This post is by our Microsoft Student Partner Yan Li. Recently, I worked on an app for the Windows Phone 7 platform and submitted it to the marketplace for certification. I’ve learnt many things and gained many insights after going through this process and would like to share one of these with you, developers and potential developers of the Windows Phone 7 platform. Throughout this post, I will be making references to the official Windows Phone 7 Application Certification Requirements document (WP7ACR) which can be downloaded at http://go.microsoft.com/?linkid=9730558. Under Section 5.2.4 of the WP7ACR, clause a, it is stated that: ...

The Post PDC10 Viewing Party, 8th November at Bank of America Merrill Lynch, co-hosted by Hammad Rajjoub from was a smashing success as we had a good time watching PDC10 keynotes from Steve Ballmer and Bob Muglia and talking about some of the technologies mentioned in PDC10. There was awesome freebies, insightful content and engaging conversations going around the room. It all ended with a scrumptious dinner that everyone enjoyed immensely and of course the grand lucky draw prize of an Xbox 360 + Guitar Hero package was given out to Veerasivanantham Paramasivam of Bank Of America Merrill Lynch. Here are some snapshots of the event: During the event, Ziriad’s (Microsoft Singapore DPE Director) keynote covered some of the key technologies such as Cloud, IE9, Silverlight, Windows Phone 7 etc. which was followed by two break-out sessions. You can check out Ziriad’s slides here: [slideshare id=5774621&doc=pdc2010update-101114035258-phpapp01] First break-out session is from Mingfei (Microsoft Developer Evangelist) on Windows Azure AppFabric. Slides below: [slideshare id=5774665&doc=boacloudcomputing-101114040211-phpapp02] Second break-out session is from Hammad (Microsoft MVP, Lead of ) on Windows Server AppFabric. Slides below: [slideshare id=5741540&doc=windowsserverappfabric-pdc2010-101111065307-phpapp01]

SINGAPORE PHP USER GROUP – 3rd Anniversary Meetup! Agenda in brief: 7:00pm – 8:00pm Registration & Networking Session 8:00pm – 8:30pm MS Internet Explorer 9 + HTML5 8:30pm – 9:00pm CakePHP in the Wild! - FlickEvents 9:00pm – 9:30pm Introducing Enterprise PHP Center Asia TOPICS: 1) Microsoft Internet Explorer 9 + HTML5 Presenter: Jonathan Wong, Regional Product Manager for Internet Explorer, Microsoft He works with partners, customers and developers to help them innovate and build cool things with Microsoft technologies. Jonathan will be sharing with us about the cool new web tools in IE9 and its support for HTML5. 2) CakePHP in the Wild - FlickEvents Presenter: Huang Yaoquan, Founder, FlickEvents Easy event management as simple as a flick of switch. With FlickEvents, event organizer can now focus on organizing great events instead of worrying about the nitty-gritty stuff. See how its done in CakePHP - the PHP Framework http://flickevents.com/ 3) Introducing Enterprise PHP Center Asia Presenter: Rama Yurindra, Rynet Singapore, (Zend Technologies Representatives in Asia) The Enterprise PHP Center is a comprehensive collection of Enterprise PHP resources for Business Managers & IT professionals brought to you by Rynet Group and it’s affiliates and partners. The Enterprise PHP Center is a complete online resources in the PHP eco system. It will address business managers as well as individual developers with decision–making authority. http://www.enterprisephpcenter.com/ Venue Sponsor: Microsoft Singapore Food Sponsor: Foound Pte Ltd You could register the event here.

Microsoft just announced that it has shifted a million Kinect units within 10 days! It seems that it is not hard for Microsoft to achieve its sales predictions upwards to five million by the end of 2010. Especially, by Chirstmas time, Microsoft is hoping to sell Kinect in 38 countires and Kinect is going to be the hottest gift this season. For Singapore, we are counting down to the Xbox 360’s event of the year - “X10” Kinect for Xbox 360 launch event! 17 to 21 November @ Plaza Singapura! Exclusive pre-sale for DBS/POSB cardmembers starts on 17th November @ 12noon onwards. Sales will be available to all other customers from the 18th November,10am onwards. We are excited and we …hope to see you there! For event details, you could check out here. Dance your way to Big Prizes at Kinect X10 Event! Lastly, watch how New York’s famed Times Square went controller-free on the Kinect launch day in US. NYC, as the Crossroads of the World was transformed into a dancing, singing, A-list celebration for the launch of Kinect for Xbox 360. A full day of demos, star-studded appearances and a massive, choreographed dance routine culminated in an excited line of thousands of fans eagerly waiting to take home the future of home entertainment. [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=blkV4KH8zxo&feature=related[/youtube]

