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2018 2

  1. Publishing existing maven artifacts to VS Package Management
  2. Use Nuget package 2.2 for VS App Center testing

2017 5

  1. How HITS Solutions Is Using Xamarin.Forms To Offer A Productivity App That Manages Employee Development Plans
  2. Develop and Scale applications using OpenShift
  3. Interested in running Red Hat Ansible Tower, OpenShift or RHEL on Azure?
  4. Public preview of Azure Event Grid
  5. .NET Core 2.0 released

2016 4

  1. Empower Event coming on the 26&27th May 2016
  2. Dev Camps – IoT Jhb, Dbn, CT
  3. Introducing DevConf: A community organized conference for developers
  4. Getting to know IoT on the Windows Stack–Part 1

2015 11

  1. [Event] - TFS 2015 Open For All
  2. ALM and Visual Studio 2015 Virtual Machines and Hands on Labs
  3. ALM Days Byte Sized Sessions - Cape Town
  4. Microsoft Cloud Dev Day is coming Johannesburg, Cape Town and Durban this September
  5. Event - Preparation for the NUI, a developers survival guide
  6. SQLSaturdays Events
  7. //build/Johannesburg – 12 June 2015
  8. Up coming events April – June 2015
  9. Research suggests software development projects usually fail due to management issues rather than technical mistakes.
  10. Developer Event – What’s new coming to Jhb, CT and Dbn
  11. Visual Studio Feature Walkthrough – Part 1

2014 22

  1. Join us for Microsoft Visual Studio vNext & Azure event with live Q&A with Product Team
  2. Cloud Camp Content
  3. Handling Azure credit limits
  4. Getting Started with Azure and/or VS Online using your MSDN benefits
  5. Zoaib to Speak at Community Night
  6. Microsoft Dev Day Content
  7. Some Recent Product and Policy Updates
  8. Microsoft Dev Day
  9. A Day of DevOps, Release Management, Software Quality and Agile Project Requirements Management (Cape Town and Johannesburg)
  10. Building a simple executive toy using Kinect for Windows v2 and Unity3D
  11. Team Foundation Server Training
  12. Events–PTA and JHB - Application Lifecycle Management with TFS and Visual Studio
  13. Build 2014 – Amazing speakers and breadth of topics
  14. Generating Noise for applications
  15. Introducing Release Management for Team Foundation Server
  16. Improve your Application Lifecycle Management Processes with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server
  17. The 6 Pillars of a quality App
  18. Location Intelligence
  19. Updated: BUILD 2014 Keynote Live Stream
  20. Upcoming Dev Camps in Cape Town & Durban
  21. Understanding your SAFe's & Kanban's from your Scrums
  22. More Control for App Developers

2013 47

  1. Kaizania Academies Workshop: Agile Project Management with Microsoft TFS Planning and Requirements Management
  2. The 500K Problem
  3. Build your App and Win
  4. Kick off the new year with ALM Days hosted by Team Foundation Consulting
  5. End to End Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server
  6. Introducing Release Management for Team Foundation Server (event)
  7. Visual Studio Launch event–Johannesburg 27 Nov
  8. Rate My App Code Update
  9. Visual Studio 2013 Launch Events
  10. Getting Users to Your Apps
  11. Looking for the best application developers in SA
  12. Devs4Devs–Johannesburg–5th October 2013–Update 1
  13. Join us for Techdays – Johannesburg – 31 October 2013
  14. Join us for Techdays South Africa – Cape Town – 28th October 2013
  15. Developer Camp – Deep Dive – Johannesburg – 7 October 2013
  16. Developer Camp – Deep Dive – Cape Town – 3 October 2013
  17. Community Night – Johannesburg – 8 October 2013
  18. Improve your Apps Ranking – Get it Rated
  19. Getting Ready for Windows 8.1
  20. Best local Windows Phone & Windows 8 Apps
  21. Community Night – 10 September 2013
  22. Developer Camp – Durban
  23. Developer Camp – Cape Town
  24. Developer Camp – Johannesburg
  25. Devs4Devs - Johannesburg - 5th October 2013
  26. Guest Post - Automated Builds–Why They’re Absolutely Essential (Part 2)–Colin Dembovsky
  27. Guest Post - Automated Builds–Why They’re Absolutely Essential (Part 1)–Colin Dembovsky
  28. Admin Password for Windows Server R2 Preview VHD
  29. Windows Ecosystem Workshop–Johannesburg
  30. Windows Ecosystem Workshops–Cape Town
  31. [Guest Post] - IntelliTrace Tips and Tricks: IntelliTrace Everywhere–Part 2- Colin Dembovsky
  32. [Guest Post] IntelliTrace Tips and Tricks: The Basics–Part 1–Colin Dembovsky
  33. TechIdols–Teched Africa
  34. Developing for the Windows Ecosystem Workshops–Durban
  35. Assign those MSDN subscriptions–and fully leverage your benefits
  36. Bronwen Zande and John O’Brian are coming to South Africa
  37. #Code off 2013 – Dev Diary – Dave – Day 2–The Data & Single Sign on
  38. #CodeOff 2013 – Jarrod – Day 2
  39. #Code off 2013 – Dev Diary – Dave – Day 1
  40. mLab series – Developing for the Windows Ecosystem
  41. #Code Off 2013 – Dave vs Jarrod.
  42. TechEd 2013 Session Topics
  43. And the Winners of the Move to Windows Phone 8 are!!!
  44. Windows Phone 8 Designer Sessions
  45. UDATE: Windows Store App Labs in Cape Town & Johannesburg
  46. ALM for CRM (and other LOB) implementations
  47. Setting up your Windows Store payout account

