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Mobile App Developer Contest at Mobile Developer Summit 2010

Contest Winners will Demo their Apps on the MODS Stage

 

Bangalore, September 15, 2010: Mobile has become a hotebed for innovation. As the ecosystem pushes the pedal to transition to a mobile-centric computing world, developers find a greater need to distribute their products and services via mobile platforms, whether they are pursuing projects on behalf of their companies or innovating on their own. Saltmarch Media has announced the App Pitch contest in support of new ideas emanating from the Indian mobile developer ecosystem. App Pitch offers you a chance at glory, fame and the potential to meet the people that can take your app to the next level.

 

The deadline for submissions is 15 October 2010. The 'App Pitch' contest will culminate at Mobile Developer Summit 2010 to be held at the Nimhans Convention Center, Bangalore, India, on 10 November 2010.

 

How to Apply?

 

Post a one paragraph pitch for your app, and the link to your app’s web site and your Twitter page. The app must be live in a mobile app store and be available for download. Submit your pitch here: www.mobiledevelopersummit.com/contest.html

 

25 pitches will be shortlisted from amongst the submissions and announced from mobiledevelopersummit.com on Friday, October 22 2010. The top 6 applicants will receive full event passes to Mobile Developer Summit 2010 and have the unique opportunity to pitch their app in front of 1000+ developers, tech industry executives and investors. For more details, visit www.mobiledevelopersummit.com/contest.html

 

About Mobile Developer Summit 2010

 

As the focus world-wide shifts from App Stores to Developers (some even calling 2010 the Year of the Developer) the annual Mobile Developer Summit (MODS) brings together thought leaders and experts from different aspects of the mobile ecosystem to share their passion, experience, grit and learning to a gathering of over a 1000 mobile/web application developers and technologists. Whether experienced or new developers, or industry experts and decision makers, all share the floor to debate, share and rethink the world of mobile.

 

Handcrafted by Saltmarch Media, MODS 2010 allows for creative solutions to be generated, insider information to be found and personal contacts to be made, all essential ingredients to your innovation and your business.  Mobile Developer Summit 2010 will feature a convergence of thousands of developers, technologists and industry players from the mobile and web developer communities. Startups, investors, mobile carriers and device manufacturers will benefit from better understanding the latest technologies that will define the mobile market of tomorrow. Early registration discounts for MODS apply until September 19, 2010 at: www.mobiledevelopersummit.com/registration.html

 

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Ajax, Lizard Brain Web Design, JSF, Struts, JavaScript, Mobile Web, Flash, jQuery, GWT, Harmony at India’s No.1 Software Developer Conference

Great Indian Developer Summit 2010 – India's Biggest Polyglot Conference and Workshops for IT Software Professionals

Bangalore, April 9, 2010: The GIDS.Web Conference and Workshops has announced the complete program of over 30 sessions on how browser and rich web technologies such as AJAX, DHTML, Mashups, Web 2.0, Enterprise 2.0 technologies, and Rich UI technologies are making money and gaining market-share for some of the leading businesses in the world. The GIDS.Web track at Great Indian Developer Summit takes place 21 and 23 April 2010, at the Indian Institute of Science in Bangalore. To register or for more information visit: www.developersummit.com.

As one of the longest running independent developer conferences in India, GIDS.Web at the Great Indian Developer Summit 2010 is uniquely positioned to provide a blend of practical, pragmatic and immediately applicable knowledge and a glimpse of the future of technology. During 21 and 23 April 2010, GIDS.Web offers a multi-track conference, workshops, expo show floor, and networking opportunities.

The first keynote at GIDS.Web is led by the leading Java EE and Ajax developer, speaker, and author Marty Hall. The best of India's Java and RIA programmers have learnt the subject from Marty's seminal books Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages (first and second editions), More Servlets and JavaServer Pages, and Core Web Programming (first and second editions) from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press. Marty's keynote address is a comparison of approaches to building rich Internet applications with Ajax.
Marty says Ajax development is difficult, and there are several fundamentally different strategies to building Ajaxified Web applications. The keynote address will survey the three most important of these approaches: using an Ajax-enabled JavaScript library such as jQuery, Prototype, Scriptaculous, Dojo, or Ext/JS; using a Web framework such as JSF 2.0 or Struts 2 that has integrated Ajax support; using the Google Web Toolkit (GWT) to build "pure Java" Ajax applications. The talk will compare and contrast these three approaches, discussing the types of applications that fit best for each option.

