http://www.newmedialabs.co.za Building Web Based Applications Tue, 09 Mar 2010 12:33:15 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en “The Peace Parks Foundation is a non-profit organisation that facilitates the establishment of transfrontier conservation areas (peace parks) and develops human resources, thereby supporting sustainable economic development, the conservation of biodiversity and regional peace and stability.” (http://www.peaceparks.org)   I was really happy when I was received with open arms by the people ... http://www.newmedialabs.co.za/archives/885 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 ... http://www.newmedialabs.co.za/archives/855 In 2007 when facebook was huge (well it is still huge, but 2007 was a time when we talked about our Crackbook Addictions and we got a huge kick out of getting wallposts and we were as proud of our facebook "friends" count and our wallpost count as some twits ... http://www.newmedialabs.co.za/archives/825 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 ... http://www.newmedialabs.co.za/archives/694 New Media Labs was chosen to do the development for Nedgroup Investments' new content management system (CMS) and public-facing website.  Nedgroup wanted a fresh and simple yet informative site, with an intelligent CMS system to replicate and support their business model i.e. fund information, news articles, media etc. Nedgroup Site Home ... http://www.newmedialabs.co.za/archives/610 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 ... http://www.newmedialabs.co.za/archives/583 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 ... http://www.newmedialabs.co.za/archives/546 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 ... http://www.newmedialabs.co.za/archives/438 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, ... http://www.newmedialabs.co.za/archives/434 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 ... http://www.newmedialabs.co.za/archives/400