Colt Kwong Blog

After the long X'mas and new year holiday, I just submitted a review of the title "Microsoft Reporting Services in Action" on aspalliance.com. This is an interesting and useful book and I'll rate it as 4 out of 5 stars overall.
BTW, This book recalls me that Manning Publishing have their "xxx in Action" brand and series of books, which is similar to the "Professional xxx" series (e.g. Pro Visual Studio .NET ;) in Wrox APress. Anyway, I'm interest in the "Subversion in Action" and I'll most likely pick a copy in shortly future. :)

Colt Kwong

I blogged a message about helping the people in SEA and looking for volunteer yesterday, and then I received an email with subject "Help with "Victim Tracking" Web app (via Colt Kwong's Blog)" this morning, the sender is Paulo Correia (pauloXXXX@gmail.com; IP Address: IP Address: 212.55.XXX.XX), and the content is nothing but just a "Hi,"

I'm confused: Is this message sent by a comment spam machine... or is it sent from a real human?

* I'm serious about this voluntary project and seek help from the public, so no kidding / spamming in this case please... and if you're the real Paulo, I'm very appreciate if you could send an email to me again, thanks. *

Colt Kwong

I'm happy today as I can help the people affected by Tsunami with my technical knowledge, in addition to monetary donation to various organization.
I sent an email asking for the status of my INETA Asia Pacific buddies after the tragedy, and I also talked with the INETA member group leader in Indonesia and staff in Microsoft Indonesia -> ALL of them are safe and fine! Moreover, Anand and I will work with few Indonesian developers developing a "Victim Tracking" Web app, the purpose and urgency of this app are obvious, and the staff said they want more developers! So if you're free and know ASP.NET (C#), feel free to drop me a message and let's help in this meaningful project.

Thanks,
Colt Kwong

Hannes blogged about the MS AntiSpyware Beta 1, it's a good news for me (Coincidentially, I found the default home page of my I.E. was change to something else since yesterday). Actually, I used Ad-aware and SpyBot but no help, so I really excited to see the availability of this new beta tool, but .. it reports that no spyware threats were found (but I still can't use I.E. right now.. :S
I'm trying the full system scan right now, and the strange thing is that I do HOPE it shows me that spyware was found in my system, such that I can kill all these annoying bots.

Colt Kwong

A short personal (emotional) expression / story:

• Wonderful birthday - I spent 5 days staying in an island enjoying sunshine and beach somewhere in South East Asia (SEA).
  
• Horrible Tsunami (I rescheduled my trip from the 4th week to 3th week of Dec, otherwise I can't write this blog entry right now, I'm so lucky and that's why I'm shocked after hearing this news)
• Help all people affected by the Tsunami in SEA (My boss is so kind and he'll donate another $100,000 if the total amount of donation from all employees equals to $100,000 - the donation will be doubled then)
• All of my friends in Asia Pacific are safe.
• Steve Smith back to home safely.
  
• Passed a XML Web Service exam before the expiration of the MVP exam voucher today.
• Finished a review of a SQL Reporting Services Book and will be posted on ASPAlliance.com shortly.
• My lungs are happy in the last 5 days with the encouragement from Mazen.

Long time no blog.. right, it's because I'm too busy for my client projects and takes time in handling my (slightly) change of job duty. Anyway, it's great to discover and learn new thing (but too little time of course) recently:

As blogged by Kent and after a series of discussion about the final release of the IT Starter Kit (VB.NET/C# and VS/SDK versions are available), it's now free downloadable at the ASP.NET Web site.