3 months no blogging. What actually happens?
It had been 3 months not blogging. I could say I was busy with work and probably giving an excuse not to blog. Just to summarize what had happened the past 3 months J in no particular order
a) Preparing on video shooting for techNation site. You can check the videos here http://www.technation.com.my/ Make sure you have Microsoft Silverlight installed.
b) I was not involved in any development of the site but I was more to moral support and planning though to get it ready before Microsoft TechEd 2007 SEA. Gave 2 O’Reilly books to the 2 developers from ISA Technologies. Good work guys. The best part was the site was showcased in Silverlight.net. Check it here http://silverlight.net/Showcase/
c) Spoke in .NET University for TechED 2007 SEA. Honestly speaking, it turned out quite bad. The reason as I was really sick the whole TechED 2007 SEA and I only managed to have access to the WCF slides on Monday. I needed to delivery on Wednesday. I had spoken to Microsoft to speak in either WPF or WF, however was assigned WCF. I would never speak on a topic which I had no experiences on. However there was something I learned from Doug Turnure from .NET University was to speak more so I could improve myself. I will love to speak in a developer track next year in TechED 2008 SEA.
d) I was involved in the Malaysia Integrity Circle. The program was called TSAZAIC and I was in the 3rd batch. Bring Malaysian proud J Based on my colleague, I was one of the few ambassadors (3 people selected by the CEO) to represent my company for this Integrity Circle in Malaysia
e) I organized a few team building gatherings at office. Guess the morale of my colleagues increased more than before. Last time I only covered my own team which I was working in. But now it covered around 7 managers. Again I like to see everyone happy.
f) Learn a few technologies and I guess you will see me blogging about it.
g) Was deciding whether to create a site of my own so people can recognize me. Not sure yet on this one.
h) Think more Solutions than just entirely on technology. Not only that I will pick up more skills other than just Information Technology – sales, marketing, HR, corp comm., etc. I was to bias on JavaFx thing. I will try my best not to be bias on any technologies.
i) I was one of the 60 or 80 people (can’t remember the exact number) selected in the CEO Diamond Club for my company. Basically it was a program to recognize top performers for Quarter 1 and 2 in my company. Take note, my company has 800 employees. Very lucky and appreciate this. Managed to chat with the CEO. I was very happy.
j) I got a call from a CEO one day and he enquired for advises on Windows Vista graphic driver issue. I gave a few suggestions and even commented on the UAC thing. I explained to him on the usage and he agreed with that. Why was this special? As you know everyone know the CEO and it was always hard for the CEO to remember you. Thanks god. This might not be anything to other people, but it was remarkable to me.
k) Organized one of MIND community greatest event – impactful and meaningful. Even though we co-organized with iTrain on KL TechNite + MIND: Developers Rock, the contents and sponsors were managed by me J however I will like to thanks Mike, iTrain to reserve the venue. I managed to get 20 sponsors. Actually there were more but it was way too last minute. A piece of advice, look for sponsors at least 2 months ahead. The total sponsorship was RM 60,000 with 106 lucky draw items to be won. Wow.
l) In this event, I was very lucky to get support from the MVP Lead Team for Southeast Asia. I found it lacking for companies to recognize their employees being MVPs in Malaysia. Not only are those Microsoft Developers in Malaysia not really aware of this program. Really hope I could lend some help to build awareness.
m) I was interviewed by DotNetRocks for this event too but the interview was more focused on Communities in Malaysia. I managed to get the other 2 communities presidents and techNation president into this interview. It was fun. Mark Dunn praised me on the sponsorship. Got nice feedbacks from the speakers too. However the podcast is not released yet and I heard from Mark as it will be released somewhere in November 2007.
n) As for the same event, I got 2 Full page editorial by PC.Com magazine. It was the 1st time I tagged along media. Thanks to Josh for the contacts and support. Without him, it wouldn’t happen to have this from PC.Com. I had submitted the event details to PC.Com and I really hoped they will publish it.
o) I got a new desktop computer 2 months ago. It was the 2nd best specifications from Dell back then (Intel Core 2 Duo 2.66GHz, 2GB of Ram and NVidia GeForce 8600 GTS). I could say it was the best machine till today in office. Nevertheless, there were 2 issues. First I had to return by T60 laptop back and second I didn’t have a new monitor. Other than getting my new machine, I also helped my colleague Razie to obtain a powerful machine too.
p) I had joined a new team in the current company. Thanks to my previous manager, Yang for the guidance in career and working opportunities. Now I am working with Megat. Looking ahead under his guidance.
q) There are so many more which I can’t think off at the moment
I really hope I can give myself sometime to blog more. I have limitation to internet access, only able to access it in office. I have so many plans ahead on communities + career. Stay tuned J