The Mailowl Scrolls

Way back when I said I was going to be working in Pretoria; well today is my last day on this project before I go on leave and then start a new project back at BB&D in Johannesburg.
It’s been an incredible experience working here at Khula Finance Enterprise Ltd, not just because the [...]

People in South Africa are definitely becoming more comfortable with Internet shopping; especially when it comes to airline tickets where you need to balance cost and the time of your flight, and you need to look on the airlines time-charts to compare. But the marvel isn’t that people are using theInternet to shop; it’s that [...]

Thanks to a new blogger on dotnet.org.za, NishkarM has pointed out free pre-configured virtual machines available for download from Microsoft. Configurations include Exchange 2007, SQL Server 2005, ISA Server 2006 and Dynamics CRM 3.0.
If you’re interested in playing with these technologies I think it would be worth the large download to have something [...]

I need another Xbox 360!
This is because XNA is out of beta and been released along with all the tools you need to run your games on the 360. It’s maybe just years of “real world” development that’s built up a layer of cynicism that I’m NOT going to mess around with development [...]

Issue #9 of Dev.Mag is out and you can get it from the website (http://www.devmag.org.za) (make sure you subscribe to the email notification!). In this issue they cover the devLAN down in Durban where they managed to fly Danny Day and Miktar Dracon (2 well respected game developers in the community) down to give them [...]

In the last couple of weeks I’ve made great use of the TODO and HACK task tokens in Visual Studio to track work-arounds and changes that have been made in our project. We’re running parallel with the existing system in a test state and there are lots of little changes that the users want (default [...]

I hope you’re enjoying the local game development magazine, Dev.Mag, I’ve been telling you about and I hope you got yourself issue 7 and 8.
If you haven’t head over to http://www.devmag.org.za and download this free e-zine; and you can even subscribe to the email notifications for when future issues come out.  Unfortunately I’m [...]

There are 2 blogs I really want to encourage you to look at and add to your aggregated feed.
The first is Coding Horror by Jeff Atwood, who’s a software developer primarily interested in best practices and human interaction with computers; and the second is Scott Hanselman’s Computer Zen by Scott Hanselman, a web [...]