Why you need to be at MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009?

Why you need to be at MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009?

MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009 will be held at Berjaya Times Square on the 31st May – 3rd June 2009. It will be the largest gathering of its kind in Malaysia and will attracts IT Executives, developers, coders, companies, multi-million companies and multi-billion companies from around the world to share, train, showcase and maybe hire the bright minds in the Malaysia Open Source Ecosystem. This is a guide of what to expect from this event from the perspective of roles below:-

*** 31 May 2009 is Free Entry To all ***

Computer User

* See first hand the power, user-friendliness and robust from Viruses of Open Source Operating System powering your desktop, laptops, netbook, home server and handphones (even toaster, serious).
* Learn from experts howto tune your Open Source Operating System and detect missing driver, slow performance and guides on the best application that open source can offer.
* Save your expenses for more important matters in these tough times (girlfriends, food and wedding) rather than wasting time and money installing and buying those antivirus, Operating System and Productivity Applications.
* Learn the fundamental of Linux and Unix-based system and how they are different from Wisdows to impress friends, girlfriends, teachers and off course enemies / rivals.

Business Owner

* Do you want to save / monitor your company cost by using the best of breed ERP Solution? Checkout Open Source ADempiere Business Suite. Its the world’s number 1 Open Source ERP Project in the world and delivering solid business experience in a wide range of industries.
* Learn from the expert: World reknown leader of ADempiere, Mr Red1 will be there at MSC Open Source Conference to share and teach you how easy and complex ADempiere Business Suite and howto cater it to your business.
* Wanna save more dollar and cents? Lookout for the Open Source Desktop and Open Source Applications around you. The community and vendor are more than happy to help and guide you to the wonderful (money savings) world of Open Source.

Executives

* You’re an executive being pressured to look for more cost saving, dealing with reduce IT budget and dont know where to look? Look no further, MSC Open Source Conference is for you. We will showcase Virtualization, Open Source Desktop, Open Source Development Kit, Open Source ERP, Open Source Development Framework and Open Source T-Shirt to show your spirit. There will something for everyone at MSC Open Source Conference 2009.
* We will also share with you Open Source success stories, case studies and howto build your business case towards Open Source Migration.
* Some of the big Open Source and Open Source-Friendly company will be there on show to show you the FOSSnovation and like-for-like replacement for your current infrastructure.

Parents

* Yes parents also got their fair share of stake in the Open Source Community. We will be showcasing the Sugar OLPC (yes the famousOne Laptop Per Child) live CD for the parents to give their loved ones. This CD can run in any notebook and PCs for the children 1st iteration to the world of computing and application in the safest and enjoyable environment.
* Also some education-oriented games will be showcase to show how wide variety Open Source ecosystem is.

Undergraduate

* So you are looking for jobs or will be graduating soon? and wanna be in the Open Souce boat? Jobstreet will open up booth on the event floor. Go there and show the world how good you are!!
* Heard of Open Source but never really sure what it is? Do you know that most graduate with Open Source skills are far better at getting jobs than those that aren’t? Come over and we show you what the fuss is all about !!

IT Companies

* Business stagnanting? Solutions not being accepted well in the market? We show you the latest trend and where the market is heading in terms of technology, demand and innovation.
* Looking into Open Source-related business but don’t know where to look? Head over to all the participating companies booth and illustrated speakers and strike some deal / enquiries moving forward. Those coming are some of the biggest in the game e.g. Redhat, Novell, Canonical, Sun Microsystem and Google Inc.

Coders / Developers

* Looking for new code to hack? new itch to be scratch? Checkout the Developers track where some latest and biggest Open Source Project showcasing their shiny codes and over-the-top applications.
* Share your knowledge either formally or informally either during the hackathon or the lightning talks session. Be an instant celebrity here, only in MSC Open Source Conference 2009!!

Open Source Community

* Meet new and online-only friend here at MSC Open Source Conference and share a drink. Its been a while since the last big gathering of Open Source Community in Malaysia.

Here’s to the big event.

