Hi So Devs4Devs is a morning for developers by developers. Local developers volunteer to present topics which they are passionate about to fellow developers in the community . We have some excellent topics this time round with 10 presenters for the event...

  The deadline for submitting presentations has passed and its time to vote for your favourite 6 presentations to battle it out for the title of Number 1 Dev Idol! Up for grabs is the opportunity to present a breakout session at Tech·Ed 2011, an...

The first 20 new sites that are deployed on the WebsiteSpark program between now and 14 February 2011 (think of it as a Valentine’s gift to yourself) will get a shoX mini speaker – so you’ll be able to share your music wherever you are. In the interests...

The times and venues for the Cape Town events have been finalised, both days will be at The Bandwidth Barn, the details are: May 9 Time: 18:30 – 21:00 Venue: Room #514 and 515 - 5th Floor, Bandwidth Barn Register May 10 Time: 18:30 – 21:00 Venue: Room...

Community Night has now become a regular event happening every second Tuesday of every month and the one for February is approaching. If you have a community or want to start a developer related community and need a place to host contact us and we can...

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...

Last week I presented an Introduction to Office 2010 Development as part of the Office 2010 Channel Launch for Microsoft South Africa in Johannesburg and Cape Town. The session was an introduction to the types of applications that you can build on top...

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...

Last night we held another successful community night at Microsoft in Bryanston with a record turnout of people attending. The community night is held every second Tuesday of every month at the Microsoft offices in Johannesburg. It is an open event to...

We regularly get requests for details on training around Team Foundation Server and the Application Lifecycle Management aspects of Visual Studio 2010. This is largely due to the lack of courses around these areas via the traditional training channels...

Devs4Devs is by developers for developers where anyone can participate and presenters can volunteer to present a session on any developer topic. Attendees get to hear from their fellow developers about something new and cool in a short, 20 minute presentation...

Silverlight Firestarter took place yesterday (last night) in Seattle. You can still watch online on demand , but here’s the highlights; The family is growing: Big daddy WPF, Slinky Silverlight and HTML5 Jnr are now all part of the future vision. Great...

Another community night complete another community night coming up. Our next community night is on the 10th of May 2011. The community night starts at 4pm and ends at 9pm. This is a great opportunity to network and meet the communities that are around...

The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event that happened two weeks ago from the 28th – 30th January. GGJ brings together thousands of game enthusiasts participating through many local jams around the world. GGJ is a project of the...

In the last week, I have had the opportunity on a couple of occasions to watch the TV coverage of some of the teams landing at the airport, and arriving for the World Cup. On every occasion, this game me goosebumps. It is often incredibly difficult to...

Hi All Thanks to everyone who voted on Twitter. The winner is – Drum Roll!!!! Jonno Schmidt who wrote Wolfram 7: The Wolfram 7 Application is a rich front end for the Wolfram Alpha service. It allows you to execute queries and store favourites for future...

Hello everyone in the following weeks we will be launching a Windows Phone 7 competition. Developers will be able to show off their mobile development skills and stand a chance to win great prizes. The deadline for the applications will be the end of...

  One of the nice features in TFS2010 are the Excel Agile Planning Workbooks. One part that I have had some problems with is the burndown chart where I would get an error "the iteration dates are not valid" and recommending that I go the...

  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...

Some (or many) of you may have read various articles and wondered “What’s up with Microsoft and Silverlight?” Well, contrary to some it’s still going strong, still a long-term investment for us and still a major part of our online strategy. So now that...

Hi All We have some great news for South African Developers, AppHub is available and you can now signup and get cracking on creating apps. The AppHub allows us as developers to create applications for Windows Phone and Xbox and provides tools and resources...

Are you frustrated by the lack of code samples for a certain programming task? Have you ever struggled to quickly get started with a technique? Have you expected someone to write code samples for you based on your requests for free? Is a one-stop code...

It’s coming! Our DevDays registration website is up and running! We’ve got some great sessions lined up for you and we’ve lined up some excellent presenters for this years event. For the first time, we’ve recruited international speakers who will be presenting...

Hi All Community night is coming up again, although this month it will be on Monday the 12th September 2011 and will start at 5pm. Agenda: 5pm: - Information Worker - Sharepoint Business Workshop - BIDN - Programming Languages User group 7pm: - Javascript...

  A few weeks I presented a session on “Improving your Software Processes with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2010”. I promised to provide the slides and resource links. You can download the slides via Skydrive here (made some changes ...