I’ve been promising my wife that I’d build her a WP7 app that pulls feeds from her favorite fashion sites, but have never gotten around to doing it. So when this app creator popped up, I jumped on the opportunity… to tell her that she can now create her own app! So after dinner, I asked her to browse to http://followmyfeed.net/ so we can start building. Here’s a transcript of what happened: ...
*UPDATED: Generated html using NavigateToString instead of hosting on server. Actually I could’ve just generated everything in HTML instead using that* Those of you who have been playing with the TextBlock control on WP7 and requiring tons of text to be written out are probably familiar with the limitation where your text is truncated beyond 2048x2048 pixels. There’s this cool solution where this dude created a custom Scrollable TextBlock for WP7 that addresses this by calculating the number of lines you have to display and automatically generating several TextBlocks in a StackPanel. However during my testing, this implementation consumes too much memory (90MB at one instance on the phone emulator). My scenario calls for displaying the underlying source code of a web page on my app on WP7. As you can imagine, there could be tons of javascript functions and css declarations under the hood. ...
Topic: SQL Server Technology update & roadmap – focus on TDE, integration with SAP, SQL Server Audit, security best practices & resources A deeper look at SQL Server Security – investments, developments, benchmarks, performances where possible. Date: March 18th, 2011 Time: 7:00PM – 9:00 PM Registration starts at 6:30 PM Venue: NTUC Building 22CF-12 Microsoft Office One Marina Boulevard, Singapore 018989 Please confirm your attendance by sending email to SGSQL@LIVE.COM Speaker profile: Il-Sung Lee, Senior Program Manager, SQL Server Engine Security, Microsoft Corp. Il-Sung Lee is a Senior Program Manager for the Engine team in the SQL Server product group and is the PM owner for SQL Server Engine Security component. Il-Sung has over thirteen years of experience in the database industry as a developer and a program manager focusing on database security and database communications. His current focus is to advance the capabilities of SQL Server in areas such as authentication, authorization, cryptography, audit, and data leak prevention. He is a regular presenter at TechEd and SQLPASS and has spoken at numerous other domestic and international conferences over the past several years. Il-Sung graduated with an M.Eng degree from McGill University and subsequently worked for several years at IBM in their Information Management group prior to joining Microsoft, initially with the SQL Server Protocols team before moving to the Core Security Infrastructure area. We welcome for any feedback to improve interaction and activity in our user group. We are looking for a brave speaker too! If you have anything to share, something interesting from your daily jobs, please share and present for us. Send your thought to SGSQL@LIVE.COM. If you have changed to another role or not around in Singapore anymore and want to be removed from our list, please email us at SGSQL@LIVE.COM. Thank you and have a nice day ahead!
Date: 22nd March 2011 (Tuesday) Time: 7.00pm to 9.30pm Venue: 1 Marina Boulevard #21-00,MS Singapore – Auditorium 6.30pm: Registration 7.00pm: Session 1 – Introduction to Windows PowerShell 8.15pm: Break 8.30pm: Session 2 – Introduction to Windows Intune 9.30pm: Home Sweet Home Session 1 – Introduction to Windows Power Shell (June Blender) Abstract: Windows PowerShell is a powerful weapon which all IT Pros should be equipped with. It combines the interactivity of KSH or BASH, the programmability of Perl or Ruby, and the production-orientation of AS400 CL or VMS DCL. Whether you’re solving the problem at hand or scripting, standardizing, and automating your IT processes, Windows PowerShell can help. Join us for this informal, interactive session. It’s filled with demos so don’t expect too many slides from us, and you should be able to pick up some knowledge that is going to be useful in your work. A little about the speaker: June Blender, Senior Programming Writer for the Windows PowerShell Core Engineering Team, writes the help that you see when you type “Get-Help.” A fifteen-year veteran Microsoft employee, June has written about performance optimization, the Windows registry, command-line tools for system administrators, and tools for driver developers, in addition to writing widely about Windows PowerShell. She’s visiting SEA to share her experience in Windows PowerShell and to invite you to participate in developing the future of Windows PowerShell scripting and collaborative documentation. Session 2 – Introduction to Windows Intune (Matthew Hardman) Abstract: We presented to you the new cloud service, BPOS, sometime last year and now we have something new for you. Windows Intunes targets to help in simplifying PC management for business. Join Matthew Hardman for an introduction to Windows Intune, Microsoft’s cloud solution for managing desktops remotely. In this session we will examine how Intune can help you do patch management, endpoint security and reporting. Registration For registration, please email to admin@sgwindowsgroup.org with the following: - SWUG ID - Name - Email Address Note: There won’t be an event confirmation. Just turn up, we don’t turn people away. However, please register if you’re coming.