Over the course of the summit Marty will conduct several more sessions on "Choosing an Ajax/JavaScript Toolkit: A Comparison of the Most Popular JavaScript Libraries", "Pure Java Ajax: An Overview of GWT 2.0", "Integrated Ajax Support in JSF 2.0" and "Ajax Support in the Prototype JavaScript Library".

The second keynote by the head of Adobe's Flash initiative in India, Ramesh Srinivasaraghavan, explores the state of art in web application development and identify trends that could transform the way we create and use web applications. The talk explains how the Adobe Flash Platform has fuelled this revolution with an integrated set of technologies for delivering the most compelling applications, content and video to the widest possible audience. The Director of Forum Nokia will explain how cloud computing coupled with mobile applications enable consumers to have access to powerful services and improved user experiences never before thought possible. IEEE's 2010 President-Elect Sorel Reisman's afternoon address steps to improve the IT profession in India.

Featured talks at GID.Web also include:

* Web 2.0 Checklist - Deconstructing Modern Websites, Scott Davis
* Choosing an Ajax/JavaScript Toolkit: Comparison of Popular JavaScript Libraries, Marty Hall
* Lizard Brain Web Design, Scott Davis
* Effective Design Processes and Resources for Mobile Web Development, Arabella David
* NoSQL: The Shift to a Non-relational World, Nosh Petigara
* Open Source Web Debugging Tools, Matthew McCullough
* Building Line of Business Applications with Silverlight 4.0, Stephen Forte
* Hadoop - Divide and Conquer, Matthew McCullough
* Adobe Flash Catalyst for Agile Interaction Design, Harish Sivaramakrishnan
* Using jQuery and AJAX to Build Front-ends for ASP.NET and ASP.NET MVC, Pandurang Nayak
* First Steps to IT Heaven Through the Cloud. Part II: .WEB, Simone Brunozzi
* Building Rich Internet Applications with SL RIA Web Services, Pandurang Nayak
* Enriching Cloud Applications with Adobe Flash Platform, Ramesh Srinivasaraghavan
* Payments for the Web.future, Khurram Khan and Praveen Alavilli
* Longevity of Scalable Systems, Nishad Kamat
* Transform yourself into a Mobile App Developer Using Web Run Time, Balagopal K S
* Developing Multi Screen Applications on Adobe Flash Platform, Hemanth Sharma
* Why Harmony and For Whom?, Himanshu Goyal
* IIS Hosting Solution for ASP.net and PHP Web Sites, Nahas Mohammed
* Building Pluggable Web applications using Django, Lakshman Prasad
* Workshop: The 180-min AJAX and JSON Spike Class, Scott Davis
* Workshop: Essence of Functional Programming, Venkat Subramaniam
* Workshop: Agile Development, Tools, and Teams and Scrum Certification, Stephen Forte
* Workshop: PHP + Adobe Flex = Killer RIA, Shyamprasad P
* Workshop: Cloud Computing Boot Camp on the Google App Engine, Matthew McCullough
* Workshop: Building Data Centric Applications using Adobe Flex and Java, Prashant Singh
* Workshop: Building Your First Amazon App, Simone Brunozzi
* Workshop: Windows Azure Deep Dive, Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu
* Workshop: Monetizing your Apps with PayPal X Payments Platform, Khurram Khan, Praveen Alavilli
* Workshop: User Expereince Evaluation Model Walkthrough, Sanna Häiväläinen

Sponsors of Great Indian Developer Summit 2010 include: Platinum sponsors Microsoft, Oracle Forum Nokia and Adobe; Gold sponsors Intel and SAP; Silver sponsors Quest Software, PayPal, Telerik and AMT.

To learn more about the 2010 Great Indian Developer Summit or register visit: www.developersummit.com

About Great Indian Developer Summit

Great Indian Developer Summit is the gold standard for India's software developer ecosystem for gaining exposure to and evaluating new projects, tools, services, platforms, languages, software and standards. Packed with premium knowledge, action plans and advise from been-there-done-it veterans, creators, and visionaries, the 2010 edition of Great Indian Developer Summit features focused sessions, case studies, workshops and power panels that will transform you into a force to reckon with. Featuring 3 co-located conferences: GIDS.NET, GIDS.Web, GIDS.Java and an exclusive day of in-depth tutorials - GIDS.Workshops, from 20 April to 24 April at the IISc campus in Bangalore.

