SG IT Pro Mania : Tools

Ruby on Rails, Silverlight and IronRuby

The Platform and the Hardman — Mon, 02 Jun 2008 07:15:25 GMT

Was just chatting to my colleague John Lam, the drive for IronRuby in Microsoft about his recent participation in RailsConf 2008 . At the event there were two cool things that they showed. 1. Silverlight plugin for Ruby on Rails, bringing the richness...(read more)

Nexus SC: The System Center Team Blog : Operations Manager 2007 goes CROSS Platform!

The Platform and the Hardman — Tue, 06 May 2008 11:06:33 GMT

There is sometimes so much information to digest that you miss these announcements, so I am a bit late to the party, but this is awesome none the less. Announced at the Microsoft Management Summit 2008 in Las Vegas was the new functionality for System...(read more)

Expression Studio 2 is out... now with PHP support!!!

The Platform and the Hardman — Mon, 05 May 2008 12:08:54 GMT

Lots of things happening today... Got to admit, the branding of the Expression tools is really funky, however the tools themselves are equally awesome. Expression Studio brings together the various Expression products together such as; Expression Web...(read more)

Singapore Community Launch 2008

The Platform and the Hardman — Mon, 05 May 2008 11:43:16 GMT

Home - Community Launch 2008 On the 17th of May, the Singapore Professional's .NET user group, the Singapore Windows User Group and Singapore SQL Server user group are coming together to have their own community launch of Windows Server...(read more)

Community Clips

The Platform and the Hardman — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:30:02 GMT

Now I know this is directly following on from the previous blog, but this site is also cool. Spawned off from the Office Labs site, Community Clips is an area that enables users to create and share clips on how they use Office and what tips they can share......(read more)

Microsoft Office Labs

The Platform and the Hardman — Wed, 30 Apr 2008 06:17:25 GMT

Microsoft Office Labs This is cool, if you get a chance check it out... From the site: Welcome to Microsoft Office Labs! This site is a proving ground for ideas that come from regular employees and interns who work anywhere in Microsoft. Most of...(read more)

Free Microsoft software tools for Spore students

The Platform and the Hardman — Fri, 11 Apr 2008 07:46:58 GMT

I am personally very excited about this initiative " DreamSpark ". DreamSpark is a programme that puts in the hands of the students the developer & designer tools released by Microsoft. Students now get free access to tools such as Visual...(read more)

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