Date : 18th June 2008

Venue : Microsoft Singapore, NTUC Centre Level 22

20:03 -Michael welcomes everyone to the Meetup.

20:05 - Apurva Lawale starts presentation on PHP + Silverlight.

20:08 - Silverlight 1.0 & Silverlight 2 Beta introduced.

20:10 - Lawale introduces XAML. Shape, Image, Video.

20:12 - Lawale shows us an example at the following URL : http://www.cookingwithxaml.com/meals/financials/default.html

Nice layout.

Lawale explains the need for rich web applications,

“Users want to see applications that are sleak”

20:15 - Lawale wows the audience with http://memorabilia.hardrock.com

20:18 - mobtv is shown with “kinship” footage. 87mb video file. video quality lacking.

20:19 - Mercedes car appears in the video, a click on it shows advertisement for Mercedes.

Clicking on actors show their profiles.

MSN messenger can be used while viewing the video.

Application not live yet, but soon.

20:21 - Lawale shows http://mscui.net/PatientJourneyDemonstrator/

UI is clean.

20:22 - Lawale moves on to PHP mixed with Silverlight with a few examples.

20:24 - Lawale shows basic development of a simple Silverlight app. Drag and Drop rectangle. Simple.

20:26 - Lawale shows development of Silverlight with PHP. Also explains flexibility of the system.

20:30 - Lawale showed “drawDynamic.php” with tonnes of “echo”. Not the most elegant.

More development stuff best viewed on video cast at Singapore PHP User Group site in a week’s time.

20:36 - Q&A

21:00 - Demonstration of Popfly, combining Flickr with Live Image Search. Interesting mashup platform.

21:05 - Resources :

Silverlight =>

http://www.silverlight.net

http://www.microsoft.com/silverlight

http://silverlight.net/getstarted/overview.aspx

http://www.apurvalawale.com/silverlight.aspx

http://www.php-compiler.net/doku.php

Expression =>

http://www.microsoft.com/expression

http://expression.microsoft.com

Blog =>

blog. (ooops, couldn’t finish copying, will complete the list in due time.)

21:09 - Lester Chan introduces himself and begins presentation on Developing for Wordpress 2.5

16 plugins for wordpress usage. I am using some of those plugins myself.

Basic introductions of WP API and plugin paths, naming convention style and so on. Really good stuff for would-be wordpress developers.

21:12 - Lester goes deeper into wordpress development with insertion of CSS/Javascript.

21:15 - http://dean.edwards.name/packer/ => Javascript compressor for smaller file size.

21:17 - Lester talks about Modifying Content

21:20 - Translating Plugin

Poedit : http://www.poedit.net

Tutorial : http://lc.sg/q

21:21 - ShortCode API

Demonstration

21:25 - Activating the Plugin

Demonstration

21:29 - Lester ends his presentation and starts the Q&A session.

21:32 - Q&A sessions Ends. Michael Cheng gets back to the front of the room.

Note : My sincere apologies to readers who want more details on the demonstrations. I had really vague descriptions of the technical parts of the presentation as I am not proficient with PHP. My attempt here is to provide readers with as much resources gathered from the event as possible.

For the specifics, please visit the PHP User Group website for more the video which will be uploaded on Monday, 23rd June 2008.