At GIDS you'll participate in hundreds of sessions encompassing the full range of Microsoft computing, Java, Agile, RIA, Rich Web, open source/standards, languages, frameworks and platforms, practical tutorials that deep dive into technical skill and best practices, inspirational keynote presentations, an Expo Hall featuring dozens of the latest projects and products activities, engaging networking events, and the interact with the best and brightest of speakers from around the world.
 
For further information on GIDS 2010, please visit the summit on the web http://www.developersummit.com/

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Three-day India Training on Building RIAs with Ajax, jQuery and Java by Best-selling Author Marty Hall

No Contract Instructor Regurgitating Someone Else's Materials! Learn from the Expert!

Bangalore, March 31, 2010: The best of India's Java and RIA programmers have learnt the subject from Marty's seminal books Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages (first and second editions), More Servlets and JavaServer Pages, and Core Web Programming (first and second editions) from Prentice Hall and Sun Microsystems Press. Now is the opportunity to meet him and learn from him first-hand. From 26-28 April in Bangalore, India, attend a practical, hands-on training on Ajax and RIAs personally developed and taught by leading Java EE and Ajax developer, speaker, and author Marty Hall

"Ajax" designates the set of techniques that enable Web applications to asynchronously update small portions of the pages based on server-side data. First popularized by Google, these techniques are now being widely applied in Web applications, and increase the performance, flexibility, richness, and interactivity of Web sites and Web-based applications. However, Ajax programming is complex and poorly understood. In the course, for client-side code, the class uses jQuery, the single-most widely used JavaScript library. For server-side code, the class uses Java. The class also covers foundational topics like JavaScript programming, core Ajax approaches, XML and JSON data handling, and Ajax development and debugging tools.

Marty has taught Ajax, GWT, and Java EE courses onsite for dozens of organizations in the US, Canada, Mexico, Australia, Japan, Puerto Rico, India, and the Philippines, all to rave reviews. The course consists of an approximately equal mixture of lecture and hands-on lab time and assumes that all students have moderate-to-strong Java skills and at least a little bit of experience with Web apps in Java (servlets and/or JSP). The course does not assume any previous exposure to Ajax, nor does it presume JavaScript knowledge.

For more information and to register, see: http://www.saltmarchi.com/expertNetworks/training/Ajax.html

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JBoss Fights to Retain Its Title in the Testing Tools Category

Bangalore, March 11, 2010: Quality assurance tests play an important role in the process of creating software products. Measures ensuring the quality of a software product meets the requirements are welcome in every step of creating the software product. Testing is one of the final and most important steps in creating a software product.

Both software development and software testing have undergone substantial evolution over the years. The early stages of software testing were primitive and did not fully meet intended goals. Software testing has already gone through at least two clearly identifiable phases. In “Software Testing 1.0”, software testing was misunderstood. It was an afterthought or adjunct to the development process an was left to less skilled, lower-paid individuals who actually viewed software testing as the entry point on a career path to becoming a software developer. There were few useful testing tools and methods for achieving a high degree of automation. Those that existed were expensive, difficult to use and ineffective at addressing productivity needs and concerns. In this phase, executive management was mostly disconnected from software testing – assuming that somehow, it would get done.

With “Software Testing 2.0” came the recognition that software testing was and is an important part of the development process. Software testing was recognized as a valuable part of application development, and everybody started to test in earnest. With the high degree of acceptance across functional groups, came ownership issues – issues of where testing fits organizationally, how it is budgeted for, and from where testing should receive its direction. There was also an explosion of available tools. These tools often further distracted the testing efforts, turning the process into one of tool selection without clear goals, architecture or direction. Within this phase, executive management’s understanding of testing was still rudimentary as was their involvement.

Then better quality products were developed with broader and deeper testing coverage, taking less time to test and reducing quality-related costs. The current state-of-the-practice, referred to as “Software Testing 3.0”, is now emerging. Software Testing 3.0 offers the culture, methodologies, beliefs, and techniques that will enable software testing to truly deliver the full potential of quality engineering, test automation and global resources. Software testing is finally evolving to a point where it can meet and exceed management expectations. The global software testing market is worth USD $13 billion today.

