Friday November 03, 2006
Sun Guru – Faculty Empowerment Program@Sun
Sun recently held a two day session for faculties from various colleges and universities as part of their faculty empowerment program, "Sun Guru".
Main motive behind "Sun Guru" is to help faculties from various colleges/Universities build expertise in Sun's Open source technologies eg Java,Solaris and to increase awareness & adoption of Sun technologies.
Sun intend to impart training on industry leading technologies as part of this program. Faculties will also get an opportunity to present at Sun Tech days and other Sun events.
Below you find the content covered under Java Foundation Training -
> Overview of NetBeans IDE
> Building rich client applications using Swing
> Development of web application using Servlets and JSP
> Development of web application using JSF
> Using UML 2.0 to design Java applications
> Java EE Business Tier technologies
> Component communication using MDB and JMS technologies
> Building a online shopping application using Java EE technology
Srinidhi, Jeevan and Myself were part of the training.
I took a session on "Development of web application using Servlet, JSP & JSF"
Below is the Presentation in pdf format.
Devlepment_Of_Web_App_SunGuru.pdf
Friday October 13, 2006
Sun Launches Campus Ambassador Program
Sun has recently launched a Campus Ambassador Program. As a part of this program students from approx 170 universities in 30 countries gets an opportunity to charge up as an evangelist who will introduce Sun platforms to a whole range of academic developers.
Technologies and open source projects included in the program are
> Solaris10 Operating System
> Java-based technologies
> Community projects - OpenSolaris, OpenSPARC project, NetBeans, Sun Studio etc.
Sun will provide extensive training on above mentioned. Ambassadors in turn get an opportunity to demonstrate their proficiency on these technologies throughout the year.
Campus Ambassador get to
> Lead Sun developer community in his/her campus
> Run Sun Technology demo sessions in his/her campus
> Promote Sun training events in his/her campus
Check out below for more information -
Sun's Campus Ambassadors to Evangelize Solaris Operating System, Java and Developer Tools
Sun Microsystems Champions Student Developers In Higher Education
Internship/Job Posting on website of one of the Engineering school of 'University of California'.
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Tuesday October 03, 2006
My stint with Camera@VTU
Now I can add another title on my resume - Television Star. 
Last week, I had my debut on picture-tube while I gave a presentation as a supplement to the VTU-EDUSAT Programme.
With a microphone in place, camera in room and those three words Lights, Camera, Action I surely felt like a Celebrity. 
It was a one hour session and was conducted live from VTU Studio Bangalore at 4.30 PM on September 27, 2006. Talk was received at classrooms of Engineering Colleges under VTU in Karnataka. Talk followed a small 'Q & A' session to provide students with an opportunity to elucidate their doubts.
It looks like Virtualization is flavor of the session and undoubtedly is here to stay.
> Virtualization of compute resources
> Virtualization of Storage
> Virtualization of Software
and now Virtualization of education. Cool isn't it.
This concept requires a satellite-based interactive network that has two-way video/audio transmission facility. Network transfer data from the studio to the remote classrooms. In order to accomplish this, Studio is linked to the uplink earth station. Lectures are transmitted to the satellite from where they are beamed back to earth and are received at various Engineering colleges.
In an initiative to keep their students up-to-date with technical skills, VTU invites SME's (Subject Matter Experts) from various leading companies in order to emphasize on cutting-edge technology across the spectrum of technical fields.
IMHO, being part of a live-television programme is more complicated than it looks. As the guy behind the camera mentioned shoot, I felt really nervous and began to have butterflies in my stomach. Progressively it felt like there were more and more butterflies in my belly. I felt like running from there. I somehow muster entire courage in me and carried on with my presentation.
In contrast to a presentation where audience is present in front of you, here presenter has to use her/his judgment to check if what she/he is explaining is being easily understood by students. I tried to present information in simple format and paraphrase complex topics.
Presentation is available at http://forum.vtu.ac.in/viewtopic.php?t=3899
Alternatively it can also be found at VTU_JavaSession.pdf
Monday September 11, 2006
Java-OOPs session@PESIT
As we know SUN stands for Stanford University and Sun in order to live up to its name is running a program to facilitate widespread adoption of Sun technologies by students, faculty in order to ensure Sun technologies empowers future IT industry. This team is responsible for coordinating involvement of Sun-IEC with various universities in India.
PESIT inks MoU with Sun Microsystems
As a part of the effort people from the team are visiting P.E.S college of Engineering to give them good insight on Java, Solaris, Netbeans etc.
I visited this college last Saturday(September 9, 2006) to present a talk on 'OOPs in Java'. Presentation starts with object oriented programming fundamentals, touch points on why and how to use it and then demonstrate the best approach to use it in Java. It talks about Java Fundamentals and best practices.
Presentation was followed by a Lab session, where students tested their learning from the talk and we tried to explicate their leftover doubts.
Presentation turned out to be a success. we had a huge audience ranging from Electrical Engineering, Computer Engineering and Information Science.
I was a bit diffident and fidgety after seeing such a huge crowd.I somehow muster entire courage I had in me and started my session with a line which happens to be the favorite line of one of my teacher. He always used to ask, What does Java stands for?
Just Another Vehicle To America
Gradually all my fear vanished and I started enjoying the session.
Personally, It was a superlative experience and I enjoyed it immensely.
Presentation is more of a vade-mecum and provides necessary background on OOPs and explain Java Fundamentals.
Below is the Presentation in pdf format.
JavaOOPs_Preso_PESIT.pdf
JavaOOPs_LabExercise_PESIT.pdf
iec-univ-volunteers@Sun.COM is the email-id to reach the group running the show.
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