M- Power is back again! For those who missed the last training we had, here’s your chance to get your hands-on experience with Mango development! Register now, slots are limited. More details:
Campfire proudly presents two days of cutting edge learning and inspiration from April 13 - 14, 2012. Join us for an action-packed conference designed especially for developers, designers, UX experts and entrepreneurs in the web technology space. We’re flying in great speakers from across the globe specially to talk to you about trending topics like HTML5, The Kinect effect and so much more. If you’re looking to learn about the latest web development opportunities, then you’ve come to the right place. ...
Build for Windows 8 is the first dev camp we are running here in Singapore and we’re really excited to share with you the opportunities that Windows 8 brings to you as a developer! We’re really happy to have around 200 developers join us in this session. If you couldn’t attend today, don’t worry, we’ll be live blogging and sharing with you resources from the dev camp! Slides will also be made available here so remember to check this page out. Tweet us @gospiffy and use the hashtag #BuildforWin8SG 930AM - We started the day with an introduction with Alex introducing the upcoming events for Windows 8, including Campfire. We’re flying in speakers who are experts in HTML 5 and other interesting subjects in the web tech space to talk to you from 13th - 14th April! Register here: campfire.weshipcode.com 945AM - Our awesome director, Ziriad Saibi talking about the opportunity for developers. Windows 7 numbers are at 500M. That’s not even including other Windows powered devices. 10.00AM - Hammad, architect evangelist, talking about the Metro UI and demonstrating the investments that went into Windows 8 to create a beautiful user experience for everyone (yes, even developers). 1030AM - Search is an interesting factor for developers, when a user is searching on Windows and if your app is relevant, it pops up immediately on the results screen without having to go into a browser! 1045AM - Are you a HTML5 / Javascript / .Net/ C++developer? Then you’re already equipped to be a Windows 8 developer. 11.00AM - Short break! Time for some tea. In meantime, meet Kim, our presenter for Metro UI later on! 1115AM - We are demoing a camera capture class. Its really easy to set up! Hammad just made the audience scream ‘Metro’ and we now have videographic evidence of your presence here - uploading to Facebook. (Just Kidding, you guys are great!) 1120AM - Tiles are a great mechanism for drawing users’ attention to your application! Make sure you take some time to customize it. 1130AM - Content before chrome. Interesting research shows that browser users are hardwired into thinking that our browser chromes are the main part of experience and not the content itself. The Metro UI allows content to come first. Immerse your users in the thing s they love instead of wasting space with the chrome. Let layout flow from edge to edge, pan only on a single axis to create a sense of stability. - more on that later during the UX session. 1140AM - Life is made a lot simpler when you use the templates from Visual Studio to create your first Metro style app. 1150AM - Introducing the App Bar: Most apps will have the app bar at the bottom that allow the user use common commands. 1157AM - Try Semantic Zooms to show richer, meta information on your groups. 1203PM - Design for touch first! Most people use the sides to navigate through the apps.. don’t expect them to use too many fingers at once! (Unless you want them to spill their Starbucks coffee all over their tablet.) 1215PM - Lunch! Did you guys enjoy it? 1.20PM - Full and ready to learn more about Windows 8 development! Kim is sharing about resources for developing on the Metro UI. He’s also giving great tips about the commanding surfaces that allows users to have greater interaction with the touch device. R. emember to check out our tutorial about Visual Blend, that will help you prototype UIs quickly. 1.35PM - Need design assests? Download them here. 1.45PM - Remembering to scale your graphics properly is important! Run it on the emulator to try how it looks like. 1.50PM - We love animations that make your app feel more alive. Built in controls are provided for free. You can also look for more in the Windows 8 Animation Library. Very useful. 2.00PM - 5 T-Shirts given to our awesome attendees! Great questions on the APIs, porting of apps. Keep the questions coming in! 2.05PM - Darren Sim, talking about integrating applications with web services. 2.13PM - Again, search is universally accessible and contextual. Darren is demo-ing it right now! 2.40PM - A really funny presentation from Darren who is sharing about how to call certain features using javascript. The tutorial is found on MSDN. 3.00PM - So many questions! And the IE T-shirts seem to be really popular. 3.15PM - Breaktime! We took some videos of the attendees, thanks for the feedback. Great to see Android and iOS developers here as well. Seem like the market share is an interesting factor when it come to deciding which platform to develop for. 3. 30PM - Hammad, our Win 8 champ, is on again. We’re learning about extension methods that bridge the gap between the new Windows Runtime and managed code. When you use Runtime, your apps are going to be super fast. 4.00PM - Ed Quek from Microsoft APAC is sharing about the Windows Store right now. 4.05PM - demoing the Windows Store, did you know that 70% of apps get buried in the app store? Windows is going to help you overcome that! Check out how to sell your apps and the descriptions you’ll need here. 4.30PM - As a developer you get 70% of whatever you sell on the store. If you get over US$25,000 you get 80%! It’s a tiered model. 4.38PM - Trials matter. You get a 70% better chance of converting users into paying ones by offering trials! Keep that in mind when you’re deciding the price and sales model. 4.40PM - Singapore is one of the countries with that will have the Windows Store supported. Go little red dot! 4.45PM - The cost to register for a Windows Store developer account in the United States is 49 USD for an individual and 99 USD for a company. For the price in your local currency, see Developer countries and regions.
Apps are going to be at the center of the new Windows 8 experience. As a developer, you will be given unprecedented access to millions of Windows users worldwide. Microsoft is proud to bring Build for Windows 8 to Singapore, a free, fun, no-fluff event for developers, by developers. This full day event will let you experience developing on the new Windows 8 platform. You will learn from experts in a low-key, interactive way and then you’ll get to apply what you’ve learned. Spaces are limited, register at bit.ly/buildforwin8 now! Time and Date - 9am to 5pm, 30th March 2012 Location - Level 22, Microsoft Singapore,1 Marina Boulevard, One Marina Boulevard, Singapore 018989 ...
