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#MSCampfire was an amazing opportunity for us to gather developers, IT professionals, students and start-ups together. Over the course of 3 days we saw 600 attendees come together to discuss and share about the latest in web and mobile technology, had the brightest student minds pit their heads together in the Semis and Final of Imagine Cup SG to tackle some of the toughest real-world problems and saw the grit and passion from start-ups in Singapore from the Singapore Satellite of Echelon by our partner E27. All these wouldn’t have been possible without your support. Thank you so much for attending #MSCampfire and we hope to continually see you for the rest of our events. For those of you who missed #MSCampfire, fret not! Our next event happening on 10 May is HTML 5 on Metro. During this session, we’ll speak specifically about how HTML5 is changing the way applications are designed and how best to use it to create Metro-styled apps! Register now at bit.ly/html5onmetro Here are the slides from each session and the coverage on it. 10:30 – 11:30 Keynote – Rob Miles (Coverage by E27) 16:30-17:30 The Kinect Effect: Infinite Possibilities – Rob Miles Slides and (mostly working) code from the presentations - here C# Yellow Book, Windows Phone Blue book and other free stuff - here .NET Micro Framework embedded development - here Gadgeteer embedded development - here Three Thing Game student madness – here Windows Phone development - here Dreamspark, free software for students - here Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio – here Kinect For Windows SDK – here 11:30 – 12:30 Prototype, Prototype, Prototype – Shane Morris (Coverage by E27) ...

Windows 8 Developer Camp - HTML5 on Metro will be the biggest technical event Microsoft Singapore is organizing on Windows 8. HTML5 is here, and with it, web applications take on power, ease, scalability, and responsiveness like never before. HTML5 on Metro lets developers learn how to use the latest cutting-edge HTML5 web technology to build Windows 8 applications with unparalleled functionality, speed, and responsiveness. Featuring Giorgio Sardo, Senior Technical Evangelist, Microsoft Corporation Giorgio is a popular speaker worldwide and in the last 5 years he has presented at many conferences about HTML5, the Web and Mobile Platform. He is the mind behind many beautiful HTML5 applications and games at beautyoftheweb.com and Cut the Rope for IE. AGENDA 10 AM Behind the Scenes of Cut The Rope 11 AM Getting started with Window 8 Metro Apps 12 PM Lunch 1 PM Metro for HTML/JS Developers 2 PM Responsive App Design 3 PM Break 4 PM Client + Cloud integration with Azure ...

Sign up for our workshops after submitting your app ideas to win8sg@microsoft.com Windows 8 changes everything. It is the single most important opportunity for developers right now. That’s why we’re going to get technical in these sessions. Come join us in one of these Windows 8 hands-on sessions that will allow you to the opportunity to go through the app development process with our Windows 8 experts. Topics to be covered, with focus on html and Javascript: ...

HTML 5 is going to be the next big thing. It’s promise for openness and interactivity on both web and mobile is definitely one of the key attractions for developers. Juha from Non-Stop Games shares about his experience building HTML5 games at #MSCampfire. His company built Dollar Isle, which is a web game built on HTML5 - users set out to building an island filled sky scrapers, hotels and casinos that attract visitors around the virtual world. Juha opens by setting the stage with the definition of HTML5 in his case, which is HTML +JavaScript + CSS3. ...

We’ve got tonnes of great prizes waiting for you at #MSCampfire! Inside our UFO catcher are carebears tagged with #MSCampfire tags. Stand to win great prizes such as Lumia phones (sponsored by Nokia), IE T-shirts, Starbucks cards and many others! All you need to do is to scan your RFID Tags at the catchers and start playing! Most Amazing Booth Shot Contest! Strike a pose with our booth babes! The top 3 most-“Liked” photos uploaded by our Nokia booth babes to the Nokia Developers page wins a *white* Nokia Lumia 800, and 2 Nokia Lumia 710’s! * Visit and Like us at http://www.facebook.com/nokiadevs for more details on developer trainings and other developer contests. *The Most Amazing Booth Shot Contest ends 11.59pm 4/14 (Sat). Tag yourself in Facebook or leave namecard by the booth to verify winner. Email chris.ismael@nokia.com if you’re a developer!take a picture with the lovely ladies at the Nokia booth, you stand to win prizes Good luck!