Saltmarch Media's annual Great Indian Developer Awards honors software products across 12 categories, based on their productivity, innovation excellence, universal usefulness, simplicity, functionality and most importantly on the ground feedback from India’s software developer ecosystem. In the testing tools Category, the final shortlist consists of Klockwork’s Insight, VMLogix LabManager, Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System 2008 Test Edition, JUnit.Org and JBoss Profiler. Borland’s SilkTest was the first product to win in this category in 2008 followed by JBoss Profiler in the 2009 chapter of the same awards.

If there is a particular development environment that you personally endorse to your colleagues or you evangelize about them at the first opportunity you get, here is your chance to vote for it (voting closes April 10 2010) and see it win this prestigious award. Visit the 2010 Great Indian Developer Awards website and cast your vote. It counts! Voting is open from http://www.developersummit.com/gida3_llist.

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CA, Microsoft, IBM and CollabNet Lock Horns in the Change & Configuration Management Tools Category

Bangalore, March 11, 2010: Configuration Management is about managing configurations.  Simply put, this means identifying the configuration and managing the changes that surround it.  Managing changes to the configuration broadly falls under the domain of change control.  A good change control process and tool set will help ensure that only the most appropriate changes are being made to a product. A robust process of this kind will also give the team easy access to all configurations and change data, including full traceability information.

Tool support for change and configuration control has evolved quite a bit over the decades.  Initially it started as the ability to have an exclusive lock on a file when you checked it out - this was the "state-of-the-art" as the '60s moved into the '70s.  The concept of change packages, or updates, introduced progressively through the '70s, '80s and '90s, were instrumental in moving change control along. Of course, we've come a long way since then.  Change control must begin far earlier in the cycle than code changes.

A significant portion of IT related news this last decade has been dominated by mergers and acquisitions. Most notable in the areas of configuration and change management are the acquisitions of both Rational and Telelogic by IBM. One of the new players, AccuRev, has grabbed a number of converts.  At the same time Subversion has captured significant Open Source interest. CollabNet’s enterprise focused offering of Subversion has become widely popular and recently Subversion has been accepted into the Apache Incubator, a first step in becoming a top-level project of the Apache Software Foundation.

When one thinks of Enterprise CM, three things come to mind:

•    Tools (and processes) that expand configuration management from the software team to the product team
•    Processes (and standards) that help keep configuration management consistent across the enterprise
•    Infrastructure (and management) that pushes configuration management technology into the rest of the organization

Enterprise configuration management is not a simple feature, process or edict.  It is the establishment of tools, processes and infrastructure so that the management can confidently reap the benefits of change and configuration management as well as application lifestyle management (ALM) across the enterprise.

One of the big problems is that organizations often dictate a tool to be used across the enterprise.  A vast majority of the time, the wrong tool is mandated resulting in budget crunches, resource crunches and capability shortfalls.

Establishing an enterprise-wide tool requires understanding the CM/ALM process across the Enterprise, and then selecting tools that can be used to support an overall process and framework.  This requires expertise and experience.  One project is not the same as another.  An Agile project which is delivering a constant stream of releases to stay ahead of the competition is much different than an infrastructure project which is occasionally upgrading repository technology.  A development team of 3 or 4 is much different than one of 300 to 400.  Yet these variations exist in any large corporation.

Saltmarch Media's annual Great Indian Developer Awards honors software products across 12 categories, based on their productivity, innovation excellence, universal usefulness, simplicity, functionality and most importantly on the ground feedback from India’s software developer ecosystem. In the Change and Configuration Management tools Category, the final shortlist consists of CA Software Change Manager, Microsoft’s System Centre Configuration Manager, IBM’S Rational Software Architect, Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System 2008 and CollabNet’s SubVersion. Microsoft’s Visual Studio Team System was the first product to win in this category in 2008 followed by CollabNet’s SourceForge Enterprise Edition in the 2009 chapter of the same awards.

If there is a particular development environment that you personally endorse to your colleagues or you evangelize about them at the first opportunity you get, here is your chance to vote for it (voting closes April 10 2010) and see it win this prestigious award. Visit the 2010 Great Indian Developer Awards website and cast your vote. It counts! Voting is open from http://www.developersummit.com/gida3_llist.

