I did a posting about DotnetU last year, a program where I taught at Teched SEA 2007. I just know that there is a new material under DotnetU umbrella: SharePoint Development. Thanks to Dougturn who spread this program around the world.
The SharePoint content is very suitable for somebody new in MOSS development. Covering the installation, new feature, and web part programming. But I think Doug should add one more hot topic in SharePoint: custom workflow with VS2005/2008. I’m willing to help him to write the lab manual, since I’ve been developing and teaching in this area almost one year.
Just received message from Doug that the cool DotnetU will come again to Teched SEA 2008 next August. Hopefully he’s right, lots of cool stuff in Silverlight and Ajax can be explored. It’s free, fun, with a nice certificate and T-Shirt 
. I’m the supporter the SharePoint related material for dotnetu. Hope he will bring it to KL. SharePoint has abig growth here in Singapore, and I think is the same in Malaysia. MOSS workflow is a very hot - hot topics now.
April 23rd, 2008
Hands On Lab is one of the most wanted facilities at
TechEd SEA. This is not instructor led lab, it’s a do it yourself lab completed with the step by step manual, PC with pre-loaded VPC images that contains the lab files.
Ed Quek full filled his promise to provide more computer in the HOL and ILL sessions. It was very good, since I saw the HOL room was always full. There are more lab materials than last year.
I tried a lab on SharePoint workflow, and stuck. it’s not because the lab was so difficult, but the VPC was running like a turtle. I checked the hardware configuration: good. It’s a premium hardware with 2 GB RAM. I checked the OS, and gotcha . The host PC was Windows Vista. It was a wrong decision since Vista will eat around 1 GB memory for its system itself. TechEd attendees are not end user who want to see WOW features of Vista. They are developers and IT Pros who want to know more about .NET, SQL 2008 and Longhorn. It doesn’t make sense to use Vista just to sit and relax as a host PC. Use Windows XP is better: less resource at the host.
I started irritating to see several attendees asked for help from the proctor because the machine was so slow. Nothing they can do, just wait. These were the case for the server product labs such as SharePoint, MOM, or Exchange. Any labs on Visual Studio would not be an issue.
Just my 2 cent for Ed, please use Windows XP for the host PC next year. Unless the hardware is a Quad Core machine with 4 GB RAM 
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September 13th, 2007
One of the new features at TechEd SEA this year is Dotnet University that was held on Sept 11-14, 2007. As I mentioned at my 6 things I love about TechEd, this is an Instructor Led Lab (ILL) that focusing on .Net 3.0. It’s all about Windows Workflow, WPF, WCF, and Cardspace. The response from the attendees were overwhelming. They started to queue since 1 hour before every session. All available sessions are fully packed, even though the organizer managed to provide 5 sessions in a day.
Actually the lab materials were not so deep. It gave an overview about 4 components in .NET 3.0, at level 200 from 500 scale. The public curiosity about this new framework is very high, that’s why the response was terrific. I hope the difficulties level will be improved at the next year since the adoption of .Net 3.0 going to be better.
I delivered the Workflow Foundation session at last class of the 3rd day (17.30 - 19.30). It was also fully packed, so my guess that the attendees prefer to go home was wrong. I did some demo with IF-ELSE branching and Code Activity, using Workflow designer for authoring workflow. Mark Dunn helped me a lot to handle the discussions at the QA session.
Continue Reading September 13th, 2007
Yes, It’s approaching again. TechEd SEA 2007 will be held at Kuala Lumpur on September 10-13, 2007. Same with the previous year, I’ll be there again. Since my work schedules are so tight, I will miss the first day and attend from 11th onwards.
Attending TechEd is something I always waiting for every year. As a prominent and the largest Microsoft technical conferences in South East Asia, it provides a lot of break out sessions, hands on lab, instructor lab, good food, networking, and insights. What do I love about this event? Here are the summarize of my personal preferences:
First, is about the TechEd US 2007 DVD set. Conference attendees are eligible to purchase the DVD set at RM 108 only. It’s less than $25, far cheaper than the usual retail price at $195! This is a collection of all technical sessions (hundreds, yes I mention hundreds!), including the recorded video, powerpoint slide, and demo. Tons of hands on lab manual are inside, keep me updated for the latest hot technologies in the market. I guest it’s around 20 GB in size totally 
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Continue Reading September 2nd, 2007
It’s official now. I will speak at 2 sessions on second and third day (6 and 7 Sept for sure). The detail schedule for TechEd SEA 2006 is published here.. I’m very ecxited about this event, when I will speak about ASP.NET and data mining for south east Asia developers and DBA. So many Microsoft folks from Product Group will come and speak, and I hope will have enough time to have chat and discuss with them.
August 18th, 2006
