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  • Chewy Chong 10:03 am on November 13, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    Follow Up: Global Entrepolis @ Singapore – Innovation Today, Tomorrow 

    It was quite refreshing to meet up with Singapore’s brightest entrepreneurs at GES today.  I went through tons of innovation demos in 45 mins and I did not expect all of you to note down where all these demos were located.  As such, this post will list down what I demo and where you can find out more information. 

    Innovating on Existing Commercial Innovations

    Outlook’s Social Networking and Productivity Tool XOBNI (inbox backwards)
    http://www.xobni.com

    Live Maps
    http://maps.live.com/
    http://dev.live.com/virtualearth/

    Live Agents (IM Artificially Intelligent Robots)
    http://windowsliveagents.spaces.live.com/

    Live ID
    http://dev.live.com/liveid/

    Microsoft Speech Technologies
    http://www.microsoft.com/speech/speech2007/default.mspx

    Windows Mobile’s Live Search
    (on your windows mobile device.. go to) http://m.live.com

    Windows Embedded
    http://www.microsoft.com/windows/embedded/default.mspx

    Bridging the .NET and Embedded Gap with Phidgets Devices
    http://www.phidgets.com/
    http://www.phidgets.com/products.php?category=1

    Innovating on Emerging Innovations

    Partnering with Microsoft’s IP Ventures Team
    http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/intellectualproperty/default.mspx

    PhotoSynth
    http://labs.live.com/photosynth/view.html?collection=sanmarco/index1.sxs&st=coll

    Microsoft Research – GroupShot
    http://research.microsoft.com/projects/GroupShot/

    Microsoft Research – HD View
    http://research.microsoft.com/ivm/HDView/HDGigapixel.htm

    Microsoft Research – Interactive Image Cutout
    http://www.microsoft.com/about/legal/intellectualproperty/search/details.mspx?ip_id=IDAEYCID&techType=&ipCat=Any&feeStructure=Any&keywords=&ipVenture=true

    Microsoft Research – Virtual Viewpoint View
    http://research.microsoft.com/vision/InteractiveVisualMediaGroup/VVV/

    Innovating on Home Grown Innovations

    Singapore’s Microsoft Innovation Center
    http://innovativesingapore.com
    http://labs.innovativesingapore.com

    Best.SG’s Local Singapore Services (to build your innovation on)
    http://best.sg/mashup.jsp

    Tons and tons and tons of demos.  If you want a repeat, drop me an email and we can try to arrange another redelivery.  

     

  • Chewy Chong 4:23 am on November 12, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    Using Visual Studio 2008 to Deploy Your App to Windows Server 2008 

    I’ve got an app using features of .NET 3.5.  I’m using Visual Studio 2008 Beta 2 and deploying to Windows Server 2008 RC0.  As you can tell… this post will be very dated as all the stuff I’m using are pre-release.  So if you read this and we’ve gone RTM… these instructions probably won’t apply.

    One great thing about Visual Studio 2008 is that you can deploy your app directly to your IIS Server very easily and quickly.  That’s assuming your server has been configured and ready to go.  Typically you administrator will do the configuration in prep for your app but incase you don’t have one (like me)… these are the steps you take.

    We assume the following:

    • You have Windows Server 2008 installed (i’m using RC0)
    • You have a .NET web app to deploy (mine uses features of .NET 3.5)
    • You have admin rights on your server

    Here are the high level steps:

    • Enable Web and Application Server roles on Windows Server 2008
    • Enable FrontPage Server Extensions (FPSE)
      • I had to install FPSE seperately as it is currently in Beta
      • Details and download here
    • Enable FPSE on the IIS Web Site in question
      • Use the “owdadm -o install” command or
      • Use the FrontPage Server (also called Microsoft SharePoint) administration website to “extend” the site with FPSE (the site typically is on port 4425)
    • Ensure the user you plan on using for deployment have proper rights
      • User account has rights on the server and have NTFS rights to the filesystem where the app will go
      • User account has rights in FPSE to do stuff (not sure the exact permission required but I used FULL rights)
    • Ensure the target IIS Web Site allows Windows Authentication

    That’s it.  Once this is done to the site, you’ll be able to deploy easily in Visual Studio 2008 to your target server.

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  • Chewy Chong 3:20 pm on November 8, 2007 Permalink | Reply  

    SQL Server 2008 Sneak Preview Thurs 22 Nov Evening with SG’s UGs 

    At our Oct MSDN TechTalk event, we showed Singapore a number of sweet demos of SQL 2008 delivered by two of Singapore’s best database professionals. Whatever they showed you must have knocked your socks off as the number of follow-up requests on SQL 2008 have been overwhelming. So much so… the Singapore .NET User Group (SGDOTNET) and the Singapore SQL User Group (SGSQLUG) have joined forces to call back our two local experts to deliver you a deeper event.

    SQL Server 2008 Sneak Preview with Singapore’s .NET and SQL User Groups
    Thurs 22 Nov 2007 – 6.45pm – 9.00pm
    Microsoft Offices – Level 22 One Marina Blvd 018989
    Light Dinner Provided

    Free Event – Register here

    Declarative Management Framework (Edwin Sarmiento (MVP) – Senior Systems Engineer/DBA Fujitsu Asia Pte Ltd)

    The Declarative Management Framework (DMF) is a policy based system to manage a SQL Server instance. Using DMF, you can reduce the time spent on daily maintenance operations by defining a common set of policies for most database operations like query optimizations, naming conventions, backup and restore operations, and index management. You can even leverage DMF to apply policies to many servers for consistent management across the enterprise.  Come join Edwin in this session to learn how.

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    Spatial Support in SQL Server 2008  (Wee Hyong Tok (MVP))

    The growing ability of businesses and consumers to quickly absorb large volumes of data, together with the increased availability of digital maps and spatially-enabled applications has created an unprecedented opportunity to incorporate geographic factors into decision making processes and analysis. Come join Wee Hyong in this session to see some of the first public demos of SQL spatial in SE Asia.

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