Silverlight Trainer and former MVP Dewi Maya started a Silverlight Singapore group in Facebook. If you are interested in learning, collaborating and exploring the features and capabilities of Silverlight, the FB group is a good place to start. I've been seeing a lot of samples and tutorials being posted there as well.

On a sidenote, we just finished our January Silverlight Training. We will be seeing a lot more updates on Silverlight come March so be sure to stay tuned. MIX10, Microsoft's designer conference would have a lot of news for sure and Silverlight will be one of them. I'm guessing Silverlight 4. If you want to know more about MIX, visit their site here http://live.visitmix.com/ You can also watch the previous MIX sessions. Very very interesting talks for designers and developers.

Silverlight Singapore Facebook Group

http://www.facebook.com/#/group.php?gid=292655079571&ref=ts

My colleague, Chris Ismael, wrote a great blog post on one of the programs that are offered as part of the BizSpark program here in Singapore. I was personally there and I greatly appreciated the lessons taught. It was very different from the technical hands on labs or technical updates that Microsoft usually does.

Check out his awesome blog here http://blogs.msdn.com/chism

If you are interested in joining the BizSpark program, you can email me or email him directly for more information.

Happy Holidays guys and keep on rocking!

If you've been developing or using Microsoft technology, for sure, one way or another you have used either MSDN or Technet as one of your resources. Microsoft has done great lengths in providing comprehensive documentation to developers and IT Pros. Just recently, the MSDN and Technet pages have been revamped to cater more to local countries. This means that you'll have the best resources from MSDN and Technet as well as relevant local content such as events, blogs, communities and overall goodness from the Microsoft community. Take advantage of this new resource to connect and learn by visiting the links below.

Hey guys!

We just finished our Silverlight 3 Hands on Labs last Dec 2-4. Particapants got an introduction on what Silverlight is and what tools they need start creating application on Silverlight. It's more of an introduction and a get started session. Attendees learned how to use Expression Blend as well as it's tight integration with Visual Studio. If you are interested in attending the trainings, feel free to contact me. This is part of our commitment to help our partners speed up with the latest technology.

Hope to hear from you guys soon!

Hey guys! For the past few weeks we have been frequenting schools sharing experiences about Imagine Cup, as well as technologies and innovations you can use for your Imagine Cup entries. So far we've been to Nanyang Technological University, Ngee Ann Polytechnic and Republic Polytechnic. It's always a great feeling sharing technologies that can potentially solve world problems and seeing eyes lighting up as well as light bulbs spark. Hope you guys step up to the challenge and join Imagine Cup. The prestige, prize and challenge is all there right in front of you. Now it's up to you to take the opportunity and get cracking on those amazing ideas.

Some pictures below.

Last Saturday, October 24 '09, we held the Imagine Cup Boot Camp held at the Microsoft Auditorium. Around 200 students came and learned a lot about Imagine Cup and how they can be successful. 

We had a great line-up of speakers from Microsoft and one of the previous judges Andrew Carmondy. Also, the past winners from Imagine Cup 09 was there to share his experience on the last Imagine Cup.

A lot of the students enjoyed the insights of the previous judge and hopefully it inspired a lot of students to join Imagine Cup 2010. See you guys in the next event! :)

I'm excited about Imagine Cup and hope to hear from you soon.

Last Monday, October 19 Microsoft Singapore held the "Microsoft Web Story" event at the MS Office. Covering the Microsoft Web Platform and Azure Cloud Computing, the event was attended by a wide range of audience from students, developers and technology enthusiasts.

Jonathan Wong covered the overall Microsoft Web Story. Talking about the platform, tools and technologies by Microsoft on the web. I was personally impressed by Expression Web SuperPreview. This tool allows you to render your websites in different browsers under one window. So if you're developing a website you don't have to open or install a lot of browsers to debug your web page. Very helpful! He also discussed the Web Platform Installer or Web PI. I wrote a blog post about the Web PI here just in case you missed it http://innovativesingapore.com/post/Free-tools-to-build-your-amazing-site.aspx

The big treat was David Chappell of Chappell & Associates who hails from San Francisco. His talk about Azure was very interesting especially his insights about how cloud computing will change the industry and affect businesses across the globe.

In case you missed the talk parts of it will be on geeksengaged.com. You can find David's whitepaper on Azure and other technologies at his website http://www.davidchappell.com

If you want to attend and know more about these events, contact us and we will include you in our mailing list. We organize great events such as this for you guys to learn more about Microsoft and our different programs.

Last friday we held the BizSpark Startup Night here at the Microsoft Office.

Around 40 individuals were there to represent their companies and network with their fellow startups or businesses.

The topic was all about Windows 7 and how you can take advantage of these features in your applications.

Good turnout and company and if you want to learn more, you can download most of the resources from the Windows 7 Developer Training Kit here http://www.microsoft.com/downloads/details.aspx?familyid=1C333F06-FADB-4D93-9C80-402621C600E7&displaylang=en

If you want to know more about the BizSpark Startup Night, feel free to contact me or leave a comment.