What's in this issue
The APAC .Net Channel
.Net User Groups in APAC
Australia
Bangladesh
China
India
Malaysia
New Zealand
Singapore
Sri Lanka
If you would like to include your user group in this list, please drop the editor an email.
Contributing Authors
Translators
Chinese translation
Korean translation
Newsletter Team
Ivan & WH
About INETA
INETA is the next evolution in user group communities—a non-profit, independent organization, chartered with supporting all user groups interested in the Microsoft .Net platform.
INETA is run by a Board of user group leaders, elected by their peers, and supported by Microsoft Corporation and other sponsors.
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Happenings around Asia Pacific
We've ended our first quarter for FY08 which began in July. Almost all the shipments for the last quarterly kit which contained custom t-shirts for User Groups is complete.
There are two things where we need to hear from you, what do you want to see in upcoming user group kits? What kind of specific support do you require from INETA. Towards the second item, we're working on creating a survey where we'd like your specific inputs, as always feel free to email us with any specific help you might require.
Call for Volunteers
We're indebted to our existing volunteers who have helped support our mission. We encourage more leaders out there to contribute their time in order to help us support groups. To volunteer please drop an email to apac.admin@ineta.org
Sanjay Shetty,
President, INETA APAC sanjay.shetty@ineta.org
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The newsletter committee is looking for volunteers in this team who can assist in various areas such as data collation, editing, proof reading, design and formatting etc. Please feel free to drop an email to weehyong.tok@ineta.org
WH
Editor, INETA APAC
Newsletter Team
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Usergroup Activities around APAC |
Malaysia
- KL TechNite + MIND Gathering
by Chua Wen Ching
Thanks to all the 20 sponsors for sponsoring in our event. Thanks to MVP leads (Howard and Lilian) and techNation (Yu Tsing) who endorsed our event and being one of the coolest developer community event this year 2007.
On behalf of the MIND team, I like to take this opportunity to thank everyone again for supporting us and making this a successful event. Hopefully, MIND will proceed to have events like this in the coming future. This event was covered by both PC.Com magazine and DotNetRocks.
Below are some of the pictures taken on that day.
The welcoming address slide with the sponsors’ logo. Wen Ching and Mike were the speakers on that.
It was a full house. Basically the entire participant filled up the whole venue in Starbucks, Bangsar Village 2. We gave out 100 starbucks drinks on that day itself.
Fun Jin introduced TechNation and the new site developed on Microsoft Silverlight 1.1 Alpha
Loke Uei shared his experiences on Windows Mobile 6 development
Doug Seven talked about Unit Testing on Visual Studio 2008
Adam Cogan, presenting Sharepoint to the audiences
The fun was about to begin. Everyone got a nice little red color stress ball sponsored by Microsoft Visual Studio Team System. Thanks Doug J
Below were some pictures of prizes to be won. The total lucky draw items were 106 and the total sponsorship for the prizes were approximately RM 60,000 (USD $ 17, 206).
Adam Cogan gave a final speech to end the session. Thanks to speakers who spoke in this event.
Doug and Mark Dunn, DotNetRocks were listening to Adam.
Thanks to both Amir and Idayu for helping out on Projector Logistics. Thanks Mesiniaga.
A group picture. Thanks for everyone for attending. Thanks iTrain for co-organizing this event with us. Thanks for the speakers and media.
Singapore
- SGDOTNET Usergroup Meeting
Photos by Lim Boon Tiong
The SGDOTNET UG meeting was held on 4 October 2007, at Microsoft Singapore from 6.45pm – 9.00pm. Anthony Borton and Chewy Chong captivated the usergroup members with their talk and demos on VSTS and how you can have fun with phidgets and embedded devices.
Speakers:
Left - Anthony Borton (MVP, VSTS) and
Right - Chewy Chong (Microsoft DE)
Best Practices for Team Based Software Development
Speaker: Anthony Borton
Anthony Borton is a Microsoft MVP in Team System and has been working with VSTS/TFS since its early beta release. He has delivered much of the early VSTS training around Australia for the Microsoft Technical Readiness Team and is the convenor of the QLD VSTS Users Group.
In the talk, Anthony discussed why a highly cohesive software development team is critical to a successful project. He shared about the many different ways in which teams members (from project managers to developers and QA) can work together to help enhance team collaboration, and ultimately process success. He then showed how these opportunities can be map into Microsoft Visual Studio Team System.
Fun with Phidgets and Embedded Devices
Speaker: Chewy Chong
Chewy shared about how any developer can build their own power meter with an embedded device, an amp sensor and (of course) .NET! He shared his experiences on how .Net can easily provide interface to physical sensors and motors.
Power meters with Phidgets
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