Imagine Cup 2007 World Final - Schedule

There will be more than 400 of students, honored guest and MSP.KOREA will be participate in final stage of Imagine Cup. Here is the details.

Sheraton Walkerhill & W HOTEL (W Seoul-Walkerhill)

August 5th : Welcome Party
August 6th ~ 7th : Competition
August 8th : CITY Seoul Tour
August 9th : Digital Cultural Activity
August 10th : World Festival and Farewell Party

Good luck for the Australian Team of the Imagine Cup!

ReMix 2007 - WhatWhoWhere

This is a 2-day event, mainly dedicated for Web Developers and Web Designers.
There are over 20 sessions hosted.

For Web Developers, here is a brief sneak-peek of the topic
# Build AJAX Web applications quickly and easily with ASP.NET
# Develop rich internet applications with WPF
# Enable Living room applications with Windows Media Centre
# Create engaging user experience with Gadgets that live on the Windows desktop
# Creating exciting new Web experiences with Silverlight

For Web Designers
# Designing new generation user experiences using Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation.
# Extending your web experiences beyond the browser to the desktop, television and other devices.
# Enhanced designer/developer collaboration with Expression Studio.
# Standards-based web sites with less pain.
# Leveraging video and rich media assets cost-effectively.


On top of that, all attendees will be given a free copy of Expression Web, a software that seamlessly integrate both the design and development aspect of creating a website. It supports W3C standards, CSS Layout and ASP.NET 2.0

Venue Details

25-26 June 2007
The Crown Promenade Hotel
Melbourne
8 Whiteman Street, Southbank 3006
Melbourne, Victoria

Tix Price: AU$140

MSP Australia

Yay.. Finally I became a Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) for Swinburne University.
It's really a great honor for me to be a part of MSP team.

We will have many events through out the year. Just to mention some of them like ReMix 2007 which will be held in Melbourne and Tech Ed 2007 in Queensland.

I will post up the details in the upcoming posts.
Anyway, I am looking forward for all the excitement to come. =)

Firefox 2.0 Beta 1 Released!

One of the most favorite browser in the world has released the latest beta version. The Mozilla Corp launched it on last Wednesday, signaling that its major upgrade to the popular alternative browser is inching ever closer to release.

List of new features:

* Built in Phishing Protection.
* Search suggestions now appear with search history in the search box for Google, Yahoo! and Answers.com
* Changes to tabbed browsing behavior
* Ability to re-open accidentally closed tabs
* Better support for previewing and subscribing to web feeds
* Inline spell checking in text boxes
* Search plugin manager for removing and re-ordering search engines
* New microsummaries feature for bookmarks
* Automatic restoration of your browsing session if there is a crash
* New combined and improved Add-Ons manager for extensions and themes
* New Windows installer based on Nullsoft Scriptable Install System
* Support for JavaScript 1.7
* Support for client-side session and persistent storage
* Extended search plugin format
* Updates to the extension system to provide enhanced security and to allow for easier localization of extensions
* Support for SVG text using svg:textPath

Review: The installation went pretty smooth. The start-up of the program is pretty reasonable when you consider the fact that firefox's memory hog. It also has couple new looks. The most significant differences are the look of the tabs and the new phishing filter feature. On overall, I'll give the rating 8 / 10.