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Tech Seminar @ IIT Roorkee

Yesterday, we had a seminar on Sun Technologies at IIT Roorkee. I spoke along the lines of my session at IIT Bombay last week. I was accompanied by Aakash who spoke on Solaris and its features.

Posted at 12:00AM Feb 01, 2007 by Abhishek Mahanty in Sun  | 

Sun @ TechFest 2007, IIT Bombay

Techfest 2007 - IIT Bombay's Annual International Science and Technology festival began yesterday (Jan 26th) with much fanfare. The beautiful campus near the Powai lake was jostling with Students and Industry folks alike. Sun is one of the key sponsors of the festival and has a lot of presence during the entire three-day event - Technical sessions (interestingly titled Sun Lectures by the TechFest folks ), Quizzes etc.

Posted at 05:45AM Jan 27, 2007 by Abhishek Mahanty in Sun  |  Comments[0]

NIIT Java Seminar @ Pune, Mumbai and Hyderabad

NIIT conducted Java Seminars in Pune, Mumbai and Hyderabad and had invited me to deliver a talk on Java.

Posted at 02:30PM Jan 11, 2007 by Abhishek Mahanty in Sun  |  Comments[1]

Cool Sun Ads

Just found some nice Sun advertisements on YouTube... really funny!

The featured guy is simply hilarious
My personal favourite is the one with the "self-cooling datacenter"

Check it out yourself..

Posted at 11:35PM Oct 26, 2006 by Abhishek Mahanty in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Sun University Days @ Delhi College of Engineering

Sun University Days was held at Delhi College of Engineering yesterday. It was an exciting event with 250+ attendees, mostly students. This was my second visit to DCE which is situated at the outskirts of Delhi. I had two sessions. I spoke on - "Technology Innovations in Java" and "Java EE 5 - Simplifying Application Development".

Posted at 11:20PM Oct 11, 2006 by Abhishek Mahanty in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Sun University Days @ BMSCE, Bangalore

I just came back from Sun University Days held at BMS College of Engineering (BMSCE), Bangalore and let me just say it rocked! It was a two-day event and was attended by 150+ members (Students/Academia).

Posted at 08:10PM Sep 28, 2006 by Abhishek Mahanty in Sun  |  Comments[1]

Asterix and Obelix find friends @ Sun

Asterix and Obelix from that famous village in Gaul have found some new friends at Sun.

Posted at 02:07AM Sep 22, 2006 by Abhishek Mahanty in Sun  |  Comments[0]

IEEE Gujarat J2EE Workshop

IEEE (Gujarat Chapter) had organised a two-day workshop on J2EE (or Java EE to be more correct) and had invited me to talk about the latest features of Java EE 5. So I decided to talk on EJB 3.0 , Java Persistence API and JSF.

Posted at 12:18PM Sep 19, 2006 by Abhishek Mahanty in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Minority Report UI - The Java way...

Well if you liked the cool UI in the movie "The Minority Report", you got to see this demo https://lg3d-core.dev.java.net/files/documents/1834/33274/gomonkey-divx-small.avi

Project Looking Glass is one cool Java application!

Posted at 12:00AM Aug 29, 2006 by Abhishek Mahanty in Technical  |  Comments[0]

WinXP cmd shell window problem

Win XP: start->run->cmd playing truant
Problem opening the cmd shell window from Start -> Run

The cmd shell window appears for a brief moment but terminates automatically.[Read More]

Posted at 11:48PM Aug 26, 2006 by Abhishek Mahanty in Misc  |  Comments[10]

Sun Microsystems-NIIT Partnership

Sun Microsystems has tied up with NIIT (India's leading IT education & training company) for providing Java and Solaris courses that would help students prepare for Sun Certifications. [Read More]

Posted at 03:09PM Aug 24, 2006 by Abhishek Mahanty in Sun  |  Comments[5]

Sun University Days @ IIT, Roorkee

I was at IIT Roorkee last week participating in the recently held Sun University Days. It was great to be back among the students... couldn't help getting all nostalgic

Posted at 09:10AM Apr 27, 2006 by Abhishek Mahanty in Sun  |  Comments[0]

Abhi's Weblog Debut!

After much procrastination, I finally decide to write a webblog!

Well let me give a quick intro about me (before I write a decent aboutme.html!)

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Posted at 09:15PM Apr 13, 2006 by Abhishek Mahanty in Personal  |  Comments[0]