Flexnode Blog

Our blog has been awfully quiet recently as we’ve been heavily involved in the Nov ICT Month events here in Kota Kinabalu. These past 2 months have been the highlight of our year. Here’s  a summary from Lim’s blog.

WebcampKK (Watch the Videos)

On November 4th, we had our fourth and biggest Webcamp KK ever. With the support from SATA, we flew in 3 awesome speakers from KL. Premesh Chandran (MalaysiaKini CEO, Allstars.my), Kamal Fariz (Founder of Bitfluent & Fluentspace) and Wu Han (Chief Designer of Mindvalley, Founder of Webcamp KL).

Sabah Got Ideas

The day after, John and I joined Sabah Got Ideas, a pitching competition organized by SATA. This was the Kota Kinabalu District level and we finished second to enter the finals. 2 weeks later, at the finals, the unthinkable happened. We managed to finish in the top 6 for 20k.

Our pitch was about a mobile budgeting app dubbed ‘Wife in your pocket‘. For all the insights and lessons we learned, check out my previous post on how to craft a memorable pitch.

Hackathon KK 2011

Then on the final weekend of November, an old friend of mine, Edham Arief together with the support of Sabah Computer Society organized our first ever Hackathon in KK. We were tasked to build a working application in 24 hours. Our team (John , Isaac and I) finished first with the app (CityQuest) that rewards you for exploring the city.

So what next? We’re determined to release Budgetarian and we’re taking the first step. More to come on our next blog post

Webcamp has hit its 3rd installment. Here’s a summary of some of the talks given.

Webcamp KK Group -  Event on Facebook

A quick and dirty presentation on Modern Web Development (using Agile Methodology and Tools). Just a short introduction to the workflow and tools used by some of the big names out there.

by John Wong (Flexnode Solutions)

This is a presentation I gave at the second Webcamp KK about web design. There’s quite a bit of info and tips for those of you who are starting out in web design.

For the all the links and references, check out this post.

After launching StartNow, we knew the next step would be to share the vision through a real meetup. Having a real community of people who meets up regularly to share their experience and expertise is crucial for growth of the local entrepreneurial scene.

Thus, Webcamp KK is born. We hope to have a strong community that inspires each other to start amazing new projects. Watch the video for a brief overview

Webcamp KK Episode 1 Intro from John Wong on Vimeo.
Introduction to the first webcamp by TS Lim.

View more @ Webcamp Channel

The first meetup was a great success. Check out the following blog posts for slides / more info

• Clips Of Logic
• Rapidea
• Edham’s Blog

What next? Get involved.

Join the Webcamp KK facebook group for the latest updates

Finally, we managed to get around to revamping our company site. It’s inspired by Flipboard awesome website. The site design and graphics are all done by Marissa (freyra).

Spanking new site

For those who are interested, here’s a list of scripts we used on the site.

• CodaSlider 2.0 – Sliding and navigation of the page
• FancyBox – Show screenshots in a lightbox
• jQuery hashchange event – Detect hash change in page url and update navigation header.

Check it out at www.flexnode.com and let us know what you think.

Flexnode never really have much of an online presence. It is something that we have neglected all this while and it’s time to do something about it. We will post more updates on this blog and revamp our company landing page.

For now, you can check out our latest site, StartNOW which aims to be an online community for entrepreneurs. We hope to inspire action and make ideas happen. If you are an action-taker or an idea-crafter, do join us and inspire us with your awesome work.

A little more than 2 years ago we launched Ravejoint. Our take on the food and restaurant review experience.  We went on and build a few sites for our clients and now we are back to this sense making business. There’s something that we would like to ‘fix’ and improve the user experience on. Stay tuned as we update on our progress here.