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Its end of the year again and that means lots of Web related events and conferences in Singapore, which is very encouraging for the Web scene of Singapore. We are looking at at least four web/tech events for the month of October. If you are a developer in Singapore, you have no excuse not to attend even one of them!

The Actionscript Conference - 19th October 2008

Pardon for the shameless advertisement but yes, it is organize by me and my great team of Singapore Flex Usergroup. The Actionscript Conference (TAC) is a community conference with the focus on the Flash Platform. Attendants will see themselves immersed in a day of learning, knowledge exchange, and networking. TAC aims to bring topics on Actionscript 3.0, Flash development, Enterprise Flex, AIR, Integrating of Flash and other Platforms, and building Rich Internet Application to its audience.

We aim to create a conference for the developers, by the developers.

When: 19th October 2008
Where: National Library Singapore, Level 5 and Level 8
Who should go: Web developers, Actionscript developers, Web 2.0 entrepreneurs , Students, Educators
Price: Sold out, but there will be a Free community event on the 17th to be announced.

Microsoft Tech Fest - 23th -24th October 2008

Microsoft TechFest 2008 by Microsoft. For $99 SGD, you will get 3 books worth over $150 dollars, and 2 days of multiple tracked sessions with great speakers like Maung Maung Phyo and Loh Kit Kai. It is already worth the money and time investment to hear these experts speak along. I will be definitely attending to update my .NET knowledge. Since Amazon Web Service is going to provide Windows in the upcoming months, the demand for windows server side solution like SQL Server will be big! I will be going to learn more about LINQ and SQL Server 2008.

When: 23-24th October
Where: NTUC Auditorium
Who should go: Developers who want to learn Microsoft Technology.
Cost: $99

Google Hackathon - 28th October

Purely for developers, our friends at e27 has bring us another great event! Check out the event website:
http://www.e27.sg/events/google-hackathon-singapore/

Attending is free and you get one day worth of hacking google stuff, networking and goodies. Hackathon is always a geek/developers dream. Google has been involved a lot of activities in Singapore this year. I will be going for this event for a day of coding goodness.

When: 28th October 2008
Where: Singapore SMU Campus
Who should go: Developers who want to learn about Google APIs and Google Apps.
Cost: FREE
Singapore Digital Media Festival - 30 -31th October

For the website, “DMfest is organised by the Digital Media Chapter of the Singapore infocomm Technology Federation (SiTF) to bridge the usually separate communities of IT and media production.

This year’s event, which is focused on the theme Television 2.0: Internet Services and New Media Mashup, comes at an opportune time, as the ubiquity of high speed communications and the proliferation of devices transform the way content is delivered to the end user, and how the end user interacts with this content.

For the IT community, a world of richly interactive media applications beckons. Increasingly, streaming, webcasting and video conferencing are being incorporated into mainstream business requirements.”

The tagline “Television 2.0″  says it all. This conference is about Web 2.0, Community TV, New Media Mashup. Day 1 consist of screening of videos and films, including some that embraced Creative Commons that had just landed in Singapore this July. Day 2 consist of the sessions by international speakers on Television 2.0.

When: 30-31st October
Where: National Museum, Singapore
Cost: $268 for Full conference pass.
Who should go: Web 2.0 Entrepreneurs, Media-related professionals

See you guys there at these events! If you see me, be sure to catch me for some Seesmic or TAC stickers!

Today, we have officially started the ticket sales for The Actionscript Conference.

The price for The Actionscript Conference is $60 until 1st October, which will include lunch, delegate bag and access to post-event party, and of course, many interesting sessions that the invited speakers will be talking about. 25 tickets has been sold in a day and that is very encouraging to us!

Whether you are in Singapore, or nearby countries like Malaysia , Thailand and Philippine, we welcome you to join us! Reserve your ticket today!

I will also be heading to SgDotNet Usergroup Meeting tomorrow to spread the event to the .NET users (in fact, the backend of the TAC registration runs on asp.net).

For those who wish to meet the organizers and the usergroup, learn about BlazeDS and Gaia Framework, feel free to join us at Yahoo! next week by RSVP here. There are just a few seats left at the time of this posting so do reserve one now.

Ciao~

I think it is time for me the write about the event I will be organizing on the 19th October, Singapore - The Actionscript Conference.

I have been toying with the idea of organizing a full day actionscript event ever since 2007, when MAX stop organizing in Singapore from 2006. Therefore last year, I managed to invited Aral Balkan to Singapore for a 1 day event on Actionscript. This year, I hope that we can organize a bigger, and better event. The Singapore Web industry deserve more Web events than it should have currently, and while there are many events in Singapore to boost entrepreneurship, the balance is broken when there are so many entrepreneur yet only so little talented developers. Many are seeking for Flex developers with experience with no avail. Startups are finding it hard to find talented developers which they need to kick start their great ideas. And there is no place in Singapore that trains Flex, when it should not be the case when I receive many emails a month on recommendation on schools to learn Actionscript / Flex. With the Singapore Flex Usergroup, we therefore want to create a Conference in which we can bring the developers in the region together, to educate , learn and evolve together in this event.