2012 33

  1. Announcing Imagine Cup SA 2013 Local Finals Round 1B
  2. Data Binding: Windows 8 Store App using JavaScript
  3. Building a Windows 8 Store App using JavaScript
  4. Move to Windows Phone 8 competition
  5. MSDN Subscribers–Don’t forget to activate your Pluralsight training benefit
  6. Visual Studio Update 1 Videos and Testing for Continuous Delivery Book
  7. Who's Gauteng Geek of 2012?
  8. Want to get Windows 8 Pro at a great price?
  9. Upgrading applications from Windows Phone 7.5 to Windows Phone 8
  10. Get your game on! App awards 2013
  11. HALO 4 – Tournament
  12. Visual Studio & TFS 2012 Overview Training 2-Day Class (and techdays reminder)
  13. Register for Techdays today–Get the low down on ALM, VS2012, Windows 8, Azure and Windows Phone
  14. South African Software Development Firm banks on Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server 2012
  15. Lessons Learnt at Microsoft Developer Division adopting TFS/Agile and Improving Processes–sample chapter
  16. Brian Keller in JHB talking about ALM with Visual Studio and TFS 2012
  17. Think you know Windows Azure? Think again.
  18. Missed the recent Windows 8 training? Here is all the content!
  19. Knowing your WinRT from your Azure - A Guide to the Microsoft Developer and Platform Roadmap
  20. Cape Town – Windows 8 Training
  21. Additional Capacity for Joburg Windows 8 Training Event
  22. The case for testing..
  23. Windows Phone Application Highlight–Pocket Meme
  24. Better ALM for SharePoint Solutions with Team Foundation Server Event
  25. Community Night March 2012
  26. Calling all Analysts and Testers: Improve the delivery and quality of your projects (CPT, 13 Mar,free)
  27. Windows Phone Application Highlight – Galactic Jump
  28. Microsoft Flight is out and its Free
  29. Windows Phone Application Highlight –Word Fish
  30. Windows Phone Workshop–27 February 2012 4pm–5pm
  31. Boost your UX and IA skills
  32. Events, Events! Scrum, Testing, Sharepoint ALM
  33. The Most Addicting Sheep Game Wins the Windows Phone App Competition

