Following today’s launch of Google Street View in South Africa, RE/MAX of Southern Africa, in partnership with local web application development specialists White Wall Web, have become the first Real Estate franchise in SA to fully integrate this technology into their website. Google Street View is a service linked to Google Maps and Google Earth [...]

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Today sees the launch of the new RE/MAX of Southern Africa website – www.remax.co.za: another successful collaboration between White Wall Web and long standing client RE/MAX. Without a doubt, the most noteworthy improvement to the site is the inclusion of address level data, which locates the listed properties on an actual map. This makes RE/MAX [...]

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As best described by Wikipedia, “HTML5 is the next major revision of HTML (HyperText Markup Language), the core mark-up language of the World Wide Web.” Realistically, not every website will make use of HTML5, but for those developers who will, their websites will have better support across modern desktop and mobile browsers.

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Google maps can now recognize “joburg”, find “steak restaurants near Table Mountain”, plot routes “from cape town to durban” and show me geo-tagged photos… but what else is new?

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This week saw the release of Google Chrome, Google’s new feature-rich browser based on WebKit and Firefox components. It has been met with a mixed response and has also raised some interesting thoughts/issues/discussions… See for example the outcry about the extreme licensing “liberties” that Google is taking in their terms and conditions for Chrome (incidentally [...]

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Off we go! Another year of discovery, excitement, change and quite possibly some daunting challenges awaits our brave developer hearts once more. As we walk bleary-eyed to our desks again, fresh smells of coffee filling the office, it’s an excellent time to refocus – amongst other things – on our technical goals; how we’d like [...]

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South African online buyers can now receive quotes in Rands and make credit card purchases through PayPal. “Just the other day, I found out that South Africans can now get PayPal accounts and link them to a local credit card. When you buy something, the amount is deducted from your credit card and the system [...]

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In the last two weeks my development team has made a few new discoveries in the area .Net ORM tools. The new additions are Sub Sonic (free) and Entity Spaces (paid – $80). We are in the process of evaluating and prototyping both of these tools for a enterprise sized web-application that we are about [...]

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