Thought 1: So I just laughed out loud at work, thought “Oh my gosh that sounded just like Leo Leporte” and almost said it out loud when I realised that nobody in the office would get it since they don’t listen to TWIT (This Week In Tech). It was silly, but it got me thinking […]
I finally did it… :(
Today I finally un-installed VS.Net 2005 from my PC. I keep trying to do things in VS.Net 2005 that just won’t work in Mono, and more recently I had issues with various application blocks that just didn’t work in .Net 2.0. Apparently there are work-arounds, but I’m not interested in any of that. I want […]
LINQ
Last night’s SA Developer meeting in JHB was on LINQ. I unfortunately was about 25 minutes late so I missed some of the stuff but what I did see was both pretty cool and frustrating. The new C# 3.0 stuff looks really awesome but the LINQ stuff is “just another teaser that I won’t be […]
New toolkit released
[IMHO just lost my blog entry – it posted it, but the contents were blank, so here’s a 2nd attempt]I just read via the Daily Grind that Component Factory have just released the Krypton Toolkit. Its basically a set of windows forms controls that are written for .Net 2.0 and VS.Net 2005, and best of all they’re […]
SA Imagine Cup Entrants – Update…
For the latest info, check out Ruari’s blog and his photo gallery. Sounds like they’re off to a good start!
SA Team for Imagine Cup
I just read an IT Web article on the SA entrants to the Imagine Cup. For those who don’t know, Microsoft South Africa has run Project Firefly for a number of years… Its basically a software development competition amongst SA Academic institutions. The Imagine Cup started after Firefly and is an international “version” of the competition. I was fortunate to […]
Google Earth and GeoCaching
I’m torn between two statements “There are two kinds of people on the earth, those who hack a use in Google Earth and those who don’t” and “There are two kinds of people on the earth, those who see the value of Google Earth and those who haven’t yet”. A short while after the bombs […]
Reflection Talk
Here are the notes from the talk I gave last Wednesday night at Torque IT (Thanks for the venue and the cool caffeteria)… I hope it went pretty well for the guys that were there… I certainly enjoyed giving the talk. 🙂 Here are the promised notes/slides/samples. The PPT is here and the code samples are […]
SA Dev June Meeting
I’m talking at this month’s SA dev meeting… The details are: Date: 15th June 2005Time: 18:00Location: Torque-IT, Rivonia (Map here)Contact: Andre Odendaal 083-410-7702 or email andreo@gmail.comTopic: Reflection RSVP here or here. I’ve got 2.5 demo’s left to code – So far I’ve planned on 10 demos in total, but I’ve only got like 7 slides. […]
Free software for smartphones from Handango…
I *knew* there was a reason I was subscribed the the Windows Mobile Team‘s blog…. Today they posted an entry about Handango giving away free software… Check it out! It looks like they’re doing PalmOS apps too… I’ve already started downloading my first SmartPhone app… Ok, so I don’t have a smartphone yet, but I […]