NML is considered by Microsoft as the leading provider of Silverlight skills in South Africa. We recently gave a talk at Sanlam on Silverlight. We recorded the presentation and I got Elle to create an abridged transcript of the talk [she wasn't very happy with me]. Gareth Saul – Why Rogan Flitton – What Debbie Derman – How Gareth ( http://twitter.com/garethsaul )- What is Silverlight? 1/2 In order to build rich...

The Tourist Problem See it at www.africantourismportal.com Tourism is, by its very nature, the act of deliberately taking oneself to somewhere foreign and experiencing the new, the different and the unknown.  That said, most tourists are not interested in stumbling blindly – they want to impose some sort of structure on their journey before they begin.  At the least, they book hotels and accommodation.  Many choose a few particular...

Since April ‘09, Christian and I have been based full time at Aurecon. It is about time for the long overdue update.  Here it is! In a nutshell, the past few months can be summed up as 2 kick ass applications down and more to come! Aurecon saw the need to develop a whole suite of new Incident Management Software for existing clients in areas such as Emergency Services, Disaster Management and Policing. Once they decided that immersive,...

While running a load test on one of our QA environment sites, we noticed that the site went down, adding three warnings to the event log. The first was an InvalidOperationException with message: There is already an open DataReader associated with this Command which must be closed first. About a minute later, the second one happened, an InvalidCastException with message: Unable to cast object of type ‘System.Int32′ to type...

Working in conjunction with Stonewall+ (design) and Global Vision (project management), but against the clock, NML’s development duo of Debbie and Andrei managed to beat the tight deadline and release the new Nedgroup Investments site AND content management system in time for their roadshow in early September. Both the site and content management system were developed using ASP .NET MVC 1.0. The CMS incorporated a workflow system,...

New Media Labs was recently endorsed by Microsoft, as the development partner to help Aurecon redevelop their new suite of Emergency Management Services software products. The software covers: call-taking; dispatching; incident forecasting; and in-ambulance, in-hospital as well as hand-held security service devices – a total of 28 software products! But how is Emergency Services related to New Media? Well, initially, I wasn’t sure...