PT. Dycode Cominfotech Development

Smartphone OSes War Seminar

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 12:50:13 GMT

This is the first seminar in Indonesia that we know facilitating debate between modern Smartphone Operating Systems. Held in Universitas Islam Negeri (UIN) Syarif Hidayatullah, Jakarta on May 4, 2010, the seminar brought the heat between WP7, iOS, BlackBerry, and Android. Too bad there's no representative from Symbian and Palm, that would make the debate more complete. It was fun as the speakers of each platforms are able to create a healthy debate condition, yet informative.

DyCode CEO, Andri Yadi, was involved as speaker talking about iOS. However, as a Microsoft MVP and being active Windows Phone 7 developer, he and Puja Pramudya (MVP, Device Application Development) also spoke about WP7 and has “obligation” to tell what’s the best of WP7 compared to Android and BlackBerry. The heat between iOS and Android is more seen compared to other OSes, and that reflects what happen in the real world nowadays.

Above all, it's just for fun. Each speakers are not coming from the principals of each OSes, so there's no formal obligation to fight for them.

Photos time.

The attendees

Presenting

Controlling AR.Drone using iOS app

The debate’s on

With the organizer from UIN

The Future of Mobile Application Seminar - UNY

admin — Wed, 11 May 2011 06:51:57 GMT

To emphasize our vision and mission in mobile app development, DyCode become one of the sponsor on "Nasional Seminar Mobile Development: The Future of Mobile Application" that was held in Universitas Negeri Yogyakarta on April 17, 2011. Beside DyCode this event also sponsored by Nokia, Axis, and other local companies in Jogja.

In that seminar, DyCode CEO, Andri Yadi delivered a talk about Mobile Application Development. He talked about various mobile application development platforms, Windows Phone 7, Symbian, and iOS, among other things. He also gave demos of how to start creating apps in those platforms.

But on this seminar he definitely gave something new and fresh for the audience who mostly are students, and different from the other seminars that he used to speak. He made a demo of how to make a remote control app for a Parrot AR.Drone, a quadrocopter (helicopter with 4 rotor). He played the drone on the hall with his remote control app that he has build just a few moment before it.

The audience seemed very excited, because they could see an app that's fun and real, and demoed in the realtime. Hopefully, with the excitement like that will encourage them to start make mobile apps.

Some photos:

Presenting

AR.Drone is waiting to fly

It's flying

Q&A

The audiences

Thanks UNY and Jogja for the excitement!

Seminar of Mobile Apps and Game Development at Bancakan 2.0 Anniversary

admin — Mon, 28 Feb 2011 18:32:00 GMT

Yogyakarta, Feb 25, 2011.

DyCode CEO, Andri Yadi, delivered a talk Bancakan 2.0 Anniversary. Bancakan 2.0 is Yogyakarta’s startups and developers community who periodically holds meet-ups, mostly about development and entrepreneurship. At its first anniversary and also its 8th meet-up, Bancakan 2.0 – supported by Nokia Indonesia – held a seminar about mobile apps and game development. More detail is here.

In that seminar, Andri Yadi delivered a talk about mobile application development. He talked about various mobile application development platforms, Windows Phone 7, Symbian, and iOS, among other things. He also gave demos of how to start creating apps in those platforms. This talk was quite similar as the talk he delivered on Arkavidia 2.0 Seminar, a yearly event organized by ITB Informatics Engineering students.

Beside Andri Yadi, delivering in the seminar are the speakers who have enormous experiences in mobile apps and gaming industry in Indonesia, which are:

Arief Widhiyasa (@clawford – CEO of Agate Studio – agategames.com )
Guntur Sarwohadi (@gsarwohadi - CEO SoyBeanSoft Studio –soybeansoft.com)

Some photos during the events

The stage

Preparing the demo

On stage

Q&A

The audiences

We're Dead Serious in Mobile Development

admin — Sun, 26 Dec 2010 10:21:09 GMT

Here's the proof.

It's very daunting to develop mobile apps without actually testing the developed app to actual devices of targeted platform. Why? Because there're plenty mysteries that can not be covered by simulator, such as responsiveness and user experiences. Even though modern simulator and development environment, such as iOS simulator and Xcode has Instrument and ability to detect performance and memory leaks, it's not as real as if the apps are directly tested on the device.

Hence, actual mobile devices are necessary investment for mobile developer company. To us, we love gadgets, so it's kinda bonus having gadgets, and they can be productive, not just for style.

Indigo Fellowship Award 2010

admin — Wed, 22 Dec 2010 11:30:39 GMT

Sejak tahun 2009, Telkom Group mempersembahkan program Indigo Fellowship, yang merupakan apresiasi kepada individu atau kelompok yang dianggap berhasil dalam membuat karya kreatif digital dan memberikan manfaat kepada masyarakat luas, serta mendorong tumbuhnya digitalpreneur baru dalam industri tersebut.

Pada tanggal 8 Desember 2010, DyCode mendapatkan penghargaan Indigo Fellowship 2010 untuk kategori Rural & Maritim Content & Application melalui PORTMAP. Rural / Maritime adalah karya digital dalam bentuk aplikasi atau content yang ditujukan / bermanfaat buat pengembangan masyarakat pedesaan atau masyarakat pesisir pantai.

Indigo Fellowship Award 2010 ini diikuti oleh lebih dari 1000 peserta dari seluruh Indonesia, kemudian dipilih 28 finalis dari seluruh kategori. Dari ke 28 finalis tersebut dipilihlah 15 pemenang dari seluruh kategori.

