Microsoft has announced that the next release, Windows 8 Consumer Preview, will be available on February 29th. Now more than ever it’s time to start getting ready for the next wave in computer interaction using Metro design principles. Here are a list...

For those of you that are working on Windows Phone 7+ and Windows 8 apps (or about to start), you’ll notice that there’s a new emphasis on design and user experience that hasn’t always been part of the typical Microsoft messaging. On these new platforms...

  We have a number of events during Feb and Mar. Below you find the details of these various events. This is all Johannesburg   Scrum for Managers (2 Mar, free) The role of the manager in a software company is changing. No longer is it about...

What an exciting couple of months it has been with Nokia releasing the Lumia 800 locally and two excellent launches preparing the stage. Application developers creating tons of applications locally and a huge amount of our favourite applications coming...

"The Most Addicting Sheep Game" grabbed top honours in Microsoft’s Windows Phone Application Development competition in South Africa. Congratulations to developer J.G Southey who beat other really great Apps for the top spot such as News 24,...

Hi All Well its been an exciting couple of weeks with tons of workshops happening from Durban to Cape Town and we have our last weekend workshop in Johannesburg this weekend. All of them have been jam packed so if you missed them now or couldn’t get in...

  We have some places left at the last minute for a small event with world famous speaker David Chappell… For companies that sell software, the rise of Software as a Service (SaaS) brings great opportunities and significant risks. In this half-day...

All I can say is WOW! The workshops were completely booked out in the first week of us opening them for registration. With that in mind for those who have missed out we will be running these again early next year. So keep an eye out on the blog and our...

  Don’t forget to add your application to the competition. Develop your very own original application for the Windows Phone, upload it to Marketplace and you could win R50,000 in cash card vouchers. Get the tools today: create.msdn.com

Join us for the Windows Phone Weekend Workshop The Windows Phone Weekend workshop is a one day crash course on windows phone development. The course introduces the basics of Windows Phone development and allows you to get your hands dirty with some Labs...

  Developing your very own original application for the Windows Phone?  Build it and upload it to Marketplace and you could win R50,000 in cash card vouchers. Get the tools today: create.msdn.com Need to figure out where to start go here: Getting...

November community night is coming up on the 8th of November from 4pm till 9pm. 4pm: Information Worker Sharepoint Business Workgroup Developer UG 6pm: SQL User group Game Dev Javascript Usergroup BIDN Come and join us for a great evening with like minded...

Hi All The voting is done and here is the list of finalists for the DevIdols Entries, in no particular order: “What’s new in SQL “DENALI” for Developers” Code Generation Tools and Domain Driven Design Data Profiling and SQL Server 2008 offerings Distributing...

  Who is Jason Zander? Check out his blog . From his simpler bio there “I'm the corporate vice president for the Visual Studio team in the Developer Division at Microsoft, including Visual Studio Pro, Premium, and Ultimate. I've been in the Developer...

  Pimp My App A premium design workshop for developers to create better user interfaces for their touch-based applications Join us for a day of design and technology as part of the European Windows Phone Design days, kicking off in South Africa....

  TechED is around the corner, and we have lined up some great speakers and content. Speakers Brian Keller - Senior Tech Evangelist for TFS/ALM Chris Menegay – a regional director from Imaginet who has been working with TFS for ages. Heads up one...

Win 2 golden circle tickets to the Kings of Leon The Windows Phone and Nokia Developer team challenge you to become one of South Africa's Rock Star developers Publish your apps to Marketplace by 24 October 2011 and stand a chance to WIN 2 GOLDEN CIRCLE...

  Hi All We had a great response from people who would like to present at DevIdols and here are the entries: Code Generation Tools and Domain Driven Design This presentation would cover the following: • Brief introduction of DDD concepts relevant...

Hi All Community Night is coming up on the 11th of October from 4pm onwards we have the following groups meeting on the evening: Languages User Group Architectures Game Dev SQL User Group So pop through and spend some time with like minded people. See...

Do you have what it takes? Dev Idol is coming to Tech·Ed Africa again this year, do you have what it takes to be our winner? We’re looking for the rock star (presenter) of the future! If you’re passionate about technology and development show us! Enter...

  One of the common pieces of feedback we get from customers and partners is that they do not fully understand how the licensing of Visual Studio, MSDN and TFS – as well as what the story is around the licensing of non production environments. With...

Hi All The folks from YallaApps have just extended the deadline to move your account from YallaApps to the South African Market place to the 15th September. We have already had a lot of people move but for those of you who still want to take advantage...

FREE Live Workshops Microsoft Visual Studio 2010 ALM tools and Microsoft Project Server 2010 We would like to invite you to attend any of our upcoming FREE live workshops in September!  These web workshops will provide you with in-depth exposure...

Hi All So we released the Kinect SDK for Academic / Hobbyist developers a couple months ago and now we have some really good resources to help you with your projects: Chanel 9 Kinect for Windows SDK Quickstarts 6 Different videos (over an hour of instruction...

Every now and then Microsoft Press has given away some of its content for the huge saving of 100%. We have once again done it with the following titles: Charles Petzold’s Programming Windows Phone 7 is available here as EPUB and here as MOBI . To get...