Andri Yadi

Crash Intro to Kinect Development

2011-10-29T22:24:00Z

Finally got an opportunity to deliver a speaking and demo about Kinect development yesterday (Oct 30, 2011), on a seminar entitled “Technology is Our Life” organized by computer science students of Universitas Padjajaran (UNPAD). It’s full house, attended by 200 persons mostly coming UNPAD, UNIKOM, and Maranatha University students. Most of them are fist timer with the Kinect, so they’re quite amazed what we can do with Kinect. Some photos: Demoing Skeletal Tracking and Light Saber Demoing...(read more)

Talk: The Future of Mobile Application Seminar - UNY

2011-05-11T06:32:02Z

To emphasize our focus in mobile app development, my company DyCode became one of the sponsor on "Nasional Seminar of Mobile Development: The Future of Mobile Application" that was held in Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta on April 17, 2011. Beside DyCode, this event also sponsored by Nokia, Axis, and other local companies in Jogja. In that seminar, I delivered a talk about Mobile Application Development. I talked about various mobile application development platforms, Windows Phone 7 and iOS...(read more)

Talk: Mobile Apps Development with Windows Phone 7 & Others

2011-04-06T18:24:00Z

I was back for more to talk about mobile apps development. This time, the talk was at the seminar of Competency Improvement on Operating System and Application Development of Windows Platform, on Saturday, April 2, 2011. The event was organized by Politeknik LP3I Bandung and as always, MUGI Bandung, and attended by the students of Politeknik LP3I Bandung – Informatics Management major. This time, the talk was more focused on Windows Phone 7. I talked about mobile apps revolution, mobile ecosystems...(read more)

YQL and REST

2011-03-31T20:32:25Z

SELECT * FROM Internet, that’s Yahoo Query Language or YQL promise. Data are everywhere in internet provided by thousands of web services and other sources. They are valuable, yet isolated, waiting for you to consume. Querying, filtering, joining, shaping of those data are needed before they can be used in applications. Doing that across all required data will require us to read pages of API documentation and issue specific HTTP requests to each services. This where something like YQL saves the day...(read more)

NuGet

2011-03-26T00:16:17Z

Having 2-3 months not code in Visual Studio make me not knowing some new stuffs. NuGet , among other things. NuGet is a package management system for .NET framework. It allows you to add 3rd party libraries directly from Visual Studio. For you who are PHP veterans, must have been acquaintance with PHP Extension and Application Repository (PEAR), NuGet is something like it. To get the experience how easy and helpful NuGet is, let’s install it. First thing first, let’s check it if it’s not yet...(read more)

Talk: Mobile Development Platforms

2011-02-20T17:53:00Z

Long time no blogging, now getting back just to share the event that Narenda (you know him, don't you? A Nokia Indonesia guy :P) and I was part of, Arkavidia 2.0 Seminar . It's part of Arkavidia 2.0, a yearly event organized by ITB Informatics Engineering students. While Narenda talked about mobile business opportunity in Indonesia, which is mostly business stuffs, I'm blessed to talk about more fun stuffs, mobile development technologies. In this seminar, I shared about how to start...(read more)

Change Assembly’s *.dll.config from Other App

2010-09-28T15:10:54Z

It’s around 2 months since the last time I coded using .NET & VSTO, and many things starts to fade away :) But finally, I have an opportunity to get back to .NET & VSTO and starting to bump many obstacles. One thing that I met today was I want to create an installer of finished project. During the installation, I want to be able to change configuration file of an assembly that’s resulted in from the project. So, I create an installer’s custom action and I write the code to manipulate the...(read more)

Configure SharePoint 2010 to Store Files (Blob) to The File System

2010-07-27T11:49:00Z

SharePoint is great for document management system, collaborative file storage, record management system, you name them all. One downside (or upside, depend on your perspective ) in SharePoint, it stores the files (or the blobs) in content database. The advantage of that approach is it simplify the backup and restore process. You backup a site collection, all related data of it are backed up in one file. The disadvantage is the database size can be gigantic if your SharePoint manages million of files...(read more)

