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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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Thursday, July 17, 2008 5:23 PM

TechED 2008 South-Africa ... T-18 ... who's who in the zoo?

Is it worth going to TechED? Well, just considering the community initiatives, such as the MVP Cave,  the community lounge, the MVP chalk&talk (CnT) sessions and the opportunity to meet with the community leads and MVPs, should be a motivation to make the "trek" down to Durban! We have posted a summary of the CnT's we will be delivering and the faces you may see in Durban on our www.saarchitect.net community server. Another view, and this is a DRAFT Microsoft-non-approved view...
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Tuesday, July 15, 2008 12:51 PM

Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 - Overview and Changes

Take note of a great event, by one of our great community leads in Kwa-Zulu Natal ! When : Wednesday, 23 July 2008, 18:00-20:30 Venue : I.T. Intellect, Shop 405b Level 3, Musgrave Centre, 115 Musgrave Road, Musgrave Presenter : Willie Roberts Topic : Microsoft SharePoint Server 2007 - Overview and Changes RSVP : Please RSVP by replying to this thread or e-mailing diago at sadeveloper dot net. Please join use for a look into the word of Microsoft SharePoint Server and what it offers developers, users...
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Thursday, July 10, 2008 1:02 PM

TechED 2008 South-Africa ... T-25 days

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/07/05/teched-2008-south-africa-countdown-t-30-days.aspx . A brief update on what is happening in the MVP and Community preparations for TechED from our side: The sessions we are involved in a faily static at this stage: Introducing Windows, Linux, TFS, VSTS and Java working as one happy family Ever wondered how we can integrate a heterogeneous development team under one Application Lifecycle Management environment. The session explores the Team...
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Saturday, July 05, 2008 1:00 PM

Teched 2008 South-Africa - Countdown T-30 Days

The Teched event is slowly, but surely crawling towards us and as part of the MVP and SA Architect we are busy with a number of interesting initiatives. Here is a brief peek at what is happening behind the scenes from our perspective, which is just a fraction of the phenomenal commitment that the MVPs and Community Leads are investing in TechEd. SA Architect - The new home is imminent Our SA Architect community server, powered by Internet Solutions, is on the verge of moving to its own dedicated...
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Thursday, July 03, 2008 1:50 PM

TechEd MVP Cave

We have one last spot at the TechEd 2008 MVP cave for an active community lead or MVP that requires "free" accommodation in Durban and the opportunity to collaborate with other community leads and MVPs away from the TechEd buzz. If you are the person to fill the spot, then please add your details to this post and we will select the first eligible candidate! For more details on the MVP cave, have a look at http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/06/20/teched-2008-mvp-cave.aspx . Share this...
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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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Friday, June 20, 2008 5:07 PM

TechEd 2008 MVP Cave

This year the objective of SA Architect, MVP and other communities is visibility and 'open minded' collaboration. Thanks to Willie Robert's immense efforts, the community lounge will definitely "rock" and the MVPs and community leads will have an opportunity to collaborate in the MVP Cave. In essence the MVP Cave is a bead & breakfast were some of the most passionate technologists and community leads will be staying for the duration of TechEd. We will be arranging a braai ...
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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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Saturday, June 07, 2008 4:57 PM

Interoperability Highlight - T-3 days

Here is the description for the last time and the agenda for the exciting interoperability event that will "rock" Johannesburg on the 10th June: Date 10 th June Title “ Interoperability – a difficult word to say, an easy concept to understand” Audience 160 seats, predominantly developers from all circles ... Windows, Java, Linux, Open-Source ... Venue Microsoft Offices, 3012 William Nicol Drive, Bryanston, Gauteng Description The Microsoft MVPs from South-Africa invite you to come and discuss...
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Tuesday, June 03, 2008 10:45 AM

MVP Interoperability Workshop - Event Agenda ... now you should see that it is worth attending!

The agenda for the interoperability event has just been finalised. Here is the DRAFT version, which may be changed slightly once the linguists have reviewed and patched the content: Welcome: Welcome and short overview of MVP Program. Keynote: Interoperability: Connecting People, Data and Diverse Systems In today’s connected world the increase in technical heterogeneity drives more complexity within, and on the edge of IT infrastructures. Interoperability is as important as security and reliability...
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Friday, May 30, 2008 7:10 AM

MVP Interoperability Workshop ... the sponsors behind the scenes

We often forget the sponsors behind the scenes of events such as the MVP Interoperability Workshop and I am therefore dedicating this blog to the sponsors: Most importantly to the community leads and MVPs actively preparing content for the event, mostly in their own personal time, out of sheer passion for technology and in this case interoperability! Zlatan , Ryan , Henk , Zayd , Almero and Garret ... you guys really rock! Our community leads and MVPs supporting us in the background and at the event...
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Friday, May 16, 2008 4:36 PM

MVP Interoperability Workshop ... Unwanted? Opportunity? Register now and find out!

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Thursday, May 15, 2008 2:10 AM

BizTalk Bootcamp - Day 3b Diary: Nuggets (Orchestrations)

Continued from http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/05/14/biztalk-bootcamp-day-3a-diary-nuggets-lab.aspx . We continued with Orchestrations. After today my brain really hurts suffering from absolute information overload with John not slowing down throughout the day ... anyway here we go with the notes on the theory and an orchestration lab: Orchestration Theory Orchestration Types Types include: Message Type, defining messages used by the process Port Type, defining port operations used across...
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