Berikut adalah para pemenang Indigo Fellowship Award 2010

Untuk kategori Consumer Content & Application pemenangnya adalah:
1. Aswin Utomo dengan “Ada Diskon”
2. Adhicipta Raharja Wirawan dengan “Animo”
3. Wisnu Manupraba dengan “Ngomik”
4. Vincentius Hening W. dengan “Football Saga”

Untuk kategori SME Content & Application pemenangnya adalah:
1. Jonathan Sofian dengan “Smart Sisfo Kampus 4.0”
2. Leylya Tersi Lestari dengan “HiQuMMS”
3. Ramananda Daswir dengan “Infokes”
4. Leylya Tersi Lestari dengan “i-So ComMIIT”
5. I Ketut Kartika Tanjana dengan “Dimata Hanoman”
6. Virgo Lazarus Pehulisa Tarigan dengan “Score V”

Untuk kategori Enterprise Content & Application pemenangnya adalah:
1. David Santoso dengan “Bee”
2. Setiabudi dengan “MetaCare”
3. Eka Djatnika dengan “Simzaki”

Untuk kategori Rural & Maritim Content & Application pemenangnya adalah:
1. M. Ali Fauzi dengan “Paddy MIC”
2. Andri Yadi dengan “Portmap”

Dengan tagline Ketika Kreasi Bersimfoni, acara puncak Indigo Awards diselenggarakan dalam Malam Penganugerahan pada 8 Desember 2010 di Plenary Hall, Jakarta Convention Center. Acara ini juga ditayangkan live di ANTV pada pukul 21:00. Dengan diisi oleh penampilan beberapa artis ibukota.

Happy Eid Ul-Fitr 1431 H

admin — Wed, 08 Sep 2010 11:22:00 GMT

DyCode's Management and All Dycoders present: Happy Eid Ul - Fitr 1431 H. Wishing you a blessed Eid.

Congratulation to Our CEO for The 3rd times Microsoft MVP Award

admin — Fri, 30 Jul 2010 11:47:24 GMT

MVP is the Most Valuable Professional. Microsoft MVP Award is the highest award given by Microsoft to the dedicated professionals who have knowledge, thought and energy to community sustainability. They were active in knowledge sharing through any posts in the blogs, or through other contribution that provides benefits to the communities.

The best people from technology communities around the world who will receive the Microsoft® Most Valuable Professional (MVP) Award.

These exceptional community leaders come from a wide range of backgrounds. They are teachers, artists, doctors, engineers, as well as technologists, who actively share their high-quality, real-world technical expertise with the community and with Microsoft.

On July 1st 2010, for the Third times our CEO, Andri Yadi accepted the MVP Award. Until this time Andri is the one and only MVP in Indonesia who has expertise in VSTO . The first Award was given on July 1st 2008 and the second award on July 15th 2010, for Andri’s dedication in delivered knowledge for the communities. A dynamic startup ISV, an early technology adopter, and the winner of Microsoft Indonesia’s Startup Micro ISV Award 2007. Andri is a geek, an educator, and an entrepreneur in Information Technology field. He’s also responsible for the usage of VSTO Excel Add-In to develop Microsoft Excel-based vessel scheduling tool to support maritime port management, that currently become one of DyCode’s business focus. In geek community, Andri is active in INDC mailing list and blogger. As an educator, Andri has delivered many talks and trainings about .NET technologies, varying from VSTO, SharePoint, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, and Silverlight.

There is just some few number of MVP in each country, this award is belong to professionals who is really deserve it. Based on that circumstances, We as Dycoders always be proud to deliver congratulation for our CEO, Andri Yadi for the dedication and another achievement in IT industries.

Three Years, New Plex, New Stuffs

admin — Sun, 09 May 2010 14:14:57 GMT

Now that 2009, a rather complex and unpredictable year has left us for 5 months. It’s 2010, the 2010th year of the Common Era or of Anno Domini; the 10th year of the 3rd millennium and of the 21st century; and the 1st decade of the 2010s.

According to an article on CNN, 2010 is the year of Digital Distraction, due to more and more distractions coming from push emails, tweets, status updates, instant messaging, and more, that leads to a big question: productivity boon or bust? If in China, 2010 is the year of Tiger, in the tech world, 2010 will be the year of Tablet. A bevy of tech companies have teased, talked, and have not denied rumors that they are working on a fabled tablet computer, let's say some Google-Android-powered and Google Chrome OS tablets, NVIDIA-powered tablet called “iTablet”, and many more. Some are not rumor anymore, we’ve watched a highly rumored Apple tablet since 2001, finally unveiled on Jan 27 named iPad and now become a mainstream. Microsoft and HP partnering in the development of a slate PC which’s announced at CES 2010 and now the effort is rumored to be cancelled, and instead HP is rumored starting to build a webOS-powered tablet codenamed “HP Hurricane” (as HP recently purchased Palm, the creator of webOS).

2010 is the third year of my company, DyCode. It’s exactly today, May 9, 2010, DyCode is three years old. Happy Birthday again, my child. They say, 3 years will be a turning point for a startup, whether it takes off or taken down. I hope for the best.

Three years is no way an easy life for DyCode and my self. Both of use are tested over and over again. I’m recently offered to leave DyCode to fill a very prestigious position as a director in a subsidiary company (in Indonesia) of a biggest software company in the world. I’m sure you know what company I refer to, as it’s very close to every INDC members. Fortunately, I’m managed to turn down the temptation (after a long and deep thinking, with a little regret honestly), and stay with DyCode as long as it takes.

What happened within DyCode recently before its three year, I’ll share below.

New Plex

For me and DyCode, we start this decade of 2010s with the new DyPlex. Yes, the new DyCode office. Since founded on May 9, 2007, DyCode stayed at the same home office, it was at Jl. Gemi No. 11A, Bandung.

“Dynamic” is the first word of DyCode's name. Dynamism is DyCode's paradigm. It's all about the ability to change or to adapt. DyCode is changing and keeps changing. It has more DyCoders, more assets, and more works. To adapt to those changes, there is a most basic thing that need to adapt, a place to work, a nicer and bigger DyPlex. The old DyPlex seems unable to handle the number of DyCoders, assets, and works.

