Wen Ching's Blog

MIND Jan 14, 2006 - A good start for us :)

Hi all,

There will be a lot of changes in the coming year 2006 and onwards.

We had a very good start for the 1st January session. Full house. I never actually expected 100++ people turned up for the session. Just imagine we had 40++ pizzas boxes and it costed around RM1000++.

It was quite an achievement. I personally and sincerely want to thank Tim (PR) and Amy (Secretary) of the new team for the great help.

Thanks to Microsoft for the auditorium and pizzas. Thanks to Vico, Tyson and Walter on the help.

Thanks to the speakers - Mr. Darren Sim (Singapore - SgDotNet community), Mr. Stephen Tang (TAR), Mr. Sherman Chin (Sherman3d), Mr. Bibby Brett (GameBrains) and Mr. Hilmy (MMU).

Thanks to those who had attended especially Game Speakers from Gamebrains, Phoenix, Sherman3d, and many others. Thanks to lecturers from Help, MMU, TAR and LKW especially to Mr.Stephen Tang and Mr. Hilmy who brought their students along. Thanks to John for the great help.

Thanks to the attendees. I really apologize as it was hot and smelly that day due to the renovation. I also apologized as there were not enough chairs for the 1st session.

We will work our very best to improve MIND. However, I still need support from the existing MIND members.

Hint* There will Vista, Office 12, Workflow, Sql Server 2005 sessions somewhere this year.

Hint* There will speakers from Malaysia and also Singapore, hopefully other neighbourhood countries as well.

Hopefully to work with SgDotnet :) (but let me fully adapt to my job here first, database database :( ) 

I hope it will be a better year and a better community.

Cheers.

Building my own site

I am thinking of this for some time. I am really tired of necoders team. There are not moving and I can't do what I really dream of.

It is not I don't like to work in a team, just I have to wait + wait + wait and all these drive me nuts ...

It is always delaying. Just to get a new name and I have to wait months. 5 team members confirmed and just because of 1 person, the whole idea was cancelled. That is not what I am looking for. Is a team name that important? I care about the contents of the website and how I can help the people (especially students). I don't care about the domain name or even the web design.

I am thinking of getting a name (have thought of one) and moving to a new home.

I can write about my past experiences, my dreams, port folios, community work, so much more... even videos :)

I am actually considering of getting a 10GB web hosting, quite cheap in Malaysia... most important reliable ... but no online streaming feature ... eeeks :(

Not only that, this new home is not a community :P It is my own private space :)

Cheers.

MIND Jan 14: Why Games Development sessions?

I was actually thinking of doing this a very long time. I loved DirectX technologies some time ago and felt very comfortable attending game sessions. But why having that in MIND?

Previously, MIND focused a lot on enterprise or database related session. So I believe it will be pretty cool to have this that covers other industries.

The coolest part of the session is on the Open Forum session. It is similar to a Chalk Talk session in most Microsoft events, where the speakers interact a lot with the audiences.

The people who will be attending consists of Game Developers (quite a number of game companies participating), freelancing Game Developers, Univeristies Students (who studies Game Design) as well as Non-Game Developers who are interested + curious to know (like me).

Basically in this session, game developers will share their views about the Computer/Videos Developments Games Industry within Malaysia for the current + future + past years. I am looking forward on this plus working with them in the coming days.

Hopefully tomorrow event will be a successfull one :) Pray hard on this :)

Cheers.

Stored Procedures freaks me out ...

I never like to see stored procedures or anything related to SQL.  I had decided this quite a long time before joining a job that involves web and database.

I stared at stored procedures for a few hours, and I had no idea what was happening within it.  

It was harder than baking a chocolate cake (coz it is procedural, like Cobol language, top down approach)

It was even harder than looking at Assembly codes (man, at least I can understand how to break apps in the past)

It was even super harder than solving mathematics (at least, I can find answers at the last section of the mathematics reference book :P )

I always tried to avoid that during college days.

Anyway, I need to work hard on this. For my future -> better job + better career + better pay (yummy)