TARC Imagine Day in the Press
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
Ms Kathleen just forwarded us a scan of the article on Imagine Day, which was also the finals of TARC Imagine Cup, on the New Straits Times on Dec 24. As mentioned earlier, more details of the event can be found on Kok Chiann’s blog.
Again, congratulations to all the committees. Your hard work has bear fruit!
ps: check out what one participant had to say: here, here and here, 3 posts!
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Busy and Lazy
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
Yeah, me so lazy. Even yang berhormat have blogged ’bout Vista Week, but I havnt :p Damn.. I just get so lazy sometimes.. it’s been AGES since I’ve last update this blog.. nearly a month ago, when I was back in Ipoh.. that’s probably coz I left my camera in Ipoh, so no photos to post..
Anyway, I don’t wanna talk about Vista Week anymore, it’s such a lenghty event that just blogging about sounds tiring.. I will blog about Code Camp though, as I was the organizing chairperson :p
Code Camp was basically a 2 day Microsoft technology workshop. We at first wanted it to be an overnight camp, but things just didn’t work out. Maybe next year.. maybe next year.. Not that many people attended, only about 40 (we expected 70). Nevertheless, if 70 turned up, we’d have a hell of a time getting the hands-on-labs to work..
The thing I loved most about Code Camp? The t-shirt lah!!
Anyway, the Code Camp committee have done a great job! I was lucky coz I presented WPF (Windows Presentation Foundation), which wasn’t that hard. Poor Chu Hang had to wrangle Office 2007 development, which is bloody complicated!
I’ve yet to get the photos for our Vista/Office 2007 launch event, so stay tuned!
Microsoft Deep Dive Power Breakfast
Posted by Jonathan Ng | Filed under Personal
Skipped class (I wouldn’t have went anyway) today and went for Microsoft’s mini event for developers, called “Deep Dive something Power Breakfast”.. what a long name.. Anyway, there were 4 presentations there, mainly on:
- Introduction to Office 2007 development. We were shown how to create custom ribbon tabs and task panes. Did you know you could do a POS system on top of Word?
- Microsoft SharePoint services. Frankly, this was for enterprises with complicated workflows. Didn’t quite follow the workflow creation part.
- Lap around WPF. I’ve seen videos and even the power point the presenter, Ms Lim Poh Sze used. So it was kinda boring.
- “Go Go Gadgets”, how to develop a Windows gadget.
The only particularly interesting presentation was using Office 2007 as a development platform. It’s pretty cool being able to add your business logics on top of Word or Excel. One promising advantage of using the XML based file format in Office 2007 was that any application could assemble a Office file (.docx for example) on the fly. However, this process is pretty manual now. There’ll probably be plenty of tools that’ll automate this process, like designing reports in Access. Read the rest of this entry »
