Sun's Linda Skrocki: A Leading Corporate Social Media Evangelist

In "The New Robert Scobles," Marshall Kirkpatrick of ReadWriteWeb names senior engineering program manager Linda Skrocki of Sun as one of the seven leading corporate social media evangelists today. Congratulations, Linda!

Posted at 12:43PM Apr 15, 2008 by GD in Sun  |  Comments[0]

New to Java Programming Center: For Young Developers

Programming isn't just for adults any longer. The New to Java Programming Center has resources for young developers.

Posted at 12:32PM Apr 14, 2008 by GD in Core Java  |  Comments[0]

Russian Developers Have Their Say: Janice Heiss Reports From St. Petersburg

SDN staff writer Janice J. Heiss recently published her impressions of Tech Days 2008 in St. Petersburg, Russia: "None of the students I talked to seems to have the luxury of being casual about their future in the way that many American young people seem to be. Economic necessity seemed to dictate their technology preferences more than anything else." Read more.

Posted at 07:31AM Apr 11, 2008 by GD in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Student News Feed on Planets.sun.com

Get the latest news and technical tips from Sun campus ambassadors with the new student news feed on Sun's blog aggregator, planets.sun.com.

Posted at 10:56AM Apr 10, 2008 by GD in Students  |  Comments[0]

News From Sun Campus Ambassadors: Denmark, California, and the Czech Republic

Campus ambassadors Sidsel Jensen, Christopher Leung, Tomas Hrasky, and Miroslav Kopecky wrote about their tech talks and other experiences.

Posted at 12:29PM Mar 28, 2008 by GD in Students  |  Comments[0]

SDN Channel CampusCast: Meet John Edstrom From Virginia Tech

Find out how Virginia Tech students are learning about cutting-edge technologies like Project Darkstar, Sun SPOT, and OpenSolaris. Sun campus ambassador John Edstrom has been evangelizing sun technologies through his many successful tech talks. Listen to this interview from SDN Channel's CampusCast.

Posted at 11:19AM Mar 28, 2008 by GD in Students  |  Comments[0]

Ruby Developer Resource Center

The new Ruby Developer Resource Center has just gone live. It offers downloads, documentation, news feeds, blogs, screencasts, and learning trails to help developers build applications using Ruby, JRuby, and Ruby on Rails. Check it out.

Posted at 03:07PM Mar 27, 2008 by GD in Sun Developer Network  |  Comments[0]

News From Sun Campus Ambassadors: Two Have Earned SCJA Certification

Two Sun campus ambassadors have passed the exam for Sun Certified Java Associate (SCJA). 

Posted at 12:33PM Mar 12, 2008 by GD in Students  |  Comments[1]

Video Interviews From WWERC 2008

Sun campus ambassador Kumar Abhishek is at WWERC 2008 this week in San Francisco, and he has posted these video interviews:

• Zack Urlocker, executive VP of MySQL
  
• Joe Hartley: for students and teachers
• Kevin Roebuck on Project Wonderland

Posted at 08:00AM Feb 27, 2008 by GD in Students  |  Comments[0]

Sun Campus Ambassadors in San Francisco, California

We met five Sun campus ambassadors in San Francisco yesterday during a break from the 2008 Sun Worldwide Education and Research Conference (WWERC 2008). Read more:

• Kumar Abhishek, SASTRA University, Thanjavur, India
  Abhishek's WWERC blog
  
• Greg Corbin, Penn State, Pennsylvania
  
• Vincent Yilong Ding, Guangzhou, People's Republic of China
  Vincent's Chinese-language blog
  
• Sergey Pisarenko, Göteborg, Sweden
  
• Ezequiel Singer, Buenos Aires, Argentina
  
• Sun Campus Ambassadors Program
  
• Sun Student Portal
  

Posted at 09:45AM Feb 26, 2008 by GD in Students  |  Comments[0]

Sun Tech Days in Hyderabad, India (Feb. 27-29)

Sun writers are reporting on Sun Tech Days from Hyderabad this week. Check out the Tech Days blog for the latest news.

Posted at 10:31AM Feb 25, 2008 by GD in Sun  |  Comments[1]

New Sun Developer Network Hub for Russia

The newly redesigned SDN home page for Russia is now live. Thanks to Philip Torchinsky, Eugene Budko, Igor Nekrestyanov, Leonid Lenyashin, Petr Panteleev, and many others for their part in making it happen. Visit SDN's Russian-language home page.

Posted at 10:03AM Feb 25, 2008 by GD in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Interview With Java Champion Cay Horstmann

Java Champion Cay Horstmann, a computer science professor and author of noted books on Java programming, discusses needed platform improvements, developer challenges, and ways to inspire students. Read the interview.

Posted at 10:15AM Feb 22, 2008 by GD in Core Java  |  Comments[0]

Will you be the one to earn Sun's 500,000 certification?

Sun is nearing a major milestone in the number of certifications granted and is searching the globe to find the lucky IT professional who will earn the 500,000th certification. It's no wonder that Sun is approaching half a million certifications with industry-recognized certifications in Java technology, the most prominent developer certification program in the world. To commemorate this milestone, get certified in February or March 2008 and receive a small gift from Sun.

http://www.sun.com/training/certification/500k.xml

Posted at 02:56PM Feb 15, 2008 by SDN Program News Staff: LH in Training and Learning  |  Comments[10]

Free Event: Oakland, Calif., Digital Inclusion Summit (Friday, Feb. 15)

Help bridge the digital divide in and near Oakland, California. Come to this free event to learn how.

Oakland Digital Inclusion Summit
Friday, February 15, 10:00 AM
http://media-alliance.stores.yahoo.net/intomac6hrme.html

Posted at 09:41AM Feb 12, 2008 by GD in Events  |  Comments[0]