IT Architect Regional Conference (ITARC) Malaysia 2009

Community Day on 13th February 09

On 13th February 2009, usergroups from SPAN, SCUG, SPUG and myVSTS had organized a community day in Microsoft’s office. The objectives to have this community day are:
1. To have a technology update session for the community members on various technologies, including System Center, Microsoft SQL Server, Microsoft SharePoint and Visual Studio Team System.
2. Enable the community members from different user groups to get to know each other in the networking session.

In total, we had 4 tracks during the breakout sessions: System Center, SQL Server, Visual Studio Team System and SharePoint Server.

Attendees were listening to the keynote session.

Usergroup members were listening to the SQL session in one of the tracks.

Thanks for the speakers: Sin Min, CK Phua, KB Lim, Ervin Loh, Wei Kheng and Patrick. And thanks to the supporters who helped out in the events, Walter, Raymond, Keong Yee, Moy, Yu Tsing, Zhariff and Leo.

Some shots during the event.

 

Of course, there is food for the attendees. This round, we were getting PIzzas…Yes, is pizza again. Simple and easy to handle for the organizers

Speakers during the events (KB, CK and Patrick)

myVSTS Jan’09 Gathering

myVSTS is going to have a Jan’09 Gathering on 20th January 2009. This time, we invited Ervin Loh, Software Architect from K365 Labs to talk about the “Tips and Tricks to Implement and Deploy Team Foundation Server Version Control.

For future updates on myVSTS, you may join the myVSTS facebook group

16 Dec: Innovation Days @ GSC oneU

Yesterday we had the Innovation Days for all the ISVs partners at GSC, one U. Presenters including me, Hoong Fai, Patrick, Chris and Walter. During the 2 hours demo extravangza session, we presented a lot of cool technologies, including WPF, silvelright, silverlight for mobile,  Azure services and so on.

Some shots on the presenters…

WPF application – Family Show, which you can download the sample application from here.
Another WPF application New York Times Reader.

The silverlight applications demo:
Dive Log

Woodgrove Financial Silverlight application.

I demo some silverlight for mobile application, you can try out the weatherbug as well:

Try to press 1 to 5, you will notice the weather change at the background of the application.
The Signpost application, which is the mobile conference guide that running on Windows Mobile device.

Improve Team Collaboration with Team Foundation Server

This morning had the monthly developer seminar – devTalks. This round, we have two sessions:
1. Improve Team Collaboration with Team Foundation Server, by Poh Sze
2. Better Process Guidance with Team Foundation Server, by Patrick YongI found the below comic which illustrates the real life scenario that happens in most of the software development team. Just thinking to put it on my post here and share with everyone.

 

Team Foundation Server is there to solve problems that facing in a software development team, like miscommunication, deliver software that not align to the requirements, bad quality software…
Team Foundation Server helps you to have a better team collaboration by:

1.Improved collaboration and communication across the team;
2.Using a defined process to drive predictability into your development efforts;
3.Having a centralized tool for work item tracking to ensure everyone is working from the same plan;
4.Integration with tools your team members are already familiar with;
5.Working with a toolset that helps you ensure quality is a top priority at every stage throughout the development lifecycle;
6.Integrating work fro all team members frequently;
7.Real-time visibility into project data enabling you and your team to make decisions at the critical time.

You can download the presentation slides I used from here.
For Patrick’s session, you can download from here.

For upcoming devTalks sessions and registration, please checkout at the devTalks site.

TechNet/MSDN Roadshow is back!!

Great news to all Malaysian IT professionals & software developers! After a three year hiatus, TechNet MSDN Technology Summit is back in Kuala Lumpur! This time, with more promising speakers and exciting topics of current and emerging technologies! Attend this free summit and discover what the new Microsoft operating system, virtualization products and practices as well as the SQL Server 2008 Business Intelligence and Visual Studio platform can do for you.
Don’t miss this opportunity to speak directly with Microsoft’s experts. Get your IT colleagues to join us and be one of the first to learn how to use these exciting technologies.
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