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Silverlight and RIA - Projects in Singapore

yizhe — Fri, 04 Jul 2008 00:49:00 GMT

Meet Achitect Evangelist, Linda Chong. Linda talks about what she does for a living and how Silverlight has enabled Rich Internet Applications to happen here in Singapore. She shares with us the work her team had been working on, from using Silverlight in a company’s annual report and using Silverlight to stream High Definition TV contents. Take a look at what she has up her sleeves

Schools Near Me - Virtual Earth

yizhe — Tue, 17 Jun 2008 07:10:00 GMT

In Singapore’s Microsoft Innovation Centre, we have been innovating on Virtual Earth. In this quick chat, I caught up with Alvin Poh, to find out what innovation he has been working on. Dubbed “Schools Near Me”, the application allows us to use a Postal Code, retrieve a set of GPS coordinates and pulls a map from Virtual Earth and overlay data onto the map to provide meaningful services and information. As the name suggests, this applications allows us to find all the schools around where I stay.

SQL Data Mining

yizhe — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 11:01:00 GMT

In a recent Heroes Community Launch, Dennis (IT Pro Evangelist) caught up with SQL Server MVP, Wee Hyong, who is one of the brains behind a local community event. The event combines 3 local community groups and runs a full day of topics, Tech.Ed style. Wee Hyong discusses about how he applied Data Mining techniques to help with generating more personalized experience and what Data Mining could do to drive the communities forward. The introduction of Data Mining opens new doors and modes of engagements for User Group community.”

Microsoft SQL2008 Nov CTP - Spatial (Part 1/3)

yizhe — Fri, 07 Dec 2007 05:59:56 GMT

In this video, we have Wee Hyong (Singapore SQL MVP) doing a short discussion with us about the cool features found in SQL 2008 Nov CTP. He will also be talking about the new spatial support found in the CTP.

This is part 1 of a 3 part series. In Part 2, he will be doing a deep dive in the 2 new spatial data types (geography and geometry), along with spatial indexing.

Developing your first Virtual Earth application

yizhe — Fri, 26 Oct 2007 01:48:53 GMT

During this week's MSDN TechTalks, Chewy showed a 15 min demo where I built a website from scratch that allows the user to type in their Singapore postal code and a Singapore map shows up with a pin on top of the postal code (every postal code represent a distinct building unlike others where the code can specify a geographical region).

This demo has resonated quite well with the attendees at the event. A number of them wanted to see the code so they can build a "here are my stores" map and embedded into their web sites. As such, I just recorded a video of me doing the exact same demo but with more commentary of my code. Here's Chewy's video and a copy of the resulting code from the video demo.

Code

The Postal2Gps web service used is a web service we built to wrap a raw JSP service from Best.SG. You need to sign up for a developer ID from Best.SG to make use of their service. The web service wrapper we used will be updated by the end of Oct to allow you to type in your own developer ID.

InnovativeSingapore Lab's Services Listing
(Services here will go under a design review and will be normalized in Nov)
http://labs.innovativesingapore.com/services

Building portals with Silverlight, AJAX and Cardspace

yizhe — Tue, 16 Oct 2007 11:24:34 GMT

In this video, the speaker will explore why Microsoft technologies are the ideal technologies for building portals that are fully immersive, highly interactive and secure. A real life case study will also be discussed.