February 2008 - Posts
On the weekend Andre happened to show me Sid Meier’s Civilization IV and in particular the Beyond the Sword expansion pack. I immediately decided I wanted to get a copy for myself, having strangely enough, never played any of the series before even...
Just to brighten up this rainy Friday afternoon, I stumbled upon this bit of humour. On a Nationwide flight to Johannesburg, a plane passes through a severe storm. The turbulence is awful, and things go from bad to worse when one wing is struck...
The latest and greatest CTP of SQL Server 2008 (code-named Katmai) is now available for download and testing. This is commonly referred to as CTP6 and is the first update since CTP5 in November 2007. You can download the CTP6 bits over here.
To find out...
Hot off the press at the Game Developers Conference 2008 is that Gears of War 2 is going to be released exclusively for Xbox 360 in November. The official press release follows:
SAN FRANCISCO — Feb. 20, 2008 — Today at the Game Developers Conference Read...
Finally the marriage between Xbox LIVE and XNA has been announced. Major Nelson live blogged it from GDC (Game Developers Conference) in San Francisco on his twitter feed and promptly posted about it.
It was just announced at GDC that we are introducing...
How many times have you tried to design an efficient database table design in SQL Server only to stumped with the problem of storing pure date values. Yes the currently released versions of SQL Server (up to 2005) don’t support a pure date only...
Once again I find myself laughing my head off with the latest Zero Punctuation review from Yahtzee. This time he reviews Call of Duty 4 and I highly recommend everyone, even the non-gamers, go watch it. I’ve embedded it below for ease of viewing...
Both the Windows Server and Windows Vista teams released new builds today. The much-awaited Windows Server 2008, formerly known by the code-name Longhorn Server, was released to manufacturing today, as was the highly anticipated service pack 1 update...
What is the deal with the South African government? Am I becoming an alarmist by writing this post and expressing my opinion? I honestly don’t know but I just feel the need to write my thoughts down.
Last week the country, who had power, watched...