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Finding your viewers with ClustrMaps


I implemented ClustrMaps a little while ago on my blog to get a little more information about who’s checking out my website and I’m pleased to find I really enjoy using it. I had previously used Google Analytics and Feedburner but I wasn’t really getting any information out. ClustrMaps is really simple and [...]

LINQ Study Group postponed


Unfortunately, life’s not perfect and I have to postpone the LINQ Study Group that was going to happen this weekend because both our sponsors, IT Intellect and Torque IT have booked out all their classrooms to paying customers and there’s no space for us.  Like a Jo’burger telling a Capetonian why they live there “It’s [...]

LINQ Study Group, Johannesburg


I think LINQ is an amazing and mind altering enhancement coming out with the .NET Framework 3.5. It provides the ability to really manipulate objects; filtering them, sorting and mashing them up together to make new objects. I’m particularly interested in how you can get LINQ to access different datasources like SQL and XML and [...]

My Community Credit arrived


Just a quick post; I got my Community Credit prize from the post office over the weekend and the certificate is proudly displayed at my desk.

The game I got, Star Wars Lightsaber Battle Game, is pretty geeky but fun to play. Imagine swinging a Wii around but with 8bit graphics. Still, I’m very happy and [...]

South Africans love Facebook


Are you on Facebook?  The rest of South Africa is, as there are nearly 120,000 members on the South Africa regional group in Facebook (and those are the ones that joined the group).  Now back in 2005 the South African Census counted 35,000 developers in the country (that’s people who called themselves a developer, be they Java, [...]