Today is 1st of July, the first day of second half of this year. How you guys doing. Hope you’re doing fine and well like us too.

We would like to extend our invitation to come into our booth at Malaysia Wedding Expo at Buzz-R, Amcorp Mall, Petaling Jaya from 10-12 July 2009. We will be exhibiting our product, Weddingkami.com, an Interactive Wedding Invitation. We will giving DISCOUNT! and also, you’ll be discussing with our team of designers that will design your lovely interactive wedding invitation.

So extend this invitation to your friends and family.. Entrance is free. You can get there by using LRT Putra, stop at Taman Jaya Station or board a RapidKL Bus # T505.

Mark your calendars!

Click on the picture to read full writeups. Alternatively, visit Weddingkami.com here

Beta availability of Adobe® Flash® Builder™ 4, Adobe® Flash® Catalyst™ and the open source Flex 4 framework – offering a highly integrated applications development workflow that will allow developers and designers to more easily collaborate on projects and simplify development of Rich Internet Applications (RIAs) so companies can get the same richness and ease of use in their workplace applications that they have in their daily Web experiences. The public betas of these products are available today for download on Adobe Labs at http://labs.adobe.com/technologies/flash.

Collaboration with NVIDIA – the inventor of the GPU, to accelerate Adobe® Flash® Player across the range of NVIDIA processors so users can enjoy uncompromised Web browsing, full H.264 video playback and rich, consistent Flash technology based content any time, any place and on a wide range of mobile Internet devices, including netbooks, tablets, mobile phones and other on-the-go media devices. NVIDIA is participating in the Open Screen Project, a broad initiative of 25 industry leaders led by Adobe, to deliver a consistent runtime environment across devices., For more information, visit www.openscreenproject.org.
Engineering collaboration with Broadcom Corporation – a global leader in semiconductors for wired and wireless communications, to enable hardware accelerated playback of high definition (HD) Adobe® Flash® technology based video content on platforms powered by Intel® Atom™ processors – paving the way for rich, seamless entertainment experiences on Intel Atom processor enabled netbooks and nettops. Users of Intel Atom processor powered netbooks, like the recently announced HP Mini 110XP incorporating Broadcom’s Crystal HD Enhanced video accelerator, will be able to view rich Flash technology based content and applications from sites such as YouTube, CBS, BBC iPlayer, and others.  The smooth, high quality playback of HD video is expected to yield very low system power consumption and low CPU utilization. Flash Player with support for Broadcom’s Crystal HD solutions is expected to be available in the first half of 2010.

The title says everything. Congratulations to Syazwan-Syazwani. Such a sweet thing to have almost the same name, and rhyme with WeddingKami too. Visit their Interactive Wedding Invitation here = syazwan-syazwani.weddingkami.com

Love our cards? visit WeddingKami.com for more Interactive Wedding Invitation

Last February, we’ve receive a request from Aras Mega (M) Sdn Bhd to provide them an E-Commerce solution which is to transform their existing website into an online shopping website of their products. They’re the book publisher of some school text-books, Aulad magazine, and much more. Since they’re having a bad time with their previous Content Management System (CMS) they wanted it to become as simple as possible and that suited us very well, since we built-to-order custom CMS.

They also have problem with previous Payment Gateway system, where they have to reach certain amount to cash-out. So we’ve decided to use NetBuilder System, who won MSC-Apicta Award.

So the website runs in PHP, using CodeIgniter framework. Our service for this website including

1. Developing Custom Content Management System
2. Database Integration
3. Backend Programming + AJAX + Mootools
4. Website Interface + Design
5. Payment Gateway Integration

We’d surprise the client on how easy for them to manage their sidebars, their banners, and also arrangements of their book preview using Mootools. With a single click of button, they’ll be able to update the postage rates. Of course I can’t let you guys to access to test the admin site but if you have related projects or wanna see our Custom-CMS developed for them, just ask for appointment with me, with a coffee :p

Log on to their website, Arasmega.com which is officially launched and running + kicking, since Kuala Lumpur International Book Fair ‘09. That’s just a week before today

We’ve also proud to announce that our company profile, updated, available for download. Clicky!

