I have published my first ever project to CodePlex. Media Mogul is a media manager which will be written in WPF using the Prism methodologies, and will have pluggable video and music modules. The core features of the application are written as command line applications to allow power users access to the feature sets without needing the front-end.

The Visual Studio Ranger team has started the year of extermely busy by publishing quite a few projects to CodePlex. Among them is the Visual Studio 2010 and Team Foundation Server 2010 VM Factory which I was a proud contributor off.

Team Foundation Server 2010 Beta 1 has been available for a while, and as part of the VSTS Rangers projects we have been working with the new builds in virtualized environments. With powerful new features the next edition of TFS looks exciting, and we have a brief look into what's new. Over the next few weeks we will do some indepth looks at TFS 2010 and the new frontier provided by Microsoft.

I decided that it was time for the home network to get an upgrade, since testing the new Visual Studio 2010 TFS, developing 3 new websites, sky rocketing bandwidth usage and overworked machines where beginning to take its toll. Unfortunately I should have seen my wife packing up her MacBook and moving to the lounge as a sign that this was not going to be anywhere as simple as I claimed it would be.

I have not updated my blog for over a week, however the lack of updates where do to moving the domain and all my other hosting solutions to a new provider in the United States. Because of a few new requirements in my development projects I needed to use provider that support Windows Server 2008 and IIS7, as well as Framework 3.5 SP1 and Asp.net Mvc.

I have been feeling lost in my career choice for a while. I have always considered development and code as an artform, something that requires a very important ingredient to be successful. In the last few weeks this particular point became more prominent, and I have finally found the missing ingredient. I have found what is missing in my career, and I am surprised about where it is leading me.

I am more and more amazed lately by the lack of hardware, networking and general computer basics knowledge demonstrated by developers. I have always maintained that this is a very important part of a developers knowledge tools and in this article look at how this knowledge solved various problems in an asset management system I developed more then 2 years ago.

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.

Another life update this time featuring information about Basil going missing, work overload, new blogging engine for the site and Speed Services being an utter failure.

Another life update this time featuring information about tiredness, Michelle being robbed, the pets dealing with the weather and negative opinions of technology and development.

Another life update this time featuring information about outstanding projects, SA Developer.net, development technologies and community credit winner announcements.

Another life update this time featuring information about project statuses, networking hassles and naughty puppies.

Another life update this time featuring information about project deadlines, pet conversations, software via snail mail and weekend plans. Also found a very good Vista review worth mentioning.

Another life update this time featuring information about flat tires on the Ranger, projects in completion for Bytes, our new animals and the status of SA Developer.net.

Another life update this time featuring information about project statuses for Bytes, Rose Online, the Meet the Robinson movie as well as a new arrival for an old friend.

Another life update this time featuring information about projects for Bytes, SA Developer.net events and information about Michelle's blog.