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Monday, September 08, 2008 1:04 PM

Remembering TechEd Africa 2008 .....................

Finally I get a chance to write a blog post after all this time. After such a long time I got to also catch up with a couple of things and in this post I will first catch up with the biggest event that happened in the past month (August) and that is TechEd 2008!!!!! Nicolas Blank (Exchange MVP), Ruari Plint (Our MVP Lead) and Me at the very beginning of the madness We’ve had some awesome times, especially with the rest of the MVPs and Community leads. If you haven’t seen us at presentations, you...
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Friday, July 11, 2008 5:04 PM

XML Standards in Government

Last month has also featured one of the important national government events for Open Document Standards, namely: XML Standards in Government Workshop ( http://www.dst.gov.za/invite/ ) South African Department of Science and Technology have organised this workshop on June 17 th to 20 th 2008 at Tshwane University. “The purpose of the workshop is to consolidate (and indeed celebrate!) the work done to date on the adoption of XML standards in the public sector and to prepare the strategic direction...
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Friday, June 20, 2008 9:31 PM

Microsoft Technology Interoperability Improvements for PHP

When I got back from the MVP Interoperability Workshop last week ( http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/06/07/interoperability-highlight-t-3-days.aspx ) I got buried in work that has been waiting for me and haven't had a chance to put up my post event info, so, finally here it is. Way back in the days, first content management systems I dealt with were PHP based, like PHP-Nuke PostNuke, MyPHPNuke... etc, and this is basically where I fell in love with content management systems. They were...
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Wednesday, June 04, 2008 1:55 PM

MVP Interoperability Workshop will be rockin'!!!!

So most of you already know about the MVP Workshop that is coming up in Jozi next week, for those of you don't know check out the following posts: http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/06/03/mvp-interoperability-workshop-event-agenda-now-you-should-see-that-it-is-worth-attending.aspx http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/05/30/mvp-interoperability-workshop-the-sponsors-behind-the-scenes.aspx http://dotnet.org.za/willy/archive/2008/05/28/mvp-interoperability-workshop.aspx http://www.saarchitect...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 3:02 PM

SharePoint Developer MSDN Web Cast Series

See some prominent SharePoint MVPs cover SharePoint development fundamentals: Date Topic and Signup URL Presenter May 20 th 9AM PST Web Parts Robert Bogue May 21 st 9AM PST Data Lists Robert Bogue May 27 th 9AM PST Silverlight Andrew Connell May 28 th 9AM PST Event Handlers Andrew Connell June 3 rd 9AM PST Page Branding Andrew Connell June 4 th 9AM PST Workflow Robert Bogue June 10 th 9AM PST Web Services Andrew Connell June 11 th 9AM PST Page Navigation Andrew Connell June 17 th 9AM PST User Management...
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Thursday, May 22, 2008 12:12 PM

Developing Business Intelligence Solutions with SharePoint 2007 and PerformancePoint 2007 - SADeveloper event - Post Event Info

Ok so it took me some time to write post event info on my last speaking event (better very late than never), namely: "Developing Business Intelligence Solutions with SharePoint 2007 and PerformancePoint 2007" ( http://dotnet.org.za/zlatan/archive/2008/04/04/developing-business-intelligence-solutions-with-sharepoint-2007-and-performancepoint-2007.aspx ) We've had a smaller crowd this time, mostly due to the session being organised right in the middle of the holidays but our diehard fans...
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Sunday, April 20, 2008 9:13 PM

South African Business Intelligence User Group Launch in Cape Town, a Success!! (Post Event Info)

Wow that was an awesome event, and perfect way start yet another great user group/community in Cape Town and Western Cape (we rule!!) and I'm proud that I was part of it. The event that was represented by prominent BI people from all sides of our industry also featured a brilliant presentation by John Swanepoel of Shoprite on one of the best examples I’ve seen on how BI should be done (Shoprite BI case study), I want to thank him for that and I hope to see more of his work in near future. Also...
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Tuesday, April 08, 2008 4:11 PM

South African Business Intelligence User Group Meeting - Cape Town 15th of April 2008

If you’re not signed up for this already please do it before it’s too late, I will be giving a Technical Session on PerformancePoint Server 2007 (number 4 in the Agenda) , see you there!!! See details below: 15 APRIL 2008 Come and share your experiences, both business and technical, at the South African Business Intelligence User Group Meeting. Customers will be sharing case studies, partners will be showcasing evidence and techies will be giving expert advice and opinions. Learn, Share, Grow. Date...
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Friday, April 04, 2008 12:29 PM

Developing Business Intelligence Solutions with SharePoint 2007 and PerformancePoint 2007

This session was actually scheduled for the 26th of March but we unfortunatelly had to postpone the meeting in the last minute as I needed to be in Johannesburg urgently (I'm finally back in CPT). Here's write up from the invite (you can also download it in pdf on infromationworker.co.za under events): S.A. Developer.net April 2008 Meeting - Developing Business Intelligence Solutions with SharePoint 2007 and PerformancePoint 2007 Please join us for an exciting session presented by Zlatan...
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Friday, March 07, 2008 2:24 PM

Microsoft Academic Alliance Installation Festival 2008 Africa Pilot Successful!!!!

Saturday (1 st of March 2008) was the first day of the Microsoft Academic Alliance Installation Festival ( pilot ). We've had an attendance from Final Year and Post Graduate Information Systems and some Computer Science students from University of Cape Town. I've had an over 2 hour talk which started with new Visual Studio 2008 Development, and after that introduction to OBA, SharePoint, SOA and ESB (a lot of talking). Nyaladzi Mpofu (from Microsoft Academic Alliance) gave his speech about...
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Tuesday, February 26, 2008 7:49 AM

Microsoft Academic Alliance Installation Festival 2008 Africa

We are organising the first (hopefully, of many) MS AA Installation Festival at University of Cape Town on the 1 st and 4 th of March 2008. Some of you in the community know that I've been pushing for this to happen with Microsoft SA for a while, well since my trip to Redmond where I had a chance to meet the core Academic Alliance team and share common insights in how communities can work and operate better in respective countries. We both agreed that the most vital and core part of any development...
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