“A day in the life” at Contoso - Work Smarter with Future of Productivity (5 Series) Date: 21st March Time: 7:00PM - 9:00PM Location: Level 21 Auditorium, Microsoft, No.1 Marina Boulevard, One Marina Boulevard, Singapore 0189189 SharePoint, Office and Messaging Talk user groups are co-organizing a series of meet ups on Future of Productivity! The activities in this whole series is represent a day in the life of the characters at work during a busy period. Karen starts her day remote and on the go. Along with her fellow Contoso employees, she will be keeping up with email, responding to a sales request and finding people and information in order to effectively analyze data needed to complete a sales proposal and presentation. Karen involves Allie and the Contoso Singapore office to complete a sales proposal and presentation for a customer, A. Datum. This will break out into 5 different Series (5 meetup) Series 1 - Be Productive on the go Series 2 - Stay on top of your inbox Series 3 - Communicate and connect in real time with customer Series 4 - Gain business insights Series 5 - Create content collaboratively Come and experience how Microsoft can help you in productivity. *Note: Due to there is not enough of laptop, please bring your own laptops with Office 2010 installed to participate by accessing SharePoint 2010 and be a part of the experience as well.
Join us for the first in a series of in-depth session on Active Directory with Microsoft technical experts and ask them all your burning questions. Microsoft® Active Directory® forms the critical backbone to support your enterprise’s information structure. A poorly functioning Active Directory environment affects security boundaries, replication, and dele-gate administration, causing significant impact to your business. We are delighted to have Stanley Lopez, Senior Premier Field Engineer, to speak about • how checking the health of your Active Directory Environment regularly will lower your risk of having this issues. • Learn the basic tools which you would need to use to validate your environments health. • What should be in place to ensure that everything will be working well at the end of the day ...
Singapore SQL User Group is running a special meet up with industry expert to talk about their expereince on implementing Data Mining. Join your peers for a special meet up on 6th Feb. Data Mini****ng for Social Moderation The BBC (the British Broadcasting Company), a known media force in Europe, implemented an in-database data mining solution for their public-facing website. The BBC encourages users to post comments and become part of their social media community. In this project, the BBC needed a way to improve the social moderation of millions of posts on thousands of forums. This presentation covers how SQL Server helped designing a model to dramatically help improving the quality and efficiency of the moderation. We also discuss cost efficiencies obtained in this project. More and more organizations will need to use enterprise solutions to handle high-volume social networking, learn from it, and eventually take actions that make sense to achieve their goals. Data Mining is one of the areas with more potential growth for SQL Server, and perhaps one of the least known ones by the SQL Server professionals. Speaker Profile: Fernando G. Guerrero. Global CEO of SolidQ. a Civil Engineer and former lecturer of Surveying and Photogrammetry at the Polytechnic University of Valencia, he spent 15 years working in Indonesia, Morocco, Bolivia, Ecuador, the UK and the USA, in projects financed by the European Union, the European Investment Bank, The World Bank, and the Spanish International Cooperation Agency. Mr Guerrero is a published author and a frequent speaker at international conferences. He holds the honorific title of Microsoft Regional Director for Spain, and received the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional award for SQL Server from 2000 until 2007 Venue: Microsoft Singapore Pte. Ltd. 1 Marina Boulevard #22-01 One Marina Boulevard Singapore 018989 Date/Time: 6 February 2012/7 pm onwards For confirmation please send email to sgsql@live.com
The definition, business value, and technology benefits of the “the cloud” have been hotly debated in recent months. Most agree that cloud computing can accelerate innovation, reduce costs, and increase business agility in the market. In 2012, cloud computing will transition from hype and discussion, to part of every enterprise’s reality, and IT is uniquely positioned to lead this transformation and help business reap the benefits of cloud computing. Join us for a virtual event designed to help you explore your cloud options. It’s your chance to interact with Microsoft experts and with IT leaders like yourself, who have been putting cloud technology to work in their own organizations. You’ll be among the first to hear the latest private cloud news from Microsoft Transforming IT with Microsoft Private Cloud Thursday,January 1__9, 2012, 11:00 A.M-1:00 P.M. Singapore Time Here’s what we have planned: •Hear from other senior IT professionals about how cloud computing can help you gain maximum competitive advantage with minimal risk. •Learn about Microsoft cloud offerings, including private, public, and hybrid cloud models. • Experience Microsoft private cloud solutions through the Microsoft Technology Center Microsoft Executive Panelists: Satya Nadella President, Server and Tools Business, Microsoft Brad Anderson Corporate Vice President, Management and Security Division, Microsoft Antoine Aguado Senior Director, Private Cloud and Server, M&O Microsoft Asia Pacific ...
The first meet up for Singapore Geek Girls is held in Jan 7th, 2012 at Group Therapy Coffee, with more than 35 geek girls showed up. As one of them, I am very happy to see I am no longer the minority in a techinical meet up. So what’s geek girls about? As said, girls are unique and definitely the minority in Technology world. They look at techonology from a different angle compared to guys. By having this new network, we are hoping girls could get more connected and share more information. Or even better, we could go to techinical conference or workshop together. ...
Microsoft IT Camps is coming in 2012. It is a series FREE workshops for IT Professionals to learn and understand Microsoft technologies. There are three different themes: Datacenter Virtualization Implementing Private Cloud Enabling Consumerization of IT Join your peers for a hands-on, highly-interactive and engaging learning experience around Microsoft technologies and solutions. Have real-world discussions and work with technology experts and your peers to solve scenario-based problems. Date Theme Request an Invite ...