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Publishing existing maven artifacts to VS Package Management
On a recent customer engagement, we hit a situation where the customer had some artifacts that were...
Date: 05/18/2018
Use Nuget package 2.2 for VS App Center testing
I was doing a simple POC using Xamarin Forms, Xamarin UITest and VS App Center. I created a standard...
Date: 05/14/2018
How HITS Solutions Is Using Xamarin.Forms To Offer A Productivity App That Manages Employee Development Plans
HITS Products | HITS Customers | Contact HITS Microsoft and HITS teamed up to build Azure-backed...
Date: 09/30/2017
Develop and Scale applications using OpenShift
OpenShift is Red Hat's Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) that allows developers to quickly develop, host,...
Date: 09/02/2017
Interested in running Red Hat Ansible Tower, OpenShift or RHEL on Azure?
Learn how to automate infrastructure on Azure using Red Hat Ansible! Microsoft partner Spektra...
Date: 09/02/2017
Public preview of Azure Event Grid
Keen to try out the public preview of Azure Event Grid? Azure Event Grid is a fully managed event...
Date: 09/02/2017
.NET Core 2.0 released
In case you have missed this recent announcement? .NET Core 2.0 is now generally available. What is...
Date: 09/02/2017
Empower Event coming on the 26&27th May 2016
Technology is one of the major driving forces behind the evolution of how business gets done as well...
Date: 05/11/2016
Dev Camps – IoT Jhb, Dbn, CT
Microsoft Dev Camp is a free and fun event for developers by developers. Please join us for...
Date: 02/08/2016
Introducing DevConf: A community organized conference for developers
Coming up on the 8th March in Johannesburg is a new full day conference for all software...
Date: 01/28/2016
Getting to know IoT on the Windows Stack–Part 1
Abstract This series of posts will detail my somewhat bumbling ordeal of becoming more informed when...
Date: 01/28/2016
[Event] - TFS 2015 Open For All
TFS 2015 - Open for all!? TFS and VSO are undergoing quite a lot of changes, both in functionality...
Date: 11/04/2015
ALM and Visual Studio 2015 Virtual Machines and Hands on Labs
Application Life-cycle Management (ALM) is core to the success of creating and delivering...
Date: 11/04/2015
ALM Days Byte Sized Sessions - Cape Town
Neil Zeeman from Team Foundation Consulting is running a special event that focuses on Team...
Date: 09/03/2015
Microsoft Cloud Dev Day is coming Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban this September
Microsoft Dev Day is a free and fun event for developers by developers. Please join us for this...
Date: 09/01/2015
Event - Preparation for the NUI, a developers survival guide
We have a great event happening on Friday the 4th of September 2015. Bronwen Zande and John O'Brien...
Date: 08/31/2015
SQLSaturdays Events
September is a big month for Data Platform in SA. The team will be hosting 3 SQLSaturdays in JHB on...
Date: 08/27/2015
//build/Johannesburg – 12 June 2015
On Friday, June 12, 2015, Build Tour Johannesburg brings the Build experience to you to gain...
Date: 04/14/2015
Up coming events April – June 2015
We have a number of great events coming in following months. First big event to be spoken of is the...
Date: 04/09/2015
Research suggests software development projects usually fail due to management issues rather than technical mistakes.
Research suggests software development projects usually fail due to management issues rather than...
Date: 03/10/2015
Developer Event – What’s new coming to Jhb, CT and Dbn
Microsoft Dev Day is a free and fun event for developers by developers. Please join us for...
Date: 02/26/2015
Visual Studio Feature Walkthrough – Part 1
Abstract This is a series of posts that goes through the new features of Visual Studio. This...
Date: 01/20/2015
Join us for Microsoft Visual Studio vNext & Azure event with live Q&A with Product Team
A few weeks ago Microsoft hosted an event in New York callConnect(); where some key announcements...
Date: 11/28/2014
Cloud Camp Content
We recently ran a Cloud Camp in Durban, Johannesburg and Cape Town showcasing some of the great...
