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Calling all developers in Port Elizabeth and surrounds. You’ve asked for it in the past and community member Dave Coates has taken up the challenge to get the P.E. development community going. SA Developer .NET currently does not have a formal chapter...
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Join Microsoft for a jam-packed morning of developer technical sessions at the Microsoft Offices in Bryanston, Johannesburg. We’ve invited developer presenters to come present on their favourite topics. It’s going to be to the point, concise, each presentation...
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Ever wondered about the interopability of the Microsoft development products with other platforms like Java and PHP? Come join Microsoft, the community leads, MVPs and your fellow developers for a day workshop in Johannesburg discussing how the objective...
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The focus will be on new and enhanced developer features in SQL Server 2008. The workshop will be co-presented by Peter Willmot and Eben de Wit. All welcome to attend. Please spread the word amongst your co-workers. Full registration and event details...
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Its launch time! Yes February 27 marks the start of the HEROES happen {here} launch activities around the country and the world. So what is being launched, well the 2008 wave of Microsoft development and server products namely Visual Studio 2008, Windows...
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The South African launch event of Windows Server® 2008, Visual Studio® 2008 and Microsoft SQL Server™ 2008 is happening in March. Exciting Stuff!! More at this link: http://www.microsoft.com/southafrica/heroeshappenhere/default.mspx...
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Facebook/Silverlight Workshop Microsoft and Mentez ( www.mentez.com ) will be holding two evening workshops on Facebook/Silverlight development. We have the pleasure of inviting all developers interested in Facebook applications and using Silverlight...
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Wow, its 2008 already. Happy New Year! What happened to 2007? It seems to have flown past at a blazing fast rate. Hopefully 2008 doesn't just swoosh past like 2007 otherwise we won't get anything done. The community has been rather quiet over the last...
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Facebook has become the most frequently visited web site in South Africa. And as you may already know, developers can build their own Facebook applications for the platform. Mentez has launched a competition in South Africa in search of the best Facebook...
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Visual Studio 2008 Jumpstart DevChat How many days before Christmas? Just enough to do another round of DevChats This time round we're doing the event in every major city in South Africa. That is Johannesburg, Durban, Cape Town, East London, Port Elizabeth...
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JetBrains has kindly approached SA Developer .NET with an offer to give away free ReSharper Personal Licenses as prizes at our local meetings. ReSharper is a Visual Studio plugin which "brings unrivalled code analysis, a superior unit testing solution...
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Based on feedback from the community it seems that the monthly newsletter has not been reaching all members due to a possible bug in Community Server's mass e-mail functionality. This is rather sad so I've cooked up a new scheme this month and subscribed...
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I should start this months newsletter off with a correction and an apology. Firstly I incorrectly listed Peter Willmot as an MVP for Visual C# which was a copy and paste error and he is actually a SQL Server MVP. The apology is for me being slack and...
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Please will you join me in welcoming Willie Roberts (Diago) as a Lead of the KwaZulu -Natal chapter. Willie has been a forum moderator since the beginning of 2007 and has been organising community meetings and socials down in Durban for most of the year....
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UPDATE: This event has been cancelled. Come and support the Project Firefly team prepare for the Imagine Cup competition in Korea by sitting in on their dry-run presentation on Monday, 30th July 19:00 - 20:00 at the Microsoft offices in Bryanston, Johannesburg....
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Its hard to believe that half of 2007 has gone by already, it seems like it was summer just a few weeks ago and now the polar bears are knocking on our front doors as its too cold outside. Microsoft has appointed 4 more MVPs for South Africa, bringing...
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Want to present topics at large Microsoft events? Eben De Wit, Microsoft Developer Advisor, has put together a guide on joining the Microsoft community speaker panel which you can download from the SA Developer .NET downloads section . Growing the Speaker...
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Be the first to know about Tech-Ed 2007.. Subscribe here: https://msevents.microsoft.co.za/Teched2007/ Dates: Sunday, 21 October – Wednesday, 24 October 2007 Venue: Sun City...
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While Dev Days 2007 must still happen in the Western Cape at the time of this writing, there has been a good response received from SA Developer .NET members in KwaZulu-Natal and Gauteng regarding what is probably the largest, free, developer-focused...
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Willy-Peter Schaub from the SA Architect community would like to ask the SA Developer .NET members for comments and reviews of the 2 books he's written and published which he can use as motivation for his sponsors to publish a third one. He has been kind...
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I'm happy to tell you about the Red Five Labs invitation to watch "Pirates of Silicon Valley" (unfortunately only in Johannesburg, RSVP required) on the 14th June 2007 and about their competition (available nationwide) to win a LEGO Mindstorms NXT Robotics...
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With Microsoft Dev Days 2007 happening across the country don’t forget to ask your local community leaders where the SA Developer .NET after party is happening after the event. Since you’ve already gotten the day off from your boss to attend the event...
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How time flies when you are having fun and making progress on those project deadines. In the last few weeks it seems like the winter weather has descended upon most of the country - it sure has made Gauteng a bit chilly. I would like to take this opportunity...
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It is with great pleasure that I announce: CalmYourself , Diago , frigi , manic and ProfK as moderators on the SA Developer .NET website. They are charged with keeping the forums neat and tidy and ensuring that your questions get answered. The moderators...
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Its April already and first quarter of 2007 is behind us. This is the second newsletter for 2007 and I must start off with an apology for the duplicate copies of the March newsletter that got sent out, it was an early morning pre-coffee human error. Last...
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