Push your limits and show the world (and our judges) what you’re capable of in a modern browser without the use of any plug-ins. Create and submit web apps built with HTML5 to one of two categories – Gaming or Music. To make things more fun and exciting, Mike Mignola, the creator of Hellboy has opened up a treasure of content for you to use to create your game! You are also entitled to use music by AWOLNATION and Ra Ra Riot to invent your new music experience on the web. Now, what’s a contest without some awesome prizes? All contestants will stand a chance to win up to $40,000 worth of prizes including an all-expense paid trip to the Future of Web Apps Las Vegas with “golden ticket” VIP access. ...
We will be running the following two TechNet Live Meetings in March. Register today! Innovating Virtualisation - Windows Server 2008 R2 SP1 Live Meeting Session - Friday, March 11, 2011 1:00 PM, Singapore, Duration:60 Minutes Dynamic memory and RemoteFX are two exciting new capabilities in Windows server 2008 R2 SP1. In this session, we will cover more in details on these two new features and help you to understand their benefits. Optimizing SharePoint® Collaboration - SharePoint Live Meeting Session - Monday, March 14, 2011 1:00 PM, Singapore, Duration:60 Minutes In this session, we will cover the SharePoint flexible deployment options and how to manage and monitor your SharePoint farm with a centralized browser-based interface.
DPE team was proud to present an enriching WebFest 2011 – The New Web, A New Strategy which took place at Microsoft Auditorium on 23 February 2011. The Director of DPE Singapore, Ziraid Saibi kicked off the event by engaging the audience to experience Microsoft Tag with their mobile phones. The outcome of this little exercise was three winners to the latest Microsoft Arc Mouse. As the first speaker for the day, Gavin Warrener from Microsoft Corporation gave a vivid overview and handy demonstration on our newly launched WebMartrix. Posting scenario from NDP2010, David Tang went on to explained how developers can expand their services using Windows Servers. Known for his entertaining and lighthearted presentations, Matthew Hardman gave an insightful and exciting demo in ietestdrive, showing the capabilities of Internet Explorer9. In addition to all the foregoing, Rama Yurindra and Franky Espehana explored and covered the advantages of using PHP on Windows. We would like to take this opportunity to thank everyone who attended the event and our wonderful speakers for making time out of their tight schedules! Thank-you and we hope to see you again! As promised, below are links to the slides presented ...
If you are interested in the Web and constantly asking yourself “What’s Next?”, you won’t want to miss this annual affair where we showcase the best of Microsoft on the Web front. Get it from the best – we will be featuring a guest presenter from Redmond USA, Gavin Warrener. Gavin Warrener started his career in the Internet industry and was a successful entrepreneur for over 10 years founding two companies: Amorphous New Media and Mint Net. Gavin worked for the first 6 years of his Microsoft career in web strategy, and was most recently the Customer Segment and Web Lead for Microsoft Middle East & Africa, building a web evangelism business that executed evangelism initiatives spanning 76 countries. In 2009, Gavin transferred to Microsoft HQ in Redmond, where he now has responsibility for the global web application ecosystem in the Developer & Platform Evangelism team. Be one of the first to find out more about IE9, our newly launched WebMatrix, PHP on Windows and many more! Find out for yourself ‘What’s Next?’ and see how it will impact you and your business. To register for more information email Sandy at: MSmarketing@swap.com.sg or call +65 6227 7445 ...
The Internet Explorer 9 Release Candidate is available for download. Download it , see it in action and find out more at http://windows.microsoft.com/en-SG/internet-explorer/products/ie-9/home For ITPros, the Internet Explorer Administration Kit 9, and Internet Explorer 9 Blocker Toolkit are also available through Microsoft Download Center. Start to explore new capabilities and tools for Microsoft’s enterprise-ready browser today.
Keep your PCs and servers on the latest support level with Service Pack 1 (SP1) for Windows Server 2008 R2 and Windows 7. Now available through Windows Update, or the Microsoft Download Center, SP1 provides ongoing improvements to the Windows operating system including previous updates delivered over Windows Update and incremental updates to the Windows 7 and Windows Server 2008 R2 platforms based on customer and partner feedback. Find out more at http://technet.microsoft.com/en-SG/evalcenter/ff183870.aspx