The search of new DyPlex was no way an easy task. Location, location, location, is the number one criteria. DyCode’s clients are mostly not in Bandung, they are in Jakarta, Cilegon, outside Java, or even abroad, hence the access to highway should be easy and fast. Programming is brain-intensive work and stress-prone, so the access to near cinema and entertainment center is important. But good location is useless when the building itself is not comfortable for working. A homie, spacious, good air circulation, abundant sunlight are must. We still choose a home-office, instead of office building in some business centers. DyCode wants its DyCoders to work comfortably, warm, and able to stay until late night if they have to.

After 3 months of searching, visiting more than 10 house candidates in varying locations, finally we ended up to this coordinate: -6.876482, 107.584389 or -6 52' 35.34", +107 35' 3.80". It's addressed: Jl. Setrasari Kulon II No. 2, Bandung, 40152. Here's the map:

Setrasari is a well known area in Bandung. It’s the housing complex where the big houses located, and has a combination of nice neighborhood, quiet, and as cold as you never need air conditioner anymore.

This map shows how the new DyPlex is reachable from Pasteur road, after highway exit gate.

The route from a well-know and traffic-jam-causer mall in Bandung, Paris Van Java (PVJ).

Photos

If you’re wondering how the new DyPlex looks like, I’ll post some photos.

The front view

The gardens

And another garden…

The interior

The guest room

The fingerprint time-attendance machine, next to the door

Developers room. Where the magic happens

Team Leads room. Where the technical bosses reside

Admin guys room and a designer and CRO in it.

You know whose room and workstation is this, the guy with Apple MacBook Pro, a Cinema Display, and gadgets, who else?

We even have a dinning room, with free lunch, of course. We hire a chef (sort of) to prepare great lunch.

It’s nice place to work, isn’t it? We’re really excited about it and love working here everyday. It’s the result of three years hard-works. We’ve come a long way from just a micro ISV with six people and working in a small home-office and limited facility, to this comfy office and good facility. If you’d like to taste it, come and join to DyCode.

New Logo

For past three years, DyCode has used the same logo. It’s very simple logo, I admit. I recall one day I delivered a training, a trainee asked me, “your company’s logo is just like that, sir?”. “Well, yes”, I answered.

Glass effect was a trend at that time, so we adopted it. I’m sure we remember Vista used glass effect all over the place. The simple butterfly-like wireframe in the middle is actually the result of combining characters “D” and “C”, as the first characters of “Dy” and “Code”. Those “D” and “C” characters are not coming form English alphabet, instead, they are Futhorc, a runic alphabet used by Anglo-Saxons. The fusion of those two characters are illustrated below. The fusion result is then skewed and given a glass effect, and there you go, DyCode logo. We deliberately made the logo looked like a butterfly, as some of DyCode’s nature are inspired by butterfly.

As the time goes by, we realized that the initial logo was not appropriate anymore. Not only because the artwork seems old-fashioned and rigid, but it’s also our need to more express our dynamism and spirit. As implied in DyCode’s name, we need to keep changing and adapt to the change. And here it is, I proudly and officially announce the DyCode’s new logo:

So, what’s the meaning? I copy-paste the description from its designer (thanks to Ms. Gina):

Logo perusahaan PT. Dycode Cominfotech Development menggambarkan kombinasi dari dua huruf yang merupakan inisial dari nama perusahaan, yaitu huruf D dan C, yang menyerupai simbol “infinity” yang memiliki sifat dinamis dan tak terhingga.
Segitiga di bagian kanan logo, yang menyerupai tanda panah merepresentasikan sifat dinamis, sesuai dengan slogan perusahaan "Dynamic IT Solution For Optimal Business Value" .
Kemudian sifat tak terhingga / tak berbatas dalam simbol infinity mewakilkan tidak adanya batasan bagi perusahaan dalam terus mengikuti perkembangan teknologi yang terbaru sebagai perusahaan IT (inovatif).
Dua garis yang disatukan sehingga menyerupai simbol tak terhingga dengan ujung-ujung yang melengkung (bulat) dan tak terputus, melambangkan pelayanan (memberi dan menerima), sesuai dengan motto perusahaan: Take Enough, Give More.

Arti Warna

Penggunaan warna pada logo PT. Dycode Cominfotech Development mengandung arti psikologis sebagai berikut :

1. Biru laut (Cyan: 0095ef) melambangkan sifat yang teguh, kokoh, kepercayaan, konservatif, keamanan dan teknologi.
2. Hijau Daun (Green: 77e148) melambangkan pembaruan.
3. Gradasi warna dari biru ke hijau: melambangkan adanya pembauran dan perpaduan dari arti kedua warna tersebut.

Secara keseluruhan warna-warna pada logo mengandung arti bahwa selalu memberikan pelayanan yang dinamis, matang, dan sesuai kebutuhan solusi TI untuk mengoptimalkan nilai bisnis klien, serta selalu mengutamakan kepercayaan dan keamanan. Hal tersebut akan dicapai dengan pembelajaran secara dinamis, berinovasi, dan terdepan dalam penggunaan teknologi terbaru.

By the way, we’ve registered the logo to Ditjen HKI, Departemen Hukum dan HAM (Law and Human Right Department of Indonesia). Wait for one year or more before it’s legally registered.

So that’s all I can tell in this post. Once again, Happy 3rd Birthday to DyCode. As Vulcan always salutes, “Live long and prosper”.

Sincerely,
Andri Yadi, CEO

MOVREAK

admin — Sat, 01 May 2010 20:33:00 GMT

Movreak or Movie Freak is what movie freaks need, an app for supporting their addiction of watching movie at cinemas/theaters. Movreak app is used for viewing and sharing movies' show time and place. You can browse now-playing movies, check the show time & places, and share to your friends by email or SMS. Or rather, if you're stuck in place where there's a theater nearby and you want to kill time by watching any movies there, then you simply just browse what movies are playing in that theater. Still, you still have a chance to bring along your friends to watch movie with you, by sharing the show time to them.

