Adora is a marketing CMS platform that is currently being developed by Global Vision and is being built to replace their highly successful current offering, Eureka.  The driving force behind Adora is communication, not just marketing, through all effective communications channels.  Using Adora, marketers will be able to communicate effectively with consumers and be able to maintain a complete picture of consumer relationships to their...

Aurecon is a new, innovative, global group created by the recent coming together of 3 world-class companies - Africon, Connel Wagner and Ninham Shand.  They focus on providing professional technical services across a broad spectrum of proficiencies from engineering to information technology. Aurecon is developing a whole suite of new Incident Management/Emergency Response Software for clients in areas such as Emergency Services, Disaster...

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,...

New Media Labs has won a pitch to develop a large niche social network for a South African bank. The project will be developed in conjunction with Stonewall+. Stonewall+ will develop the front end flat designs and NML will convert these flats into Silverlight XAML. Silverlight Rich Internet Application presentation layer was a prerequisite of the bank. The social elements are tied into the business model of this division of the bank, making...