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Wednesday, July 02, 2008 3:52 PM

Community Server (www.drp.co.za) is serving you!

The latest statistics on one of our two community servers http://www.drp.co.za is very promising. The other community server ( www.saarchitect.net ) is on the verge of moving to its own dedicated server, which is why we are not focusing on its stats at the moment. The following illustration summarises the growing traffic: Top 19 downloads are as follows: In total we have 65395 poster and white paper downloads processed by the one community server to date ... rock on! Share this post: email it! |...
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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 6:06 PM

Technology Quick Reference Posters ... made in South-Africa

We have noticed that our quick reference posters, which have grown to over 130, are popular. One of our two community sites www.drp.co.za has over 60,000 downloads of these artifacts. Our other community server www.saarchitect.net is processing a similar volume, although it has not been operational as long as its sycophantic twin. The top 13 downloads are: Artifact Category Downloads   Team Foundation Server (TFS) Guidance Whitepaper Technology Whitepapers 1222   0202 Microsoft Team System...
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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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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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Wednesday, May 28, 2008 8:06 PM

MVP Interoperability Workshop

Interoperability – a difficult word to say, an easy concept to understand The Microsoft MVPs from South Africa invite you to come and discuss the world of interoperability in the development environment, exploring how we can integrate and interoperate with other technologies. The event will allow you to explore new ideas and solutions, collaborating with Microsoft Consultants, Community Leads and Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) from South Africa who will be giving an independent view...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 6:48 AM

VSTS 2008 Team Test ... a few notes and thoughts from our internal workshop

Overview We covered VSTS Team test features using the great training material created by Brian Randell (MVP) and in essence the test environment currently supports the following features: Unit Testing by adding attributes to classes and methods to be tested. Web Testing allowing us to record a set of web actions, replaying, extracting and validating information from the HTTP traffic. Load Testing which can execute any type of tests, based on user load and time, for example; capturing of performance...
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Monday, May 19, 2008 9:19 PM

Community material access to www.drp.co.za and www.saarchitect.net relaxed

Please note that all community material, including high-quality quick reference posters and videos are now available to all visitors of our community servers www.drp.co.za (optimised for non-Africa access) and www.saarchitect.net (optimised for Africa access) without having to register. This support has been enabled to simplify the access to the community material. http://www.drp.co.za , hosted in the US. http://www.saarchitect.net , hosted by IS in South-Africa. Share this post: email it! | bookmark...
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Monday, May 19, 2008 9:09 PM

MVP Interoperability Workshop - Registration Problems

Some of you are experiencing the following error when trying to register for the MVP Interoperability and other events: Microsoft has advised that the events back-end system is down today due to maintenance, which may be causing this problem. If you are having problems registering online, please register either by email, or calling in: To register via telephone, dial 0860 2255 67 (CALL MS) To register via e-mail saevents@microsoft.com Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit...
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Monday, May 19, 2008 7:52 AM

MVP Interoperability Workshop - The "Interop Coins"

Have you wondered where all the great artwork for the MVP Interoperability event is coming from? Our MVP for MIIS is also an artist as we can see ... Almero , thank you for all your work and passion you are committing to our event! So what is it with the coins? Register and attend this great event and you will find the solution to this latest question as well. http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032379428&Culture=en-ZA Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it...
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Friday, May 16, 2008 4:36 PM

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

Register here . Share this post: email it! | bookmark it! | digg it! | reddit! | kick it! | live it!
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Friday, May 16, 2008 9:09 AM

Service Guidance Packages

During the BizTalk 2006 R2 drill down I have 'fortunately' had an opportunity to check-out the latest service guidance from the Microsoft patterns and practices team. WOW ... there has been major innovations. If you are developing ASMX or WCF services, make sure that you install the relevant guidance packs, i.e. Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition - February 2008 Web Service Software Factory: Modeling Edition Source Code - February 2008 WCF Security Guidance Package The documentation...
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Thursday, May 15, 2008 7:15 AM

MVP Interoperability Workshop ... TFS/Java/WCF/Linux/BizTalk/... join the "happy" techno family!

“Interoperability – a difficult word to say, an easy concept to understand” The Microsoft MVPs from South-Africa invite you to come and discuss the world of interoperability in the development environment, exploring how we can integrate and interoperate with other technologies. The event will allow you to explore new ideas and solutions, collaborating with Microsoft Consultants, Community Leads and Microsoft Most Valuable Professionals (MVPs) from South-Africa who will be giving an independent and...
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Wednesday, May 07, 2008 7:33 PM

What’s your Circle of Interest?

Grant Holliday made us aware of Paul Stovell who put out the question to bloggers to define how they spend their time in terms if three areas: Core These are things I enjoy, care about, and follow as much as I can. When news breaks in these areas, I try to stay on top. I like to think I’m an expert in some of them, and have strong opinions on the rest. Non-core I find myself working with these things, or have a minor interest in them, but tend to follow announcements occasionally. I have opinions...
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