Current version of Movreak only supports data for Indonesia country. In Indonesia, it's hard to check daily movie schedule from all cinemas, there is no single dedicated website/portal for such information. Movreak will be your only source of movie and schedule information for all cinemas, both 21 Cineplex and Blitz Megaplex. More countries and cities coming up in the next version.

We work really hard to make Movreak app has simple UIs, intuitive, easy to use, yet still pay attention to aesthetics. Here're some screenshots.

Some key features of this version:

Now Playing. Display the list of movies are currently playing in selected city, no matter where they are played
Theater. Display the list of theaters in selected city.
Setting. Ability to change City (among other things), will instantly change now playing and theater list and show time.

Multi language: English and Bahasa

Next version:
Integration with Facebook in a way you can't imagine. Stay tune.

Happy Birthday, Our CEO

gina — Fri, 09 Apr 2010 12:39:00 GMT

Today April 9 2010, there was an event in DyPlex. The event was held by all DyCoders and some of them also brought their family member, to join us celebrating our CEO Andri Yadi's 28 birthday.

At the same time, iPhone OS 4 preview is officially announced today, Apr 8, 2010 10.00AM Pacific Daylight Time (PDT). That time is equal to April 9, 2010 00:00AM West Indonesia Time. So, we can say that the birthday is celebrated with the announcement of iPhone OS 4. Thanks Apple!

Actually until a moment before the event started, Andri yadi have no idea what will we made for celebrating his birthday, it was a little surprise party for him from us, DyCoders.

There was some delicious food served in the table, and our CRO represent the other DyCoders to give the birthday cake. He a bid surprised by the event, so that's mean we did it. Keynote delivered by our CEO and manager, after that all DyCoders ate together. The moment was very warm and friendly, we really enjoy that simple event in our DyPlex.

We would like to say Happy Birthday for the second time for our CEO. Hopefully this year ahead is gonna be the best and more successes and can bring DyCode become bigger and bigger.

Nasi Tumpeng Komplit

The Birthday Cake

Sambutan dari Manager dan berdoa bersama

Pembukaan oleh CEO

DyCoders and some of them bring their family member too.

Potong tumpeng

ISV Innovation Day

admin — Sat, 27 Mar 2010 01:41:55 GMT

As a preparation for Indonesia ISVs to welcome .NET 4.0 and Visual Studio 2010, Microsoft Indonesia held an event entitled ISV Innovation Day on March 18, 2010, at Microsoft Auditorium.

In this event, DyCode CEO Andri Yadi delivered a talk about what his expertise at, Office development, with a topic “Office Development in Visual Studio 2010”. He started his presentation with a huge number of Microsoft Office users base. Around 500 million people on the planet use MS Office, which is 7.5% of world population. That number indicates that many users have found Office is very useful and are familiar with it. In term of developing Line of Business application, why not developing the solution on top of Office, instead of developing from scratch. Andri’s trying to “brainwash” the participants that Office is not just a productivity tool, it’s a platform. For ISVs, it should open a new market opportunity for them, for building solutions based on Office.

How can we extend or customize Office to fit users’ need for supporting their business? VSTO is the answer. And VSTO in Visual Studio 2010 delivers many improvement, especially in deployment, C# supports, and UI extensibility. In this talk, Andri focused to talk about UI extensibility in Office 2010 and demonstrated developing Office Business Application using Visual Studio 2010. He also showed some successful implementations, both proof of concepts (POCs) and real world application, that his company DyCode already developed.

The participant was around 50, coming from varying size of ISVs in Java island, Indonesia. Andri was successfully to amaze them all with the presentation and demo, and also the big opportunity they can explore.

The complete presentation slide is here: http://www.slideshare.net/andri_yadi/office-2010-development-in-visual-studio-2010

Preparing SMTP Service for Sending Alert in SharePoint 2010

andri — Thu, 25 Mar 2010 21:49:26 GMT

OK, posting cepat aja supaya gak kelupaan.

To send email-based alerts on SharePoint, you need to configure outgoing e-mail settings first. Sebenarnya cukup mudah untuk men-setting outgoing email pada SharePoint 2010. Buka SharePoint 2010 Central Administration, klik quick launch System Settings, and you’ll find following screen.

Clicking Configure Outgoing e-mail settings, and you’ll find this screen:

Just type Outgoing SMTP Server host/IP address, From email address, Reply-to email address, and select Character set. DONE. Now, the real challenge is preparing SMTP service to be used for sending emails from SharePoint, including alerts.

Basically, you can use any SMTP server. But to me, I prefer to use the built-in SMTP Server in Windows Server 2008 R2. Akan tetapi, SMTP Server dalam Windows Server, yang biasa dikenal sebagai IIS SMTP Service, is not full-fledge mail server. In this case, I will use this IIS SMTP Service as a relay to Gmail. This walkthrough should be the same for other mail server, other than Gmail.

Installing SMTP Server feature

AFAIK, SMTP Server is not installed by default in Windows Server 2008 R2, probably in previous Windows Server as well. To make sure it’s installed or not, open Server Manager, click Features, you should see this screen if it’s installed.

If not, just click Add Features, then select SMTP Server. Will show the question to activate other features that SMTP Server has dependency with, e.g. IIS 6.0 Manager. Just accept them all unless you know what you’re doing. Supposed to be easy task.

Configuring SMTP Server

I assume the SMTP Server is installed successfully, tibalah saatnya untuk mengkonfigurasinya. As I said, I will use this SMTP Server as a relay to Gmail mail server.

1. Open IIS 6.0 Manager

2. ‘Singkapkan’ (ckckck…singkap…) nama host dimana SMTP service berjalan, sehingga muncul SMTP Virtual Server #1. Click kanan padanya –> click Properties, dan tampillah:

3. Click Access Tab, you’ll find:

Click Authentication button, you’ll find Authentication dialog as above. Make sure you select Anonymous access, karena akan membuat hidup Anda lebih mudah ketika berhubungan dengan SharePoint. Seperti dapat dilihat pada gambar kedua di atas, tidak ada input untuk memasukkan data authentication.

