Technology Enthusiast
microsoft
4.28am
03 years ago
Its a good thing that I got addicted to blogging, somehow. Its 4.28am now and well, Hairiandy coming to my house to continue doing on ThinkQuest competition project tomorrow at 9am? I have to wake up at around 8.30am…It will be a long day tomorrow.
Tomorrow night have to go to Microsoft to attend Mix It Up – they will be talking about ASP 4.0 and VS 2010. Pretty excited about it, first time I heard it was during the PDC (Professional Developer Conference) of Microsoft last year.
My back still hurts.
Random facts about myself.
- I support Jarod for CSS3
- I normally sleep pretty late.
- I have the urge to take TS: Configuring Microsoft Windows Vista Client certication.
- I have been listening to the fact 不完美 alot.
- I am currently using Windows 7.
My blog is a website? o.O
0I got some comments that my blog looks like a website. Haha, guess i shall make it more like a blog then.
MSP meeting
We had our monthly meeting again at Microsoft Singapore’s office at One Marina Boulvard. I was late because I had to teach wushu in the morning. When I arrived, Chun Siong was presenting something with Visual Studio which I shall not reveal and out of 3 demos, he had done, 1 fail but neverthless its a great session for us all and the last demo that he did proved to us that Int32 works/runs/does faster than Int16 or Int64.
Coming up next is the SMUs and TPs presenting the 2 events that we had done respectively, Experience it with Windows 7 and IE 8 ( if i recall correctly ) and MSP Boot Camp. SMUs also talked about something like clean the toilet campaign which attracted a good amount of people.
Next Zi Han present to us 2 applications that he did, one in WPF ( Windows Presentation Foundation ) and the other in Silverlight and he got me inspired to learn Silverlight but I am pretty busy at the moment so I guess I need to look at it only after week 0.
As usual, we have Pizza! This time, we have Mr Gates face on the Pizza boxes, too bad i have no chance to post the picture because it seems like I cant get my Windows 7 to work with my incoming bluetooth. =(… My outgoing one works. Anyway, yea and we had a little event-game just before we leave… We have to plan for Stanely’s birthday. Haha.
Another thing that I took away today, 3 things, if you are able to sell any of the 3 things, you will be able to get a job ( supposely ).
1. Sell products
2. Sell ideas
3. Sell yourself
Outing with Matthew and Jun An
We had a very sudden outing which we planned just one day before the event. Just happen to meet Matthew when I am at Raffle Places MRT with Bee Siew so well, we go to SomerSet together and met Jun An there.. Wah Raining wor. Play LAN, DOTA where Matthew keep killing Neutral Creeps and I “play” the game. Well I am lousy in doat so basically, indirectly, Matthew is controlling my character. Haha. Then played a bit Arcade to pass time before going to Movie.
Went to watch Mall Cop, its funny till siao..Its nice. 
Had some dinner. Walked to Suntech and Arcade abit then go home liao.
Matthew and I had a promise on something. Lets hope it will come true!
*Before anyone says its lame to promise by using fingers at this age, i tell you, its not! =) Small things like that works better people it could reassure the people that no empty promise is made because its carved into the person’s mind.
On a side note, Happy Birthday Ryan!!!
MST4U : Microsoft Surface
1What is Microsoft Surface?
Microsoft Surface™, the first commercially available surface computer from Microsoft Corp., turns an ordinary tabletop into a vibrant, interactive surface. The product provides effortless interaction with digital content through natural gestures, touch and physical objects. Surface is a 30-inch display in a table-like form factor that’s easy for individuals or small groups to interact with in a way that feels familiar, just like in the real world. In essence, it’s a surface that comes to life for exploring, learning, sharing, creating, buying and much more. Soon to be available in restaurants, hotels, retail establishments and public entertainment venues, this experience will transform the way people shop, dine, entertain and live.
http://www.microsoft.com/SURFACE/
Wikipedia : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Surface
Microsoft will make me live!
0Seems like my blog is dead. Too busy to update?
Lets make my blog alive now! I will start posting new technologies from Microsoft that a lot of you might not have even heard of them before!
I personally feel very excited and happy as I have one more way to share with my friends, readers of my blog and peers Microsoft technology. If you do wish to contact me regarding anything, do feel free to contact me at guohong.lim ( at ) live ( dot ) com
I will post them under the tagname MST4U which means Microsoft Technologies for you. Its so that it will be easier for you to find out as well!
Creating your first game on Popfly
0Microsoft Popfly (internally codenamed Springfield) is a website that allows users to create web pages, program snippets, and mashups using the Microsoft Silverlight rich internet applications runtime and the set of online tools provided. Popfly is currently in Beta stage of development. It requires users to log in with their Windows Live ID, and provide additional information about themselves when logging in for the first time to use Popfly.
Quoted from http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Microsoft_Popfly
http://www.popfly.com | I will be giving a tutorial on how to create a game on popfly. I personally think making a game on popfly all boils down to 3 simple general steps.
1. Ideas
2. Creating the game
3. Tweak the game to make it better
I will be teaching mainly the second stage, the creation of the game. I will pull in some simple functions which most people will be using when they are creating a game on popfly. Without further ado, we will start the fun!
Microsoft Walk the Success Lane & Mash-it-up Awards
0On Saturday, Hairiandy, Sunny, Kelvin, Jireh, Kenneth, me and 2 other friends of Kelvin went to Microsoft Walk the Success Lane & Mash-it-up Awards at One Marina Boulevard.
We have the following,
- “Microsoft Academic Programs” by Pratibha Kumar, Academic Developer Evangelist.
- Bringing Data to Life using Windows Presentation Foundation by Chris Ismael, Developer Evangelist
- Get Connected for Life with Social Media! by Jonathan Wong, Web Platform Evangelist
- Address by Jessica Tan, Managing Director, Microsoft Singapore
- plus some prize giving
It was really a talk that teaches me a lot of things. We then have a small chat with different Microsoft Empolyees and some people I know from MSP interview. The top 3 finalist for Mash It Up! also presented their projects, there is one which I think is really good which is the inviting.me. They got 3rd though but I would say its really good effort put in and they are pretty useful too!
Microsoft Imagine Cup 2009
0“Imagine a world where technology helps solve the toughest problems facing us today.” – Imagine Cup 2009
Just some side information, Silverlight 2.0 is out!
You can view its press release from Microsoft here.
http://www.microsoft.com/presspass/press/2008/oct08/10-13Silverlight2PR.mspx
C# Boot Camp ( Part 1)
0What is C#? ( Wiki to what is C# )
Anyway it was fun. 3 letters to summarise the whole UX ( User Experience ). Haha
This maybe useful for me in the future.
//This is how to comment in C#
//This is how to make a message box come out, Message.Show
//(CONTENT OF MESSAGE BOX, TITLE OF THE MESSAGE BOX)
Message.Show("Guo Hong", "Title")
In php, to add things on to a string variable, we do
$des = "Guo Hong is ";
$des .= "handome.";
but in C#,
string des = "Guo Hong is ";
des += "handome.";
Notice the += and .= ?
Haha, hopefully tomorrow will be more interesting! 
