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Advent Calendar for Web Geeks

knight — Mon, 06 Dec 2010 14:01:22 +0000

It seem like Advent Calendar are not just for promo only, it can be something like tips & tutorials style, these are some of the websites offer Advent Calendar for all the web geeks.

24 ways – web design and development articles and tutorials for advent
PHP Advent 2010 – as title this is PHP based.
Perl Advent Calendar 2010 – as title this Perl based.
Performance Calendar – everything about web performance.
Adfont Calendar 2010 – A free font every day from Fontdec.
HTML5 Advent Calendar – 24 days of killer demos, tutorials, community buzz, and other stuff that Steve Jobs would love.
24 ways to start – The advent calendar for entrepreneurs

Do let me know if I miss out any, sharing with all the Web Geeks out there.

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5 important things for a geek event

knight — Wed, 14 Jul 2010 14:38:14 +0000

So far i only went for WordCamp and Google devfest this 2 geek event this year, but I feel that this 5 things are important for a geek event.

Food – best to be in buffet style, lunch box really not our type of food, I would say the food during WordCamp is great but this might be the different between paid and free event

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Wifi – Multiple Wifi is a must to handle lots of connection, very often the live tweet of these geek event is complaining about the connection.

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Coffee – most of the geek like coffee, the event place should have starbuck or coffee bean near by and allow geeks to drink while listen to all the presentation, one of the bad experience I have @ Google Devfest is you are not allowed to drink in the hall, due to lack of coffee , I can’t really concentrate on the presentation.

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Power cord – Most of geek will bring their laptop and most of laptop after turn on Wifi can only be use for 2~3 hours , providing enough power cord for all the geeks to recharge their laptop is really important.

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Links for all the presentations during event is really important , so far it seem like none of these event is providing a collections of links for the events, example the one i do for Google Devfest.

Share with me if you can think of any other important thing for a Geek event.

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Google DevFest Singapore 2010

knight — Tue, 13 Jul 2010 15:42:46 +0000

I just attend my first Google event last friday , the Google DevFest Singapore. This is my second geek event this year , I am looking forward for this , I will blog about the different between this 2 geek event on my next post, this post will be just summarize the DevFest only.

The event kick start with Google Maps API by Daniels Lee , the poor guy was coughing during the presentation.

Google Maps API v3.0 Presentation done by HTML5 – this link to the manila talk , the Singapore talk keep crash my chrome , it seem like due to some HTML5 feature.
Where is coffee ? – the application that demo in the presentation which allow user share the great coffee and rate it.

After Google Maps API presentation and 10 min break , the next HTML5 presentation done by Jeremy Orlow.

HTML 5 Presentation done by HTML5 – a very interesting slide about HTML5 , show case lots of HTML5 feature.
HTML5 Rocks – a HTML5 topic focus site done by Google.
HTML5 Video Destruction – you won’t believe this done by HTML5
HTML5 Video real time ascii conversion – another impressive video effect done by HTML5

Interesting HTML5 presentation end with no FAQ session due to time constraint, follow up is a 2-Person presentation by Timothy Jordan (@timothyjordan) and Bob Aman (@sporkmonger) on Google Buzz API.

Google Buzz API Presentation – not just about Google Buzz , Timothy actually talk about how the social work , oauth and activity streams too.

After the buzz buzz , lunch time started with some boring lunch box, there is this guy approach me when I queue up for Starbuck, we just have a short chat on what we think about the event so far, but I m a bit shy on these kind of social thing , after my coffee ready and I just make a move first, sorry pal.

The presentation continue once every one come back from back from lunch, it start with Jeremy Orlow again on Google Chrome Developer Tools, I would say this is really an eye opener and I really understand why firebug never migrate over to Chrome, because Chrome itself already contain a very powerful debugging tools , the only thing I wish will be edit the style sheet and you can see it on the fly ( now every changes you need to enter ). I can’t really find the presentation for this but I think the pdf on Google IO is quite good enough

Patrick Chanezon (@chanezon) is the last presenter, He cover lot of topics in his presentation which share on slideshare. These are the topics which cover by Patrick.

Google Apps – the one allow you use Gmail and other google service for your own domain.
Google Apps Marketplace – a market place that allow developer selling their application/service that tie to Google service

2 company pitched when Patrick talking about Google Apps Marketplace.

Creately by @charanjit
SingPath by Sandra

Patrick continue his presentation on some other new Google product.

Google App Engine – why is this only for Python and Java ? can we have this for PHP ?
Google Storage – direct compete with Amazon S3 ?
BigQuery
Google Prediction API

The last part of the day is the Code Lab session

Google Maps API Code Lab
Google Buzz API Code Lab

This pretty much include all the links for devfest and there is this last link, @stephliu is asking for feedback for Google Devfest SG , please provide them feedback to improve the next event. Please leave a comment if I miss out any links.

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My First WordCamp Experience

knight — Mon, 24 May 2010 14:28:46 +0000

I just have my first WordCamp @ KL on saturday, it is a wonderful experience , some of the topic might be too simple for me ( child frame work) , some topic might be really bore (m$ m$ and m$) and some of the topic are really geek ( plugin development). Other than these interesting topics, I manage to chat with a few persons too and finally meet up with @hongkiat.

I believe I have completed my check list for this WordCamp.

I always feel like attend this type of geeks meet up , since I don’t really have much of real life friend that can talk about all these geek things, but most of the time I will just give up before the actual day. On one side I m a anti-social guy, on the other side I scare of attends meet up like this alone. I’m glad that this WordCamp turn out to a good experience, can’t wait for next geeks meet up, I heard that there might be WordCamp Asia @ Singapore , let’s hope it really happen.

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3 geeks that represent you ?

knight — Tue, 11 Dec 2007 14:23:16 +0000

Did you guys saw this 56 Geeks image recently ? ( credit to ExtraLife )

i would the image has cover most of the geek style , if let you choose 3 type of geek that can represent youself, what would you choose ? for me ? below are my choice

i like code before i work for code and i work for code now.

i always try to be portable and N800 should be my next target for my portable life

I believe portable and Gadget is 2 in 1, when you try to be portable , you get more gadget

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