4. Click Relay button, and you’ll find Relay Restrictions dialog. Here you can specify which computers that are able to use this SMTP Server as relay, by selecting “All except the list below” and adding computers’ IP address. I leave it empty for now.

5. Now, get you mouse to Delivery tab. I prefer this settings for Outbound.

Click Outbound Security. Then select Basic authentication. Type your username and password for authenticating to relay mail server. For Gmail, input your Gmail email address and password. Also for Gmail, make sure to check “TLS encryption”. Click OK.

Back to Delivery tab, now click “Outbound connections”. You’ll have screen as follow. For Gmail, use TCP port 587. Click OK.

Now, back to Delivery tab, click “Advanced…” button. Type you FQDN mail domain. For Gmail, make sure to type smtp.gmail.com for Smart host.

That’s it.

5. Go to SharePoint Central Administration for updating Outgoing email settings with this SMTP service host/IP address.

Ya seperti yang ditulis di atas, input IP address/hostname where the SMTP Server is running. Also input “From address” and “Reply-to address”. Make sure to use available email address in Gmail. It would be good if you use the same email address as inputted on Outbound Security - Basic authentication.

6. Testing alert

Now setup your alert in SharePoint (I won’t show you how). Trigger it. Hopefully the alert email is sent. If not, go back and make sure you follow the walkthrough carefully, and use your developer/IT pro’s instinct to solve the problem.

That’s it. Good luck.

Office Business Application Training

admin — Fri, 05 Feb 2010 01:39:26 GMT

Office Business Application (OBA) is booming. Seems like Microsoft is diligently doing evangelism in this area to leverage their Office platform. Microsoft Indonesia, in this case, is preparing both partner and customer in order to adopt more deeply Office platform into their business solutions. The coming Microsoft Office 2010 is gonna be huge in term of features, customizability, and solutions to deliver.

One of Microsoft Indonesia’s initiatives to prepare Indonesia Independent Software Vendors (ISVs) to adopt Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) for building OBA, a training was delivered on Jan 13 – 15, 2010. The training was participated by 15 developers coming from some well known ISVs in Jakarta. DyCode CEO, Andri Yadi, had privilege to become the trainer.

Office 2010 Development on Microsoft Student Partner Gathering

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:59:00 GMT

As part of corporate responsibility to the youngsters, and as a Microsoft Most Valuable Professional (MVP), Andri Yadi (CEO of DyCode), represents his company and his expertise, giving a motivational and technical speak on Microsoft Student Partner (MSP) gathering. MSP is a worldwide educational program to sponsor students majoring in disciplines related to technology, that consists of selected students from IT college or university.

The gathering was organized by MSP – Bandung chapter, held at Bandung Electronic Mall (Be Mall) on Nov 29, 2009. On this event, Andri gave motivational talk about how the students should be thankful for and use the opportunity offered in MSP program optimally, how to become an expert in certain IT area, and how to become more success later when they jump into IT jungle after graduation. As for technical speak, Andri talked about development in Office 2010, the latest Microsoft Office, using Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO) 2010, included in Visual Studio 2010. He also talked about updates on Office development from Microsoft Professional Developer Conference (PDC) 2009, that’s recently held on Los Angeles, Nov 17 – 19, 2009.

The MSP students attending the gathering are coming from different backgrounds and interests, but still in IT and mostly interest in software development. The introduction of VSTO and Office development delivered by Andri, has changed their perspective about Office, which is not only productivity tool but also development platform. Some of students have expressed their interest to explore more about VSTO and Office development. DyCode invites them to come to DyPlex and willing to facilitate their interest to learn more about VSTO. Off course, DyCode is ready hire them after reaching certain skills.

Andri talked about Updates from PDC 09 on Office 2010 Dev

The audiences

He’s still handsome

Before going home

This event is one of DyCode’s contibution to the community and students. We, the DyCoders, are commit to help students to learn more about software development, and provides them the internship program to experience working in the real world.

To students who wanna be a great coder, wait for your coming to DyPlex.

Windows 7 Commercial Launch in Indonesia

admin — Wed, 16 Dec 2009 20:03:00 GMT

Although Microsoft Corporation has launched Windows 7 on Oct 22, 2009, it's not been launched commercially in Indonesia. On Nov 24, 2009, in Jakarta Convention Center, Microsoft Indonesia launched Windows 7 commercially, incorporating Windows Server 2008 R2 & Exchange Server 2010. The event featured Faycal B, the new Chief Operating Officer of Microsoft Indonesia, and presentations from Microsoft’s partners (Acer, Dell, HP, and Intel). After the main session that held from 09.00 to 12.30, the event’s continued by breakout sessions that specifically talked about many different topics, such as desktop, server, unified communication, security, and application platform.

08.30-09.00	Registration
09.00-09.15	Opening Keynote and Procession Faycal B, Chief Operating Officer, Microsoft Indonesia
09.15-10.00	Introducing the "NEW" Efficiency Vineet Thuvara, WW Server Launch Lead, Microsoft Corporation
10.00-10.30	Acer Presentation
10.30-10.45	Dell Presentation
10.45-11.00	HP Presentation
11.00-11.15	Intel Presentation
11.15-12.15	Windows 7, Exchange Server 2010 & Windows Server 2008 R2 Overview and Demo Microsoft Indonesia
12.15-12.25	Acknowledgment for the first 77 People who pass Windows 7 Certification77 People

Breakout sessions

CEO of DyCode, Andri Yadi, delivered a topic entitled Practical Office Business Application (OBA), which is his expertise as Microsoft MVP of Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO). VSTO is the tool for developing OBA, which is basically business application that’s based on Microsoft Office platform.

Andri delivered the talk together with another MVP, Client App, and also Developer Advisor at Microsoft Indonesia, Ronald Rajagukguk.

Here’re some photos taken during the event

The main stage

The stage and screen for Andri and Ronald session

The duo preparing the talk. Did you notice a Mac there on Windows 7 launch event :)

Andri’s talking about VSTO versions, from 2005 to 2010.

