I have been actively involed in the South African technology community for the last 3 years. I have always been a proud and passionate member of the community, involved as a technology evangelist. I have achieved a lot in this time however it hasn't been without a heavy cost. The time has come for me to step back and slowdown, as my family and my body is not the only parts of my life suffering from my current involvement.

SA Developer.Net KZN is having an event with guest speaker Gail Shaw on the 12th of February 2009. The event will be covering Gail's talk from the PASS Submit 2008. We are extremely honored to host her for the evening and invite anyone interested in development or SQL to attend this talk.

SA Developer.Net KZN is starting the year with a bang. One Development Talk and a Social already on the calendar and DevDays and Tech-Ed 2009 will promise to be existing events for this coming year.

Eben De Wit is running the quarterly DevChat event in KZN on the 13th of November 2008 at the Riverside Hotel in Durban.

Hosting Community Lounge at Tech-Ed is no simple task, and a few people from the industry and the community deserves a huge amount of credit with their help and assistance at the lounge this year.

DevDays 2008 was a huge success and I was extremely glad to have the support of so many people at the community lounge. It was a busy 3 days with more people then we ever imagined but the exposure was amazing.

We are in the middle of planning for Tech-Ed 2008 and this year the communities are high on the agenda with the biggest ever community lounge planned. Please join us at the Durban ICC for 3 days of technology and information sharing brought by some of the industries best.

SA Developer.net is hosting another event in Durban, this time to discuss and review SharePoint Server 2007. Come join us for an evening of information sharing on how to use SharePoint Server inside your organisation.

I travelled to JHB to attend some meetings with Microsoft and IT Intellect around business and the community. While I was there I was able to meet with various community leads around events planned for the year.

Driving to work one morning I realised exactly how hard it is to navigate traffic in Kwazulu-Natal and went about writing my own survival guide for others.

SA Developer.net is having a event featuring two speakers. Dion Beneke will be joining us on behalf of SA Architect.net to discuss LINQ and 3 Tier architecture along with a talk on Ajax.

Another life update this time featuring information about the new Microsoft MVP's, some community activity and plans for SA Developer.net.

We were lucky enough to catch Wonderboom and Watershed in concert at the Beach Festival in Durban. This was an awesome evening of good music on the beach.

SA Developer.net has another busy month ahead with 3 events planned. Please join us for some information sharing around Microsoft technologies and development in general.

Overview of the Microsoft DevDays 2007 event held at Sun Coast Conference Centre. Information regarding Visual Studio, ASP.Net AJAX and Silverlight was provided by the speakers.

SA Developer.net will be having a very busy May and this is a list of all events planned for the month. Attendance is free and everyone in the Durban area is welcome to attend if interested in development.

Another succesfull SA Developer.Net event was held at IT Intellect in Musgrave on 11 April 2007. The topic was Dissecting a Web Application.

The second SA Developer.net social has been planned for the 2nd of March at NewsCage in Musgrave. Hope to see everyone there.

Another life update this time featuring information about a broken ADSL Line and fights with Telkom, the officially new position working for Bytes, settling in the new place in Musgrave and my dad's new car.

The first social event for SA Developer.Net has been arranged for 2007. Come join us for an evening of drinks and decision around the IT industry, in particular development. A great oppurtinity to meet and greet other players in Kwazulu-Natal.