The Oglivy Center building in Singapore

When I first decided to include Singapore on this trip I thought it would be fun to meet some fellow web developers. In NY I belong to a Flash user group called Flash Coders NY and I did a little search online to see if a similar group could be found in Singapore. Sure enough, I found A-SFUG which stands for Another Singapore Flash User Group (apparently they even have more than one!).

By the time I visited Singapore I was already in contact with Shang, one of the organizers of the group, and we arranged to meet for lunch. Shang works at Ogilvy, an award-winning, global advertising agency (based in NY) with nearly 500 offices throughout the world. I met him at the Ogilvy Center a very nice rounded building on a busy corner in downtown Singapore. Shang brought along his co-workers, Ed, Yulun and Danny all of whom are web developers working in either Flash or .Net.
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Asia Steps looks bad in the Camino web browser

Hi folks. We’ve recently discovered that the Camino web browser does not play nicely with the layout of AsiaSteps.com, particularly the new features we’ve recently added in the blog’s sidebar. If you’re currently viewing our blog using Camino, please revisit us in either Firefox, Safari or Internet Explorer to see how the blog should really look.

Christmas Party in HCMC

The Vietnamese sure do know how to party! My company’s Christmas party included a whole lot of singing, dancing, drinking and….texting! Since MSS is a mobile content company, there were lots of games that involved sending text messages. Those messages were then displayed on a big screen as a long thread. It was a lot of fun!

TESTING…TESTING

This is just a test of the AirPress application. Ok, what’s that? AirPress is a software program that you can download and use for free on a PC or Mac, allowing you to post to your blog directly from your computer’s desktop. AirPress is so called because it runs on Adobe AIR, a new technology created by Adobe Systems (the makers of Photoshop and also Flash), based in CA. AIR combines the Adobe Flash Player and also Webkit (the HTML engine used in Apple’s Safari browser) to run programs that were developed by Web developers like us. Continue Reading »