The Future of Silverlight – Silverlight Firestarter 2010 Keynote with Scott Guthrie (Video)

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Dec 062010
 


Get Microsoft Silverlight

Summary of the new features of Silverlight 5:

Premium Media Experiences
  • Hardware video decode: GPU accelerated video decode
  • Trickplay: automatic audio pitch correction
  • Improved power awareness: prevent screensavers from kicking
  • Remote-control support: control media playback with remote control devices (Silverlight TV?)
Application Development
  • Databinding and MVVM
    • Debug data-binding expressions, set breakpoints on bindings, and more easily determine errors
    • Implicit DataTemplates allow templates to be created across an application to support a particular type by default.
    • Ancestor RelativeSource bindings for a DataTemplate to bind to a property on a container control
    • Binding in style setters allows bindings to be used within styles to reference other properties
    • New DataContextChanged event to make handling changes easier
    • Markup extensions are now supported and allows code to be run at XAML parse time for both properties and event handlers, enabling cutting-edge MVVM support
  • WCF and RIA Services
    • WS-Trust support
    • WCF RIA Services improvements include complex type support, better MVVM support, and improved customization of code generation
    • Networking stack supports low-latency network scenarios enabling more responsive application scenarios.
  • Text and Printing
    • Improved text clarity that enables crisper and cleaner text rendering, multi-column text flow and linked text containers, character and leading support, and full OpenType font support
    • New Postscript Vector Printing API that provides programmatic control over what you print, and enables printing richer reports and documents
    • Pivot functionality which enables developers to build amazing information visualization experiences
  • Graphics
    • Immediate mode graphics support enables accelerated 3-D graphics support
    • Enables richer data visualization scenarios
  • Out of Browser
    • OOB can now create and manage child windows
    • Trusted out of browser applications can use P/Invoke capabilities to call unmanaged libraries and Win32 APIs
    • Enhanced group policy support enables enterprises to both lock down and open up security sandbox capabilities
  • Testing Tools
    • Automated UI testing support
  • Performance
    • Faster application startup, and provides 64-bit browser support
    • Integrates with the Hardware Acceleration capabilities of IE9, and enables hardware acceleration in window-less mode

Hacker Halted Egypt 2010 Hosted in Cairo from December 13-14

 HackerspaceSG, Security  1 Response »
Dec 062010
 

For the first time in Africa and the Middle East, Hacker | Halted conference will be held in Egypt on 13th and 14th December 2010, Hacker Halted Conference is the ultimate white hat hacker con in the Middle East and Africa, Hacker Halted is slated to be the world’s largest reunion of Certified Ethical Hackers to date. If Information Technology, Information Security, Computer Hacking, and black hat techniques with white hat professionalism sounds enticing to you, Hacker Halted Egypt 2010 is the IT Security Conference to attend.
For more information about the H@cker | Halted Conference Click Here ..

Game of Thrones TV Series Premiering on HBO in April 2011

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Dec 062010
 

Game of Thrones by HBO is based on author George R. R. Martin‘s best-selling A Song of Ice and Fire series of novels, chronicles the violent dynastic struggles among noble families for control of the Iron Throne of Westeros. Above is the behind-the-scenes preview of the ‘Game of Thrones,’ featuring new clips and a wide-ranging set of interviews with George R.R. Martin, David Benioff & D.B. Weiss and various members of the cast and crew.

I’m so catching this TV series when it airs in April 2011 on HBO. I can’t wait! I love the books.

Uncharted Waters Online Debuted in Singapore + Giveaway

 Technology  3 Responses »
Dec 062010
 

Uncharted Waters Online is a MMORPG set within several timelines during the Age of Exploration as a romantic and historic fictional account of the era. Players will live and play real world of 15th century to make their own history. Players may choose from among 6 nationalities: England, Dutch Republic, Ancient Régime in France, Spanish Empire, Kingdom of Portugal, and Republic of Venice.

As well the player may choose from several occupations after choosing a basic class: adventurer, merchant, and soldier. Players are able to trade, explore, battle and join in live events such as “Epic Sea Feuds”.

To commemorate this debut in Singapore, I’m giving out a coupon with 10,000 NC credits to get you started. All you need to do is to install the game, play it, and comment on how you find the game. I will randomly select 1 person. This giveaway ends on Monday, 13th December 2010 2359. You need to be located in Singapore to participate.

Find out more about Uncharted Waters Online:

{Community} Technology Update 2010

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Dec 062010
 

The 7th iteration of CTU is back – As with the true spirit of community, the various user groups are jointly organising a day packed overloaded with information, knowledge sharing and this time, we have even added Hands on lab during the day!

CTU 2010 is a whole day event, held on 18th December 2010, at Microsoft Singapore, One Marina Boulevard. In order to offset the cost of organising the event, the organising committee will be collecting a nominal fee from every participant, details are below:

Date 18th December 2010
Time 0900 – 1730 hrs
Venue Microsoft Singapore,

One Marina Boulevard
Registration Fees $10 (Early-birds)

$15 (Walk-ins)

CTU 2010 is an event for all IT professionals, as we have topics ranging from developers, IT pros and database administrators, if you’re interested in Microsoft technology, and want to learn more about the local user groups, mark your calendar and register early.

Hurry, get your seats before it runs out! Register now!

0900 – 0930 hrs​ Keynote​
0930 – 0945 hrs​ ​ Break out to different tracks​
Tracks​ Developer​ ​IT Pro ​Special ​Hands-On-Lab
0945 - 1100 hrs​
DEV01
Reactive Extensions (Rx) to .NET​
 ITP01
ForeFront Identity Manager (FIM) Overview and Deployment​		 SPC01
Introducing Microsoft Lync Server 2010​		 HOL01
How to Build POC Lab using HyperV and Troubleshooting with toolkit​
​1115 – 1230 hrs DEV02
Enhancing SharePoint 2010 with Custom Features​		 ITP02
Microsoft Virtual Desktop Infrastructure (VDI)​		 SPC02
What’s new in Exchange 2010 SP1​		 HOL01
How to Build POC Lab using HyperV and Troubleshooting with toolkit​
1230 – 1330 hrs​ Lunch​ ​ ​ ​
​1330 – 1445 hrs DEV03
How to Make Games for PC, XBOX360 and Windows Phone using XNA​		 ITP03
Microsoft Enterprise Desktop Virtualization(MED-V)​		 SPC03​
Data Warehouse Enhancements and Best Practices on SQL Server 2008		 HOL02
Introduction to Windows Azure and SQL Azure​
​1500 – 1615 hrs DEV04
Tools and features available in Visual Studio 2010 Ultimate edition​		 ITP04
Troubleshooting with the Expert​		 SPC04​
What Office System 2010 has to offer the IT Pro		 HOL02
Introduction to Windows Azure and SQL Azure​
​1630 – 1730 hrs End – Lucky Draw and Group Photo Taking!​ ​ ​ ​