On this prestigious and big event, not many MVPs have opportunity to deliver a talk. Andri and Ronald are two of them, so congratulate both of them.

That’s the news. The demo code are attached on attachment. The presentation slide is here: http://dycode.com/Downloads/GeneralTalks/Office2010DevAtWin7Launch.pptx

Coder

admin — Wed, 11 Nov 2009 15:52:00 GMT

We are searching for some coders who can actually code. Here some qualifications:

Male/Female
Maximum age 30 years old
Having working experience at least 1 years, Fresh graduates are welcome to apply
Good communication skill in English, at least in writing
Good Analytical skill
Good team player
Able to work under pressure and meet tight deadlines
Proactive, hard worker, fast learner, self motivated, responsible, and result oriented
LOYAL

Technical knowledge & skills:

Fluent with .NET Framework technologies: ASP.NET in C#, AJAX, LINQ, LINQ-to-SQL, ADO.NET Entity Framework
PHP coders are also welcome
Additional skill: SharePoint, VSTO, JavaScript libraries (JQuery, MooTools)
Know how to use reporting tool: MS SQL Reporting Service/Report Viewer or Crystal Report
Familiar with these database servers: SQL Server 2000/2005/2008, MySQL, SqLite
Familiar with Object Oriented Programming (OOP), both concept and practise
Knowledge of current technological developments / trends in area of expertise

Kunjungan Mahasiswa Q-College

admin — Tue, 29 Sep 2009 04:24:40 GMT

Pada tanggal 20 Agustus 2009 lalu, DyCode mendapat kunjungan dari beberapa mahasiswa/i jurusan TI dan Multimedia Design dari kamus Q-College, Bandung. Mereka beserta beberapa pengajarnya datang berkunjung ke Dyplex dalam rangka untuk menambah informasinya seputar dunia IT lebih jauh.

Para mahasiswa/i ini disambut dengan hangat sesampainya di Dyplex, mereka berbincang-bincang ringan dengan beberapa staff dan karyawan DyCode seputar pengalamannya bekerja di perusahaan IT.

Kemudian tidak hanya itu, para mahasiswa/i ini juga mendapatkan tambahan knowledge dari CEO DyCode, Andri Yadi. Mereka mendapatkan banyak informasi mengenai teknologi terbaru, tidak hanya itu saja Andri juga membagi pengalamannya kepada mereka apa yang ia rasakan selama ia bergelut dengan dunia IT dan *** duka yang ia rasakan selama menjalaninya.

Setelah beberapa jam singgah di Dyplex, akhirnya para mahasiswa/i serta pengajar-pengajarnya dari Q-College berpamitan karena harus melanjutkan kunjungannya ke tempat lain.

Semoga kunjungan ke Dycode tersebut dapat memberikan manfaat bagi mereka.

Happy Eid Ul-Fitr 1430H

admin — Fri, 18 Sep 2009 05:31:07 GMT

Buka Bersama DyCoders At The Valley Bandung

admin — Fri, 11 Sep 2009 11:46:29 GMT

Dalam rangka guna mempererat tali silaturahmi dan kekeluargaan diantara DyCoders, seluruh karyawan serta manager dan pimpinan dari PT. Dycode Cominfotech Development, Andri Yadi, mengadakan acara buka puasa bersama yang diadakan di The Valley Bistro Cafe yang berlokasi di Jl Lembah Pakar Timur Bandung.

Seluruh DyCoders berangkat pukul 17.00 WIB dari DyPlex menuju The Valley yang actually jaraknya tidak terlalu jauh, sekedar antisipasi saja dikarenakan pada saat bulan puasa biasanya kemacetan selalu menjadi menu utama di kota Bandung, terutama di jam-jam menjelang waktu berbuka puasa.

Akhirnya kami sampai pukul 17.30 WIB ditempat tujuan, sebuah bistro and cafe kelas atas yang sesuai dengan namanya bistro cafe ini berkonsep open space dan berada di daerah berlembah. Untungnya sebelum kami datang kami sudah memesan tempat, jadi kami tinggal duduk manis dan memesan makanan saja. Tanpa menunggu instruksi dari atasan, saat buku menu disimpan didepan kami, semua bergegas memesan makanan dan minuman masing-masing (maklum.. it showed almost 17.40 WIB).

Sambil menunggu datang waktu magrib, kami berincang-bincang seputar pekerjaan dan hal-hal lainnya. Ada juga yang asik memainkan lensa kameranya untuk mengabadikan moment tersebut, atau mungkin sekedar mengagumi keindahan tempat tersebut dengan berkeliling melihat-lihat pemandangan sekitar.

Kebetulan kami duduk ditempat terbuka dan sore menjelang malam itu cuacanya cerah, pemandangan kerlip bintang dan lampu-lampu di kota Bandung bisa terlihat dengan indahnya. Selain pemandangan nya yang indah, ditempat ini dekorasi dan setting tempatnya pun indah sekali. Dipenuhi dengan lampu-lampu dan iringan live music dari home band yang mengalunkan music jazz, top 40, dan accoustic.

Namun tak terasa waktu sudah menunjukan pukul 17.51 WIB, yang artinya adalah saat nya berbuka puasa. Namun karena kami datang agak sedikit terlambat maka pesanan kami yang datang belum lengkap semua.

Setelah sholat magrib ternyata pesanan kami sudah mulai dihidangkan, bermacam-macam jenis makanan dan minuman dihidangkan dimeja kami, some of Asian food seperti Mixed Tempura set yang dipesan oleh CEO kami, Beef Teriyaki Set, Blueberry Float dan Healthy Juice yang jadi favorite drink DyCoders saat itu, and the other is European food berbagai macam jenis Steak dengan porsi jumbo (just realize kenapa tidak ada yang pesan Indonesia food ya…?? hmmm…).