Welcome to #MSCampfire ! We’re so excited to have you join us on for this action-packed event today! Remember to check back here for more photos, details and live coverage of the event as we reveal more exciting details along the way. Tweet us at @gospiffy for your feedback and remember to include the hashtag #MSCampfire, we’d love to find out what you think and how the event is for you :) Enjoy! Here’s a summary of what’s happening at #MSCampfire on Day One and Two. You can click on the links to get the latest updates on each session. At the end we will also be posting the slides from each session here! Day One: // THE WAREHOUSE 10:00 - 10:30 Opening - Ziriad Saibi 10:30 - 11:30 Keynote - Rob Miles (Coverage by E27) 11:30 - 12:30 Prototype, Prototype, Prototype - Shane Morris (Coverage by E27) 12:30 Lunch 13:30-14:30 10 Key HTML 5 Features you must know - Juha Paananen 14:30-15:30 Windows 8 Development - Hammad Rajjoub and Bruce Wang 15:30-16:30 The Metro Design Language; what it means to you - Shane Morris 16:30-17:30 The Kinect Effect: Infinite Possibilities - Rob Miles // CACHE & THE GRID 9:00-17:00 Imagine Cup Semifinals Day Two // THE GRID 10:00-12:30 Imagine Cup 2012 Finals // THE WAREHOUSE 10:00-11:00 Gamification - Natalie from Humming Bird Interactive Sanjay from Replaid talking about good mobile design practices 11:00-12:00 Mobile Web Design 13:00-17:00 Echelon Singapore Satellite by E27 Enjoy the day at #MSCampfire and come say hi to us! Cheers, The Microsoft Singapore DPE team

 When Microsoft launched Kinect for Xbox 360 a year and a half ago, our initial focus was controller-free games and entertainment. Once only the stuff of science fiction, Kinect became a phenomenon across the globe. Within the first 60 days, Kinect sold more than 8 million sensors, setting the Guinness Book World Record as the fastest-selling consumer electronics device. It extended the realm of what’s possible for a traditional gaming console and changed the Interactive Entertainment Business at Microsoft, bringing new categories of consumers to Xbox 360. What’s more important is the enthusiasm from the community to create exciting and creative applications in the areas of healthcare, rehab, education and so much more with the Kinect other than in the gaming industry. That’s why we’re excited to have Rob Miles talk to us about the Kinect and the inifinite possibilities it brings for us. Rob is a lecturer in Computer Science at the University of Hull in Great Britain where he teaches C# programming, Software Engineering and Embedded Development. He is also a Windows Phone MVP and has presented at many Microsoft conferences including TechED and Mix as well as delivering Windows Phone Jumpstart content to many thousands of budding Windows Phone developers. He is the author of a number of books on XNA game development and a text on the .NET Micro Framework and is just finishing off a book about development using the Kinect sensor. He has been fascinated by computers since the days of punched cards when he wrote his first programs, although nowadays he prefers Visual Studio 2010. He is a keen blogger at www.robmiles.com and can be found on Twitter as RobMiles. See you on Friday everyone! Register HERE.

DCC Finalists bringing the house down with The Last Dance after all winners were crowned on 8th April It was an explosive weekend at Plaza Singapura as the inaugural Dance Central Championships came to its grand finale and Kinect Star Wars was officially launched! From 3rd to 8th April, at least 100,000 mall visitors came to experience the magic Kinect for Xbox 360 like never before. ...

User Experience Design is quickly becoming an interesting component in the web and mobile space. Whether you’re building an app for your phone or for your website, you need to focus on the user experience to differentiate your product and company. As a developer, it’s crucial to know what to look out for when it comes to designing interactions for your users. We’re glad to have Shane Morris, one of Australia’s most respected user experience professionals join us at Campfire. Shane is currently Director at Automatic Studio. Through consulting, mentoring and training he has helped organisations create compelling digital experiences since 1991. In that time he has worked on desktop applications, internet applications, mobile user interfaces, physical devices and web sites. Shane has taught user experience topics around the world and is a key contributor to “101 Things I Learned in Interaction Design School” at ixd101.com. Hear him speak on day one about Prototyping and the Metro Design Language. Register now at campfire.weshipcode.com !

Happening from 13– 14 Apr at *SCAPE, Imagine Cup 2012 : Singapore Finals will be open and free for public viewing this year. The annual Microsoft Imagine Cup is the world’s premier student technology competition. Talented students from the various institutions of higher learning will compete and pitch their hearts out in this national software design competition to represent Singapore in the Imagine Cup Worldwide Finals held in Sydney, Australia. Students all over the world are to use their imagination and passion to create a technology solution that addresses the Imagine Cup 2012 theme: Imagine a world where technology solves the world’s toughest problems. In ten years, the Imagine Cup has grown to be a global competition focused on finding solutions to real-world problems. Since 2003, over 1.4 million students have participated in the Imagine Cup with 358,000 students representing 183 countries and regions registering for the Imagine Cup 2011 competition. The Imagine Cup 2012 competition is a platform for students to: ...