After graduating from the Durban Institute of Technology, Pieter now works as a solution specialist over at Intervate and has been awarded the prestigious DirectX/XNA MVP award three years in a row. He has been actively involved in the game development community for years and wrote numerous DirectX/Graphics articles for his blog (www.pieterg.com), SADeveloper.net (www.sadeveloper.net) and MDXInfo. Pieter has been exposed to languages such as c++/c, C#, Java, VB, VB.NET, python, ruby, lua.