Well, I’m not exactly a guest on this blog but I thought I’d conform to the other DevDays posts here :-) I thoroughly enjoyed my first DevDays events. It was a great feeling to be a part of the event and meet developers in different parts of our country...

Dave was a presenter in our community slot at DevDays 2010 where members of the community had 20 minutes to deliver a session to the audience. This is what Dave had to say for himself: I am a senior systems analyst at Accenture Technology Solutions South...

Daniel is a software developer with 3fifteen based in Cape Town and was one of our presenters in the community timeslot at Cape Town. Apart from geeking out on all things development related and being an all-round nice guy Daniel is also a lead for the...

Besides being a Twitter fiend , Robert is a technology specialist with BB&D in their research and guidance team. He spends time playing with a variety of technologies and helping teams and customer deliver solutions. He is a Microsoft ALM Ranger and...

Brent is a regular speaker at community and Microsoft events and always entertains with jokes and wise cracks. He works as the Product Manager for Software Development and Portals at Bytes People Solutions. He’s responsible for delivering solutions and...

Nick Goossens is a developer and architect at Open Box Software working primarily with web technologies in the Financial and Property sectors. He is also a regional lead for SA Developer in Cape Town, a regular speaker at community events and conferences...

Tim (no, I’m not related to Brian) Keller hails from Cape Town and describes himself as “a developer, entrepreneur, speaker, and blogger”. He build applications using PHP and related web technologies and focuses on solutions in the education sector that...

Ahmed is a stalwart at Microsoft South Africa and is pretty much a  part of the furniture. He’s a specialist in most things related to .NET and has a particular passion for mobile solutions. Ahmed was under a little pressure for his DevDays session...

We were very lucky to have Rudi presenting at DevDays this year. Rudi is a developer working for Barone, Budge & Dominick in their ATC research and guidance unit and is a prominent member of the local developer community. He is a Microsoft MVP (Windows...

Hilton Giesenow is a familiar face (and voice) in the South African development community. Hilton is a C# MVP and host of the popular SharePoint podcast, The MOSS Show . You can find out more about Hilton on his blog . Hilton has been developing software...

Brian was another one of our international guests taking on the long trip from Microsoft HQ in Redmond. Brian is an expert around ALM and a great presenter. Brian covered End-to-end ALM with Team Foundation Server 2010 and Visual Studio 2010 in a two...

It was great to have Bart over for DevDays this year all the way from Redmond. We all enjoyed his excellent presentations and quirky sense of humour. In his own words: Hi there, I’m Bart De Smet, working at Microsoft Corporation in Redmond, WA, USA in...

Now that DevDays 2010 is over (we had another excellent event in Durban at the Sun Coast Casino) we’re putting together all the content and making it available to everyone. This year we recorded videos of some of our sessions and I’m working on making...

A couple of weeks ago, we ran a Silverlight course using Visual Studio 2010. At some point, you had to create an entity framework model. Several students had an issue where the template for creating a new Entity Framework Model was not present. In some...

The Johannesburg chapter of SA Developer .NET is hosting Brian Noyes, Chief Architect of IDesign, for a community event next week. Brian is in South Africa delivering training for Dariel Solutions and has generously offered up some of his time to present...