The leaders have put together for the very first time, topics that were heavily requested by our communities. If this is successful, you can look forward to more of such 'Technology Updates' in the upcoming months. So, make a date with us! We hope to meet and get to know you on 27th June 2009.

As a treasured member of Microsoft's technical communities, you are invited to join us in this first ever held round of major gathering, Community Technology Update in Kuching. The event is about sharing and bringing together like minded folks like you together and helping to drive community awareness and event.

The brainchild and initiative of 4 Musketeers (Chan Ming Man, Patrick Yong; Jabez Gan and Walter Wong) and run by the Kuching community and for the community, this half day 'devInTown' affair will uncover the cool and latest technologies surrounding , Windows Presentation Foundation, LINQ and Windows 7 - delivered by our very own Microsoft MVPs. Each session will last for 45mins and will include a community sharing session whereby we will bring you up close and personal with the MVPs and hear them share their community experiences. We will wrap things up with an interactive Q&A session to answer all your burning technical queries.

PROGRAM OVERVIEW
TIME Speakers Profile/ Description
0900 - 0945 hrs

Building collaboration portal using FREE SharePoint tools from Microsoft
Speaker: Patrick Yong (SharePoint Server MVP)

Patrick Yong has more than 8 years experience as software architect in the Asia Pacific region. He has done projects in countries like China, Singapore and Malaysia. With keen interest in programming since high school days he started programming on MS Basic and Turbo Pascal and had gotten his hands dirty on COM+, J2EE, .NET and PHP. He is also one of the founders of SPUG, an independent body of SharePoint developers in Malaysia. During free time he blogs about technologies at http://patrickyong.net

0945 -1030 hrs

Ultimate Data Visualization Experience with WPF
Speaker: Walter Wong (Developer Security MVP)

Walter is a technical lead for Gain Secure based in Malaysia. The company specialized for providing secure application development consultation services to customers. Research on application development security is Walter's personal interest. He also successfully discovered many websites vulnerabilities including some high traffic websites over the past few years. Walter often speaks at technical conferences such as TechEd SEA, Security Symposium, TechNet/MSDN and many more.

1030 - 1045hrs Tea Break
1045 - 1130hrs

CRUD Using LINQ (Language Integrated Query)
Speaker: Chan Ming Man (Visual C# MVP)

Ming Man is a technical manager for a development company. With 20 years of experience in the IT field, he has developed system using Clipper, COBOL, VB5, VB6, VB.NET, Java and C #. He is familiar with the N-Tier design of business application and is also an expert with database experience in MS SQL, Oracle and AS 400. During his free time, he blogs about technologies at http://chanmingman.spaces.live.com

1130 - 1200hrs Community Talk
1200 - 1245hrs

Windows 7 - How it stands out from the crowd
Speaker: Jabez Ming-Teik Gan (File System/Storage MVP)

Jabez Gan is currently the Senior Technical Officer for a consulting company that specializes in Microsoft technologies. His past experience includes developing technical contents for Microsoft Redmond, Internet.com and other technology sites, and deploying and managing Windows Server Systems for SMEs. He also develops video training materials for JupiterMedia and is a regular speaker at technology events.

1245 - 1300hrs QA