2011 75

  1. Windows Phone Workshops an Update!
  2. Have you submitted a Windows Phone application to Market Place in November?
  3. Windows Phone Workshops Gallore!!!
  4. Write Windows Phone Applications, Submit to the Market Place and Stand a chance to win R50000
  5. Community Night November 8th–Johannesburg
  6. Developer and Platform Insights Event with Jason Zander, Corp VP, Visual Studio–Johannesburg
  7. ALM/TFS Sessions at TechED Africa.
  8. Win 2 Golden Circle Kings of Leon Tickets
  9. Community Night–11th October 2011–Johannesburg
  10. Dev Idols 2011 Coming to Teched.
  11. Confused about VS,MSDN, TFS and licensing of pre-production environments?
  12. YallaApps Migration deadline extended to the 15th September
  13. Free ALM Training in September
  14. Some Resources for Kinect development
  15. Free stuff from Microsoft– eBooks
  16. Community Night - 12th September 2011
  17. Windows Phone – 4 Week Training Workshop–Starting September in Johannesburg
  18. Windows Phone Weekend Workshop – 17th September 2011
  19. Deploy Mango apps to the Market Place
  20. Creating an HTML 5 Game – Part 3–Simple Parallax Stars
  21. Devs4Devs–Cape Town August 2011
  22. Devs4Devs–Johannesburg–13 August 2011
  23. Community Night–Cape Town
  24. Devs4Devs–Cape Town–20th August 2011
  25. Devs4Devs–Johannesburg - 13th August 2011
  26. Creating an HTML 5 Game – Part 2–Moving Stuff Around
  27. Signing up for your AppHub Account
  28. Community Night August Date Change
  29. All-in-One Code Framework–OneCode
  30. Startup Weekend Comes to SA
  31. Devs4Devs is back and coming to Cape Town and Johannesburg
  32. Steve Ballmer kicks off the Imagine Cup World Wide Finals
  33. Windows Phone 7 Competition Winner–Wolfram 7
  34. Community Night 12 July 2011
  35. Windows Phone Smackdown Competition Finalists
  36. Free App Hub Accounts for South African Developers with YallaApps
  37. Complete an MPR Test in less than 1 Hour
  38. Lab Management and Team Build Rangers Guidance
  39. Kinect for Windows SDK beta released
  40. Windows 8, Time to book for PDC,ooops Build
  41. Windows Phone Competition
  42. Community Night 14th June 2011
  43. ALM Roadmap – check it out now!
  44. Cape Town Trip–Universities and Devs4Devs
  45. Competitions Competitions and more Competitions
  46. Slides and Resources from the Testing Session
  47. Slides and Resources from ALM Event
  48. Community Night–10 May 2011
  49. Kinect SDK for Windows Coming Soon
  50. April Community Night
  51. The iteration dates are not valid – using TFS Excel Planning Workbook
  52. Events on ALM/TFS and Testing
  53. Devs4Devs Cape Town Registrations are Open
  54. A lap around .Net 4.0
  55. DreamSpark verified Students get free Certification Vouchers
  56. HTML5 and CSS3 in Expression Web 4
  57. An afternoon with Bronwen and John - Round Up
  58. Devs4Devs is coming Cape Town!
  59. DevDays 2011 and Twitter
  60. Site Pinning, Jump Lists, Overlay Icons, and Button Colour in 16 lines of code
  61. Internet Explorer 9 Released!!!
  62. An afternoon with Bronwen and John – .Net Tools to visualise Natural Disasters
  63. Windows Phone 7 Camps–26th and 27th of March
  64. Devs4Devs Cape Town
  65. Windows Phone 7 Competition coming soon!
  66. Proposed Devdays Agenda
  67. Live to code, code to live (and WIN)
  68. Global Game Jam Round Up
  69. Where/How do I get started with TFS?
  70. TFS/ALM/Tester/Scrum Courses from Notion (in Cape Town too!)
  71. Microsoft Maths
  72. Devs4Devs Returns
  73. Johannesburg Community Night–8th February 2011
  74. Gifts for Web Developers…
  75. General TFS Updates

2010 46

  1. WebsiteSpark Promo: get shoX sound!
  2. Silverlight 5; going to be HOT HOT HOT
  3. Johannesburg: Community Night – 14 December 2010
  4. Want to win a Joshua Davis skateboard or $500 voucher?
  5. Developers and the Process Paradox
  6. Silverlight Firestarter Online: 2 December 2010
  7. Slides from Application Lifecycle Management event
  8. Free Training! Windows Phone 7 Jump Start
  9. Johannesburg Developers: Community Night – 9 November 2010
  10. 31 Days of Windows Phone 7
  11. Watch the PDC2010 opening Keynote LIVE
  12. Dev Idol: Cast your votes now!
  13. Dev Idol comes to Tech·Ed!
  14. Application Lifecycle/Tester Training with VS2010 and TFS
  15. Internet Explorer 9 Beta Impressions
  16. Designing UI for Visually Impaired Users
  17. Devs4Devs is back in Johannesburg!
  18. DevDays 2010 Lite – East London
  19. MVP Chats: Get Answers to your tough technical questions!
  20. Yes! - Search in Add Reference Dialog, Get the Pro Power Tools for VS2010
  21. DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Dave Russell
  22. DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Daniel van Wyk
  23. DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Robert MacLean
  24. DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Brent Samodien
  25. DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Nick Goossens
  26. DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Tim Keller
  27. DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Ahmed Salijee
  28. DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Hilton Giesenow
  29. DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Brian Keller
  30. DevDays 2010 Guest Blog Post: Bart De Smet
  31. DevDays 2010 Slides, Demos and Videos
  32. Add New Item – item not available in 2010
  33. SA Developer Event: Brian Noyes in Johannesburg
  34. DigiGirlz Day – Coding with Kodu
  35. Silverlight Event
  36. Developer Manager’s Breakfast
  37. Silverlight 4: RTM!
  38. Visual Studio 2010 Available to Students through MSDNAA and DreamSpark
  39. Tagxedo: a ridiculously cool cloud word generator - built in Silverlight*
  40. The app is slow to start-up
  41. Getting started with Windows Phone 7 Development
  42. Wrap up of DevDays Johannesburg and Cape Town
  43. Windows Phone 7 Series – the eagle has landed
  44. Office 2010 Road Show – Slides and Code Samples
  45. DevDays 2010 is here!
  46. Vegas, Windows Phone 7 Series and MIX10