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Drupal Battles Content Management Goliaths at India's Premier Software Developer Awards

Drupal Battles Content Management Goliaths at India's Premier Software Developer Awards

Bangalore, March 11, 2010: Content management technologies first entered the market primarily in the form a separate line-of-business (LOB) application such as a human resources portal or a dealer extranet. They were basically rolled out in response to specific business needs. The technology vendor base was categorised with the key players focusing on a niche within content management, such as document management, Web content management or digital asset management.

Slowly with time and usage, both customer and vendor organisations started realizing the value proposition that content management could bring to the table to address multiple business problems across numerous departments. Thus Enterprise Content Management (ECM) was born, serving as a platform for:

•    Building multiple content- and process-centric applications
•    Deploying tens to hundreds or even thousands of Web sites and portals
•    Supplying content and content services to other enterprise applications, such as enterprise resource planning (ERP) and customer relationship management (CRM) systems
•    Facilitating content lifecycle management

With the maturation of the ECM industry, vendors continually added new functionality to their product suites to address the growing variety of content management needs found within corporations worldwide. What began as an industry primarily focused on niche applications has expanded into a market where vendors now offer a full spectrum of content management capabilities, from document management and imaging, digital asset management, and records and retention management, to Web content management and collaboration.

In the 90s, many of us became familiar with browser based content management, by way of GeoCities. Users could create their own personal web pages, maintained from the comfort of their own browsers. No longer bound by the shackles of FTP, GeoCities was a harbinger of user generated social media power, large scale browser based CMSs and communities like MySpace, Linkedin and Facebook.

In the same period, big companies were figuring out that they could delegate content management amongst site stakeholders by building proprietary browser based CMS applications. The “sales department” could maintain the appropriate corner of the corporate website, their HR page, their customer service page etc.

Now, incredible browser content management systems, that (literally) would cost millions to develop, are available for free. WordPress, Joomla, Drupal and many are free-of-charge for the clever to customize and use.

The evolution of CMS over the past few years has been rapid and radical. While mid-to-enterprise-level commercial content management systems improved in recent years, they’ve been pushed aside by “the user revolution”.

Saltmarch Media's annual Great Indian Developer Awards honors software products across 12 categories, based on their productivity, innovation excellence, universal usefulness, simplicity, functionality and most importantly on the ground feedback from India’s software developer ecosystem. In the Enterprise Content Management tools category, the final shortlist consists of IBM’s WebSphere Portal, Drupal, Microsoft’s Office SharePoint Server, Oracle Universal Content Management, Microsoft’s Content Management Server. EMC Documentum was the first content management tool to win this award in 2008 followed by Microsoft Office Sharepoint Server in the 2009 chapter of the same awards.

If there is a particular development environment that you personally endorse to your colleagues or you evangelize about them at the first opportunity you get, here is your chance to vote for it (voting closes April 10 2010) and see it win this prestigious award. Visit the 2010 Great Indian Developer Awards website and cast your vote. It counts! Voting is open from http://www.developersummit.com/gida3_llist.

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Citrix & WebEx Wrestle Microsoft Might in the Collaboration Tools Category at Developer Summit Award

Bangalore, March 11, 2010: Darwin’s reference to biological symbiosis involves two or more species that commit to a relationship and through their combined efforts and mutual collaborative interactions, both stand to gain success. In a similar vein, there can be no doubt that one of the hottest spaces in enterprise software today is collaboration. It’s no surprise collaboration is getting a lot of interest. The old processes for capturing, authoring and sharing information are stale and inefficient. As such, there is lot of room for achieving productivity improvements through improved user experience. This has been true for all software, but especially so in the enterprise software space where collaboration is essential for daily operation, where every ounce of productivity translates into big dollars.

When we refer to collaboration on a business activity, there are generally two buckets for these processes. The first are activities that would fit within the process of innovation. This might include creating new products, models or business processes. In other words, we are talking about the process of creation and innovation by teams. The second bucket includes activities around executing the business processes. Execution includes the hundreds of processes that run each day to operate the business. These are tactical in nature, and traditionally have key performance indicators (KPIs) measuring the success of a given process.

