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I’m loving every second of this show!!

I think it’s the best reality show that I’ve ever seen!

I love Jack’s workout and how he handles the business issues… Classic Jack! Simply Awesome!

There is a ton of knowledge for every business person in this show… and what’s more? While the show is going on there are small quizzes on the screen and when you click on the answer, you see what others think…

I love everything about this show…

I’m sure you’re gonna love it too!

Yours,

Rohan

So I love my HTC HD (BlackStone), but I still haven’t found a good twitter client for it – until I found Twikini!

So far its the best Twitter app in my opinion for Windows Mobile

Twikini has great UI and one of the cool features that I like – update your location

Made my life much easier with an easy access to twitter from my phone!

Check it out :-)

Yours,

Rohan

Yes! It’s Tweetup time!

Come together and see what’s happening amongnts the tweeps in Malaysia!

You can join the KL Tweetup facebook group here, and sign up for the KL Tweetup #4 event on facebook or twtvite below:

See ya there :-)

Yours,

Rohan

hank janssen at php|tek from brian gorbett on Vimeo.

I love this talk which Hank Janssen, who heads up Microsoft's open source technology center(OSTC) delivered at PHP|TEK Chicago

Thought I’d share with you guys…

Enjoy :-)

Yours,

Rohan

Check out free trials of hosted Team Foundation Server which is powered by our partnership with TeamDevCentral

More info available on Brian’s blog

Enjoy :-)

Yours,

Rohan

Wow! Check this out!

The IIS SEO Toolkit is here which can help you to:

· Improve the volume and quality of traffic to Web site from search engines

· Control how search engines access and display Web content

· Inform search engines about locations that are available for indexing

The IIS SEO Toolkit includes three modules that integrate with IIS Manager:

· Site Analysis, which suggests changes that can help improve the volume and quality of traffic to your Web site from search engines;

· Robots Exclusion, which makes it easier to control and restrict the content that search engines index and display; and

· Sitemaps and Site Indexes, which can help inform search engines about locations that are available for indexing.

For those of us on the web - this is fantastic!!

But when I read about this, my immediate thought was that it might take sometime to tinker with IIS to get this setup…

But my worry was super short lived because guess what? The IIS SEO Toolkit Beta can be installed with the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta!!!!

So go download Web PI today and check out IIS SEO Toolkit!

Enjoy :-)

Yours,

Rohan

A very cool project which demonstrates practical SOA interoperability across platforms (.NET, PHP, Java) with Apache open source projects using Web Services standards

Check it out here

Contributors:

• WSO2
• Redhat
• Eviware
• Progress Software
• University of Moratuwa
• Sun
• Microsoft

Architecture:

Yours,

-Rohan

Cool site about interoperability with some great projects running– check it out here…

I like the PHP SDK for Azure – super cool!

Architecture:

Enjoy :-)

Yours,

Rohan

Great stuff from Interoperability @ Microsoft blog – check it out!

Yours,

Rohan

A lot of my partners have been waiting for this – and finally it’s here!

Download it from here!

Enjoy,

Yours,

Rohan

I got to spend a couple of days at MSC OSCON

and I had a great time!

Got to meet Haresh, who is an awesome guy and will be helping us out in SilverCamp.

Haresh will also star in BarCamp Penang so you guys can catch him there too!

Me and TC also did a session on “PHP on IIS” in MSC OSCON and had a great response!

Thanks to everyone who came to our session on “PHP on IIS” – we had a full house!

Till next time,

Yours,

-Rohan

Super cool… Check out the video…

Enjoy…

Yours,

- Rohan

So we had yet another Tweetup the other day…

And this time Mike suggested a GadgetFest!

Just like all his ideas, this was equally brilliant…

GadgetFest was awesome and we got to see some damn cool gadgets from everyone!

Check out some pics here and a photosynth of the Tweetup here

If you missed this action, Fear not! Catch you in KL Tweetup #4 :-)

Yours,

-Rohan

Now even better!

Enjoy :-)

Rohan

On Thursday the 28^th of May 2009, Microsoft and SilverCamp (http://www.silvercamp.net/ - Malaysia’s awesome Silverlight usergroup) organized RIAnomics (http://www.silvercamp.net/events/rianomics/) – an event focused around Rich Interactive Applications(RIA) which showcased Silverlight 3 Beta, Expression 3 Beta, ASP.NET 4.0, WPF and PHP on IIS!

We had an awesome participation from 150 designers and developers! Thank you guys for taking time and coming to this event

As you know, we got couple of our partners to showcase what they are working on to you guys:

1. The STAR launched IE8 Accelerator, IE8 Web Slice and IE8 Search (http://thestar.com.my/ie8/)

2. NST launched their News Reader

3. Wicked Networks showcased their Silverlight 3 HD Player

During the keynote of this event, we had Mr. Ken Chin, Chief Creative Director of Leo Burnett come and talk about Innovation and Internet after which Mr. Serm, IT Manager, The Star launched The IE8 Accelerator, Web Slice and Search on The Star home page!

After which we had a Silverlight keynote where we showcased an awesome Silverlight 3 HD application which our partner Wicked Networks is working on!

Then we had 2 simultaneous running tracks, one for developers and one for designers – both were very well received by the crowd

During one of the Designer tracks – Business 3.0 – we also soft launched NST’s Business Time Reader

Big Thanks to the great people who made this event possible:

· Siak Kwan Tang

· Hong Chiang Moy

· Angeline Tan

· LV Chong (MVP)

· Jin Lim (SilverCamp)

· Ken Chin (Chief Creative Director, Leo Burnett/Arc Worldwide)

· Serm, (IT Manager, The Star)

· TC Wu (SilverCamp)

· Stan (CEO, Nexus Multimedia)

· Eka (Lead Designer, Nexus Multimedia)

You guys are Stars… :-)

Yours,

Rohan