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Paypal got some issues with credit card validation today it seems , with 2 users trying to buy TAC issue saying that Paypal refuse to validate their credit card. To test it out, I bought a ticket myself using my own credit card, and it works. So now I got an extra , full pass to TAC’09. 

I will like to give the ticket to someone  who blog about “What do you think you will get the most out of TAC’09″  within the next 24 hours. If there are more than one then I will choose the best entry. Just blog and email me (shinchi[at]gmail.com) your blog link about it. Note that this ticket still entitle you to win the free FDT Pure in the ongoing raffle.

If you have issues with payment, do not hesistant to call me via 90487415 or email ticket@tac.sg. We will help you out definitely!

Last year when I was in Seoul in got the chance to chat with Jason Calacanis, whom I told him about The Actionscript Conference. When I told him that it is still small, he told me “give it a few years”. His words bring me far and I am determined to turn TAC into one of the biggest Flash and Flex conference in South East Asia.

This year, TAC will be held on the 14th and 15th September, in the 550 seater of NTUC auditorium at One Marina Boulevard. For many attendees, it simply means crossing the road of Shenton way from their office to the venue. 2 Full days means we are invite more speakers, more topics and give you the updates and knowledge of Flex, Flash and Flash Player, and AIR that you are craving for.

I am proud to announced that ticketing is now opened. So register now!

A token of appreciation to all who make RIAction possible

Thanks everyone for supporting RIAction. It has been a busy week for me running around and getting things sync’ed up but looking the good turnout and the good feedback, me and my co-organizer, Jonathan Wong, feel that all is worth it! This is the 2nd major event I organized under the Singapore Flex Usergroup and Jonathan and his colleague, Clariss provided me with a lot of useful pointers that I think will definitely proof to be useful in future events. Thanks Jonathan and Clariss. Of course, nothing will be possible without my FUG buddies who are always there to help me and the community, sacrificing their time and skipping the sessions to ensure everything ran well. Thus, I made a video featuring them during RIAction. Here goes!

Quick Summary of RIAction
RIAction is a very ambitious attempt that spawned from a discussion between me and Jonathan during DMFest. The idea is to bring all the major RIA players together and provide a central platform for developers in the region to network and to learn about Rich Internet Application. Originally named ‘RIA Meetup’, it is subsequently renamed into ‘RIAction’, some creative thinking by Jonathan!
We are very lucky to have the support of Microsoft, Adobe and Google, as well as the various groups in Singapore: e27, CreativeCrew, P.HP Society, Flashmove FSUG , SGEntrepreneur and TDM.

Something to learn from
We received a lot of feedbacks from the community and we are still going through them. However, a few observations and feedback is
1) The Jumpstart room, which can house 30 attendees, is so popular that it ends up have close to 60 person at a time and that means half of the attendee need to stand. On the other hand, the Workflow room which can house 60 pax has an average of 30-50, and at one point of time, 20 attendee. For RIAction 2, what we will do is to have the attendees register for the individual tracks first, before assigning the tracks to the room of the right size. That way we can be sure that each room can fit the right audience.

2) More Booths! We are happy that people like the booths and exhibition, as well as the XBOX playground. We will definitely look into more ways to increase the number of booths for RIAction 2

3) More video and recording. Many people has asked for the recording of various sessions. This time we are only able to record for 2 rooms. We will certainly look for ways to record all the sessions for RIAction 2.

RIAction 2
My initial plan is to have RIAction 2 somewhere between now and September. I will of course, hope to listen to some feedbacks from you guys, how we can make things better and what you want to see. I will appreciate if you guys can leave me a comment , providing me some suggestions and what you want to see (e.g. JavaFX, Workshops, mobile stuff).

Photos from RIAction (taken by Arul Prasad)

Cheers!

LABSchool, a Adobe Authorized Training Center, revealed their Adobe Flex 3 training course during RIAction. LABSchool, backed by Stefano Virgillli, the brainchild behind Creativecrew and UltimateFX, has put up possibility the first Flex training course in Singapore. The course will span over 3 days and will bring the trainees from beginners to intemediate level in Flex.

Thanks LABSchool for finally giving us a Flex course in Singapore!

Last saturday I pop by Tech65’s recording to talk about RIAction event. Its a wonderful experience and I am really amaze by the wide array of gadgets they have to do their recording. Thanks Tech65 for having me and hope that I can join in again soon! Complete notes to the podcast here: http://www.tech65.org/2009/02/16/65bits-episode-107-the-one-wo-fari/#

Announcing RIAction, the first Rich Internet Application event in Singapore!

I am very excited to be organizing RIAction, together with the help of Jonathan Wong who is on the same speaking panel as me during DMFest. We agreed that the local software industry needs a platform for RIA developers to network and as well as for non-RIA developers to see the capabilities what RIA can do. And thus RIAction (creative naming by Jonathan) is born!

RIAction will take place on the 26th February and will focus on the different RIA frameworks including Microsoft Silverlight, Adobe Flex, Adobe AIR, Web APIs like Google Maps, as well as sharing of RIA techniques from the local industry experts. RIAction will feature multiple tracks so as to cater to web professionals of all levels.

Sponsored by Adobe, Microsoft and Google, I am thrill to say that RIAction will be free for all!

Register here to secure yourself a seating!

I also made a video on RIAction. Help me to make this video a success by just saying ‘RIAction’ !