Digital Mall dmCard

It seems to be a norm in the retail industry nowadays to come out with some sort of membership system and give you yet another plastic card to fill up your wallet (or your drawer).

Probably I'm a bit late to know, and just realised that Digital Mall in PJ has also come out with its dmCard now.

So, what does this Digital Mall dmCard offer?

• Admission priviledge to half yearly member's day Pre-Sales event
• 3 hours free parking with purchase of RM100 and above (worth RM2)
• Free shuttle bus service to Millenium Square and Asia Jaya LRT station (seems like this is free for non-member too)
• Special price on their online Virtual Mall purchase
• Discount from participated outlets
• Free RM5 Sushi King voucher (when you collect your card)
• ...

The membership is free, and the expiry date is pretty short (until December this year).

You can apply for dmCard either physically at their counter in Digital Mall ground floor, or register online in their website.

Online registered my kid to Standard 1 in primary school

If your family has a child at the age of 5 or 6, now it is the time to register your kid to Standard 1 in local primary school for year of entry 2012-2013. The registration is open from March until April 2011.

If you are staying in Selangor, you can register your kid online with the web registration service of JPN Selangor: Pengurusan Murid Tahun 1 Online JPN Selangor - Permohonan Penempatan Murid Tahun 1

You will need to key-in the parents detail as well as the kid's detail. Then, you can pick the primary school of your choice for application. At the end of the process, you'll be given a PIN number.

The website could be quite slow. If the page jammed for more than 10 minutes, you can try to click the Back button to go back to previous step, and resubmit again.

The online registration is only half of the whole process. After that, you will need to bring the following documents to the school you wish to register your kid for verification. Acceptance of the registration will depend on JPN Selangor.

• Birth certificate (original & photocopy)
• MyKid (original & photocopy)
• Parents' MyKad (original & photocopy)
• Marriage certificate of parents (original & photocopy)
• Utility bill with your address (TNB/water/telephone)
• Health record card of the child with vaccination records
• Self-addressed envelop of 4"x9" with 60 sen postage stamp

You can check for the processing and acceptance status at the same website above (with the 4th link in the menu).

Develop cross-platform iPhone and Android games with Corona Mobile Development Platform

Corona SDK is a mobile development framework by Ansca Mobile (established by a team of former Adobe mobile engineers) for creating high-performance, multimedia rich mobile applications and games for the iPhone, iPad, and Android.

Corona SDK uses Lua programming language. Although this is a new language to most application developers, I can assure you that this scripting language is pretty easy to learn and master, much easier than Objective-C, C++ and even Java.

One of the success stories of mobile application developed with Corona SDK is that: a 14 years old kid from Utah, Robert Nay, has developed a popular games with Corona SDK called Bubble Ball, and uploaded it to iTunes App Store. Within a very short period of time, this game has attracted millions of download, outshining the famous Angry Birds games.

The Corona SDK contains an integrated simulator for iPhone, iPad and Android. It also comes with a debugger, and a rapidly growing library of APIs and sample codes. It is integrated with Box2D physics engine, make it easy for games development. It can also take care of different screen size and resolution of mobile devices, and scale the application display accordingly.

Corona SDK is available for Mac OS X and Windows (still beta). It is free for trial during development stage. However, you'll need to pay for the annual Corona SDK Subscription in order to distribute and/or sell your mobile apps developed with it.

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