REGISTER NOW!!

http://www.mscmalaysia.my/osconf

Date : 31 May till 3 June 2009
Time : 9 am till 5 Pm

Berjaya Times Square Hotel & Convention Centre
Tingkat 14, Berjaya Time Square, Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia.

MSC MALAYSIA Client Contact Centre (CLiC)
1-800-88-8338 (within Malaysia)
+603 8315 3000 Email : clic@mdec.com.my

Facebook Fans Page
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kuala-Lumpur-Malaysia/MSC-Malaysia-Open-Source-Conference-2009/97810422651

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MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009

MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009

With the theme "Open to Change" MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009 is an inaugural and full-fledged Open Source Conference to incorporate a "Quadruple play" of 4 crucial stakeholders consisting of Government, Businesses, Developer and Community in envisioning open source's contribution to the IT Industry and socio-economy.

Heralded as the platform for "Gathering of Tribe" of Open Source players communities, the conference will see to 4 DAYS, 3 TRACK, 1 HACKATON is in store for everyone, with the renowned speakers from Open Source Enterprise - Mozilla, Google, Red Hat and from the Community - Ubuntu, BSD, Fedora, PHPs, etc

Come join us at the MSC MALAYSIA Open Source Conference 2009! You'll be pleasantly surprised.

For further information please call

MSC MALAYSIA Client Contact Centre (CLiC)
1-800-88-8338 (within Malaysia)
+603 8315 3000 Email : clic@mdec.com.my
http://www.mscmalaysia.my/osconf

Join MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009 Facebook
http://www.facebook.com/pages/Kuala-Lumpur-Malaysia/MSC-Malaysia-Open-Source-Conference-2009/97810422651

MSC Malaysia Open Source Group
http://www.facebook.com/group.php?gid=78169245399

MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009 is Open For Registration

MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009 is Open For Registration

Official Website of MSC Malaysia Open Source Conference 2009 is now fully operational.

Registration is now OPEN...

http://www.mscmalaysia.my/osconf

Don't miss out on one of Malaysia Premier Conference 2009... See you all there.

Organised by MSC Malaysia and MAMPU and jointly supported by the Malaysian Open Source Community and MOSTI, the Conference invites developers, designers, systems administrators, community leaders, innovators, CTOs and CIOs, evangelists and activists, researchers, strategists, and entrepreneurs to lead and contribute during all conference sessions, tutorials and discussions.

Join us

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Our Twitter

http://twitter.com/mscosconf

In the News

Mampu aims to adopt open source tech for cost savings

http://mscoscon.blogspot.com/2009/04/all-malaysian-government-agencies-to.html

A skeleton Horde Application

A skeleton Horde application consists of the following:

README Application README text file
index.php Application index script
config/
conf.xml XML schema for the application configuration file
conf.php Main application configuration file
mime_drivers.php Any application-specific MIME Viewers
prefs.php Application preferences
docs/
CHANGES Development changelog
INSTALL Installation documentation
themes/
screen.css CSS definitions
graphics/
application.png Application icon
lib/
Application.php Main application code library
api.php Methods to be exposed to other applications
base.php Common script dependencies
version.php Application version information
template/
common-header.inc Common page header template

Source
http://www.horde.org/papers/fosdem2005/

Horde
http://www.horde.org/

Installing And Configure Horde Framework

Installing And Configure Horde Framework

Most of the information to install can be found from file INSTALL under directory docs. Basically

(1) Install the needed PEAR modules.
(2) Create Horde database and tables needed.
(3) Im using Centos 5.2 I need to install php-pear and php-xml

http://www.horde.org/

By default we will get Administrator login.

Configuration can be done from Setup module.

We need to change how the authentication work. I will used mysql as the authentication driver. The file script.initial_horde_user.sql can be found under directory /usr/share/horde/scripts/sql

The default user is admin with the password is admin. Please reset this.

Make sure setting for Database is configure before changing the Authentication setting to used Mysql.

Problem that I'm encounter. I'm want to used different directory from the default horde. My login failed.

