Top 10 Reasons to Attend TEDxGurneyDrive 2012

Written by Teh Teng Yew, Curator of TEDxGurneyDrive

December 9th, 2012, will be Penang’s inaugural TEDx. Plus, TEDxGurneyDrive will be limit the event to an audience size of 100 and it will be great to list out 10 reasons that people should apply to attend this year.

1. Amazing Presenters: Learn how to break the tradition from a master student on wheelchair. Engagement with the unlimited thoughts and ideas of “make love, not porn” from Cindy Gallop. Listen to a doctor who focusing on dying people with cancer. Follow a guy who is hosting an annual festival to spread cultural like George Town Festival. Plus, there are more brilliant visions and experience presenters to come.

2. Connecting the Dots: An opportunity to understand how the small community such as Penang shapes our lives here. Plus, we’re fortunate to host with an artistic venue like Penang Performing Arts Centre.

3. Interactivity: Half-day event networking and interactivity engagement. You’ll have the opportunity to meet active members of the regional community, allowing you to collaborate for a better future and connect.

4. Inspiration: TEDx participation to empower, inspire, and charge our community by sharing great ideas but inject your brain with something other than the economy, business and politics.

5. Out of the Box: A chance to participate in a worldwide event on a local level. Global reach.

6. We’re not Robbers: TEDxGurneyDrive is organizing by yearly and you could get online passes for an affordable 45 Ringgit Malaysia and of course, we’re welcoming anyone active to attend.

7. “Ideas worth Spreading”: Anyone from the conference comes with ideas, stories and emotions to tell and out of the box to eventually bring a change to it. Thinking big.

8. Have you met a TED speaker?: TEDxGurneyDrive provides an awesome opportunity for you to interact with a TED speaker and people who’ve made change happen. Can you Gallop?

9. We will feed you: TEDx conference needs a break; one of the TEDx rules of organising a TEDx conference is providing awesome food and energy.

10. The theme: It is a gathering or movement for messagers, dreamers, connectors, mind shifters and others to devoted “Be All You Can Be”. The theme of this event is all about be daring and get back your inner courage in order to be creative and think outside the box. Call for Action.

TEDxGurneyDrive 2012 will be takes place on Penang Performing Arts Centre at 9 December, 9am to 3pm.

Tickets: https://www.flickevents.com/tedx-gurneydrive
Official Website: http://tedxgurneydrive.com/

Prestashop - Increasing State ISO-Code Length

I believe that many Prestashop users has issue when inserting ISO Code for state due to the character length. Some countries accept 4 character state ISO Code. However, for certain countries like Malaysia, there are 5 character state ISO Code. Hence, I created this random post for solving this problem, guiding you how to increase ISO Code character.

Let's start the action.
Step 1: Update PS_STATE In SQL Database
i. Go to Database in PhpMyAdmin
ii. Search for ps_state
iii. Go to Structure Tab
iv. Select ISO Code and click on Change
v. Insert 5 to Length/Value field and click Save

Step 2: Change The Length of ISO Code Length Validation

i.  Open /classes/State.php with your editor

ii. Go to line #46 (For version 1.4.7 & above)

iii. Change the following code from
protected  $fieldsSize = array('iso_code' => 4, 'name' => 32);

To protected  $fieldsSize = array('iso_code' => 5, 'name' => 32);

Step 3: Change The Regular Express of ISO Code

i. Open /classes/Validation.php 

ii. Go to line #310 (For version 1.4.7 & above)

iii. Change the following code from

static public function isStateIsoCode($isoCode)

{

 return preg_match('/^[a-z]{1,4}$/ui', $isoCode);

}

To

static public function isStateIsoCode($isoCode)

{

return preg_match('/^[a-z0-9-]{1,5}$/ui', $isoCode);

}

Step 4: Change The Length Input Textbox 

i. Open admin/tabs/AdminStates.php

ii. Go to line #120  (For version 1.4.7 & above)

iii. Update the size value

<input maxlength="5" name="iso_code" size="5" style="text-transform: uppercase;" type="text" value="'.htmlentities($this->getFieldValue($obj, 'iso_code'), ENT_COMPAT, 'UTF-8').'" /> <sup>*</sup>
'.$this->l('1 to 5 letter ISO code').' ('.$this->l('official list here').')

It is done now!

It Is Back, TEDxKL!

TEDxKL, the exciting annual conference is back again, it is the 4th TEDx in Kuala Lumpur with the theme of “Interdependence”. 

When: 14 July 2012 (12:30pm to 7.30pm)

Where: Temple of Fine Arts

How Much: RM 100 online and RM 130 walk-in.

To Buy Ticket: Visit http://www.tedxkl.com

The speakers this year including:

1. Derek Sivers - Entrepreneur and TED Fellow

2. Myshkin Ingawale - Co-Founder of Biosense Technologies and TED Fellow

3. Professor Dr. Ille Gebeshuber - Professor of Physics and Expert in Nanotechnology, Biomimetics & Tribology

4. Jo Kukathas, Artistic Director - Instant Café Theatre and CHAI

5. Zann Huang - Photographer, TIME Magazine & Asian Geographic

6. Wong Siew Te - Sun Bear Conservationist

7. Zurairi AR - Founder of Unscientific Malaysia

8. Kevin Mark Low - Architect, smallprojects

This year 2 TED fellow speakers will be flying all the way to re-live their TED experiences with Kuala Lumpur.

What is TEDx?

x=independently organize event

In the spirit of ideas worth spreading, TEDx is a program of local, self- organized events that bring people together to share a TED-like experience. At a TEDx event, TEDTalks video and live speakers combine to spark deep discussion and connection in a small group. These local, self-organized events are branded TEDx, where x=independently organized TED event.

The TED Conference provides general guidance for the TEDx program, but individual TEDx events are self-organized.* (*Subject to certain rules and regulations)

For more infomation about TEDxKL, please visit: http://www.tedxkl.com

Winning Young Entrepreneur Award

I made it, winning Think Big Young Entreprenuer Award in Singapore, presented by Canon Singapore and MediaCorp. More than 100 proposals were submitted and  top 20 were selected to present the business proposal to the judges. Surprisingly, I successfully win the Champion with Frambie's business proposal. Thanks to Canon Singapore, MediaCorp, Spring Singapore & NTU for sponsoring total prizes with S$7000 in start-up capital and S$10,000 worth of Canon business products. And, not to forget, thanks to the panel judges and everyone who give me supports. 

I would like to congrats the 1st runner-ups, Bryan Lee & Darrell Zhang from Intraix and the 2nd runner-up, Zhang Weiliang & Joshua Chao from Avetics.

Finally, I would like to invite you to LIKE Frambie's Facebook page at https://www.fb.com/Frambie and stay tune for the coming updates! This is really a sweet memory and also a very huge support for my startup, Frambie, I'll work very hard to make sure Frambie to become one of the successful startup in the future! 

About Think Big Young Entrepreneur Awards(YEA)

The YEA is a business competition for budding entrepreneurs aged between 18 to 40. It is organized as part of Canon’s Think Big campaign, which aims to spur innovation among Singapore SMEs and startups and promote the use of the Canon business product line-up, which include printers, scanners, projectors, and multi-function devices.

Judges for this year’s competition includes Andrew Koh, senior director and general manager of Canon Singapore, Foong Ming Lee-Ng, vice-president of Mediacorp, Elim Chew, founder of 77th Street, Dr. Low Lee Yong, CEO of MHC Asia, Michel Birnbaum, partner of iGlobe Partners, Goh Yiping, founder of All Deals Asia, and Kenny Leck, founder of Books Actually.