It was just 5 months back we had an Innovation Days event at Kochi from Microsoft. Seeing the great response from the IT enthusiasts at Kochi, Microsoft has come back today with yet another session packed event. This time the location was at Taj Residency at Marine Drive. Kochi techies showed their interest by turning up in large numbers, making it a house-full event.
The day started with a keynote address from Vikram Rajkondawar, Architect Advisor at Microsoft (India). He spoke in detail about the Software + Services mantra Microsoft is transitioning to, and clarified myths around Cloud computing and briefly explained Windows Azure and other latest technologies. There was a Live Mesh demo that showed connected devices (two laptops and a mobile) synchronizing files between them.
The session on SQL Server performance issues by Praveen was in-depth as he discussed internals of SQL Server and how a query is parsed, algebrized and optimized before execution. He did mention that from SQL Server 2005 onwards it doesn’t matter if you are using stored procedures or inline SQL queries as both gives similar results on a performance point of view.
Nahas Mohammed did a short session on Internet Explorer 8 and demonstrated its new features like Accelerators and Web Slices.
Chandrashekar’s session on .NET debugging tools helped in understanding some of those rarely used, but highly useful debugging tools like Fusion Log Viewer (fuslogvw.exe), NGen, SoS.dll, ILDAsm, ILAsm, and Managed Debugging Assistance (MDA).
Praveen concluded the event with a session on Rich Internet Applications (RIA) and spoke about ASP.NET MVC, AJAX, jQuery integration and Silverlight.
Between the technical tracks, there was a short session on Innovate On partnership program that Microsoft launched last time. A guy from TIE (The IndUs Entrepreneurs) spoke about their institution and inspired us to think on entrepreneurship.
There were lots of goodies (T-Shirts, books) given out besides a great lunch. I enjoyed the overall event and could meet many friends/ex-colleagues as well as some new people from the Kochi developer community. As I had registered for the Innovate On program last time, I received my first kit containing a T-Shirt, Technology Specialist certificates, and CDs containing technical resources.
Showing posts with label Tech Events. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Tech Events. Show all posts
Thursday, November 06, 2008
Friday, May 30, 2008
Microsoft Innovation Days at Kochi
I attended the Microsoft Innovation Days event at Le Meridien Hotel, Kochi today. Innovation Days are day-long free events filled with technical and business sessions, during which one can learn about the Microsoft technology roadmap and are introduced to upcoming technologies. Microsoft also presents Partner Programs and benefits for ISV partners.
This year the event series in India started on 16-May-2008 at Chennai and is concluding at Pune on 02-Jun-2008. Besides Cochin, Ahmedabad is the only other city to host this event. One source from Microsoft indicated that the big cities like Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi are getting 'abused' by events and the number of no-shows after signing up is increasing. That made them to choose Tier-II cities in India for such events where they are getting a very good response.
The day here started with a session by Nahas Mohammed on 'Building Rich Internet Applications Using Silverlight 2.0'. At the end of it, my colleague Jim Mangaly did a great presentation showcasing 'Lithium', a virtual vehicle gallery and showroom application developed in Silverlight. He explained how various awesome technologies in Silverlight were taken to full advantage for the development of this application. The 200 plus technology enthusiasts in town were quiet impressed with the presentation. Since our company IdentityMine is mostly focusing on US market, we are not so well known here. But the participation in events like this are slowly changing the scene.
The next session 'Building high performance .NET applications' by Harish Ranganathan focused on tips and tricks to make .NET applications perform better. He also did a demo of 'ASP.NET Dynamic Data' which is part of '.NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta'. It was scary to see him build a web site to manage all the data operations (add/edit/delete) for all the tables in a database just by pointing to a LINQ to SQL data context. The wizard created website was complete with proper navigation and validation.
After a heavy and delicious lunch, there were two more interesting sessions named 'LINQ: Working with data naturally!' and 'Getting the Best from SQL Box: Performance Tuning SQL Server'.
Microsoft also announced their partner program called Innovate On for Kochi. They distributed a lot of goodies for the early birds and for the question askers.
This year the event series in India started on 16-May-2008 at Chennai and is concluding at Pune on 02-Jun-2008. Besides Cochin, Ahmedabad is the only other city to host this event. One source from Microsoft indicated that the big cities like Bangalore, Mumbai and Delhi are getting 'abused' by events and the number of no-shows after signing up is increasing. That made them to choose Tier-II cities in India for such events where they are getting a very good response.
The day here started with a session by Nahas Mohammed on 'Building Rich Internet Applications Using Silverlight 2.0'. At the end of it, my colleague Jim Mangaly did a great presentation showcasing 'Lithium', a virtual vehicle gallery and showroom application developed in Silverlight. He explained how various awesome technologies in Silverlight were taken to full advantage for the development of this application. The 200 plus technology enthusiasts in town were quiet impressed with the presentation. Since our company IdentityMine is mostly focusing on US market, we are not so well known here. But the participation in events like this are slowly changing the scene.
The next session 'Building high performance .NET applications' by Harish Ranganathan focused on tips and tricks to make .NET applications perform better. He also did a demo of 'ASP.NET Dynamic Data' which is part of '.NET Framework 3.5 Service Pack 1 Beta'. It was scary to see him build a web site to manage all the data operations (add/edit/delete) for all the tables in a database just by pointing to a LINQ to SQL data context. The wizard created website was complete with proper navigation and validation.