Thanks for reading. Wishing all of you guys a happy day and in best of wealth and health for you and your family

I was invited to Adobe Design Premium Student Edition Media Briefing alongside with Brandon & Mixterr at Islamic Art Museum, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

Ashley Wearne, Managing Director of Adobe Systems just announced a new price slash for Adobe Design Premium Student Edition. From RM2359, it’s slashed to RM399. That’s about 80% price slash. I was a student previously. With that price, I can simply bought it. My money during younger days always wasted to computer peripherals. But, now students in higher institution will be able to bought it, at cheap price!

//Available for both Windows and Macintosh platforms, the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Student Edition software contains full versions of the following products: Adobe InDesign® CS4, Adobe Photoshop® CS4 Extended, Adobe Illustrator® CS4, Adobe Dreamweaver® CS4, Adobe Flash® CS4 Professional, Adobe Fireworks® CS4, Adobe Acrobat® 9 Pro, Adobe Bridge CS4, Adobe Device Central CS4 and Adobe Version Cue® CS4.

Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Student Edition provides a comprehensive suite of design tools that allow students to express their ideas and create innovative school and personal projects. Students can deliver rich creative experiences across print, Web, interactive and mobile media with ease.

“At Adobe, we recognize that digital media skills are very important for the young generation in Malaysia, and we want to do our part by equipping them with essential communication tools that can help their careers in the future,” said Ashley Wearne, managing director for South East Asia at Adobe. “Adobe Creative Suite software is widely used around the world by both creative and other industry professionals.

“We hope that by introducing the Adobe Creative Suite 4 Design Premium Student Edition software, we make it more affordable and accessible for the students, which in turn will help cultivate their creative talent and make them more competitive in today’s workforce.”
//

Students, get your software for just RM399 at Sapura Marketing Sdn Bhd ( 03-89480066 )and for your information, there’s a Sapura Shop inside MMU Cyberjaya selling Apple! And when they sell Apple usually they also selling Adobe. I think MMU & LimKokWing student can get it there. Else, go to your nearest Mac City (012-2322010)

Official web announcement/clicky here

RM400 is a steal!

Adobe Unveils New Framework for Media Player Development

“Strobe” to Simplify Delivery of Custom Online Media Players for Content Owner

But then, as what Odin said, I’m too draggy. LOL. Whatever, please enjoy my lightning talk

Haha picking up a Japanese Girl, I’m so totally off LOL!

To see more lightning talk during Barcamp KL – clicky here.

But please enjoy first this video that was created on the night of Day 1 by Backpackr.

Start the morning at 10. I’m listening to Asyraf about Agile Development. Thanks to kamal fariz that gave talk about Agile last 2008, I was able to share the experience of me becoming a bystander to see a growth of Mr CTO/faisal_arbain and odin88. (tweets here). While CTO is programmer by nature and not attended any official courses about programming, and Odin88 is a student of programming, its extremely good to see a combination of two sides, Logic alone doesn’t enough, thanks to Odin88’s assistance for some commenting, and programming, it does help sabau a lot. I’ve blogged about this previously in my personal blog. At the end of the session Asyraf plays an inspiring video from Honda. You can make 1000 fail and 1 succeed.

Oh I also spend another RM6 for this day to get connected and twitt-ed

Anyway I saw Khairul Nizam from Agenda Asia, and it really clear a lot of my question when that night, I was reading the barcamp sessions schedule and realize the name of Ellynita Lamin, which has the same name father. I don’t think it’s a merely coincidence of same name but when he turns up that morning, it has been answered lol.

During that whole time, some other twitter reporters twit that Room 3 was flaming lol. They’re promoting some MLM stuff. Good move by Jani, who standup and shut up and leave. Well in barcamp, people vote by your own feet. It’s not rude to leave the room. And please never preach about MLM stuff, you’ll be thrown out of the room.

Next session I’ve attended is Ellynita Lamin. She’s a Social Entrepreneur, where she talks about “Interactive social experiments and simulations”. It was more like a sharing session of her experience doing social responsibility, such as developing Acheh, Indonesia. Know what, Acheh will be wired with Fiber Optics. Acheh’s town much alike Malacca. Richard was asking ” how do you juggle with responsibilities and she answered = spending time with grounded. LOL. She as an assistance, the girl beside his brother ( khairul nizam ) and another one guy infront right of Carolyn Chan.Ellynita also recommend some books, and one of them is Egonomics.

