The 200 bucks I paid for this Microsoft event is/are/was/were definitely worth it. The food was great and the presentations were quite interesting. Honestly I was expecting the event to be some kind of how-to's to help us developers but it turns out to be a technology demontrator as well. In the morning, there was a presentation about Windows Azure and a demonstration of features we're supposed to expect from MS Visual Studio 2010 and Windows 7, the latest OS from MS. According to the gal (sorry, forgot her name) who did the presentation and demo about Windows 7, mas paspas na daw ni compared sa Vista. She even claimed to have run the said OS on a PC unit with just a 512MB RAM, hopefully she was'nt talking B.S. on this because being a resource hog was one of the reasons why a lot hate Vista. If it does run well on 512, then this is definitely a very very good news for us Windows users. Kung samokan ka sa UAC sa Vista, naa napoy feature ning Windows 7 para imong ma change ang iyang settings, so pwede na nimo ma turn off or ma change kung nus-a nimo ganahan mo pop-up ang UAC. Kudos to Microsoft for hearing the cries of the Vista users whose got annoyed by their UAC technology...
After, we had our 45 min. lunch. It was buffet type, and lami kaayo ang mga pagkaon. Pagkahuman kaon, the group sessions started. There were three types of sessions you could join -Architect, Web Dev, and Devloper sessions. I joined the Developer sessions. The first presentation was again about Windows Azure. The second two were about the opensource NPanday and NFixture. They were presented by the Exist Team (A very well known dev. company here in Cebu na dagko kuno mo hatag ug sweldo...). They were also the one who developed it. Both NPanday and NFixture seems to be similar to Java's Ant , jUnit and DBUnit. If you're not familiar with NPanday, NFixture, Ant, and jUnit/DBunit then I really suggest you try to know about them. They are a really good tools to have during develoment and testing. Again, kudos to the Exist Team for releasing an opensource filipino made software to the world!!!
After the group sessions, we went back to the main conference room for another set of presentations and for the raffles. The only presentation worth mentioning was a cellphone tracking program demoe'd by a chinese geek named Sowy for their LBS (Location Based Services) API. It was web based. You enter a certain cellphone no. (I think it works only on Globe numbers) and then it will give you the coordinates of the target location which is 100meters accurate. If you're a fan of the tv series called 24, then you're familiar with the CTU agent named Chloe o Brien. A cheek geek. And one of the characters that the leading hero can trust on. She has a tool in her arse-senal which can also track cellphones. The program the geek Sowy presented works similar to it. Very very interesting indeed!
Sadly, I did'nt win any prizes during the raffles and went home after it because I was very very sleepy already...
If you've missed out on the DVDs given at the end or if you've missed out on the event itself, they you might as well download the file below. It contains the PDF files, which is the contents of the said DVD...
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