After a heavy and delicious lunch, there were two more interesting sessions named 'LINQ: Working with data naturally!' and 'Getting the Best from SQL Box: Performance Tuning SQL Server'.
Microsoft also announced their partner program called Innovate On for Kochi. They distributed a lot of goodies for the early birds and for the question askers.
Wednesday, August 08, 2007
At Microsoft With Miguel Castro
Attended one more .NET User Group meeting from here at Dallas. This one was from Dallas Dot Net User Group which meets regularly at Microsoft Office in Las Colinas, which is very near to my place.
The speaker was Miguel Castro of SteelBlue Solutions and he did a wonderful presentation about Extensibility Design & Patterns to a full pack of audience of more than 100!
He talked about designing applications for extensibility to avoid breaking the code when the customer demands more features to existing applications. He demonstrated a lot of code samples to showcase Strategy Design Pattern based Providers concept, Plug-Ins and Modules.
Apart from the interesting session, the User Group coordinators also conducted a lucky draw and some real lucky ones won stuff like T-Shirts, .NET Books, etc while I had to be satisfied with pizzas and some copies of ASP.NET Pro and CoDe magazines.
Thursday, November 02, 2006
Meeting Scott Gu From Dallas
I found this out from internet. The original creator of ASP and ASP.NET guru, Scott Guthrie is coming to Dallas to present the latest technologies from Microsoft. He is a General Manager within Microsoft’s Developer Division. The presentation was hosted by North Dallas Dot Net User Group and was a free event after work time at 6 PM with free dinner.
Didn’t think any further and decided to attend, though the place was bit far from my office. Attempt to get few colleagues along also failed. But my friends came from Commerce.
The session was very lively and interesting. He covered tips and tricks in ASP.NET and LINQ in detail. The presentations are available here
Photos by Giovanni Gallucci of www.TheAgencyBlog.com.
Didn’t think any further and decided to attend, though the place was bit far from my office. Attempt to get few colleagues along also failed. But my friends came from Commerce.
The session was very lively and interesting. He covered tips and tricks in ASP.NET and LINQ in detail. The presentations are available here
Photos by Giovanni Gallucci of www.TheAgencyBlog.com.
Monday, December 12, 2005
Bill Gates at Bangalore
“You have seen him on billboards… you have seen him on TV… you have seen him in news papers…. And now…. See him…. Live!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!....... Billlllllllllllll Gaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaates!!!!!!”
And there he is… slowly walking to the center stage… through the cloudy smokes in the background… that gave him an outlook of a super hero… and of course, he was welcomed like one… with cheers and screams and applause… that made him say “This is the most liveliest crowd I have ever seen”!
The 5000 strong developer community in Bangalore then settled down, listening with all ears to their idol and super model.
This was the first time, I am attending an event of this kind, and the experience was overwhelming. Microsoft’s Ready Launch Tour 2005 on December 9th at Palace Grounds in Bangalore to launch the products Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and Biztalk Server 2006 was indeed a show of its kind. The number of security check points at the venue itself is a proof for that. I have been examined by five or more security persons, which included metal detector checks and frisking the body.
Bill’s speech was more or less like a technical presentation, as most of the time, he focused on the exciting new features of the products he launched. Then there were detailed demonstrations by his team on each product that included working samples and presentations.
Bill Gates appeared again on stage… this time to answer some selected questions from developers. He looked more energetic and the session was lively, unlike his previous speech. He mentioned about his ‘Upma’ breakfast and said he enjoyed it. He still does snippets coding to understand the latest languages like C#, but however it was in 1983, he did complete coding for a product. When asked about cricket, he said he is happy that the Indian cricket team is using a Windows MediaCenter PC to watch their opponent’s movements closely!
After the event, the participants were given a carry bag containing CDs and DVDs of trial versions of these latest softwares and some product brochures besides a waist pouch as gift.
And there he is… slowly walking to the center stage… through the cloudy smokes in the background… that gave him an outlook of a super hero… and of course, he was welcomed like one… with cheers and screams and applause… that made him say “This is the most liveliest crowd I have ever seen”!
The 5000 strong developer community in Bangalore then settled down, listening with all ears to their idol and super model.
This was the first time, I am attending an event of this kind, and the experience was overwhelming. Microsoft’s Ready Launch Tour 2005 on December 9th at Palace Grounds in Bangalore to launch the products Visual Studio 2005, SQL Server 2005 and Biztalk Server 2006 was indeed a show of its kind. The number of security check points at the venue itself is a proof for that. I have been examined by five or more security persons, which included metal detector checks and frisking the body.
Bill’s speech was more or less like a technical presentation, as most of the time, he focused on the exciting new features of the products he launched. Then there were detailed demonstrations by his team on each product that included working samples and presentations.
Bill Gates appeared again on stage… this time to answer some selected questions from developers. He looked more energetic and the session was lively, unlike his previous speech. He mentioned about his ‘Upma’ breakfast and said he enjoyed it. He still does snippets coding to understand the latest languages like C#, but however it was in 1983, he did complete coding for a product. When asked about cricket, he said he is happy that the Indian cricket team is using a Windows MediaCenter PC to watch their opponent’s movements closely!
After the event, the participants were given a carry bag containing CDs and DVDs of trial versions of these latest softwares and some product brochures besides a waist pouch as gift.
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