Akhirnya kami memulai acara buka bersama saat itu, sesaat kemudian masing-masing mulai terlihat sibuk sendiri dengan piring yang ada dihadapannya. Menyenangkan saat kami makan bersama saat itu karena itu adalah moment yang jarang kami temukan dikeseharian kami dengan setumpuk rutinitas kerja.

Setelah selesai dengan lahapnya kami menyantap hida ngan yang disajikan, kami menggunakan moment tersebut sebagai ajang untuk sharing antara satu sama lain. Beberapa patah kata disampaikan oleh CEO kami, Andri Yadi, Manager Administrasi dan Manager Technical guna memberikan informasi dan semangat untuk kami. Sehingga kedepannya suasana kekeluargaan namun tetap produktif dapat kami kembangkan selalu kedepannya .

Acara buka puasa bersama malam itu, kami tutup dengan Doa bersama yang dipimpin oleh Abu Syauki (Pak Nobon). Kami panjatkan segala puji dan syukur kepada Allah SWT atas berkah dan rahmatnya,sehingga salah satunya kami dapat mengadaan acara buka bersama malam itu.

Buka Bersama DyCode, 10 September 2009 At The Valley Bistro & Cafe

DyCode Became One of The Sponsor of “1st Indonesian Conference on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Small Business (ICIES ).”

admin — Mon, 27 Jul 2009 09:13:29 GMT

In order to support the entrepreneurship development program and also small and medium enterprise development program, DyCode is very proud to be able to participate and to be one of the sponsors of the ICIES.

ICIES is the 1st Indonesian Conference on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Small Business, proudly presented by Center for Innovation, Entrepreneurship and Leadership (CIEL), School of Business and Management (SBM), Institute of Technology, Bandung (ITB), Indonesia. CIEL activities range from education, research, and community service in the areas of entrepreneurship development, small and medium enterprise development, and knowledge creation and dissemination.

ICIES 2009 is aimed at challenging researchers Indonesians in particular, to study and create local knowledge on Innovation, Entrepreneurship, and Small Business. The conference also invites international researchers in order to enhance knowledge exchange and learning from diverse backgrounds.

This conference held on July 20th 2009 until July 23rd 2009 at several places such as SBM Building ITB Campus, Selasar Sunaryo Art Space, and Grand Hotel Preanger Bandung. Attended by many important guests, such Mr. Jusuf Kalla, Entrepreneur & Vice President of Indonesia; Mr. Ahmad Heryawan, Governor West Java Province; Mr. Dede Yusuf, Vice Governor West Java Province; Mr. Dada Rosada, Mayor City of Bandung; Mr. Ridwan Kamil, Architect and Chair of Bandung Creative City Forum; Sandiaga Uno, Vice Chair of Indonesian Chamber of Commerce & Industry for Small and Medium Enterprises; Gerald Lidstone, Director of Institute of Creative & Cultural Entrepreneurship, Goldsmiths, University of London, UK; Betti Alisjahbana, Former CEO IBM Indonesia & CEO Quantum Business International; Agung Adiprasetyo, CEO Kompas & Gramedia; Martha Tilaar, Founder and Commissioner of Martha Tilaar Group; Bangun S. Kusmuljono, Commissioner of Bank of BRI.

Mr. Jusuf Kalla, Entrepreneur & Vice President of Indonesia

Mr. Ahmad Heryawan, Governor West Java Province

The ICIES program:

Congratulation For Our CEO for The MVP’S Renew

admin — Fri, 24 Jul 2009 06:24:00 GMT

MVP is the Most valuable Professional. MVP is the highest award given by Microsoft to the dedicated professionals who have knowledge, thought and energy to community sustainability. They were active in knowledge sharing through any posts in the blogs, or through other contribution that provides benefits to the communities.

On July 15th 2009, for the second time our CEO, Andri Yadi accepted the MVP Award. Until this time Andri is the one and only MVP in Indonesia who has expertise in VSTO . The first Award was given on July 1st 2008 for Andri’s dedication in delivered knowledge for the communities. A dynamic startup ISV, an early technology adopter, and the winner of Microsoft Indonesia’s Startup Micro ISV Award 2007. Andri is a geek, an educator, and an entrepreneur in Information Technology field. He’s also responsible for the usage of VSTO Excel Add-In to develop Microsoft Excel-based vessel scheduling tool to support maritime port management, that currently become one of DyCode’s business focus. In geek community, Andri is active in INDC mailing list and blogger. As an educator, Andri has delivered many talks and trainings about .NET technologies, varying from VSTO, SharePoint, ASP.NET, ASP.NET AJAX, and Silverlight.

There is just some few number of MVP in each country, this award is belong to professionals who is really deserve it. Based on that circumstances, We as Dycoders proudly to deliver congratulation for our CEO, Andri Yadi for the dedication and another achievement in IT industries.

The MVP Trophy

The MVP Certificate

The MVP Kit

GRANTEE PROFILE -Locally Produced Innovative Software Has Potential to Revolutionize Port Management In Indonesia (This document is created by SENADA as part of their Grantee Profile).

admin — Tue, 21 Jul 2009 11:31:00 GMT

One important barrier to improving the competitiveness of Indonesia’s industry has been the inefficient operation of the nation’s ports, which have fallen behind the systems used in other countries to ensure transparent, rapid and reasonably priced movement of goods. While leaders such as Singapore, Hong Kong and others have instituted integrated information systems that utilize modern technology, Indonesia has continued to rely on outdated and largely manual systems that are slow, expensive, and make it difficult to prevent or detect fraud and corruption. This is particularly troublesome in light of Indonesia’s exceptional need for good port management, as a nation consisting of many scattered islands.

