The Mailowl Scrolls

I feel really honoured to be part of a community that’s achieving such amazing milestones in terms of what it provides for its members and how it reaches out to new markets.  The Game.Dev community has managed to get MindSet to sponsor R10,000 rand in prizes for their next game development competition; that’s R5000 for [...]

I was just handed an article from News24 which not only describes the petition from my previous post but has also managed to get a statement out of Cindy White, Xbox 360 Group Manager for Microsoft South Africa.
“The Xbox team is currently working to an international roll-out plan for Xbox Live. South Africa is included [...]

If you live in South Africa and have an Xbox 360 you might want to check out the petition that’s just been started which will be sent Microsoft South Africa asking for local Live support.

Xbox Live is amazing and extends from downloading and playing Live Arcade games (classics from Double Dragon, to Worms, to Poker) [...]

Continuing from my post yesterday I want to invite you to the talk I’m giving for SA Developer .NET titled “Implementing CardSpace in your website” where I’ll be going over the Laws of Identity, the architecture and implementation of CardSpace to authenticate users on an ASP.NET and I’ll touch on OpenID as well, and compare [...]

If ever you want to get an impression of the state of blogging in South Africa, head off to the 27Dinner events. I attended the last dinner on the 27th March 2007 (they’re always on the 27th, hence the name) and I was blown away by the sheer number of people there and in particular [...]

Over a week since I last blogged and boy do I have a lot to talk about!
First Craig Nicholson helped me out with an explanation as to why generated code in Visual Studio 2005 throws a general exception as supposed to the specific NotImplementedException when implementing interfaces. Then I went to 27Dinner and met [...]

Internal tools need evangelism too!
If we look at any Microsoft technology, there are always a couple of people out there blogging about their experiences with it and providing links to samples and references. If we want to learn Java, PHP or C++ there are a whole host of sites willing to take us from [...]

A big thanks to all of you who voted for my blog for the 2007 SA Blog Awards, your support, post comments and motivation encourage me to drive this blog daily.
Sadly, I didn’t make to the final nomination list but I’d like to look on the bright side and point that we have 10 local, [...]

This is rather exciting news for one of our local lads; Ruari Plint has been made MEA (Middle East, Africa) MVP Program Manager for Microsoft, effective from the 1st April 2007.
Even when Ruari joined Microsoft a couple of years ago and lost his MVP title (Microsoft employees can’t be MVPs, it defeats the point) he [...]

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 [...]