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It only takes 10 minutes to deploy your website with Azure. Free distinction for everyone! Just follow the guide below. What do you need? 1. A Microsoft Account with Azure! (Hey! Microsoft gives you a 30 day free trial) 2. A Dropbox Account (Free 2GB account is more than enough) 3. A folder with all the developed HTML/PHP/JavaScript/CSS files (Make sure they can run on local host to save your 30 days free trial) 4. 10 mins of your time Alright! Let’s start! ...

After giving you the first taste of Windows 8 two months ago, we are back with the Release Preview. The Release Preview is the final test version of Windows 8 before we go ahead with RTM, Release to Manufacturing. Between that time, we will still be making changes to Windows 8, which you can follow at the Windows Team blog. Here are 5 new changes in the Release Preview: · Local Windows Store: Singapore is one of them! Featuring apps like Channel News Asia, Straits TImes, Razor TV and many more new Metro style apps like Wikipedia, other News and Sports apps and Bing Travel · Improvements to the Mail, Photos, and People apps that initially debuted with the Windows 8 Consumer Preview · Improved multi-monitor support · A touch-friendly, secure and power-optimized Adobe Flash Player is now fully integrated into IE10 · First browser to feature Do Not Track “on” by default, giving you more choice and control over their privacy Here’s a quick video that showcases the interface for Windows 8 RP at work and play: The Windows Store now also supports app submission for local markets and Singapore is one of the countries. We’ve gotten great response from developers here who are planning to build Metro style apps and will be holding events such as hackathons, hands-on-labs for you to get started building them! Updates for Developers: Improved Visual Studio templates Another area where we have made a lot of improvements is templates in Visual Studio. We’ve made lots of updates to our templates and even added a new one so that it is easier for you to start a new project and get a great app up and running in no time. ...

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. ...

The curiously cute green monster - Om Nom is now om-line with 25 levels for free at http://www.cuttherope.ie/! Created by ZeptoLap, Om Nom is built entirely using HTML5. You can use your mouse to manipulate ropes, airbags and bubbles to feed him candy, and collect stars along the way for more points. With the launch of IE9, there have been many wonderful opportunities partnering with developers to stretch the limits of HTML5. A lot of the resulting experiences not only showcase the beauty of the web, but demonstrate how fast, interactive and rich the web is becoming, enabled by platforms such as IE9 and Windows 7. Check out Pirates Love Daisies, Disney Tron, and The World’s Biggest Pacman to see a few great examples of what’s to come for the web we all use and love every day. To get a sense for how the developers at Pixel Lab and ZeptoLab teamed up to turn one of the world’s most popular applications into a web experience, check out the behind the scene technical tear-down in the game. The guys have put together a short video talking about how they took Om Nom online - check it out: Now, remember to pin Cut The Rope to your Windows 7 taskbar as IE9 takes on the look and feel of the game and unlocks unique levels not found in any previous versions of Cut the Rope, giving you a full Om Nom candy eating experience. ...

Our first Microsoft TechDays Singapore held on 13 October 2011 attracted more than 1000 delegates! If you missed the event, do check out the highlights.We hope to see you in TechDays Singapore 2012. (you may register your interest here) TechDays Singapore 2011 highlights Keynote video Watch Ziriad Saibi’s keynote on Microsoft’s cloud story. Breakout sessions videos and slides Track 1: Infrastructure Self-Service Private Cloud Management through Integrated Processes with Service Manager 2012 Maarten Goet and Raju Chellam (Dell Singapore) The Future of Infrastructure Monitoring: A Look at Application Monitoring and SCOM 2012 Raymond Chou, Simon Skinner and Wong Poey Yong (NetApp Singapore) Configuration Manager 2012 Technical Overview Teh Wei King SCVMM 2012 Building of Private Clouds and Federation to the Public Cloud Lai Yoong Seng Automating your Infrastructure: Microsoft System Center Orchestrator 2012 Technical Overview Kwan Thean Keong F5 Optimizations for Microsoft Platform Leslie Wong(F5 Networks) Track 2: Platform Cloud Computing with the Windows Azure Platform Ryan Crawcour Cloud Management with System Center Application Controller Lai Yoong Seng Microsoft Exchange Server and Office 365: Hybrid Deployment Sanjeev Thakur and Ram Muthkaruppan SCDPM 2012: The new feature of data protection Mike Resseler How to Run Middleware in the Cloud? Story of Windows Azure AppFabric Hammad Rajjoub Simplified Infrastructure Solutions Thomas Chua (Hitachi Data Systems) Track 3: Application HTML5: All the Awesome Bits Michael Kordahi Mango, Mango! Developing for Windows Phone 7 Mingfei Yan Revealing WebMatrix 2.0 Beta – the Swiss Army Knife of Web Development Thye Yeow Bok OData with WCF Web APIs: “There’s a URI for That” Alvin Lau NUI, Gooey and Louie Michael Kordahi Revenue Generator Suite Niger Tan (aZaaS) Making your first step to the cloud? Go Private or go Public? Check out the resources that will take you there. Private cloud resources: http://weshipcode.com/private Public cloud resources: http://weshipcode.com/public

Michael Kordahi is an Evangelist for Microsoft Australia. He has a strong background in web development and now focuses on working with passionate early adopters of Microsoft’s emerging web technologies. A tech guy at heart, he lives on the corner of geek and thinker, where often, he rolls his sleeves up and makes stuff. A software industry aficionado… [more] [slideshare id=9875555&doc=mstechdays2011-html5alltheawesomebits-111025104808-phpapp01]

I attended Microsoft Conference MIX11 last week. MIX is a Microsoft hosted conference that talking about the Next Web with developers and designers in the community. Major announcement of MIX11 was around IE9’s native support to HTML5 and Windows Phone 7 Mango Update. It was a super fun conference for geeks! There were a few very interesting websites using HTML5 could be browsed by IE9 natively. What do we mean by “Native Experience” here? You no longer need to install plugins to make it work, rather the website handles it for you. Now, consumers have all kind of devices in hand. Without a standard, developers have to code applications against different device which will cost a lot of time. And that’s why we have HTML5 this next web standard,which deliver superior performance through Web-connected devices, play an increasingly important role. I will put up some samples site below and you may want to try it out with IE9. ...

WebSockets is a technology designed to simplify much of the complexity around bi-directional, full-duplex communications channels, over a single Transmission Control Protocol (TCP) socket. It can be implemented in web browsers, web servers as well as used by any client or server application. The WebSockets API is currently being standardized by the W3C Web Applications Working Group and the protocol is being standardized by IETF Hypertext Bidirectional (HyBi) Working Group. Below is an example from http://html5labs.com/ (sorry for the iframe ) ...

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. ...