Simple Gotcha in Windows Azure Storage

2010-06-20T23:49:00Z

If you start to learn Windows Azure Platform, especially when you need to work with Windows Azure Storage, you need to setup Development Storage in development environment. For the first time you debug a Cloud (project template for Windows Azure in Visual Studio) project, Windows Azure SDK will try to create development storage (whether you use it or not). It should be done smoothly. But life is not always as easy as it seems. I experienced something unexplained at the beginning. At the first time...(read more)

Yep, The Rumour is True, Bing Coming to the iPhone 4 and iOS4

2010-06-07T19:29:00Z

For you who are fans of Bing search engine, and still willing to use iPhone, it's coming to iOS4. Yes, iOS4 is the newest OS for iPx (iPhone/iPod Touch/iPad) devices, that's previously called iPhone OS and become obsolete since it's used for iPad as well. iOS4 was just introduced 1-2 hours ago on the Steve Jobs' keynote in Apple Worldwide Developer Conference (WWDC) 2010 in San Fransisco (Today, June 7, 10AM local time). Wait a minute, isn't iOS name is owned by Cisco for their...(read more)

Visual Studio 2010 Community Launch and Bandung Charity Event

2010-05-22T23:50:00Z

MUGI Bandung in collaboration with MUGI Campus Bandung, MSP Bandung, MUGI Cianjur and Microsoft Indonesia held an event of Visual Studio 2010 Community Launch and Bandung Charity Event on On May 18, 2010, at Wahana Bakti Pos building, Bandung. In this event Visual Studio 2010 is formally launched to the community. In addition, this event is also aimed for charity, which the revenue from ticket sale will be donated to victims of natural disasters in Bandung. In this event, we have an honor to have...(read more)

Talk: Entity Framework v2 Best Practices

2010-05-11T19:47:00Z

On May 11, 2010, Microsoft Indonesia organized an event entitled "Microsoft Innovation Day". Microsoft used this event to formally announce Visual Studio 2010 and announced Imagine Cup 2010 winners. There are also breakout sessions talking about some new stuffs in .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, among other topics. I delivered a talk in a breakout session about Entity Framework v2 Best Practices. The presentation slide is attached in this post or can be view below: Entity Framework v2...(read more)

Three Years, New Plex, New Stuffs

2010-05-09T12:39:54Z

Now that 2009, a rather complex and unpredictable year has left us for 5 months. It’s 2010, the 2010th year of the Common Era or of Anno Domini; the 10th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 1st decade of the 2010s. According to an article on CNN, 2010 is the year of Digital Distraction , due to more and more distractions coming from push emails, tweets, status updates, instant messaging, and more, that leads to a big question: productivity boon or bust? If in China, 2010 is...(read more)

Stsadm –o restore: Access to the path is denied

2010-05-03T18:47:46Z

Mungkin ini barang lama dan baru ngalamin barusan. When I try to restore SharePoint 2010 backup file to a site collection, I got an error. C:\>stsadm -o restore -url http: //MySharePointBox:1234 -filename MyBackup.bak -overwrite Access to the path 'C:\MyBackup.bak' is denied. Oopss..what the heck? Turns out, the solution is very easy. From Windows Explorer, right click to the backup file, click Properties. Turn off Read-only (as shown below). It works for me!. Good luck! Share this post...(read more)

Larry Ellison, Cameo on Iron Man 2

2010-04-30T17:13:00Z

Yes, you read it right. Just watched Iron Man 2 tonight, nonton bareng sekantor (jarang-jarang ada kantor yang memfasilitasi nonton bareng sekantor, bareng CEO pula :P). Pas Tony Stark sedang jalan dan turun tangga, dia ketemu Larry Ellison. Yes, that Larry Ellison, CEO of Oracle. Gak lama kemudian Tony ketemu another Larry, Larry King. Nama Larry Ellison bahkan muncul di credits film Iron Man 2, read here: http://www.imdb.com/title/tt1228705/fullcredits#cast . Some people even believe that Iron...(read more)