My End of Season Thoughts……

 

Another year is going to say good bye to us and its been an eventful year for me. For me, this year started off in the worst possible manner, in the causality of a hospital. Sitting there, I thought it was not a good omen and expected lot of worst things in the days ahead. But to my surprise it turned out to be one of the most interesting time in my life. I ventured in to many new things like blogging, got involved with a technical community, delivered a presentation on WP7 and so on. My blog was up and running this and got over a thousand visitors. A big thank you to all and expects a lot in the coming years also.

Also my long cherished dream of having an SLR was finally fulfilled this year by a friend of mine who bought it from overseas. Then there were a lot of weekend getaways with my friends from college and office. This year also helped me to network with many people from Vijay Raj, an active blogger widely known as msigeek, Janakiraman from MS, Sreeju, Anoop aka AmazedSaint, Jairam, Ramprasanna, again a MS guy who is very familiar these days with this adventures in robotics, Anuraj, Shalvin, Yanesh, Saravana Kumar, Bijith, Safil, Shiju, Satheesh, Saleem and the list goes on. Thanks a lot guys, loved every second spent with you.

Speaking of technology, we experienced an eventful year. We finally the saw the uprising of tablets and smartphones which are poised to dethrone PC’s and laptops in the coming decade.Its that time of year when we take a stock of the developments happened in the past year and here from my perspective the end of the season accolades goes to……

Community Tech Days Kochi, October 23, 2010

K-Mug organized the Kerala edition of the Community Tech Days at Kochi on 23^rd of October 2010. I arrived at Kochi a day before, on 22^nd and stayed at my friend’s place. I started my journey to the venue by boarding a bus bound to Kaloor from Kakkanad and the heavens opened up when I was about to get down from the bus. So I took an auto from the bus stop to the venue, which was behind the international stadium where the cricket match between India and Australia got cancelled recently and in my mind I was little bit worried about these conditions affecting the crowd participation .



I reached the venue around 8.40 AM, welcomed by Sathish, who like me landed at Kochi a day before at the registration desk. Sreeju was busy with finalizing the last minute arrangements and Vinod, Raj, Shalvin and Praseed were doing a last minute check on their presentation. So without wasting much time, I joined Sathish in the registration desk, which was getting busier by each minute. Although rain had played a spoilsport in the morning, it didn’t damaged the participants spirit as they turned up in huge numbers.

Although it was planned to start the event by 09.30 AM,  but delay in completing the registrations meant that the inauguration ceremony started only by 09.45 AM. Sreeju welcomed all the speakers and participants on behalf of K-Mug and then intimated us about the sad demise of Raj, passed away on .. due to an heart attack. He was looking after the academic activities of K-Mug and ever present face in all the activities of K-Mug.  So as a mark of respect Sreeju requested all to observe a minute silence in memory of fallen comrade.  

After that Sreeju went on to give a brief talk about K-Mug and its activities to the audience and then called Vinod on to stage. Vinod, a developer evangelist works with Microsoft Corporation is an expert in SQL Server. He thanked all the participants for making the community a big hit and an active one, which in turn has helped K-Mug to bag the Best Community Impact Award for the year 2010. Vinod then went on to present the trophy on behalf of Microsoft to K-Mug office bearers, led by Sreejumon. 

Community Tech Day - 23rd Oct 2010 - Kochi

K-MUG,one of the most successful technical community in India, is organizing Community Tech Days(CTD) in Kochi on 23rd Oct, 2010

Where
IMA House,
J. N. International Stadium Road,
Palarivattom P.O.,
Cochin, Kerala 

Agenda             

08:45 - 09:15 Registration Confirmation

09:15 - 09:30 Welcome and Community update by Sreejumon & Vinod

09:30 - 10:00 Plunge into Mono by Praseed

10:00 - 11:00 Telerik Productivity Tools by Raj

11:00 - 11:15 Tea Break (15 min)

11.15 - 12:15 T-SQL Tips and Tricks with SQL Server by Vinod

12.15 - 01:00 Entity Framework 4 by Shalvin

01:00 - 01:45 Lunch Break (45 min)

01.45 - 02:45 Security Auditing and Accountability under Windows 2008 by Manu

02:45 - 03:30 NoSQL databases in .NET Apps by Shiju

03:30 - 03:45 Tea Break (15 min)

03:45 - 04:30 Generics - A Revisit by Yanesh

04:30 - 05:15 .NET Serialization And XML by Praseed

05.15 - 05:30 Closing Ceremony

For more details please visit the K-MUG events page .

For registrations, click here or 

if you have a Live ID, then go to Community Tech Days Site