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ALM Conference 2008 - Come and Join us!!
We are going to have a ALM Conference 2008 on 18th November 2008, at Microsoft’s office [29th Floor, Tower II, KLCC]
During the conference, we have few topics on highlighting how you can adopting Application Lifecycle Management with Visual Studio Team System. Besides that, you will be having the chance to see the new features in the next version of VSTS [Rosario].
Sign up today at http://msevents.microsoft.com/CUI/EventDetail.aspx?EventID=1032389124&Culture=en-MY
Add comment October 27, 2008
Windows Mobile Developers Workshop
Another round of Windows Mobile Developers Workshop for our ISVs and League of Extraordinary Developers Challenge 2008 (LEDC by Celcom)’s participants.
This 3-days workshop was conducted at Info Trek and we have total number of 26 attendees turn up for the workshop.
Besides the presentations from the trainer, the workshop also provided some hands-on-lab for the attendees.
Thank you for our trainer, Gerald Hoong, who did an excellent job in conducting the workshops.
For more information about the League of Extraordinary Developers Challenge 2008 (LEDC by Celcom), please visit: http://developerleague.celcom.my
The workshop’s presentation slides are available here: http://cid-02d3a3cc6f2b65f4.skydrive.live.com/self.aspx/Public/Windows%20Mobile%20Workshop%20Slides
To learn more about Microsoft(Malaysia)’s upcoming events, please visit http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/events
Add comment October 27, 2008
myVSTS usergroup gathering - 9 Oct 2008
Last Thursday, we had the first myVSTS usergroup gathering. The myVSTS is the user group that provide a platform for Visual Studio Team System (VSTS) users to meet, network and share their experience and best practices in VSTS.
In this gathering, no technical presentation, but everyone get together to have dinner, have some networking session. The purpose of this gathering to get to understand each other and plan how we want to run this usergroup.
Some screenshots during the dinner.
Looking forward for the next usergroup gathering.
Add comment October 15, 2008
devTalks - Come and learn Visual Studio!!
Are you looking to increase your knowledge and understanding of Visual Studio 2008. Microsoft invites you to a series of monthly technical presentation and demos. Sign up today at http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/events/devseminar
For more information, please visit: http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/events/devseminar/
Add comment October 8, 2008
Software Testing Conference 2008
Conducted a workshop with Tang last week in a Software Testing Conference, which organized by Custommedia.
It is a 2 Days conference, Fai had a session yesterday and talked about Test Drive Development. For second day, I had a 3 hours session with topic “Quality Improvement with Visual Studio Team System 2008″
Although it is a workshop, but there is no PC prepared so no hands-on for the attendees. Tang and I tag team to conduct the workshop, by giving presentation on slides, doing classroom discussion and show some cool demo on the VSTS tools.
Here is the slide I used during the workshop, you may download from here:
Add comment September 2, 2008
“Upgrade to .NET” Campaign
This morning, we had a “Upgrade to .NET” campaign. The purpose of this seminar is to educate the VB or older version .NET developers to move to the latest .NET platform.
In this event, the attendees explored the new and improved Windows Services that ease some workload from developers in terms of developing, debugging and installation. Besides that, they also learned how to build rich looking windows applications with less effort than Visual Basic 6.0 and create dynamic web sites using ASP.NET.
Here are the topics for this event:
- .NET platform and its benefits for VB6 developers, by Patrick
- Migrate from VB6 to VB.NET? Where to start series, by Ian
- Moving from ASP to ASP.NET, Poh Sze
- Tips and Tricks in VB 9.0, by Patrick
The event is a bit over ran, until 2pm. However, I believe the attendees should be quite enjoyed seeing all the “magic”, cool features, tips and tricks that presented during the session.
During Patrick’s session
The attendees…[I promised to post this picture on my blog]
Lucky draw winner 1
Lucky draw winner 2
Q& A session after the seminar….
You can download the slide I used during my session here:
For the sample code, I will upload soon.
Add comment August 27, 2008
Slide Download: Think and Code Mobile
Had my second session early in the morning at TechEd SEA 2008 – “MED321 Think and Code Mobile [Line of Business Application]“
Here is the slide for my session, and you may download it from here
I will post my demo code walkthrough in my next post.
Add comment August 12, 2008
Slide Download: S+S with Visual Studio 2008
Doing a breakout session with Patrick in TechEd SEA 2008, on topic: S+S with Visual Studio 2008 Solving Real World Problems.
You may download the slide from here:
I will put in some demo walkthrough soon.
Add comment August 11, 2008
My coffee cup
Last month, the EMP had a small gathering and they did a “gift exchange” during the gathering as well. Guess what, I got this very nice coffee cup from “someone“. Ever since then, I like to use it to make a cup of coffee for myself, rather than using the polystyrene or shared cups in the office.
Take a wild guess, what is the message inside the cup? 
3 comments July 29, 2008
"Bridging Age Gap & IT" Senior Citizens
Last Saturday [26th July], MIND organized an event “Bridging Age Gap & IT” for the senior citizens.
[got this picture from Yew Ban’s blog :P)
The event is held at Microsoft’s office. Early in the morning, around 30 people, age ranging from 40 to 70 years old senior IT class students already at Microsoft’s office waiting for the session to start.
The event covered 4 sessions:
1. Microsoft History, by Moy
2. Windows Mobile. What can you do other than phone calling? by Poh Sze
3. Introduction to Windows Vista, by Wen Ching
4. Introduction to Office 2007, by Yew Ban
It was really a great event, kudos to MIND for organizing this wonderful event. Of course, thanks for inviting me to present in this session.
I really enjoyed this event, firstly, it is because this is my first time to present to the senior citizens; secondly, I have to present in mandarin. Some of the words and terms, I really find hard to description in mandarin, thanks Yew Ban and the students in helping me to do translation. 
If you were in the session, you will be amazed by the students’ passionate and eagerness in learning technologies without any language barrier.
Read more in Chinese version by Yew Ban.
1 comment July 28, 2008
