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  Chewy Chong 12:16 pm on October 30, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

  Big THANK YOU to Singapore Hoster "8 to Infinity" 

  One of the great parts of this job is getting to meet some super cool people.  When I first started here in Singapore about 2 years  ago (yes… it has been almost 2 years), the previous evangelist gave me a list of 3 people to connect with and one of them was a guy named Boon at a hoster called 8 to Infinity.  My interaction with Boon was among one of my first taste of “Singapore efficiency”.  As I needed his help with setting up my blog and hosting for our local community user groups, I allocated a few weeks to get it done as I thought there would be a lot of back-and-forth (based on my experience back home with hosters in Australia and the US).  Well, about 3 days later… my blog was up and I was lock-n-loaded to execute on behalf of my local user group.  Most of the delay was on my end as I take a while to get to my emails.

  Well, recently… I needed Boon’s help to troubleshoot some issues I had with Sky Drive’s iframe rendering on Community Server.  All my support requests were acted on within minutes.  Singapore rocks!  Boon… you rock!

  Anyhow, this isn’t really a technical post but rather… I wanted to publicly thank Boon and 8 to Infinity for being so supportive.  I love you guys. xoxo

  

  Find out more about 8 to Infinity, check out http://8.to

   

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  Chewy Chong 3:49 am on October 19, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

  Singapore Maps with Virtual Earth and Best.SG 

  During this week’s MSDN TechTalks, I showed a 15 min demo where I built a website from scratch that allows the user to type in their Singapore postal code and a Singapore map shows up with a pin on top of the postal code (every postal code represent a distinct building unlike others where the code can specify a geographical region).

  This demo has resonated quite well with the attendees at the event.  A number of them wanted to see the code so they can build a “here are my stores” map and embedded into their web sites.  As such, I just recorded a video of me doing the exact same demo but with more commentary of my code.  Here’s my video and a copy of the resulting code from the video demo.

  The Postal2Gps web service used is a web service we built to wrap a raw JSP service from Best.SG.  You need to sign up for a developer ID from Best.SG to make use of their service.  The web service wrapper we used will be updated by the end of Oct to allow you to type in your own developer ID.

  InnovativeSingapore Lab’s Services Listing
  (Services here will go under a design review and will be normalized in Nov)
  http://labs.innovativesingapore.com/services

  I want to personally thank our beloved Singapore Start-Up Best.Sg for making this service available.  Learn more about their Postal2Gps service below.

  Best.SG Geocoder Finder
  http://www.best.sg/mash/sggeocoder.jsp

  If you folks build geo-aware apps, I would love to hear about it and may potentially be able to get a camera crew out to see it in action.  Drop me an email at chewyc at microsoft dot com.

   
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  Chewy Chong 2:33 am on October 17, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

  Follow Up Materials: MSDN TechTalk Day – Oct 2007 

  Great to see such a wonderful collection of Singapore developers all in one huge room.  As promised, we’re collecting all the materials presented at the event and will put them here in this post.  So if you’re looking for the slide decks, demos, suggested follow up items or anything to simply learn more… keep checking out this post for the next few days.

  Update Tues Oct 23 – 2:00PM

  • A Lap Around Visual Studio 2008
    Maung Manug Phyo (MVP) – Senior Consultant NCS Pte Ltd
    Presentation on Sky Drive…

  Update Fri Oct 19 – 12:00PM

  • What’s New in SQL 2008
    Edwin Sarmiento (MVP) – Senior Systems Engineer/DBA Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd 
    Edwin’s blog is here
     
  • SQL 2008 Spatial Overview (Keynote Demo)
    Wee Hyong Tok (MVP)
    See the demos live on http://labs.innovativesingapore.com 
    Presentation on Sky Drive…
    
  • Extending Microsoft Office with Visual Studio 2008
    Alan Andrew Dias (MVP) – Director of Training and Technology COMAT Training Services Pte Ltd
    Presentation on Sky Drive…
    
  • Programming Services with WCF
    Hammad Rajjoub (MVP) – Assistant Vice President Merrill Lynch Global Services
    Presentation on Sky Drive…
    
  • Singapore Maps with Virtual Earth and Best.SG (Keynote Demo)
    Chewy Chong – Developer Evangelist Microsoft Singapore
    Source code and video of demo here
    Chewy’s blog is here

