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http://blogs.sun.com/pennstate/date/20080227 Wednesday February 27, 2008

Monday Part I

Enter Monday morning. After a very lively breakfast, we met with Gary who took us to the Borgia Room on the Mezzanine level to meet with the Sun Developer Sites team, who are charged with the design and maintenance of the web presence of sites under the developers.sun.com portal. They were interested in gaining insight from us regarding the Sun Student Developers' resource page.

CA'S AND THE SDN SITE TEAM

This was a great chance for us to have some direct input on a valuable Sun student resource, and we took it! Brainstorming between the 5 of us as Campus Ambassadors and the Site Development Team produced many great ideas, some of which are listed here:


  1. Region-specific language choices and localization for various regions and cultures

  2. The ability to personalize the site's main page to individual tastes and preferences

  3. Possible social networking/student community enhancements

What did we miss? Is there something else you would like to see with the developer's site for students, faculty or otherwise? Let us know by commenting to this post!

Posted at 05:03AM Feb 27, 2008 by Gregory Corbin in Sun  |  Comments[1]

http://blogs.sun.com/pennstate/date/20080222 Friday February 22, 2008

Sun Worldwide Education and Research Conference

From February 25-27 I will be in San Francisco attending the Sun Worldwide Education and Research Conference! I am honored to be selected to represent not only the Sun Campus Ambassador team from the Northeast but Penn State as well at this event. I will be serving, with my fellow campus ambassadors from around the globe, as a 'roving reporter', conducting interviews of attendees and presenters on the subject of Education 3.0. The specific topics to be covered includes but is not limited to the following:


  • Online Communities and Education

  • The Digital Campus Architecture

  • Immersive Education

  • Intellectual Property

  • Education and Industry Partnership




I will be posting materials, including pictures from the event, here on my blog so check back here next week for news of the event as it happens! For more information, visit the following link:

WWERC

Posted at 08:52AM Feb 22, 2008 by Gregory Corbin in Sun  |  Comments[0]

http://blogs.sun.com/pennstate/date/20080125 Friday January 25, 2008

Sun/AMD Presentation on Sun Servers

-Exclusive event- see here for details...

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Posted at 11:49AM Jan 25, 2008 by Gregory Corbin in Sun  | 

http://blogs.sun.com/pennstate/date/20080116 Wednesday January 16, 2008

Sun to aquire MYSQL

MySQL® will become part of the Sun Microsystems family in the near future.

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Posted at 01:21PM Jan 16, 2008 by Gregory Corbin in Sun  |  Comments[1]

http://blogs.sun.com/pennstate/date/20071127 Tuesday November 27, 2007

NetBeans™ 6.0 Introduction

I will be conducting a seminar/demonstration of NetBeans™ 6.0 on campus. Here are the details:


  • Date: Thursday November 29th

  • Time: 6:00 - 7:00 PM

  • Place: Room 110, IST building, Penn State University Park

  • Subject: Introduction to Netbeans™ 6.0 Beta IDE

  • Focus: Desktop Applications

The invitation is open to all Students, Faculty and other interested parties as well. Space is limited, but we will accommodate as best we can for everyone. Follow the links below to get more information on the NetBeans™ IDE or to download it (free!) to check it out first-hand in advance. Hope to see you there!


NetBeans 6.0 Homepage
NetBeans 6.0 Docpage
NetBeans 6.0 Download

Posted at 01:34AM Nov 27, 2007 by Gregory Corbin in Sun  |  Comments[0]

http://blogs.sun.com/pennstate/date/20071113 Tuesday November 13, 2007

Project Indiana

Just got my first taste of the new OpenSolaris™ Operating System developer's release from Project Indiana over the weekend. First thoughts? Indeed impressed. I downloaded the live CD image (link below), burnt it to a CD, inserted, rebooted and fired it up.

One of the first things I noticed upon logging into the live disc was the cleanness of the GUI desktop. Anyone who has ever purchased a pre-built x86 machine has experienced the headache of "bloatware". Translation: a virtual cornucopia of half-baked applications, program trial versions, borderline adware/spyware and other software that serves little purpose but to clutter the desktop and cause users trouble during removal (I won't mention any names; they know who they are). Don't get me wrong; there is no lack of software within the bounds of Project Indiana. It's just that the lion's share exists to serve a truly useful purpose! And it's not sprawled all across your desktop like the floor of a messy dorm room either :)

For example, Mozilla Firefox® (web browser) and Mozilla Thunderbird™ (mail client), two of my personal favorites, come pre-installed. In addition, the universal instant messenger client Pidgin (formerly Gaim), which covers 13 different IM protocols, including Google™ Talk, AIM®, MSN® and Yahoo!® is inside as well. I could go on about the networking daemon NAM (Network Auto Magic) or the disk partitioner GParted, but I'll leave those to a later post.

I'll be holding seminars and presentations regarding the OpenSolaris OS on the University Park campus during both the Fall and upcoming Spring semesters. Wanna get started right away? Here are a few links to get you started:
Project Indiana Home Page
Get the OpenSolaris Developer Preview
Hardware Compatibility Tool
Documentation

Posted at 12:27AM Nov 13, 2007 by Gregory Corbin in Sun  |  Comments[1]