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I feel like I’ve lost my individuality on Windows Vista; I can’t show people my desktop background when I lock my machine. Instead we’re given a default blue and green screen with text (inside of a dialogue box, yeah) explaining that the computer is locked.

Now I never really see my desktop background picture; [...]

I think it started with Bill Nye the Science Guy in the early 90’s and then the very successful Mythbusters. These shows captured the hearts of science enthusiasts by giving someone the time and budget to try all the cool experiments you’d be maimed, killed or sued for if you tried yourself.
And, like [...]

The new SA Developer .NET website is up and running; check the new site out and tell me what you think.
The community was sorely in need on an updated forum that supported IE7 and so this last weekend I installed the latest, stable version of Community Server (a .NET community portal used by [...]

As a child at school I don’t ever remember writing the notorious “What I did on my holidays” essay (applicable to any primary school grade) but I would like to tell you now because, of course, it involves game development!
I’ve mentioned before that I was working on an entry Comp 12 by the Game.Dev [...]

Hello again, and let me add to the numerous voices in wishing you a happy 2007. I know January is nearly half over and maybe you feel I should have done this earlier; but with a refreshing holiday, the excitement of starting on a new project with work and, more importantly, a buggy pc I [...]

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 [...]