Google Hackathon South Africa 2011–Why Facebook will pwn Google+
Well I must honestly say I was very disappointed. Perhaps I expected to much or didn’t know what a hackathon is about but I didn’t picture it being what happened today. From wikipedia:“A hackathon, a...
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Google South Africa 2011–Developers day
Well after the experience of the hackathon I would be lying if I said I wasn’t nervous about attending the developers day. I decided to go anyways and give Google a chance to redeem themselves. well...
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C# XML and Binary Serialization
Recently was working on a small project that required me to store a collection of objects. So I figured I would refresh my knowledge of the serialization available in C#. First I had a look at the...
View ArticleBuild now, make money later
After reading an interesting piece of market research around the general idea and reasons for building mobile applications, everyone always pointed out the fact that they wanted to make money off their...
View ArticleC# HttpWebRequest and HttpWebResponse
Another quick post on doing a simple http request and processing the response. Working on the Google+ client for C# and due to the fact the API is REST based, I need to be able to make an HTTP request...
View ArticleGoogle+ C# client
After the hackathon, I noticed that the .NET realm is not covered by the current Google+ clients. This prompted me to write a client to facilitate the current APIs. It is strongly typed, easy to use...
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More fun with Jasmine, Sinon and JavaScript
Once again delving into front end JavaScript development (which I might add is not all that fun ) I have started to gather a few tid bits on good sites to have a look at. Before I post that I want to...
View ArticleFirst Windows 8 Metro Javascript Application
So having completed the tutorial found here http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/windows/apps/br211385.aspx kindly provided by Microsoft, I have to admit that I am a little concerned. Firstly the...
View ArticleMy.Fin.Friend–An experiment in budget management.
http://www.myfinfriend.co.za–> time to take a look at your budget! We all have those days / weeks / months / years where we try figure out where the heck our money is going. I decided a few months...
View ArticleThe importance of naming.
William Shakespeare said “A rose by any other name would smell as sweet”. While this might have had some deeper meaning it doesn’t apply in the naming of code related items.Now lets examine the...
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