The SA Budget for 2012 – 2013 has been revealed and apart from basically being  a balanced Budget considering the turmoil in the world at large, a few points need a mention. South Africa will most likely for a long time, if not forever, have the conflict between poverty and growth and the steady increase [...]

Well, I know it is possibly a bit early to go into the typical December analysis mode but I have been thinking this past week about the events that shape our lives. In January next year I will be moving on from Netstar and will be moving back into the financial arena and joining Peresys. [...]

Up to the end of 2010 I was a happy Dropbox user and I was able to easily share files between my work laptop and home PC. Where necessary I added a layer of security by individually encrypting files that was deemed to be sensitive enough and I used a in-place encryption/decryption product to make [...]

Being a Delphi Developer for many years, with a new release of Delphi XE looming I decided last night to get the 30 day Trial Delphi XE to play with. This 30 day Trial thing is also one reason why Visual Studio and .Net languages such as C# raced ahead of the pack over the [...]

Last weekend myself and a couple of mates had one of our regular Game LAN’s at my place and for this installment I looked into something new for us to play and about a month before Team Fortress 2, a Valve Software game, was updated to free-to-play status. One could download and play it on [...]

It seems that just when I thought it was safe to go into the proverbial water again, Vista surprises me yet again (or maybe not). Not being a networking bloke I don’t telnet regularly but last night I needed to test some server connectivity that could best be done via telnet and had to realize [...]

Just re-read Joels Test earlier tonight and I was mortified to have to admit that my current Development Department does not exactly make the cut according to this yardstick . They got 5/10 (and that is being lenient). At my previous development shop we did much better, I would say around 9 or 10. Even then, we [...]

Well, life intruded and I have only just started to scratch the surface of Entity Framework up to now.  However, I am moving ahead with learning of Windows Communications Framework and other dotNet technologies. Some of my mates seem to indicate that, although EF has a decent following, it is still much less robust than [...]

For the last 2-3 years I have been using Google Notebook as my online Note repository. It served as my To Do list, scratchpad, Project Status Recorder and sometimes as a secure data storage(!Yikes!). But ever since they stopped development, I have been wondering if I should not find some other tool, but since I [...]

And so a new year has dawned and we inexorably move on . I wanted to say time moves on, but it does not – we just move along the time plane …. But I digress – the age of 40 has arrived in all its promise and opportunity.  One of my friends suggested on Facebook [...]