Archive for the ‘Event Report’ category.
Event Report: “Building Tech Products out of India” with Naren Gupta of Nexus Ventures
(This is a live blog of the event Nexus Venture Partners’ event “Building Global Tech Product Companies out of India” where Naren Gupta, founder of Nexus chatted with Abinash Tripathy, founder of Pune-company Infinitely Beta about the challenges faced by companies trying to build a global product. The other four partners at Nexus were also [...]
Event Report: Product Management Challenges Unique to India
(This is a live-blog of the Indian Product Management Association (IPMA), Pune Chapter’s event on Product Management Challenges Unique to India by Vivek Tuljapurkar.) What is Product Management Different people define it differently. At the very least, a product manager is a person who is the “guardian angel” of the product. He gathers requirements from [...]
Code + Beer + Enthusiasm = Pune Hackfest
(Last weekend, the Pune Rails Meetup community organized a weekend-long Hackfest to build a Citizen Empowerment App. Gautam Rege, one of the organizers of this hackfest wrote this event report about the hackfest, which first appeared on the Josh Software blog, and is being re-published here with permission.) Damn! Hackfests really work. At the latest [...]
Event Report: TechSparks Pune 2011
(This is a live-blog of the TechSparks 2011 event in Pune. Since it is being written as the event happens, please excuse the typos, and the general low quality of the writing. Hopefully the quality of the speakers and the content will make up for that.) Some interesting statistics. The event is at Dewang Mehta [...]
Event Report: GeekNight with Ola Bini – JRuby for the win
(This is a report of the GeekNight with Ola Bini written by Sandeep Mukhopadhyay) ThoughtWorks Pune had invited all developers to their GeekNight held on May 25, 2011. GeekNight is a series of talks about cutting edge technology, where you also get to meet like minded geeks. This GeekNight featured a talk “JRuby for the [...]
The Basics of Game Development – for programmers
(This is a live-blog of a talk Girish Dhakephalkar of http://ShoonyaGames.com gave at TechWeekend #9 on Game Development.) This talk is an overview of what exactly is involved in game development – from the point of view of a programmer. These are the major components of game development. Game Platform A game platform is the [...]
My Experience at the IndicThreads Conference on Software Quality
(This post by Abhay Bakshi, a techie who has recently moved to Pune, is about the IndicThreads Conference on Software Quality that was held in Pune recently. This post first appeared on DZone, and is reproduced here with permission.) Typically, it was about a week’s planning before I got to attend the IndicThreads conference. I [...]
What I like about Rails3 by Gautam Rege
(This article by Gautam Rege is based on a talk he gave at Techweekend #8. It was first published on the Josh Software blog, and is reproduced here with permission.) This is NOT a post about differences between Rails 2.x and Rails 3 but these are some musings about what I love in Rails. A [...]
Event Report: Startup Saturday Pune on Technology in Education
(This report of the Feb 2011 Startup Saturday Pune, by Vishwa Vivek Garg, first appeared on eventNU, and is republished here with permission) For the Feb 2011 Startup Saturday Pune on Technology in Education, we got speakers from IndicThreads, Millenium School/ myEshala, NextLeap, Synthesis Solutions & kPoint. IndicThreads – Harshad Oak It started with Harshad [...]
Event Report: TechWeekend Pune 7 – Mobile Application Development
TechWeekend Pune 7, on Mobile Application Development was held on Saturday, 19th Feb. These are the live-tweets, collected here for your benefit. Remember, they are live-tweets that were being typed while the event was happening, so they’re not necessarily as coherent and as well-organized as a regular article. Windows Phone 7 by Mayur Tendulkar The [...]