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pageicon Friday Apr 24, 2009

Zembly Blogging Contest

Calling all zembly developers! Whether you're building Facebook apps, Meebo apps, iPhone web apps, mashups, widgets, data services, web APIs or are new to zembly, they want to hear from you. Simply tell about your experience with zembly and you could win a $200 gift certificate![Read More]
pageicon Saturday Mar 21, 2009

JavaFX Coding Challenge

JavaFX is an RIA technology developed by Sun Microsystems. JavaFX Coding Challenge is a competition aimed at inviting developers to design and submit a new application using JavaFX. The best thing about the event is that there is categories for both the professionals and student communities.

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pageicon Friday Oct 17, 2008

Sun Code For Freedom 2008





Do you have the mettle?

In just a few years or even months, you will be a qualified Engineer. Even as you equip yourselves to go out there and change the world of technology with your own ideas and innovations, here is an unbelievable opportunity to prove your mettle. Right now. Enter the Code for Freedom contest, brought to you by Sun Microsystems - the leaders in tech innovation and the champions of open source technologies.

Choose your technologies. Choose your future.

You have to choose at least two Sun open source technologies and develop a cool application using them. So go ahead, visit: in.sun.com/codeforfreedom, download the NetBeans or Sun Studio development tools, develop and build your applications using these tools, test it and send your winning entries.

Contest Dates

20 Sep, 2008 Contest Starts
31 Dec, 2008 Deadline for submission of project proposal
30 Apr, 2009 Contest Ends
14 Jun, 2009 Winners Announced

To Register, visit:

For more information, write to us at: codeforfreedom-AT-sun.com

WIN EXCITING PRIZES:



pageicon Wednesday Oct 01, 2008

Sun Announces Code For Freedom 2008

Sun Code For Freedom 2008 Code For Freedom 2008

Organised By:
Sun Microsystems

Key Dates:
Deadline for Submission of Project Proposal: December 31, 2008
Contest Ends: April 30, 2009
Winners Announced: June 14, 2009

For Whom: Any resident student (foreign or Indian) of an accredited Indian Educational institution.[Read More]
pageicon Wednesday Sep 03, 2008

Student Review Contest | MySQL and Glassfish

Sun Students Views and Review is back again with yet another contest for the students. This time thStudent Reveiw Conteste Moolah is huge and so also the Contest. This reivew contest is about MySQL and Glassfish application server.

How to participate?

  • Download MySQL and Glassfish.
  • Use the to create a Web Application ( Using any Programming Language- Java ,PHP, Ruby or Python)
  • Submit complete source code of the application, user documentation, developer/administrator documentation including application installation instructions, and appropriate executables as a project at java.net
  • Write reviews of MySQL 5.1 Community Edition database and GlassFish v2 UR2 application server based on your experiences as you developed the web application.
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