  Update Wed Oct 17 – 10:00AM

  • Data Access and Programmability using Language Integrated Query (LINQ)
    Jocelyn Mae Villaraza – ISV Developer Evangelist Microsoft Singapore
    Additional LINQ Resources and Videos here
    Jocelyn’s blog is here
     
  • Enabling Rich Web Application with Windows Live Service
    Chris Ismael – Interoperability Specialist Microsoft Singapore
    Presentation Slides and Links here
    Chris’s blog is here
     
  • Building a Rich Interactive App with AJAX and Visual Studio 2008
    John Eldridge – Technical Evangelist Microsoft Singapore
    John’s blog is here
   
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  Chewy Chong 3:43 am on October 2, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

  MSDN TechTalk Day – Tues Oct 16 (Enterprise Development and the Next Web) 

  So I’ve been busy this past month organizing our upcoming full day of technical developer content.  I am happy to report that the sessions are close to being locked and loaded for the event.  As of Oct 2, here is what we have lined up for our Oct TechTalk event.

  The sessions are going to be excellent.  We have assembled some of the best technical speakers in Singapore working in many different industries.  Over the next week, I will try to get you a video preview of each session to help you decide align your needs to the sessions available. 

  Keep an eye on this blog for updates.

  MSDN TechTalk
  16 Oct 2007
  NTUC Auditorium Level 7
  One Marina Boulevard

  More details: http://mssg.earth9.com/singapore/edm/2007/09/17/msdn_hero.html
  Register: melissa@techmexeventsasia.com or call 6550-8963

  Time Slot	Enterprise Development	Developing the Next Web
  Keynote	Software Plus Services
  General Session	10 Action Packed Demos of SQL 2008, Visual Studio 2008 and Windows Server 2008
  Lunch
  Session 1	A Lap Around Visual Studio 2008 Maung Manug Phyo (MVP) Senior Consultant NCS Pte Ltd	Overview of Silverlight Steve Sofian (MVP) Solution Specialist Nichefield
  Session 2	Data Access and Programmability using Language Integrated Query (LINQ) Jocelyn Mae Villaraza ISV Developer Evangelist Microsoft Singapore Watch the Session Intro Video	Enabling Rich Web Application with Windows Live Service Chris Ismael Interoperability Specialist Microsoft Singapore Watch the Session Intro Video
  Break
  Session 3	Extending Microsoft Office with Visual Studio 2008 Alan Andrew Dias (MVP) Director of Training and Technology COMAT Training Services Pte Ltd	Programming Services with WCF Hammad Rajjoub (MVP) Assistant Vice President Merrill Lynch Global Services
  Session 4	What’s New in SQL 2008 Edwin Sarmiento (MVP) Senior Systems Engineer/DBA Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd	Building a Rich Interactive App with AJAX and Visual Studio 2008 John Eldridge Technical Evangelist Microsoft Singapore

   (Tina… please use this version of the schedule for print)

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    http:// 2:02 pm on October 16, 2007 Permalink | Reply

    Can we download the presentation slides? thx a lot.

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  Chewy Chong 2:06 pm on October 1, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

  SGDOTNET User Group Evening – Thurs Oct 4 (VSTS and .NET with Embedded Devices) 

  The folks at SGDOTNET have yet another exciting evening planned for Singapore (even more so as yours truly been invited to speak ).

  Thursday Oct 4, 2007
  1830 – 1900 Registration
  1900 – 2000 Topic 1 – Best Practices for Team Based Software Development
  2000 – 2010 Break
  2010 – 2110 Topic 2 – Fun with .NET and Embedded Devices (Phidgets)

  They have a guest expert from Australia (Anthony Borton) so this should be quite an eventful evening. 

  As for my session… I’ll show everyone how to build their own power meter with an embedded device, an amp sensor and (of course) .NET!  I only recently found out how easily we can interface physical sensors / motors up to .NET.  A company in Canada called Phidgets (http://www.phidgets.com) makes low cost sensors and controllers plus they provide .NET drivers / interfaces for everything they sell.  Check out my video below. 

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  If you can’t make my session, you should check out their site.  Any serious .NET developer should have something like this at home for those “weekend” projects.

  Register for the event here: http://www.sgdotnet.org/Docs/Lists/1007%20SGDN/NewForm.aspx

  More information about the event here: http://community.sgdotnet.org/forums/thread/150171.aspx