Microsoft DreamSpark Yatra coming to Kochi

 

  
 

 Student Chapter of K-MUG is conducting Dreamspark Yatra at Kochi in association with Microsoft. The focus of the event is to help students to know more about the latest technologies and which in turn helps in kick start their careers.K-MUG students chapter is lead by the Microsoft Student Partners – the student volunteers who are specially selected by Microsoft on an annual basis.

About Dreamspark Yatra

 

Dreamspark Yatra (DSY) is a Microsoft India initiative empowering students who are passionate about technology to get an insightful overview of the current trends in the software industry. As a part of this national campaign, we bring the brightest students and professionals of the IT world and put them right in front of you - to discuss about technology, careers in computer science, give technical presentations and some exciting demos. For more details, please visit Dreamspark Yatra and for more details about the Kochi event can be found here Dreamspark Yatra – Kochi

Internet Explorer 9 Released

Microsoft today released its latest version of their browser, Internet Explorer 9 to the world wide audience at the SXSW event. Its been already the most downloaded beta version of any software product released by Microsoft and already been downloaded 40 million time.The beta version and platform preview versions of it were available for the last year or so and final release doesn't have significant changes when compared the RC version

IE 9 can be downloaded from the official IE 9 site www.beautyoftheweb.com and is compatible only for Windows Vista/7 . The main features include HTML 5 compliance, fast, standards compliant, trustworthy and puts more focus on the website rather than the web browser, which helps for a better browsing experience.

For more details and review, please visit the sites given below

http://www.neowin.net/news/internet-explorer-9-rtm-now-available

http://arstechnica.com/microsoft/reviews/2011/03/the-most-modern-browser-there-is-internet-explorer-9-reviewed.ars

http://www.myfoxmemphis.com/dpps/news/microsoft-launches-internet-explorer-9-dpgoha-20110315-fc_12327455

.NET Framework - Overview

 

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User Group Meeting - 12th March 2011 - Kochi

Venue:

Orion India Systems Pvt Ltd, 103, 2nd floor, Tejomaya, Info park SEZ, Kakkanad, Kochin-682030  

Agenda                                           

                                 

09:30 - 09:40 Community updates

09:40 - 10:30 Introduction to Windows Azure

10:30 - 11:15 Pattern Oriented Software development using .NET

11:15 - 11:30 Tea Break (15 min)

11:30 - 12:15 Developing web apps with ASP.NET MVC 3 and EF Code First

12.15 - 01:00 Ask the experts

For registration, please visit K-MUG site @ www.k-mug.org

Speakers

	Saravana Kumar  is Working as a Senior Software Engineer in Orion India Systems Pvt. Ltd, cochin. He has 4 years of Experience in IT Industry,  Expertise in developing applications using   Microsoft Technologies and also in Interwoven. He writes programming articles in his website http://www.wcftutorial.net.

	Praseed Pai is a well known software architect from Kochi,Kerala. His areas of interest include Enterprise software development (using C#/.net) ,Engineering Software development(CAD/CAM/C++),Cross Platform C++ development (Windows/Linux/Mac), Computer Graphics, Computational Finance and Domain specific programming languages. At present, he is associated with Cabot solutions, Kochi. His blog can be accessed here.   His open source compiler SLANG4.net got many fans
	Shiju Varghese, Microsoft MVP in ASP.NET, is a Technical Architect on the Microsoft .Net technology stack with a focus on web application development and Domain-Driven Design. He has been working with .Net Technologies since beta version. Shiju focuses on C#, ASP.Net MVC, Entity Framework, Windows Azure, REST, WCF and Unity. Shiju holds number of Microsoft certifications including MCP, MCAD, MCTS, and MCPD: Web.  He blogs at http://weblogs.asp.net/shijuvarghese/

Mobiles Mobiles Mobiles

 History of mobile technology and overview of platforms available for developing apps for mobiles

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Microsoft WebCamp at Kochi on Feb 18, 2011

I am attending the webcamp happening at Kochi on Feb 18, 2011. If anyone is interested, please see the details below.

09:00am - 10:00am     Registration
10:00am - 10:30am     Opening Keynote     

                                           Nahas Mohammed,Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu
10:30am - 11:30am     Introduction to WebMatrix    

                                           Nahas Mohammed
11:30am - 12:30pm     Forms and Data Access     

                                           Nahas Mohammed
12:30pm - 01:30pm     Lunch Break
01:30pm - 02:30pm     Helpers and Publishing     

                                           Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu
02:30pm - 03:30pm     DotNetNuke on WebMatrix     

                                           Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu
03:30pm - 04:00pm     Audience Q&A and Closing Note     

                                           Nahas Mohammed,Ramaprasanna Chellamuthu

Venue Details

City        Kochin
Date       18th February, 2011
Venue     Abad Plaza
Address   M.G Road, Cochin-682 035
RSVP      080-4089 7010, +91-96636 82120

More details at http://www.microsoft.com/india/events/webcamps/day_events.aspx
 

My First Post Of The Year

Since I was busy with work at my workplace, I was unable to spend time for updating my blogs. We are about to complete a month of the new year and I decided to post my first article of the year.

Update on IE 9

There are unconfirmed reports in the media that Microsoft is planning the public release of Internet Explorer 9 RC on February 14. The beta was made available to the public last year and its been already downloaded 10 million time, making it the most for any beta version of Internet Explorer. Its been rumoured that the final version will incorporate many changes which were not present in the beta version. With the release of IE9,Microsoft is banking on it to gain lost grounds from Chrome and Firefox.

Windows Phone 7

Microsoft released first update to the Windows Phone 7 platform this month and the features include the much needed Copy & Paste functionality, better market place search and faster application and games. The platform is slowly attaining a global reach with more and more manufacturers releasing the WP7 devices world wide. It had also run into several hiccups, the phantom data usage being the most significant one. But MS was quick to respond in resolving the matter, which was not a bug and was attributed to a third party service that caused larger than expected data usage.

Also there were news that some developers has got payments from Windows Phone Marketplace, which came to light through some posting by the developers itself. Earlier Microsoft has said that they will be depositing the money by the last week of January.