The Mailowl Scrolls

I’m keen to have a cause that the members of SA Developer .NET can support. It’s something that our community can give back to the greater community of people in South Africa.
Last year Craig Nicholson (one of the leaders of SA Developer .NET) passionately drove us to a Shavathon to get our hair shaved or [...]

I believe GameMaker is most probably the greatest RAD (Rapid Application Development) game development tool available today. It has an easy and understandable interface for beginners (even children can use it) and a scripting language that exposes powerful functionality for advanced users. It also has huge support across dozens of communities in different countries and [...]

Here’s an interesting thought; if Microsoft’s Windows Presentation Foundation Everywhere is a potential Flash killer, can it be adopted for unconventional means like making games and cartoons.
I believe making web page animations is a subtle art with 0 credit going to the people who make pictures slide across the screen or menus drop down. Users [...]

It’s time to nominate your favourite blogs for the SA Blog Awards 2007 and if you like my blog please click on the widget below and nominate me for Best SA Blog about Technology / Computers / Web Development.

The SA Blog Awards is a great initiative because it grows awareness of blogs and bloggers in [...]

After a brief holiday this last weekend in Cape Town I have to agree with Jeff Atwood and add that dialog boxes are a curse on the computer user.
While dialogs have a good intention to inform and empower the user their efforts are dashed because users don’t read dialogs. Eric Lippert’s comment on an unrelated [...]

Yes! I have got my first Hello World scenario with CardSpace working!
Using the “Accepting information cards in your website (in C#)” sample from the CardSpace site as a base, my main problem was I couldn’t get the scripts to run on my Vista machine (but I think it’s busy I’m missing a compatibility module somewhere).
So [...]

Let me be frank (“Hi, my name is Frank!”), I don’t know anything about digital certificates other than a little theory and this is a stumbling block for learning how to implement CardSpace.
In the CardSpace model the Identity Provider signs and encrypts the user’s claims with the Relying Party’s public key to create a security [...]

I would like to thank Matt for finding an alternative weather gadget for Windows Vista as I get a “Service not available” message from the default gadget.
Besides being able to get the weather for Johannesburg, South Africa; I also like the gadget’s ability to allow me to pick a weather station within the city I [...]

Talking about internet security is like talking about anti-terrorism; there are a lot of sensitive and gray areas which are difficult to solve AND keep everyone happy. If you’re not carefully and cannot immediately solve any technical loophole a listener might have thought about then you’ll very quickly be shot down and dismissed.
I say [...]

Instead of the usual “I don’t know what you like” gift vouchers last Christmas I really wanted to learn to draw and asked for some carefully chosen books and equipment. Specifically I organised Ben Caldwell’s Action! Cartooning and Fantasy! Cartooning.
These, along with some inevitable supplies and a surprisingly supportive forum around the books (check out [...]