Date: 11/19/2014
Handling Azure credit limits
Azure like most other cloud services has a free tier or you can get some credit upfront when you...
Date: 11/11/2014
Getting Started with Azure and/or VS Online using your MSDN benefits
During the last month we delivered some sessions around DevOps as well as software quality. One of...
Date: 11/10/2014
Zoaib to Speak at Community Night
On the second Tuesday of every month Microsoft hosts a variety of technical communities at the...
Date: 10/06/2014
Microsoft Dev Day Content
Jarrod and I recently went on a tour around South Africa to present on some great technologies such...
Date: 09/30/2014
Some Recent Product and Policy Updates
It has been a while since I posted some content. Before I leave it any longer here is a round-up of...
Date: 09/22/2014
Microsoft Dev Day
Developing and Testing Mobile Solutions Across a variety of devices This one day workshop will cover...
Date: 09/15/2014
A Day of DevOps, Release Management, Software Quality and Agile Project Requirements Management (Cape Town and Johannesburg)
Registration Details Cost: Free Cape Town – 10 Sept: Book here Johannesburg – 15 Sept (yes a...
Date: 08/31/2014
Building a simple executive toy using Kinect for Windows v2 and Unity3D
Abstract This article will look into how to leverage the new Kinect for Windows 2.0 device to...
Date: 08/15/2014
Team Foundation Server Training
Recently, I seem to be receiving a decent number of requests around training for Team Foundation...
Date: 08/15/2014
Events–PTA and JHB - Application Lifecycle Management with TFS and Visual Studio
We are delivering some small events focussed around using Team Foundation Server and Visual Studio...
Date: 06/20/2014
Build 2014 – Amazing speakers and breadth of topics
Don’t miss out on this years //build/ event starting tomorrow. It is the Microsoft developer event...
Date: 04/01/2014
Generating Noise for applications
Abstract This article goes into depth around four different types of noise generation algorithms. We...
Date: 03/26/2014
Introducing Release Management for Team Foundation Server
Come and learn about the new Release Management for Team Foundation Server (formerly known as...
Date: 03/17/2014
Improve your Application Lifecycle Management Processes with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server
Join us for an event where you will learn about how Microsoft’s application lifecycle management...
Date: 03/17/2014
The 6 Pillars of a quality App
Pillar 1: Unique Concept or Idea But all the apps have been written already… This is where I think...
Date: 03/11/2014
Location Intelligence
As mobile phones and tablets grow to be the dominant way people access information there is an extra...
Date: 03/05/2014
Updated: BUILD 2014 Keynote Live Stream
The next Build event is rapidly approaching, the event kicks off on 2 April in San Francisco at the...
Date: 03/03/2014
Upcoming Dev Camps in Cape Town & Durban
A deep dive into Windows App Development. Microsoft Dev Camps are expert led, low-cost, hands-on...
Date: 02/27/2014
Understanding your SAFe's & Kanban's from your Scrums
It's more a flash flood through industries and organisations. Scrum, SAFe (Scaled Agile Framework),...
Date: 02/10/2014
More Control for App Developers
You may have missed some of the subtle changes we have made to the certification requirements in...
Date: 01/28/2014
Kaizania Academies Workshop: Agile Project Management with Microsoft TFS Planning and Requirements Management
The Agile Project Management with Microsoft TFS Planning and Requirements Management is a 3-day...
Date: 12/19/2013
The 500K Problem
Having over 500 000 people download your app is a nice problem to have. This is the problem...
Date: 12/10/2013
Build your App and Win
Build 3 or more Windows 8.1 apps and you could win amazing getaways and gadgets! What you can win!...
Date: 12/09/2013
Kick off the new year with ALM Days hosted by Team Foundation Consulting
ALM Days will provide some insight, advice, strategies and techniques to get the end-to-end...
Date: 11/27/2013
End to End Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server
We are running 2 smallish events focussed around using TFS and Visual Studio for managing your...
Date: 11/25/2013