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If you’re in the Gauteng region and have been hearing about this framework called Ruby on Rails (maybe from Scott Hanselman’s podcast) but are not quite sure what it is; then come to the SA Developer .NET meeting on the 18th August at Torque IT in Rivonia where Armand Du Plessis will be taking us […]

At the last 27Dinner in Johannesburg I got into an interesting discussion about the difference between Nerds and Geeks. Previously I had always thought the name was interchangeable but according to Kerryn Whitehead, a geologist, “The difference between nerds and geeks is technology”.
Geeks, apparently, shun daylight to spend all their time with their PCs […]

It seems my previous post, talking about my experiences using ClustrMaps didn’t go unnoticed by the ClustrMaps Team who were kind enough to leave a comment on my blog and to upgrade my subscription to ClustrMaps+. I also got listed on their User of the Month for August 2007 which is awesome.
ClustrMaps+ mainly provides […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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 […]

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, […]

I’m very excited as my book, Programming Python 3rd Edition, was delivered yesterday afternoon. Unfortunately my evening was dedicated to that night’s SA Developer .NET meeting and then to my next Silverlight talk preparations so I haven’t had time to sit in a comfy chair yet and start reading to start reading it in depth. […]

Their quote says it all “We give stupid prizes to smart people” Community Credit encourages developers to create and share information (with blogs, articles, book reviews and forums) and to organise and participate in community events by having a monthly competition and sending prizes that only a geek could love, like and R2-D2 USB stick […]