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Project Nimbus: One Marina Boulevard Map Application

Project Nimbus is an effort to get more data sets online and accessible for innovators to build on. With the available data sets we have, the Project Nimbus team wanted to create an application which not only uses data just from one provider but mashing up different data sets together to make handy applications. We [...]

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Project Nimbus in Code::XtremeApps 2010 24-hr programming competition

Last April 21, Code::Xtreme was launched in SMU.  Code::Xtreme is a 24-hour competition organized by ITSC to create awareness on the use and value of standards in programming.  To find out more about CodeXtreme and how you can join, you can check out this site. This year, Microsoft Singapore is participating as a technology partner [...]

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The Microsoft Cloud @ SCS Cloud Computing SIG

Earlier this week, we hosted the Singapore Computer Society (SCS) Cloud Computing and Virtualization Special Interest Group (SIG) at our Microsoft offices for a talk on Microsoft’s cloud computing strategy. This event was the first of their “Cloud Computing Learning Journey into Major Cloud Providers” series of talks which they are organizing for their members. [...]

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Project Nimbus

Created by passionate people who loves innovation, Project Nimbus is an initiative that hopes to solve innovators’ problem of finding data sets and services by offering a central place for authoritative and reliable data and services access from government and commercial entities in Singapore. From their website: http://projectnimbus.org Our goal: To unite the voices of [...]

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Consuming Data from Nimbus Using LINQ to XML on iPhone + WP7!

I’ve been starting to explore iPhone development lately. At first I was taking my time at learning at Objective C which went fine for a while but one of the guys on the project was asking if I could help build some apps for Project Nimbus, translation: build stuff fast. We talked about MonoTouch.NET which [...]

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