In this day and age, fast is synonymous with instantaneous. Increasingly, there is less time to dial up a fax machine or wait for a file to slowly attach to e-mail (then wait yet again during sending). This is especially true for entrepreneurs, whose small businesses are built on every advantageous edge that makes them competitive with larger corporations as well as one another. For small business, everything must be real-time – not just information anymore, but also changes. Small business needs collaborative tools that can keep up.

Enter web-based collaborative tools, center stage. These business implementations are the only means fast enough to match the high-speed demands of the Internet-age industry. They achieve instantaneous cooperation despite distance, cost, and other past inhibitive considerations. In support of a powerful storage hub, they allow you to securely store your information, make real-time changes to it, share it openly or discretely, and, most importantly, collaborate on it with family, friends, groups, departments, business teams, clients, vendors, or anyone.

Fast isn't the only measure, though. These tools must be easy, with user-friendly interfaces and intuitive commands. Complicated FTP programs are a thing of the past, and e-mail is too limited (and sometimes too flaky) to fully meet a company's diverse needs. Tools must be cheap. The idea is productivity, and expensive software or services prohibit that goal. Web-based tools fill the demands traditionally met by established application suites, but without their hefty price tags attached. Most of all, though, tools must be reliable. Web-based collaboration does not depend on one machine (PC or Mac) or one server, but reliably and securely functions outside of these constraints in the cloud, so to speak. The information your enterprise team works on in the office all day should still be accessible at your home computer (so you can continue work with them at night). And with the extensive controls built in to web-based tools, even the most sensitive materials remain completely confidential despite their availability within user-defined limitations. Simply put, all-in-all web-based tools make collaboration simple.

In the pre-computer age (before 1970), collaboration was a manual process. This was done mainly in face-to-face meetings and phone calls. The technologies used included calculators, blackboards, telephones, postal mail and pencil on paper. While computers might be part of the process, it was mainframe host oriented that offered no interaction by the participants. This was labor intensive with long cycle times for even simple tasks. In this era, teams needed to be in the same location, or endure significant travel.

When the Internet entered the picture (1980s), it provided a basis for the team to communicate, mainly via email. This allowed teams to collaborate while geographically separated, which further improved the efficiency of the process. Since collaboration allowed teams to extend beyond a single location, they could now include more talented people in other geographies. Other technology advances such as overnight mail, video conferencing, faxing and conference calling further improved the process.

Another emerging area of how web collaboration is impacting execution is through business intelligence networks. These are like Facebook or Twitter on steroids. An example of this would be collecting sales and market intelligence through an internal network – very similar to a social network. The key difference is that in these applications the participants are internal communities, and the network has intelligence. Information is assembled and analytics push back conclusions based on all the inputs. This allows the community to respond quickly to new conditions. In other words, the decision latency is reduced closer to the dream of “real time business.”

Clearly, web collaboration has enabled business execution to be better, cheaper and faster than in the past.

Saltmarch Media's annual Great Indian Developer Awards honors software products across 12 categories,based on their productivity, innovation excellence, universal usefulness, simplicity, functionality and most importantly on the ground feedback from India’s software developer ecosystem. In the Collaboration Tools Category, the final shortlist consists of Citrix’s popular GoToMeeting, Microsoft’s Office, WebEx WebOffice, Microsoft’s Office SharePoint server and Microsoft’s Exchange Server. Oracle’s Collaboration Suite was the first collaboration tool to win this award in 2008 followed by Adobe Acrobat Connect Professional in the 2009 chapter of the same awards. Voting is open from http://www.developersummit.com/gida3_llist.

If there is a particular development environment that you personally endorse to your colleagues or you evangelize about them at the first opportunity you get, here is your chance to vote for it (voting closes April 10 2010) and see it win this prestigious award. Visit the 2010 Great Indian Developer Awards website and cast your vote. It counts!

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Nosh Petigara on Big Table, SimpleDB, CouchDB, MongoDB and more at GIDS 2010

Great Indian Developer Summit 2010 – Gold Standard for India's IT Professional Ecosystem

 

Bangalore, January 22, 2010: As more web developers strive to make their applications scalable we see a shift away from the traditional LAMP stack towards technologies built with a focus on scaling. As part of this shift, a new approach to data storage for the web is needed – the traditional RDBMS are not suited to many of the problems that appear in large scale web applications. Fortunately, a large number of alternatives to the RDBMS have sprung up, each with different goals and approaches to the problem of scalability. Nosh Petigara is coming this summer to India's biggest summit for the software developer ecosystem - Great Indian Developer Summit (http://www.developersummit.com/) to provide a glimpse at some of the reasons that non-relational database systems have become popular recently, and what that means for web developers. It also summarizes some of these systems that have begun to make waves in the web ecosystem, including Big Table, SimpleDB, CouchDB, MongoDB and more. The focus will be on how these systems differ from a traditional RDBMS and on how they differ from each other. We will also examine the problem domains that non-relational database systems (and those discussed in particular) excel at.