Then, I think I became a bit bored and decide to check out Silverlight > Flex, and at that moment Ellynita asking the participants to do something with paper given. Like a bad student who hates lectures, I switch to Silverlight > Flex and yes, giving the impression of bad student hahahah. Know what, when I’m switching, they’re about to finish. And that time, Mozilla guys giving the stickers and tshirts so the whole environment a bit crazy. Who hates free stuff? As the speaker for Silverlight > Flex and Developing Casual games were the same guy, TC Wu, I’ve decided to stay.

TC Wu sharing his experience and some tips to make money for developing games. Know what? simple stupid games and apps for iPhone or iPod touch do sells. Those casual games which keep user got addicted. He also told that to publish those games at AppStore/Itunes on Wednesday Night and Friday night, just because on Friday night, those who doesn’t have any dates, will download it. ROFL! Then he also stated that XBox SDK is free, but the problem is we waste our resources first before get approved to get published. But no worries, if you game is freakingly excellent, Microsoft will buy your company so don’t you worry about them stealing your ideas. There’s also a difference between developing games for Xbox Live and the other, probvably becayse XboX Live has Achivement records. Achivement will drove the games hunger for it so it’s an attraction and persuasion for gamers to kept playing. As for Pirated issue, his opinion is make the game pirate to get many potential real buyers. A game was pirated in Flash and sells well in Xbox Live. Brilliant.

Lucky I’m subscribed Celcom Daily Unlimited Broadband for that day so I’ve demonstrated what Unity can do. Unity is somewhat like a game-maker software with prebuilt settings and extremely user friendly to use. I’ve loaded Raptor-Safari that was created using Unity. later, we, me and TC Wu, were co-operating in discussing games with audience, and I’ve showed them User-Content-Generated-game = Atmosphir that won TechCrunch Startup Award last year. You have to be registered to play it, because it’s still in closed beta.

Then, we’ve headed for lunch and rejoined with Amran/Zenpipe and his gang. Having Subway for lunch with 2 cookies each of us. Then continue to the most awaiting session, lightning talk.

So I’m a bit late for lightning talk. The first is by Preetam Rai, unsure what is about. The second is by Gen Kanai. The price of monoculture. i’m unable to twit at this time because I’m running out of battery, both of handphone and laptop, because I’m using it alot inside previous session. I gave a short version of my talk, and check out the video here.

The video was taken by Carolyn, and it includes Preetam Rai, Gen Kanai from Mozilla, and me.

If you can’t wait long, click here for my lightning talk in clearer version, facebook video, courtesy from Aizatto.

Then, I’ve stayed at the same room to charge my phone and laptop, and it was Fareez Shahfiqar slot about ‘You can start small’. Inside, he engage his audience to share about embarking a new business venture as startups. One of his keypoint is that Youth nowadays has become too choosy to do work and just wanted to do the cool work. Try asking a teenager to choose Kuew Teow cooker and bet, they will didn’t take it. Richard made a statement : getting Wife and girlfriend was a lot more easier then getting the right business because you’ll never knew what happen afterwards. One guy was also sharing his ideas that if anyone outside KL, bring their stuff from their states, and bring it into KL. Even Keropok Lekor delivery is making profitable business.

I was waiting for the Japanese Language slot but only to discover that the speaker isn’t there. So the room turns to be about game talks, lightning talk style . Preetam Rai have another projects call Global Voices Online. They need a Malay Language translator to translate as many news to many languages.  @cerventus @bytebot & @kamal was featured to follow in twitter by @preetamrai

Then after that, there’s a lucky draw.  iPod Nano – grabbed by @angch . I got free hosting by @zenpipe yay. This is the last update about barcamp day 2.

Know what, Barcamp Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia has been featured as Spotlight in Slideshare and my slideshow for this Barcamp has been selected as Top Presentation of The Day and being featured See all barcamp slides here.

Kudos to BarcampKL Organizers for good job, and also to the campers! See you in the next barcamp

//read more updates at official Barcamp Malaysia Website, or the barcampers blog that’s been updated by AndyGoh, Marvin Lee for OpenSocial Hackathon, Bernard Leong, Bytebot, Backpackr, Demonick, David Lian, and don’t forget to check Carolyn Qik Video too.

Next, I’m attended Right Ideas Left by Hakim Albasrawy. He talks about getting the ideas. Input from Fadhil is that to do ideation when you’re lazying. When you feel don’t want to do nothing, try to think and churn up some ideas. Cool session but went out a bit early because Carolyn Chan twits about Travel Tips by Preetam Rai.

