Buy a PC now and upgrade to Win7 for free! (almost)
On Friday, June 26, Microsoft announced the official start of the Windows 7 Upgrade Option Program, which allows customers who buy a PC now from a participating OEM or retailer with Windows Vista Home Premium, Business or Ultimate to upgrade to Windows 7 at little or no cost ( a minimal shipping & handling fee apply). This program will be available until January 31, 2010 and is a global program.
For more details, visit http://www.microsoft.com/malaysia/windows/upgrade
Flying to Kuching tomorrow, catch me at Dev In Town!
If you are from Kuching (City of cats in Malay) or happen to be there, come and see me presenting SharePoint and SharePoint Designer 101 at Kuching Park Hotel. Event details are here.
SharePoint not your cup of tea? My fellow MVP Walter, Ming Man and Jabez will be there also presenting topics like LINQ, WPF and Windows 7.
Map to the venue (Jalan Padungan)
Talk on Source Control using TFS 2008 and Continuous Integration in TFS 2010
Local VSTS Partner and C# MVP Ervin Loh delivered a talk recently on 12th Jun about source control features inside Team Foundation Server 2008. This is actually a Microsoft Malaysia hosted event known as Devtalk where every month they invite speakers to share on topics of interest to developers. He has blogged about it here., and you can also visit his blog to access the slides deck.
Ervin’s session is followed by my colleague Hoong Fai who talked about Continuous Integration with TFS 2010!
IIS Search Engine Optimization Toolkit
Microsoft announced the IIS Search Engine Optimization (SEO) Toolkit Beta – a brand new free toolkit that helps Web developers, hosting providers, and server administrators improve their sites’ relevance in search results by recommending how to make them more search engine-friendly. The SEO Toolkit Beta is available for installation via the Microsoft Web Platform Installer 2.0 Beta at http://www.microsoft.com/web/downloads/platform.aspx
Let’s try it out and see whether it will work with SharePoint. By the way Scott Guthrie has post of details of the toolkit here.
Slides for SPUG session on SharePoint Backup and Recovery
The speakers for the session just uploaded their slides on Enovade’s company website.
about me
Hi there! My name is Patrick and I code on .NET and build a few products on SharePoint and Windows Azure. I am currently CTO of IPS Infonomics Pte Ltd and co-founder of Tech Insights Conference.
My reading list- How to Deliver a Killer Business Presentation
- 10 Hot Web Startups Changing the Face of Retail
- Visa certifies NFC-equipped Android, BlackBerry smartphones for payWave -- Engadget
- An easy way to use certificates for WCF security - CodeProject®
- 6 Things To Do when you got your Unifi Wireless Router D-Link Dir-615 « Sawanila.com™
- Controlling Registry ACL Permissions with Powershell
- Building the Ultimate SharePoint 2010 Development Environment
- Running SharePoint 2010 on a domain controller
- Using Local Machine Accounts for Managed Accounts in SharePoint 2010
- How Trello is different - Joel on Software