive, and the value of having an open mind Why Are We Focusing On Academia? The MVPs and Community Leads have recently embarked on...
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Friday, October 17, 2008 11:46 PM

Academic Interoperability Roadshow @ Rhodes - Day 2

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/10/16/rhodes-day-1.aspx . Morning stroll through Grahamstown ... A few more pictures of this wonderful town taken whilst strolling through the town at 6AM:     ... what is the definition of a well behaved student? The final preparations   We spent the day completing the TFS ATDT and build servers, final configurations, widget installs, a best practise analyzer (BPZ) test run and releasing a fully functional TFS environment...
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Thursday, October 16, 2008 5:04 PM

Academic Interoperability Roadshow @ Rhodes - Day 1

The anti-Swiss trek to Grahamstown The academia road show day started at 3AM, with a rude awakening ... 4AM we met up at BB&D to pack the final bags and make our way to the airport in the shuttle. Unfortunately it was (we - 1), as Mumbles missed the arctic alarm call and had to make his own way to the airport. "He owes his wife big time for getting him to the airport in time"! At the airport we proceeded to wait for our dear esteemed Herman, until the check-in lady's glare was no...
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Wednesday, October 15, 2008 7:25 AM

Rhodes ... T-24 hours

We are one day away from getting up at 3AM, getting to the office at 4AM and from  there starting the journey to Grahamstown, via Johannesburg International and Port Elisabeth airports. The handouts are finally complete and thanks to all sponsors the attendees will get a nice pack as shown:   Proud sponsors of the content include: BB&D ( www.bbd.co.za ), Teamprise ( www.teamprise.com ), SA Architect ( www.saarchitect.net ) and MVPs ( www.microsoft.com/mvp ). THANK YOU very much for...
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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 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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Tuesday, August 12, 2008 8:13 AM

TechED South-Africa 2008 - MVP CnT Winners announced!

We finally have all the MVP Chalk & Talk session winners ... drum roll ... Teamprise Client Suite 3.0 License Michael Grant XBox 360 Arcade Pack #1 Henry Fourie XBox 360 Arcade Pack #2 Marius Cronje We will be contacting the winners by email shortly. Thank you, for supporting the MVPs at TechED 2008 and we hope to see you again at the next event! Also a huge thanks to the sponsors of the above prizes: Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Thursday, August 07, 2008 11:03 AM

TechED 2008 South-Africa - Q&A Part 2

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/08/05/teched-2008-south-africa-q-amp-a.aspx . When will Microsoft support integration with TFS/VSTS for the Expression Blend tools? The topic has been under discussion with the product team and MVPs, whereby it seems that integration is under serious consideration. We will update this blog post as soon as we notice movement on that frontline. Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Tuesday, August 05, 2008 9:30 PM

TechED 2008 South-Africa - Q&A

Here are some of the questions we received during TechED, which we promised to follow up. Thanks to the "rocking" MVP and product colleagues, we also have some answers q;-) What is the support of MSSCI with TFS 2008 … are there any known issues or is the product fully supported? Fully supported with the latest MSSCCI provider Power Tool Is there an add-in to integrate Delphi development IDEs and TFS, i.e. a Delphi(Team)prise type product? See the blog post "Connecting Team Foundation...
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Thursday, July 31, 2008 7:38 AM

TechED 2008 - It is time to 'trek' to Durban soon. What will we be up to?

It is T-2 days before we start the journey to Durban, where we will be meeting with colleagues from far, far away, where we will collaborate, share ideas and where we will try our utmost to have fun all the time, even while being grilled by the audience when delivering a session. From our (BB&D, Henk, Zayd and I) we will be delivering the following content at TechED: Introducing Windows, Linux, TFS, VSTS and Java working as one happy family, CNT309 TFS Build, a look at customization and extensibility...
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Friday, July 18, 2008 10:33 AM

Visual Studio Team System @ TechED South-Africa

If you are interested in TFS | VSTS sessions, then please take note of the following confirmed sessions focused on the technology at TechED 2008, in Durban: Monday August 4th What's new in Visual Studio Team System 2008 Introducing Windows, Linux, TFS, VSTS and Java working as one happy family Managing the Complete Lifecycle of a Software System – Portfolio, Project and TFS working together. Application Lifecycle Management with VSTS Name "Rosario" (Part 1 of 2) Application Lifecycle...
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Sunday, June 22, 2008 2:31 PM

Interoperability Event ... pondering over some of the feedback

Based on the comments attached to my post-event event post , the interoperability event was well received. Unfortunately it seems that a large batch of evaluation forms never made it into the final statistics we received from Microsoft SA and I have picked up the following comments which need further analysis: Wasn’t very much interoperability content. I feel like the advertising was very misleading. Still enjoyed the sessions though. More depth on presentation, specifically DEV stuff. On point...
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Tuesday, June 10, 2008 9:16 PM

Interoperability Event - the dust has settled :)

A special thank you! To all the presenters and supporters who ventured into the unknown we would like to say "THANK YOU very much and congratulations on a successful interoperability event"! Ruari (MS), Paulo (MS), Eben (MS), Almero (MVP), Peter (MVP), Zlatan (MVP), Willie (Community), Ryan (Community), Garret (Community), Henk (Community), Zayd (Community) and Steven (Community) thank you for committing your time, energy and passion into this ground breaking event ... all of you "rock"...
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Saturday, June 07, 2008 5:01 PM

Interoperability is real ... Can you guess who this is?

Join us at the MVP Interoperability day in Johannesburg and find out. Anyone who does not believe that Microsoft is serious about integration, interoperability and working as one harmonious family with other vendors, technologies, standards and other information technology terrains better think again. Many of my colleagues have not realised the magnitude of this picture ... but I personally bow in front of this gentleman and his team, the best under the dome of the Microsoft at Redmond. A team that...
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