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When: 22nd July 2006, 10:00 – 16:00Venue: IT Intellect, Bryanston, Johannesburg (map)Objective: No competition, just a theme and a conducive environment for game development. Come and work amongst other game developers either on the theme-of-the-day or on your own projects.Bring: Basic PC are available or you can bring your own equipmentCost: R30 for cooldrinks, chips [...]

Going through my blog archive I can’t believe I didn’t mention the 4th instalment of the local Dev.Mag game development magazine! June’s featured article looks at the difference between a game engine and a game framework written by The Game Developer, William Cairns.

You can download it (Right-click Save As) from my blog, or [...]

I remember being asked at the last SA Developer meeting if Microsoft was going to release a service pack for Visual Studio 2003.

I didn’t know then now I know (thanks to Chris Williams) that the release date of Visual Studio 2003 Service Pack 1 should be the 15th August 2006; at least according to [...]

Software developers are funny people!

On the one extreme you have people with a strict adherence to the separation between Work time and Family time and one the other extreme you have other you have those who live, breathe and can talk about nothing else other than technology and projects.

Of course, a happy medium must be [...]

I manage to get myself to a lot of parties and community events; and with me always goes my trusty camera. I’ve even earned the title of “He who hath no shame” on the NAG Forums for shooting everyone at a social, preferably in a compromising position.

My ability to share my photos with you [...]

The last webcast from INETA was very valuable (as was the first); and can I say I’m proud that the whole SA Developer Gauteng team attended a viewing at the Microsoft offices so that we could watch on a big screen and comment on the presentation together. It’s really cool that the webcasts are [...]

Taken from the Madam & Eve website just before the Soccer World Cup final, I think this is how many South Africans (and, indeed, people across the world) felt about the world cup, especially as it’s foreshadowed by the dismal prospect that the next completion in 2010 in our country will be a complete failure.
Regularly [...]

A big disadvantage of failing to blog regularly is that you don’t get to be the first to break the news about something new and exciting; but the Microsoft Robotics Studio is still worth mentioning because building robots has been a love of mine since I was a little boy. Heck! It’s the reason [...]

Just a quick thought, I know Microsoft has Passport tightly coupled with nearly all of their sites, services and forums but will they be implementing the new CardSpace technologies any time soon?
There are still a lot of unanswered questions around the Identity 2.0 technologies, the first one being what stops a hacker stealing my “card” [...]