Community Launch after-thoughts and thanks
Today I got a surprise. I got a token from appreciation from sgdotnet for helping around in the forum and posting my tech-bits here. I got a community heros award 2008.
Thanks guys.
Well, I am quite pleased with the community launch of VS 2008 as there are some showcases of new technologies which I can learn and pick up in my work..grinz. First, I can see that microsoft is improving.. no more viewstate in silverlight compared to viewstate in asp.net 1.1 and 2.0 resulting in heavy pages that loads slow. Second, I think microsoft can help tell users why we need to update security patches in our OS. For instance, everytime we are told to update our operating systems but we have no idea what the patches do behind our kernel OS. I believe users do have a right to know in case the patch breaks the OS.
Third, I think perhaps it will be fun to participate in security camps to try hack the OS. If we know what can breaks the OS, surely we can find ways ourselves to protect it. It is an chicken and egg thing.
This blog has evolved since the day I found sgdotnet via google and I have been attending sgdotnet meetings (if my work allows). I need to thank Alvin for giving me my blog space here. :)
Well at the last note, the Blue hero Matt happen to say something about Windows Media Centre. Well actually, when I am on Medical Leave at home,
I did try out some new technologies relating to media servers and I finally got a working project that streams audio/video from my Laptop to my Iphone which I bought some time ago. Yes its awesome but given the miserable upload speeds given by telcos here, It can only prove to work at home not on the outside. Pics attached as below. Yes, there are some configurations to be done for this mini project to work. Yes, the Apple Iphone don't have radio built-in, that is why I tried this particular software, and it did produces some amazing results. No wonder, it clock 1 million downloads on its website.
What is different from TVersity and Microsoft Media centre is that it transcodes on the fly meaning it can change a avi file to mp4 file in 15 mins depending on the file size and the processing speed of the PC/Laptop, of cos. Cool huh? :P