 

Nosh Petigara is Director of Product Strategy at 10gen, the company that sponsors and provides commercial support for the open source project MongoDB. Prior to 10gen, Nosh headed product management for OATSystems, a company that delivers RFID-enabled solutions for retailers, consumer product companies, and industrial manufacturers. Nosh is an MBA from INSEAD and a Bachelor's and Master's in Computer Science from MIT.

 

About Great Indian Developer Summit

 

Great Indian Developer Summit is the gold standard for India's software developer ecosystem for gaining exposure to and evaluating new projects, tools, services, platforms, languages, software and standards. Packed with premium knowledge, action plans and advise from been-there-done-it veterans, creators, and visionaries, the 2010 edition of Great Indian Developer Summit features focused sessions, case studies, workshops and power panels that will transform you into a force to reckon with. Featuring 3 co-located conferences: GIDS.NET, GIDS.Web, GIDS.Java and an exclusive day of in-depth tutorials - GIDS.Workshops, from 20 April to 24 April at the IISc campus in Bangalore.

 

At GIDS you'll participate in hundreds of sessions encompassing the full range of Microsoft computing, Java, Agile, RIA, Rich Web, open source/standards, languages, frameworks and platforms, practical tutorials that deep dive into technical skill and best practices, inspirational keynote presentations, an Expo Hall featuring dozens of the latest projects and products activities, engaging networking events, and the interact with the best and brightest of speakers from around the world.

 

For further information on GIDS 2010, please visit the summit on the web http://www.developersummit.com/

 

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Java Persistence Experts Teaches JPA 2.0 at GIDS 2010

Great Indian Developer Summit 2010 – Gold Standard for India's IT Professional Ecosystem

 

Bangalore, January 22, 2010: The introduction of the Java Persistence API signaled the beginning of the end of using proprietary Hibernate or TopLink mapping files and session APIs to persist your business objects to a relational database. While developers have flocked to the new standard and have been happily developing persistence applications on JPA 1.0, the specification has continued to evolve. The JPA 2.0 release adds even more features and provides even more flexibility to app developers than ever. Java Persistence expert Mike Keith is coming back this summer to India's biggest summit for the software developer ecosystem - Great Indian Developer Summit (http://www.developersummit.com/) to teach some of the important advances made by JPA 2.0 and illustrate the new functionality through examples and sample code. He will also impart valuable tips and tricks along the way to help you develop better JPA applications.

 

Mike Keith, a GIDS alumini, was a co-lead of the EJB 3.0 and JPA 1.0 specifications in addition to representing Oracle on the Java EE 5 specification expert group. He co-authored the premier JPA reference book called Pro EJB 3: Java Persistence API and has over 15 years of teaching, research and development experience in object-oriented and distributed systems, specializing in object persistence. He currently works as an architect for Java persistence strategies at Oracle and represents Oracle on the JPA 2.0 (JSR 317) and Java EE 6 (JSR 316) expert groups.

 

About Great Indian Developer Summit

 

Great Indian Developer Summit is the gold standard for India's software developer ecosystem for gaining exposure to and evaluating new projects, tools, services, platforms, languages, software and standards. Packed with premium knowledge, action plans and advise from been-there-done-it veterans, creators, and visionaries, the 2010 edition of Great Indian Developer Summit features focused sessions, case studies, workshops and power panels that will transform you into a force to reckon with. Featuring 3 co-located conferences: GIDS.NET, GIDS.Web, GIDS.Java and an exclusive day of in-depth tutorials - GIDS.Workshops, from 20 April to 24 April at the IISc campus in Bangalore.

 

At GIDS you'll participate in hundreds of sessions encompassing the full range of Microsoft computing, Java, Agile, RIA, Rich Web, open source/standards, languages, frameworks and platforms, practical tutorials that deep dive into technical skill and best practices, inspirational keynote presentations, an Expo Hall featuring dozens of the latest projects and products activities, engaging networking events, and the interact with the best and brightest of speakers from around the world.

