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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.

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.

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

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.

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

 

 

 

 

 

         

         

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:

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

 

 

 

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.

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:

 

  

 

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

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

On Valentine Day this year, we can't be more happier. Sinar Harapan, an Indonesia well-known newspaper told a brief story about DyCode, how DyCode was started from small, grow without government and financing support from Bank, and quite success until now.

Please follow the link to read the detail: http://www.sinarharapan.co.id/berita/0902/14/ukm01.html

Thanks to Sinar Harapan and mas Didit for the great article.

Sepanjang sejarah DyCode, belum pernah kedatangan tamu sebanyak 20an orang. Baru kemarin siang, Jumat, 6 Feb 2009, sekitar jam 10, kami kedatangan tamu dari rombongan Studi Tour Mahasiswa Ilmu Komputer, Universitas Lambung Mangkurat. Kurang lebih 20 orang "menyerbu" gubuk kami dan berdesak-desakan masuk ke dalam kantor yang sebenarnya diperuntukan untuk maksimal penghuni 20 orang. Anyway, kami akan senang dikunjungi dan sangat welcome menerima mereka.

Dipimpin oleh dosen baru yang sebenarnya sudah tidak asing lagi di komunitas .NET Indonesia, Bapak M. Reza Faisal, rombongan mahasiswa tingkat 3 tersebut berkunjung ke DyCode dengan maksud melihat kondisi real industri IT, khusunya Independent Software Vendor (ISV). Begitu mereka datang, mereka langsung masuk ke ruangan developer dan “mengerumuni” developer untuk melihat langsung para DyCoders yang sedang asyik coding.

Dengan suasana yang crowded di ruang meeting DyCode, obrolan santai tapi tetap serius pun dimulai. Beginilah suasana waktu itu:
 

Sesi pertama diisi oleh CEO DyCode, Andri Yadi, dengan berbagi pengalaman dalam mendirikan dan me-maintain company. Sedikit narsis tentang apa yang udah di-achieve selama ini dengan maksud men-encourage mahasiswa-mahasiswa tersebut supaya termotivasi.

Setelah istirahat, sesi selanjutnya diisi oleh Iman Harmaen, GM Tech. Dept., yang berbagi tentang teknologi-teknologi yang digunakan DyCode selama ini, bagaimana cara mengelola proyek, bekerja tim, dan show off software-software yang sudah dibangun DyCode.
 

Sebagai penutup acara kunjungan ini secara formal, dilakukan serah terima cinderamata antara Andri Yadi dan Bapak M. Reza Faisal.

 

Demikian acara kunjungan ini. Rombongan meninggalkan DyCode sekitar pukul 14. 

Terima kasih sudah mengunjungi kantor kami dan terima kasih juga buat pak Reza Faisal yang sudah mengusulkan ide dan memimpin rombongan tersebut. Semoga sharing dari kami bisa bermanfaat buat kita semua.

CEO of DyCode, Andri Yadi, was covered on BusinessWeek Indonesia, Jan 14 - 21, 2009 edition. Who does not know BusinessWeek. It is a global-known magazine that focuses on business news, stock market, and financial advice. A full page article entitled "Membuat Pelabuhan Lebih Transparan" (Help Port More Transparent), placed on "Pengusaha" (entrepreneur) column (page 64), is dedicated to write about him and DyCode product, PORTMAP.

Below is the scanned copy of the article. 

Honesly, the photo is not quite good, either the quality or expression. Looks like the photo was taken during conversation. But that's ok, DyCode is really proud to have its CEO on a prestigious business magazine.