The Actionscript Conference is thus born, with the help of a dedicated Flex/Flash/Actionscript guru in Singapore:

Hu Shunjie (me), Conference Manager (Flex developer, Seesmic)
Arul Prasad, Speakers Relation Manager (Lead Engineer Flex, Fusion Garage)
Kenneth Teo, Sponsorship Manager (Flex developer, Loftec Pte Ltd)
Alex Goh , Logistic Manager (Flex developer)
Lionel Low, Co-Design Manager (nteractive Developer, TBWA\TEQUILA)
Thye Yeow Bok, Co-Logistic Manager (Lead Engineer Flex, Fusion Garage)
Alvin Zhang, Design Manager (Flash Developer, Imagine Interactive)

The Actionscript Conference, to be held on the 19th October 2008, at the Singapore National Library, aim to bring awareness to Flex, Actionscript, the possibilities of the Flash Platform to the audience here. That will includes Flash Mobile, Rich Internet Applications, Enterprise Flex, Programming Actionscript, Advance topics on 3d Flash, and Tools / IDE for Flash / Flex. On the other hand, we want to allow startup that uses Flash for their primary UI / Applications to showcase  their application during the event.

I hope that everyone can see this event as an event for them, and I hope you (yes you!) can help me shape this event by giving me your valuable feedback, support, spreading the word. Any help is deeply appreciated!

Drop me a comment or email me at all@tac.sg. Any feedback is appreciate. Lets make things happen !

I promised Flowgram that I will showcase it at the Singapore Flex Usergroup and in return, beta invites for the Usergroup members. Since then (a month ago), I have gotten the invites but as I cannot find a suitable video editor for FLV (the video is streamed live to UStream) , and the segment of introduction is at the 60th min, I cannot put it up

Thanks to RichFLV, I can do it now. Probably will be using it on my day-to-day job now.

Flowgram Video:

Singapore Flex Usergroup - July Usergroup Meeting Special - FUG’ Out 01

FUG’ Out (pronounced as ‘fun-out’, or up anything in your own creativity) is a special usergroup event in which we held the usergroup meeting out of Adobe office, into the base of different companies, places. Accompanied with FUG’ Out is contest and free goodies.

For the very first FUG’Out, we will hold our usergroup meeting at the international award-winning company, Tequila\ (http://www.tequila.com). In this meeting, Andrii Olefirenko will speak about Papervision 3D. We also invited Nico, the founder of FDT, Germany, to give us a remote presentation on the FDT IDE and how it can improve your development workflow.

Venue
TBWA\Tequila
T\Junction Building, 5 Kadayanallur Street 069183
Seminar Room

Time
7pm to 9.30pm (Registration starts at 6.30pm)

Price: FREE

In today’s 5 mins Flex, I cover how you can use viewstate to define different state for your application.

Example files: http://www.box.net/shared/44uxz1r28w
More viewstates related article: http://www.adobe.com/devnet/flex/quickstart/creating_states/

I created a short video to demonstrate how you can create a simple Flex application from scratch. This video is targeted to developers who are new to Flex and hope to see what are the basic syntax of Flex and how easy it is to create a working Flex application

End Product:

Related Files: http://www.box.net/shared/8g4e8dlsk0
Seesmic API: http://groups.google.com/group/seesmic-api

Thanks to Adobe Singapore for giving me this chance to introduce Singapore Flex Usergroup to the crowd at Colin Moock’s Actionscript Workshop today. The below is the video. Do support FUG by joining our forum at http://fug.sg/forum !

Singapore Flex usergroup is organising a contest with Adobe, where contestants stands to win a Flex builder 3 Professional license by posting a review on the Usergroup forum, http://dev.fug.sg.

If you are a Flex developer currently working/studying in Singapore, heres your chance to grab a copy!

Link: http://fug.sg/index.php/p/37 

Tonight, we will be having our March Flex Usergroup Meeting at Adobe, Suntec Tower 3

Feel free to drop by whether you are a Flex / Flash Developer =)

March Flex Usergroup Meeting.

Date: 17th March, Monday.
Time: 7.00pm to 9.30pm
Location:
Adobe Office,
PageMaker Room,
8 Temasek Boulevard,
#06-02
Suntec Tower Three,
Singapore 038988

Agenda:
7.00pm - 8.05pm : Session 1 - Using Flex and Flash for teaching and learning innovations by Stanley Yip, Lead Educational Programmer, CLI, Sydney
“Stanley Yip, Lead Educational Programmer at the Centre for Learning Innovation (CLI) based in Sydney, Australia will talk about how CLI are using Flex and Flash for teaching and learning innovations. He is the team leader of a small gang of Flash programmers at CLI. He will talk about the day to day programming experiences and the work from the team”

BREAK SESSION

8.25pm - 9.30pm : Session 2 - Starhub Kiosk Application by Dan Murong.

See you there!