Monthly Archives: January 2010

POCC Meet: Understanding the Adobe Flash Platform – Sunday, 10th Jan

What: Pune OpenCoffee Club meeting on Understanding the Adobe Flash Platform – with senior computer scientists from Adobe India
When: Sunday, Jan 10th, 10am-1pm
Where: Symbiosis Institute of Computer Studies and Research, Atur Centre, Model Colony. Map.
Registration and Fees: This event is free for all to attend. No registration required.

Details

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Harish, Ramesh & Sujit, from Adobe Systems (details below), are hoping to have an interaction with the Pune Open Coffee Club on Sunday, 10th January, from 10am to 1pm, at SICSR. They want to have an interactive session of Flash Platform and help members of the Coffee Club understand the Adobe stack of technologies.

The agenda is as follows:

  • 30 minutes talk by Ramesh on Adobe Flash Platform stack, the possibilities and the vision for the future.
  • 1 hour of under-the-hood session by Sujit Reddy on Rapid RIA development using Adobe Flash Builder for PHP and Java developers – Sujit is a Tech Evangelist @ Adobe and a leading Flex, Java and PHP blogger / speaker.
  • 30 minutes preview of Interaction design and User experience design innovations by Adobe using the new tools from Adobe like Flash Catalyst and Flash Builder by Harish

About the speakers

Harish(Computer Scientist & Evangelist at Adobe Systems)
Blog: http://blog.flexgeek.in/
Twitter: http://twitter.com/hsivaram
Harish’s association with Adobe Flash started in 1998 and he has been a part of its evolution to its glorious present. Immensely passionate about anything pertaining to Adobe Flash, Harish has donned multiple roles ranging from application development, quality engineering and product engineering at Macromedia / Adobe for the past 5 years.

Ramesh Srinivasaraghavan(Sr. Computer Scientist and Evangelist at Adobe Systems)
Twitter: http://twitter.com/sriragam
Ramesh has worked on a variety of technologies over 17+ years. He holds an M. Tech in Computer Science and Engineering from IIT Mumbai. Ramesh has led R&D initiatives at top technology companies and has a wealth of experience working with several product and web 2.0 companies. Ramesh is immensely passionate about computational linguistics and artificial intelligence.

Sujit Reddy G(Technical Evangelist for Flash Platform at Adobe)
Blog: http://sujitreddyg.wordpress.com
Twitter: http://twitter.com/sujitg
Sujit combines expertise in Flex, J2EE, and PHP, and he specializes in building enterprise applications on the Adobe Flash Platform. His blog focuses on the integration of Adobe Flex with Adobe LiveCycle Data Services ES and BlazeDS. Sujit holds a bachelors degree in civil engineering and masters degree in economics from BITS, Pilani.

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Attend PHPCamp, 9th Jan: Because learning from humans is much better than Google

You might have noticed that PHP is taking over the world, unless you live in a cave, or work for a large company.

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A lot of the world’s biggest websites are built using PHP – Facebook, Wikipedia, Digg, Flickr. And try to do anything interesting on the web today, and you’ll almost be forced to do at least part of it in PHP. For example, it is very likely that you’ll need to write a facebook application for whatever you are doing – and guess what language is best for that? Yes, PHP.

If you’re someone who’re only mainly familiar .NET or Java, now would be a good time to move out of the age of dinosaurs and come into modern times, and find out more about PHP. And what better forum to do that than PHPCamp, the biggest PHP conference in India (actually, the biggest (un)conference in India). Last year, Pune had the first PHPCamp. 1200+ people registered for it, and over 700 showed up.

It’s time for part 2. It’s time to see if we can put up a better show. PHPCamp 2 is happening this Saturday, 9th January, from 9am to 6pm, at SCDL (Symbiosis Center of Distance Learning), Model Colony. Please note: that road has three different Symbiosis Institutes, SCDL, SICSR, SIFL. People always get confused, go to the wrong one, and confuse the security folks by asking them about PHP (they probably think it’s a new drug that kids are abusing these days). Be smart, and land up at the right one at first try. (Note: unfortunately, another big event the IIT-Bombay Alumni Association, Pune Chapter’s Innovations 2010 conference is also happening on same day, so Pune techies will be forced to choose between the two.)

So why go to PHPCamp? Because whether you like it or not, whether you’ve planned it or not, there’s PHP in your future. And the best way to find out more about something is by interacting with people who are passionate about it. And that, you’ll find in abundance at PHPCamp. People who love PHP. For example, people like Amit Kumar who created PHPCamp.net, a news site about PHP written using PHP.

If you are already into PHP, then PHPCamp is your way to find out the latest buzz in PHP. What’s new with CodeIgniter (the framework that allows you to create websites very quickly using PHP)? Would you like to meet a Joomla Expert, someone who’se website shows up as the second hit on a google search for ‘Joomla Expert’? He’s a Punekar and will be there. How about someone who has created 50 drupal websites in the past year or so, including one in Chinese? He‘ll be there too. Have you heard of modx, the new, very fast, content management system written in PHP? No? Well, then you should certainly attend PHPCamp.

If you’re a student, especially a 2nd or 3rd year student of computer science, events like this are the best place to find interesting people in industry who are actually interested in working with bright and motivated students. In 4th year, when you’re desperate for projects, or jobs, it will be too late. Instead start attending events like PHPCamp, and you’ll form relationships that will be very useful for you later. Attend the talks, and if you liked the topic or the speaker, walk up to him/her and tell them that you are a student and would like to do a project with them. It does NOT matter that you know nothing right now. Low knowledge and high enthusiasm is any day better than the vice versa. It does not matter that you are just in 2nd or 3rd year. It does not matter what college you’re from, or what degree you’re pursuing. And no, contrary to widespread beliefs, industry people do not bite or eat students. So you don’t need to be afraid of talking to them. What’s the worst that can happen?

Did I mention that it is free? That’s right, anyone can register, and attend without having to pay anything. Just show up. Tell them, PuneTech sent you…