So went to Preetam’s session halfway. He was talking about getting the famous twitter in certain places for they could become your tourguide. Of course, since much of us were geeks who twits much, having another twitter in another country would be helpful and he even recommending some twitters in Cambodia and Phnom Penh if you’re going to travel there.

Next, I continue to stay at that room to listen to Jani who is from wiki travel. He was sharing his projects about wikitravel that also become published as travel books. Inside his wiki-travel-books,  he also included some cultural-facts like from what I can recall, from that book it was stated that compared to another ASEAN country, Singaporean dresscode are pretty revealing but still, the public can’t appear naked in the beaches. LOLed!

Attend it halfway then I jumped to MAD over Mobile Apps by Gerald Lim. He was talking about mobile technologies and telling people that mobile is the next big industry. Always heard that. He’s also promoting about Nokia Calling All Innovators and persuade the audience to have ideas about mobile apps, and to make a product, and make money out of it.

Then it was my session. Self-diagnostic, it was pretty draggy with me tell the audience about my story of going mobile before I explaining about the tips of keep your motivation and also being productive without the tools that usually hanging around and handy with you.

my slides will be uploaded later on, because I’m thinking to give a second shot of my mobile office = lightning talk style. compressed 60 minutes to 6 minutes

Then, having lunch with Richard and Azraai before went to Lightning Talks. The first talk was by some guy talking about hackerspace. Next is Richard who were talking about Kufi Squares and also engaged some interest with BarCampers. One BarCamper from Chicago ( if i’m not mistaken ) giving the ideas to Richard to do a board game. Because Kufi is all about Square.

Next lightning talk speakers was Kris Khaira about Co-Working. The same stuff like last year but oh well, now there’s a lot of newcomers so it’s still a fresh insight for them. I intentionally want to come after him to give another shot of my talks – Mobile Office, lightning talk style which is much more shorter but of course, there’s a turn haha. So after him, it was Preetam Rai. He always talk about something extremely out of the box and today he’s talking about Hole in a Wall.

Hole in a Wall is a project by some IT giants in idea with conjunction from their Education ministry. That IT giants dig up a hole in the wall and stuff it with PC. This places is usually located at slum area. Know Slumdog Millionaire? Some areas like that. So the kids will get attracted, and used the pc in groups. They will have multiple input as in

Kid A: he will control the mouse
Kid B: he may steal control the keyboard
Kid C: instruct this two fella

and imagine these three kids, will go back to their home, and tell others about their experience

and tell others… and tell others

Sounds like MLM. hell no. MLM requires u to pay lol but this is free MLM. Free education.

The Preetam introduce us with tools to teach the kids to program called Scratch. It can teach kids some simple programming, even the looping lol. Try it.

Next is Arzumy with ‘running wedding without being hospitalized. ‘ He was sharing his experience during his wedding. Next is Anthony Umann wth Goverment 2.0 & Social Media. Finally, the lightning talks ends with one speaker, Han, talking about Poetry Jam. He’s even reciting his poetry.

Next, I’ve just hopping lazily to Kenne Wong Session promoting some stuff. The coolness thing is his 3M micro projector, which is the one being used in the TED = Sixth Sense. Next I’ve attended Khairil Zhafri session entitled Building Robust Democracy Internet. Some serious stuff going inside there. He was pushing for the government accountability to made public at the website. It was pretty interesting to get me stucked in until Carolyn twits about coffee.

That’s it.. I’m heading to Azim Pawanchik talks about coffee making but unable to test it Ask him how if I want to start having my own espresso maker. The cheapest machine is around RM1000++ something and bought the Illy beans that is pretty good, or can bought the beans from popular coffee shops. He’s also suggest that there’s some cheapest solution as in Normal-Pressed coffee.

Later when I’ve settled down and having my own house, espresso machine is a must

Then, heading to Old Taste White Coffee to show Odin the results of his pair-programming with Sabau for our client. Altogether with Azraai, these two kids was fighting over Django, Java, Python…. geeks

And that’s end the report of BarCampKL Day 1. FYI, I’m sleeping over inside Kolej INTI because I’m lazy to went back to Cyberjaya. Cheeaun, who was inside my talk just call this as my mobile bed hahahah

Buzzing off. See you tomorrow, BarCamp KL Day 2. Oh I’m updating it from my Celcom Daily Broadband RM6. Why? this place got slow interwebs For more updates, just visit Official BarcampKL website.