Early attempts by the Batam Port Authority to address this problem were unsuccessful when the software they tested did not enable port activities to be aligned with international best practices in port administration and management. Confident that it possessed the technical know-how to address this problem, the firm PT Dycode Cominfotech Development submitted a proposal to iMULAI (a special national software innovation competition under SENADA’s Business Innovation Fund that is operated in partnership with Microsoft Indonesia) to develop web-based software capable of bringing Indonesian port activities up to international standards. The firm was one of three iMULAI winners, and received a grant for Rp 225,000,000 between June and December 2008 to create a specialized port management portal. PT Dycode’s new software, dubbed PortMAP, is designed to manage a wide variety of Indonesian port activities, including docking schedules, cargo loading, berthing times and departure dates. Local engineers and developers created a system that allows effective management of activities at a detailed level in both the Port Authority office and in the field at each port.

PortMAP is also designed to integrate information on the movement of goods in a manner that permits the Authority to do comprehensive surveillance and monitoring. Launched publicly on November 26, 2008, PortMAP has proved an immediate success, performing effectively in Indonesia’s six largest ports. Following the testing, Port Authority officials requested additional customization of the software so that it can be implemented not only in the biggest ports but also in over 100 additional, smaller ports under the Batam Port Authority. The PortMAP software is now available for sale in the market by contacting www.dycode.com The “Dycode” in the company name “PT Dycode Cominfotech Development” is a combination of the words dynamic and code. The name was chosen to reflect the dynamic nature of the company’s objectives, using code as the tool to accomplish them. The company was founded by six young IT practitioners in April of 2007, and has already grown to a staff of 42 technical and support staff. Its mission is to deliver dynamic, mature and requirement compliant IT solutions that optimize clients' business value. The Business Innovation Fund (BIF) is an initiative launched in June, 2007 by SENADA. BIF offers short-term, high impact grants for the development of innovative products for the value chains where SENADA focuses. Details can be found at www.senada.or.id/innovation. SENADA is a four-year, USAID-financed project whose goal is to increase Indonesia's economic growth and employment by improving the competitiveness of major, labor-intensive light manufacturing industries.

For bahasa version please refer to the attachment.

SENADA Partners Conference “Lesson Learned in Industry Competitiveness”

admin — Thu, 16 Jul 2009 10:13:00 GMT

Due to the end of SENADA project in July / August 2009, on July 14th 2009 SENADA held a conference entitled "SENADA Partners Conference" at Le Meridien Hotel, Jakarta.

SENADA is a four-year project financed by the United States Agency for International Development (USAID). Started in September 2005, the objective of SENADA is to generate growth, jobs and income by increasing the competitiveness of Indonesia’s major labor intensive light manufacturing industries. SENADA focuses on five industries: footwear, home furnishing, auto parts, garments and information and communications technology (ICT)/Knowledge Development.

This event was attended by many important guests, such as the National Minister of State Development Planning - Bpk. H. P.Suzetta, USAID Mission Director - Walter North, and Secretary General of the Ministry of Industry - Agus Tjahyana Wirakusumah. The primary objective of this event was to present the results achieved by SENADA and lessons learned that they gained, including the benefits that have been received by SENADA stakeholders, from the government, industry, universities, associations and donors.

In this event, DyCode as a partner of SENADA represented by Andri Yadi, CEO of DyCode, provided some information about the impacts and benefits those are received by DyCode from SENADA project. Andri Yadi became one of the panelists in the "Accelerated Innovation" (“Inovasi Terpacu”) panel . Some of the information delivered by Andri Yadi was the explanation of how the program iMULAI innovation competition (the collaboration between Microsoft and SENADA) could stimulate the spirit of innovation, so that DyCode could achieved success. In that competition, DyCode with its PORTMAP was the first champion among so many participants from across Indonesia, a very brilliant achievement and it opens the highly opportunities of DyCode to compete in this industry.

DyCode is very thankful to SENADA. Hopefully, the innovation spirit triggered by SENADA and iMULAI will be sustainable in the future.

Rundown acara SENADA Partners Conference:

Light Up Your Office: Visual Studio Tools for Office

admin — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 09:34:00 GMT

On Wednesday, June 17, 2009, Microsoft Indonesia held an event entitled "Light Up Your Office: Visual Studio Tools for Office (VSTO)" at Microsoft Auditorium, BEJ building, Sudirman Jakarta.

The event was held for about 8 hours, it was start at 8 in the morning and finished at 5 pm. The audiences were very participated well, even though they had to wait quite long. It was attended by more less than 50 attendees, they came from various profession such as programmer or IT manager from end user companies (Astra International, Bakrie Telecom, etc).

Andri Yadi, CEO of DyCode, delivered a speaking in this event. He represented knowledge about how to build Office Business Application that leverages Microsoft Excel, ADO.NET Entity Framework, and ADO.NET Data Services (Astoria) which are some of his expertises. All the audiences in the auditorium had a very good attention when Andri Yadi started to share the knowledge one by one. Sometimes they also asked several questions and ofcourse Andri felt very pleased to answer all of those questions with very conscientious. At the end they seemed satisfy with the answers and the explanation

Training Agenda:

Time	Topic	Speaker
8:30 - 9:00	Registration
09.00 – 10.00	OBA: Business Case, Technology Landscape & Architectural Patterns	Norman Sasono Developer Advisor
10.00 – 11.00	Developing Document Centric Solution in Microsoft Word with VSTO	Wely Developer Advisor
11.00 – 12.00	Special Session: Windows 7 Application Compatibility	Narenda Wicaksono Technical Advisor
12:00 - 13:00	Lunch Break
13.00 – 14.30	Optimizing OBA Spreadsheet Productivity with Excel and VSTO	Andri Yadi Microsoft MVP, VSTO
14.30 – 14.45	Coffee Break
14.45 – 16.00	Developing Outlook Add-Ins for OBA Solution	Agus Suhanto Microsoft MVP, ASP.NET
16:00-16:30	Case Study on VSTO	Y Ravisankar Product Manager

The presentation slide and demo source code can be downloaded at: http://dycode.com/files/folders/other_talks/entry197.aspx

Happy Birthday DyCode

admin — Fri, 08 May 2009 19:13:24 GMT

090509 is the date you reach your two years old, DyCode. Grow up fast, our son...