The problem may from the cookies path setting under General Tab Setup. From Horde log it's said

Dec 08 01:15:45 HORDE [notice] [horde] Login success for admin [127.0.0.1] to Horde [pid 25729 on line 138 of "/usr/share/base/login.php"]
Dec 08 01:15:45 HORDE [debug] [] Guest user does not have READ permission for horde [pid 25691 on line 814 of "/usr/share/base/lib/Horde/Registry.php"]

I'll stick with the default directory for a while.

Right now I want to get used to create application with Horde Framework.

More changes to the setting. This using Horde Setup module.

(1) Preference System -> Mysql Database -> Horde Defaults

(2) Data Tree System -> Mysql Database -> Horde Defaults

(3) Cache System -> SQL-Based Cache Storage and Im using memcached for use_memorycache setting.

For Centos 5.2 memcached can be install using rpm from rpmforge. Install memcached and php-pecl-memcache.

http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/memcached/
http://dag.wieers.com/rpm/packages/php-pecl-memcache/

Read about memcached here http://www.danga.com/memcached/ and interesting blog post

http://www.bytebot.net/blog/archives/2008/04/14/memcached-and-mysql-tutorial

(4) Lock System -> SQL-Based Lock

(5) Token System -> SQL-Based Token System

(6) Virtual File Storage -> SQL Database -> Horde Default

(7) Custom Session Handler -> Mysql-Based Session -> Setting as per Database setup.

(8) Memcached Server -> Enabled

Google Friend Connect Test Web Page

Google Friend Connect Test Web Page

http://blog.harisfazillah.info/2008/12/google-friend-connect-test-web-page.html

I'm testing for Google Friend Connect. You can try OSCC website Google Friend Connect using this link

http://www.oscc.org.my/friendconnect.html

Google Friend Connect still new and need more social gadgets to make it's attractive.

Can Google Friend Connect will help us to create Open Source Software online comunity in Malaysia? We will soon find out.

Another website I'm testing is

http://www.songketmail.org/publicrelation.php

From Google Friend Connect webpage :-

Grow traffic by adding social features to your site

Google Friend Connect means more people engaging more deeply with your website -- and with each other.

Enrich your site

Choose engaging social features from a catalog of gadgets by Google and the OpenSocial developer community.

Attract more visitors

Your users can easily invite friends from social networks and contact lists to visit and join your site.

No programming whatsoever

Just copy and paste a few snippets of code into your site, and Friend Connect does the rest.

With Google Friend Connect, visitors to your site or blog can:

1. Sign in with their Google, Yahoo, AIM or OpenID account.
2. Interact with other visitors by making friends, sharing media, posting comments, playing games, and more.
3. Invite friends from other social networks and contact lists to join your site or blog.

Bring viral social growth to your website

1. Anyone can join your site with one click by using their existing Google, Yahoo and other accounts.
2. Visitors can evangelize for your site by inviting their friends and publishing their activities to their social networks.
3. Social gadgets will keep these visitors more deeply engaged with your site, and with each other.

Captcha To Protect From Automated Register Bots

Captcha To Protect From Automated Register Bots

A CAPTCHA is a type of challenge-response test used in computing to ensure that the response is not generated by a computer. The process involves one computer (a server) asking a user to complete a simple test which the computer is able to generate and grade. Because other computers are unable to solve the CAPTCHA, any user entering a correct solution is presumed to be human. A common type of CAPTCHA requires that the user type the letters or digits of a distorted image that appears on the screen.

More about Captha
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha

This websites can be used to genarate captcha.

reCAPTCHA

http://recaptcha.net/

reCAPTCHA is a free CAPTCHA service that helps to digitize books.

A CAPTCHA is a program that can tell whether its user is a human or a computer. You've probably seen them — colorful images with distorted text at the bottom of Web registration forms. CAPTCHAs are used by many websites to prevent abuse from "bots," or automated programs usually written to generate spam. No computer program can read distorted text as well as humans can, so bots cannot navigate sites protected by CAPTCHAs.

White Hat Web Design PHP Captcha Security Images

http://www.white-hat-web-design.co.uk/articles/php-captcha.php

This script generates images (known as "Captcha's") which contain security codes used for protecting a form from spam bots. By encoding a 'password' inside an image and asking the user to re-enter what they see you can verify the user is a human and not automated software submitting your form.