New blog at www.norecursion.com

My new blog is at www.norecursion.com

.NET Consultation

If you need some help with .NET, don't hesitate to contact me, I will help you!

Steps To Improving Malaysian Broadband

Malaysia should re-nationalize the infrastructural aspects of the Malaysian telecommunication network, so things like last mile, pipes to foreign countries etc are re-nationalized.

Then get all the stakeholders together (MCMC, TM, Maxis, Digi, P1 etc..) and form a consortium, this consortium will own the infrastructure.

They will be responsible for footing the cost of expanding and maintaining the infrastructure, in exchange everyone has free access to last mile and other issues that compromise the competitiveness of the local ISP sector.

Any company willing to invest as a stakeholder in the consortium gets the same benefits, with maybe a tier based system to differentiate among the companies with more capital.

Low tier companies pay less to get in, but buy bandwidth from higher tier companies etc. Maintenance of the infrastructure at least locally will slowly be farmed out to 3rd party providers, helping grow local SME expertise and sharing the wealth with Malaysians who are willing and able.

Of course this plan is not flawless, but with careful management and handling of the issues that all partners will have it will be the best plan for the Malaysian people.

Presentation Slides for MIX09 at APIIT

Presentation slides for MIX 09 at APIIT. Part of MIX on CAMPUS

One on Silverlight and Games

This is the Industrial Roundtable Slide

Presentation slides for Technet MSDN 2009 Kuala Lumpur Malaysia

Here are my presentation slides

http://www.norecursion.com/slides/silvercamp/20090819_Technet_MSDN_LightUpWeb.pptx

I will be compiling the demos into a link on a page and you can download them from my website.

Working on FluorineFX

Its very interesting to be a server developer on a game where all the work is being done on the server.

You have to think about game rules, authentication, payment systems etc. Almost feels like you are working on an MMO.

Maybe one day I will get my dream of building an MMO, but for now I’m going to put 100% into a web game where hopefully thousands and thousands of people will join up and play.

New Visual Studio 2010!!!!

Cool as heck, bigger image after the jump.

Things I like about ASP.NET 4.0

I will be doing one post a day on the things I like about dotnet 4.0 until the 28th of May.

Today, I will blog about XDT.

What is XDT? XDT stands for XML Document Transform.

XDT allows you to transform the information inside a web.config file.

Which means no more commenting and un-commenting the connectionstrings in your web.config file.

In the following example

<connectionStrings xdt:Transform="Replace">

  <add name="BlogDB" connectionString="connection  string detail]" />

</connectionStrings>

The "Replace" keyword is used to indicate that during deployment the "connectionstring" node will be replaced with the contents of the values from the example.

Dotnet On The Cheap/Free

I was asked by the folks at barcamp to cut down on my workshops, so I decided to turn one of them into a blog post.

There is this misconception that using MS stuff is expensive. But this is not the case for development.

If you are a web developer for ASP.NET you've got it made. Look at the tools that they are giving away for free! Click To Download

1. Visual Studio Express
2. SQL Server 2008 Express with Management Studio (now comes with import/export)
3. Silverlight Toolkit, works on VS Express so you can design stuff in silverlight too
4. AJAX Control Toolkit (for all your ajax needs)
5. Silverlight Control Toolkit (for your silverlight needs)

I have this feeling that the good folks at barcamp got pressured into making me remove a workshop, I didn't see anyone else booking a slot at the time I vacated. Conspiracies abound!

I know I promised a long post, but Mondays being Mondays

Here's the slides I used for my casual game development workshop.

http://www.norecursion.com/barcamp/20090309_DevelopGames_@_Barcamp.pptx