Commercial Software Engineering Team Africa
Cape Town Trip–Universities and Devs4Devs
Dave and Nyaladzi recently took a trip down to Cape Town to visit universities and hold Devs4Devs in...
Author: southafrica Date: 05/08/2011
Competitions Competitions and more Competitions
Today we have launched a new competition: The Video Creation Competition. In order to win what you...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/28/2011
Slides and Resources from the Testing Session
Below you can find the links to the slide deck and some other resources based on the session...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/26/2011
Slides and Resources from ALM Event
A few weeks I presented a session on “Improving your Software Processes with Visual Studio...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/26/2011
Community Night–10 May 2011
Another community night complete another community night coming up. Our next community night is on...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/26/2011
Kinect SDK for Windows Coming Soon
A few apps were showcased at MIX 11 Day 2 Keynote, Developers start your engines…. Watch the...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/14/2011
April Community Night
Last night we held another successful community night at Microsoft in Bryanston with a record...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/13/2011
The iteration dates are not valid – using TFS Excel Planning Workbook
One of the nice features in TFS2010 are the Excel Agile Planning Workbooks. One part that I...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/12/2011
Events on ALM/TFS and Testing
Using the Visual Studio 2010 ALM Tools to Improve Software Lifecycle Management: Visual...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/11/2011
Devs4Devs Cape Town Registrations are Open
Devs4Devs is by developers for developers where anyone can participate and presenters can volunteer...
Author: southafrica Date: 04/06/2011
A lap around .Net 4.0
Deep and broad tour of the .NET 4 release, with a focus on making your development experience...
Author: southafrica Date: 03/29/2011
DreamSpark verified Students get free Certification Vouchers
Microsoft is offering all DreamSpark verified students a free Certification Exam voucher....
Author: southafrica Date: 03/29/2011
HTML5 and CSS3 in Expression Web 4
Kitten up a tree? Granny struggling to cross the road? The red velvet cupcakes are finished? No...
Author: southafrica Date: 03/24/2011
An afternoon with Bronwen and John - Round Up
On Friday afternoon we had Bronwen and John from Soul Solutions in Australia join us to...
Author: southafrica Date: 03/22/2011
Devs4Devs is coming Cape Town!
Hi All, due to popular demand we will be running the Devs4Devs event in Cape Town on the 7th May at...
Author: southafrica Date: 03/17/2011
DevDays 2011 and Twitter
Hi All DevDays 2011 is coming up and we will be leveraging the Twitter tag #devdayssa for...
Author: southafrica Date: 03/16/2011
Site Pinning, Jump Lists, Overlay Icons, and Button Colour in 16 lines of code
With IE 9 being released here is a code snippet which shows you how to implement Site Pinning, Jump...
Author: southafrica Date: 03/15/2011
Internet Explorer 9 Released!!!
Internet Explorer 9 RTW is now available for download. After a first preview at PDC 2009, a first...
Author: southafrica Date: 03/15/2011
An afternoon with Bronwen and John – .Net Tools to visualise Natural Disasters
Come join us for an afternoon with data visualisation experts Bronwen Zande and John O’Brien who...
Author: southafrica Date: 03/11/2011
Windows Phone 7 Camps–26th and 27th of March
Good day everyone we will be running a Windows Phone 7 Training Camp on the 26th & 27th of March...
Author: southafrica Date: 03/11/2011
Devs4Devs Cape Town
In the last few months we have had a number of requests to host Devs4Devs in Cape Town. We are...
Author: southafrica Date: 02/28/2011
Windows Phone 7 Competition coming soon!
Hello everyone in the following weeks we will be launching a Windows Phone 7 competition. Developers...
Author: southafrica Date: 02/28/2011
Proposed Devdays Agenda
The time is coming near for DevDays 2011 and here is the currently proposed agenda for...
Author: southafrica Date: 02/24/2011
Live to code, code to live (and WIN)
It’s cheesy, but yes, it’s Valentine’s day. To help celebrate this day of luuurve,...
Author: southafrica Date: 02/13/2011
Global Game Jam Round Up
The Global Game Jam (GGJ) is the world's largest game jam event that happened two weeks ago from the...
Author: southafrica Date: 02/07/2011
Where/How do I get started with TFS?
Question: Where or how should I get started with Team Foundation Server? Answer 1: It...
Author: southafrica Date: 02/03/2011
TFS/ALM/Tester/Scrum Courses from Notion (in Cape Town too!)
We regularly get requests for details on training around Team Foundation Server and the Application...
Author: southafrica Date: 01/24/2011
Microsoft Maths
This is something a little different. South Africa has a decent amount of challenges around maths...
Author: southafrica Date: 01/21/2011
Devs4Devs Returns
It is that time again where developers get the chance to share with fellow developers. Devs4Devs is...
Author: southafrica Date: 01/18/2011
Johannesburg Community Night–8th February 2011
Community Night has now become a regular event happening every second Tuesday of every month and the...
Author: southafrica Date: 01/17/2011
Gifts for Web Developers…
The Web Development Group must be having quite a party today. They just shipped ASP.NET MVC 3, IIS...
Author: southafrica Date: 01/14/2011
General TFS Updates
This is “old” news, but I thought it would useful to summarize some updates in areas where I...
Author: southafrica Date: 01/12/2011
WebsiteSpark Promo: get shoX sound!
The first 20 new sites that are deployed on the WebsiteSpark program between now and 14 February...
Author: southafrica Date: 12/09/2010
Silverlight 5; going to be HOT HOT HOT
Silverlight Firestarter took place yesterday (last night) in Seattle. You can still watch online on...
Author: southafrica Date: 12/03/2010
Johannesburg: Community Night – 14 December 2010
Community Night is Coming Back After last month's launch of Community Night in Johannesburg we're...
Author: southafrica Date: 12/03/2010
Want to win a Joshua Davis skateboard or $500 voucher?
(South Africans are NOT excluded from this one – bonus!) Making the web beautiful with HTML5 The MIX...
Author: southafrica Date: 12/03/2010
Developers and the Process Paradox
I recently moved into Developer Solution Specialist role. This role has a decent amount of focus...
Author: southafrica Date: 11/16/2010
Silverlight Firestarter Online: 2 December 2010
Some (or many) of you may have read various articles and wondered “What’s up with Microsoft and...
Author: southafrica Date: 11/05/2010
Slides from Application Lifecycle Management event
We recently delivered, with Notion Solutions, an event focussed around Application Lifecycle...
Author: southafrica Date: 11/04/2010
Free Training! Windows Phone 7 Jump Start
MVP, Rudi Grobler, will be delivering free training on development for Windows Phone 7 and has asked...
Author: southafrica Date: 11/02/2010
Johannesburg Developers: Community Night – 9 November 2010
Calling all developers in Johannesburg! Join in with you fellow developers at our Community Night....
Author: southafrica Date: 11/01/2010
31 Days of Windows Phone 7
If you’re looking at Windows Phone 7 development, check out Jeff Blankenburg’s (a fellow Microsoftie...
Author: southafrica Date: 10/26/2010
Watch the PDC2010 opening Keynote LIVE
The PDC is our key developer conference and it’s all about Developers, Developers, Developers!...
Author: southafrica Date: 10/22/2010