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 [...]

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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 even [...]

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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 to [...]

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