 

For further information on GIDS 2010, please visit the summit on the web http://www.developersummit.com/

 

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Venkat Submramaniam Talks on .NET, Java, Agile Programming at India's No.1 Forum for Software Developers

Great Indian Developer Summit 2010 – Biggest Event in Asia for IT Professionals

 

Bangalore, January 15, 2010: Over 6500 attendees have benefited from two game changing editions of Great Indian Developer Summit. In 2010, the biggest independent summit for software developers in India is bringing together over 100 sessions encompassing the full range of Microsoft computing, Java, Agile, RIA, Rich Web, open source/standards, languages, frameworks and platforms, practical tutorials that deep dive into technical skill and best practices, inspirational keynote presentations, an Expo Hall featuring dozens of the latest projects and products activities, Awards to honor software excellence, engaging networking events, and over 80 of the best and brightest of speakers from around the world. The summit will be held 20-23 April 2010 at the IISc in Bangalore (http://www.developersummit.com).

 

Dr. Venkat Subramaniam, a Great Indian Developer Summit Alumni, is coming back this summer to the summit to conduct focused conference sessions, a keynote and a workshop on topics ranging from .NET, Java, Groovy, functional programming to pointy haired bosses and pragmatic programmers.

 

On 20th April, at GIDS .NET Conference, he will delve into what the functional style of programming offers and how you can utilize that using the F# language on the .NET CLR. He will move on to discuss pragmatic ways to deal with dependencies, and how, using mocks, effectively carryout unit tests; the focused session will also cover reasons to use mock vs. not using them, hand tossing mocks, and using frameworks to create them.

 

At the GIDS .Java Conference on 21st April, Venkat will conduct a Jeopardy style presentation, where attendees will drive the topics to discuss various features of Java that require extra care and caution in everyday programming. We will pick a sample code, identify the problems in it, and figure out how to do it right. Later in the day you can attend a session on how to use patterns in Groovy and go beyond the GOF patterns in Groovy and Java. Venkat's next talk will take a deep dive into Generics, introduced in the 1.5 version (Java 5).

 

Venkat's keynote will address the fact that corporate developers have to constantly contend with fallacies often delivered to them as facts. However, each of us has a professional responsibility to be objective and make decisions that will help us and our teams be productive and deliver results. His talk will pick on some fallacies, lay down facts, and discuss how to stay professional and objective in our daily efforts.

 

On 23rd April, at the full-day GIDS .Workshops, Dr. Subramaniam conducts hands-on training about functional programming -- take some familiar problems, solve it using traditional style and then refactor it to functional style. Although the training will use Scala and Erlang as vehicle to get the examples working, you don't have to be familiar with the syntax. You will participate to write pseudo code in these styles and the speaker will help you translate those into practical working examples in these languages.

 

More over, you can interact with Venkat at the summit to gain from his significant experience in architecture, design, and development of software applications, and in having  mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia. Overall seats are limited, so register early for the conference's focused sessions and workshops here: http://www.developersummit.com/registration.html.

 

About Great Indian Developer Summit

 

Great Indian Developer Summit is the gold standard for India's software developer ecosystem for gaining exposure to and evaluating new projects, tools, services, platforms, languages, software and standards. Packed with premium knowledge, action plans and advise from been-there-done-it veterans, creators, and visionaries, the 2010 edition of Great Indian Developer Summit features focused sessions, case studies, workshops and power panels that will transform you into a force to reckon with. Featuring 3 co-located conferences: GIDS.NET, GIDS.Web, GIDS.Java and an exclusive day of in-depth tutorials - GIDS.Workshops, from 20 April to 24 April at the IISc campus in Bangalore.

 

At GIDS you'll participate in hundreds of sessions encompassing the full range of Microsoft computing, Java, Agile, RIA, Rich Web, open source/standards, languages, frameworks and platforms, practical tutorials that deep dive into technical skill and best practices, inspirational keynote presentations, an Expo Hall featuring dozens of the latest projects and products activities, engaging networking events, and the interact with the best and brightest of speakers from around the world.

 

For further information on GIDS 2010, please visit the summit on the web http://www.developersummit.com/

 

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