Exciting & tiring day for yesterday & today. Yesterday, I went to the fireworks show by Spain with my co-workers. Then, we all meet our friends at CityLink Mall in City Hall. I met my friends from KL, Malaysia who came here for vacation. IMO, this year fireworks show by Spain is better than all 4 last year fireworks shows from Singapore, New Caledonia, Italy & France. Watch I my blog to view photos from yesterday & today fireworks show.

 

Today show from China is not that impressive comparing to yesterday show. Yesterday, we watch from the centre of Esplanade bridge while today we watch while we are enjoying our steamboat at Marina Bay. Today show is not that impressive also partly because we are watching it from far. Can't wait to complete processing all the photos before uploading to flckr.

I've been playing with Facebook for a few days and am impressed. What I am more impressed with is Facebook has transformed itself into a platform after a couple of months opened to application developers. There is a mind-boggling momentum at play, not only in terms of user signups, but in the excitement around developing for the platform. A lot of web startups are adding a Facebook experience, and at the same time, a number of new applications are popping up (every day... literally!) that are leveraging the power of the social network in creative ways. It will be interesting to see how Facebook holds up over time compared to other networks such as MySpace.

I get to know Facebook (www.facebook.com) for sometime back due to its popularity while I was learning about web two-oh. Early this morning, I decided to try it out. First impression, it has a professional and simple design with plenty of AJAX techniques applied appropriately to the area which IMO right usage. Frankly, it's an excellent platform for social networking. Beter keep an eye on it.

This will be my first post of a series of the same post focusing on sharing my real work experience using Silverlight to prototype rich web application in my current company. As of now, I have prototyped for a video player with playlist for a video gallery for use in several microwebsites. Besides this, I have also did a prototype for a draggable multi-video streaming views for Singapore National Day Parade live web cast website. I will post the details in the next post.

 

Hope this help,

Cedric Chee

Getting my first taste of Visual Studio 2008. This will play a part in my decision whether to use it for my next project or stick with Visual Studio 2005 until the actual final release. I am focusing on the features that will improve productivity such as new language features, new intellisense for javascript and so on.

Today marks the beginning for me to look seriously into the User-Generated Content Model for the upcoming business model I am putting in to work for a website. IMO, this is one of the area in Web 2.0 (or may be Web 3.0) we can't left without. There are several key questions I am still finding the answer for it. I will post an update to this post with the questions and answers once I found the answers to all of the questions. ;)