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This month we’re very fortunate to have organized 3 presentations for the community as well as 2 dinners with leads from the Western Cape and KwaZulu-Natal chapters.
Brady Kelly, a SA Developer .NET moderator, will be replacing this month’s TechReel session with a talk on using Windows Powershell; Simon Stewart and Tristan Bergh will be [...]

The next issue of the local, online game development magazine is available for download from the Dev.Mag website.
Issue 16 really highlights the continuing effort that the contributors are putting into this community project. In particular there’s: Part 2 & 3 of A Beginner’s Guide; Part 3 of Game Coding with Trigonometry; Part 7 of the [...]

The winners of the Game.Dev Competition 15, sponsored by Mindset Learn, have been announced on the community forum; and below you can find a link to all of the games entered as well as the final comments on the winning games by the community leader Danny “dislekcia” Day who did the judging.  The objective was [...]

It’s time again to talk about what is probably the largest game developer gathering event in South Africa.  Professionals, indie developers and hobbyists will be getting together at the Game.Dev stand at rAge 2007 in Johannesburg and will be running talks and workshops throughout the 3 day event.
Free DVDs with game development content and resources [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

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 [...]

I think it’s disgusting that when a large, fun event is just down the road from my house that I had to get up an hour earlier to attend it! This year’s Microsoft Dev Days event was at Vodaworld in Midrand and about 2km from my home.
The event was fun to attend and the sessions, [...]