I will buy the XBox 360 and Microsoft Kinect just for this game or this kind of interaction, if it ever comes out. It’s simply jaw dropping and amazing. This just made me think about my discussion on “The Future of Porn“. Peter Molyneux demos Milo, the virtual boy

SharePoint Conference is coming to SouthEast Asia, and it’s happening right here in Singapore. Here are the details: Southeast Asia SharePoint Conference Tuesday October 26 2010 – Wednesday October 27, 2010 Grand Copthorne Waterfront Hotel, Singapore **** Early Bird Discount for first 275 Registrations*** Running over two days, delegates will be able to visit exhibition and [...]

Windows Live Essentials Beta is finally out after months of waiting. Download it here. Microsoft just unveiled the new Windows Live Essentials and the role it plays in completing the Windows experience. Essentials is a suite of free software and services which includes Messenger, Mail, Writer, Photo Gallery, and Movie Maker – as well as [...]

You heard me. Here are the dates: Operating System End of Life Date Windows 2000 Professional July 13, 2010 Windows 2000 Server July 13, 2010 Windows XP SP2 July 13, 2010 Windows XP SP3 Still Supported Windows Vista April 13, 2010 Windows Vista SP1 & SP2 Still Supported There you have it. For those still [...]

Here you go! Promotional videos of Windows Phone 7 Series. Demo: Phones for a “Life in Motion” See how Windows® Phone 7 Series reorganizes the phone, Web and applications to deliver a mobile experience that will help make the most of customers’ busy lives. Partner Support for Windows Phone 7 Series See what Microsoft partners [...]

I have some time to sneak in while waiting for my flight at the airport in Singapore, so I decided to post the most ridiculous bug I’ve ever come across. The Welcome screen may be displayed for 30 seconds during the logon process after you set a solid color as the desktop background in Windows [...]

Finally, all 13 chapters are done. Now I can compile them into 1 big post with all the videos. I highly recommend every developer to watch these videos even though you’ll not be writing Functional code. Edit: I totally forgot to link back all the chapters. Click on the links on each chapter for the [...]

I encourage everyone who is still sitting on the fence about whether to learn a functional language to read this Beautiful Code – The Manifesto article written by Lau B. Jensen. To summarize, his point of writing beautiful code essentially avoids a lot of the pitfalls you get from Imperative languages. Beautiful Code is… Concise [...]

Finished my presentation on “What’s new with .NET Framework 4.0″ last Saturday at CTU 2009v2. I hope everyone enjoyed the talk. Here are the slides and demo available for you. CTU2009v2 – What’s new with NET Framework 4.zip

Disclaimer: What I write in this post does not represent my company, the community, Microsoft, or its employees. These are my independent thoughts of the current state of the Microsoft community in Singapore ONLY based on my own observations. Where do I even start? How about last week when I was speaking at the recent event [...]