November 2007 - Posts

Juval Lowy talk tonight
A quick reminder for Juval Lowy’s community talk that is happening tonight at Microsoft’s offices in Bryanston. If you have been dabbling with WCF (Windows Communication Foundation) or you would just like to learn more about what it is, then...
Posted: Nov 29 2007, 02:15 AM by CraigN.NET
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27 Dinner by candlelight
Tonight’s 27 Dinner, 27-15 Jozi, was by no means the usual affair. A bumper crowd was expected but unfortunately our lovely power utility company Eskom decided that its the night to start doing some more load shedding. So sometime after 7pm when...
Posted: Nov 27 2007, 04:09 PM by CraigN.NET
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Xbox LIVE Friends of Friends
Just got word of a new feature that will be included in the Xbox 360 Dashboard update next week. Its called Friends of Friends and it seems to an interesting step from Microsoft into the social networking market. Basically the new setting allows users...
Posted: Nov 26 2007, 03:24 PM by CraigN.NET
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Visual Studio 2008 released
Yeah its official, Visual Studio 2008 and the .NET Framework 3.5 was officially released today. You can read Somasegar’s announcement post over here. If you have been chomping on the bit waiting for the release then head on over and download 90...
Posted: Nov 19 2007, 02:15 PM by CraigN.NET
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SQL Server 2008 November CTP
Its about time that the long awaited CTP5 of SQL Server 2008 (code-named Katmai) was released. I’ve been seeing blog posts about MVP only builds for the last couple of days and now finally I got an e-mail notification of the November CTP that is...
Posted: Nov 19 2007, 02:08 PM by CraigN.NET
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It’s plane stupid
What’s up with the South African airline industry lately? All I see lately are reports of problems and I’m considering staying on the ground for the near future. Just take a look at the following headlines taken from The Times over the last...