Sun-NUS Open Source Day – Sign Up Now!

Mar

Venue:
Seminar Room 1 (SR1, COM1-02-06),
National University of Singapore
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Date: 28 March 2008, Friday

Time: 12.00pm – 6:00pm

Today, Open Source has become the buzzword of IT industry synonymous with innovation, growth and participation. Relevant technical and business skills in Open Source coupled with creativity and passion are essential ingredients to succeeding in the web 2.0 era.

Advance your development skills at the Open Source Day jointly organized by Sun Microsystems and NUS School of Computing. This inaugural event explores the innovations of Open Technologies from Sun, the largest contributor of Open Source Technologies, and focuses on hot technical topics including OpenSolaris, OpenJava and more.

Don’t miss the chance to learn from Sun experts and leading industry speakers on the latest technologies and business models that are driving the web 2.0 era. Open source is about participation. Register today!

Agenda
12:00pm onwards	Registration
1:00pm – 2:00pm	Opening by SOC & Sun Prof Ooi Beng Chin, Dean, School of Computing , NUS Matt Thompson, Senior Director, Developer Outreach, Sun Microsystems
2:00pm – 2:30pm	Java-Open Source Journey and road ahead
2:30pm – 3:00pm	JavaFX – Demos and highlights
3:00pm – 3:30pm	Open Solaris – a model for Open Source community
3:30pm – 4:00pm	Open source IDE for Desktop/Mobile and Enterprise applications(Netbeans 6.0)
4:00pm – 4:15pm	Tea Break
Breakout Track 1: Venue: Venue: Seminar Room 2 (SR2, COM1-02-04)
4:15pm – 5:00pm	Learning & Growing the Open Source way
5:00pm – 5:45pm	Building Web 2.0 applications and best practises
Breakout Track 2: Venue: Seminar Room 3B (SR3B, COM1-02-13)
4:15pm – 5:00pm	OpenSPARC: the first open-sourced multi-core multi-threaded processor
5:00pm – 5:45pm	Open Source Operating Systems – a closer look with Open Solaris
*Agenda subject to change

Facebook Developer Garage II: The Finale

Mar

06

Hey hey guys! Thanks to all for coming down to the joint event hosted by Garag3/E27 and the SG PHP User Group. It was an interesting event with a great turnout – with in-depth discussions, innovative facebook applications and much networking.

For those who missed it, here are the much awaited links!

Prior to the event, Bernard Leong’s thoughts and questions for the panel before the event stimulated the minds of the attendees, followed by Andrew Wee’s musings before the panel on monetization. Consisting of 2 other panelists – Kien Lee, a FB app VC, and Leonard Lin from Tyler Projects – it was already promising to be a thought-provoking session.

Covered by our 2 live bloggers on the scene, Chin Yong and Nicole, the whole event kicked off with the panel discussion – Marketing and Monetization of FB Apps: Hype or Gold Mine? Read about it from our 2 bloggers’ points of view here, and here.

Next, the programme broke into 2 tracks.
The Technical Tracks, which were covered by Chin Yong, includes:
The Applications Demo, which was covered by Nicole, includes:
- Overview of Localized/Regional Facebook Apps
- Demo: “Prosperity Garden” (FB link)
- Demo: “Ant Rush” (FB link)
- Demo: “RecordTV – Lessons From the FrontLine” (FB link)
Here are the photographs from the event: http://www.facebook.com/photo_search.php?oid=25387355184&view=all

Here are the videos from the event:
http://blog.php.com.sg/archives/video-recording-from-facebook-developer-garage-ii

Special thanks also goes out to our sponsors, NUS ETP & Microsoft. Of course, not forgetting our attendees – thanks for coming down! You guys rock!

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Facebook Developer’s Garage II – Singapore!

Feb

29

Hey guys! Check it out! Facebook Developer Garage Singapore is BACK – with a VENGEANCE! This is the 2nd installment following the first ever FDG held in Asia. You know you want to go! In this event, we will focus on Marketing, Monetization of FB Apps, Facebook Apps with .NET and Visual Studio 2008, and Facebook Apps with CakePHP. Carrying on reading!

Event Details:

Facebook Developer Garage II – Singapore

Date: 5th March 2008

Venue: Microsoft Singapore, NTUC Centre
6.30pm-10.30pm: Dinner and Presentations

Links: Wiki, RSVP, E-Flyer

Free but RSVP is required.

Jointly Organized By : Garag3.com/E27 Singapore & Singapore PHP User Group

Event Sponsor Venue Sponsor
InterestThink 2 – Make it Yours

Feb

27

InteresThink is a multi-disciplinary conference
which aims to build unreserved understanding
and collaboration. They model themselves after TED (http://TED.com).

Each speaker is given only 20 minutes to speak on topics they’re deeply passionate about. After which, a world cafe style of discussion will be conducted. At the same time, they aim to have an ongoing online chat session. Speeches will be recorded and shared online.

Recently, they held InteresThink 2, the second in the installment, on 23rd February 2008 at National Library’s “The Pod”. Find out more using the links below! =)

Ramkumar’s live event blog coverage: InteresThink @ The Pod
Event Wiki: http://interesthink.com/wiki/
Promoting Entrepreneurship – Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan

Feb

05

Tyler Projects, the company responsible for Battle Stations, a popular Facebook multi-player game, was featured once again in the news in an article on the Lee Kuan Yew Global Business Plan competition.

The competition encourages students from any university, college or polytechnic in the world to prove their mettle with offerings that are both creative and commercially viable, like Battle Stations. Leonard Lin, now a managing partner in Tyler Projects, tested his business plan in the competition and impressed the judges enough to scoop third prize.

Tyler Projects was one of our ex-presenters at our unconferences and also one of the receivers of our Garag3 fund. Read more on the article!