So here is how the story goes… we have a winner for our “Guess what she is smiling about” contest and here are the top 3 entries that we think are the most creative! In 3rd place… “I guess the lady is saying about having an application that knows whether the guy she adores likes her based on his heartbeat rate.” -Lin Liyi In 2nd place… “She wants an app that lets her share what her boyfriend sings to her.” -Anuj Bheda and the winner of our KINECT… “She needs an app that can detect the peak frequency of laser emissions coming out from someone so she can plan her counter attack accordingly..” -Jocelyn Villaraza Big ‘Thank You’ to all who have participated, Re-Tweeted, shared this contest and congratulations to Jocelyn for giving us such an entertaining and creative answer. Jocelyn’s app would really come in handy in the future, when all of us carry around our laser guns and light sabres ready for a showdown anytime, its like the wild wild west 2.0! By the way, did I mention that the 2 runner ups gets super awesome limited edition WP7 stickers? Yes… WP7 stickers, you will get, hmmm. ...

Dear Javascript fans, Don’t miss this monthly meet up group. Beers provided! http://www.beermatesjs.com/ Current Meetup Happening 4th November 2010, Thursday Hackerspace SG, 730pm The mighty JS function (Timothee Groleau) How I got started in Javascript (Lim Chee Aun ) Got Joose? (Kenny Shen ) Register at http://www.flickevents.com/beermates

?? Startup Weekend just finished yesterday with forty five passionate people attending and twenty ideas shared. Seven teams were formed with the goal of refining their ideas and making it to reality. Congrats to everybody who came and we hope to see your awesome startups soon. Here’s some words from Marc Nager, director of Startup Weekend on his Asian trip and when he’s coming back to Singapore. [vimeo]http://vimeo.com/16353962[/vimeo] You can find out more about Startup Weekend at http://startupweekend.org/ http://singapore.startupweekend.org/ and find out how Microsoft helps startups at http://www.bizspark.com/

This post is written by Michael Sync, a Microsoft MVP. More information could be found here. How are you doing? guys.. I’ve been so busy with both Windows Phone 7 development and Silverlight development lately and I couldn’t able to update anything on my blog.. Sorry, guys! As we are sharing our code base between Silverlight and Phone 7, there are a lot of interesting things that I wanna share with you guys. I will write about it in different post later but I gotta tell you that it’s not that simple to share the codebase between two platforms. :) As of now, I like to share some screenshots of our Windows Phone 7 application that we submitted around Oct 4th. I like to tell you guys about what we are doing and etc first. We are developing Silverlight and Phone 7 applications for Brain training games. We already developed around 20 games in Silverlight and all of our games support both English ( memolife.com ) and Norwegian (hjerneklubben.no). We started working on the version 2 of our application a few months back. When we heard about Windows Phone 7, we are very excited about it and decided to support the Windows mobile platform for our applications as well. Chris Ismael from Microsoft Singapore helped us to get the prototype version of Windows Phone 7 device (LG) so that we can use it for developing our application. (Thanks, Chris! ) Our application is called “MemoGenius Lite”.. It includes two brain training games and one course. You need to finish the “Flash Course” in order to unlock our brain training games. We added “Share” button in our application so that if you like to share about our application with your friends in facebook, you can simply click on that button to share… ...

We are excited to announce our first ever Startup Weekend Singapore! Click here for full details. What is Startup Weekend? [youtube]http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=c8AG8SNyuTU[/youtube] Marc Nager, Director of Startup Weekend Global Operations will be coming out for the weekend to help facilitate the weekend and share his experience after being to dozens of successful Startup Weekends around the world. A big thank you to Dennis Phua and Jeffrey Paine who have really been leading the efforts and all the wonderful sponsors and supporters SGEntrepreneurs and IDA Where? Microsoft SG, 1 Marina Boulevard, NTUC Building. When? 29 - 31 October 2010 Click here to register now!

24 chapters of 1,000 pages of WP7 development goodness, for free! Also worth mentioning, Silverlight MVP Michael Sync was mentioned in the post above. You have to click it to see it! We’d also like to remind everyone that you can contact the following if you are looking for a Windows Phone 7 training here in Singapore: Appscellent – http://www.appscellent.com/blog Avantus Training – contact mindywong@avantustraining.com Wei Meng Lee – contact weimenglee@learn2develop.net Free tools, free ebook, and the phones are out! (We’re also loaning test devices to eager WP7 developers, and providing early access to Marketplace). ...