Thursday Sep 18, 2008
Student Central: Sun now has a place for every student to begin when they come to sun.com! Looking for technology? No problem. Searching for a job? We gotcha covered. Trying to find some classes? We've got that, too. Not sure where you want to go or what Sun has to offer you as a student? Come find out!
This is the perfect starting point to find out just what Sun, as a company, has to offer students today. Covering everything from technology to Eco-responsibility, jobs to social media, this is the first student page that tells the Sun story from a student perspective. Come by and check it out, but be sure to come back as this page will evolve along with Sun's student offerings!"
Wednesday Sep 10, 2008
The
industry's only open solution spanning virtualization and management
from desktop to datacenter,
It's
a new approach to virtualization of the datacenter. Join us on
September 10 for the live webcast and live chat with Rich
Green, EVP Software, Steve Wilson, VP xVM, and two very special
guests as they showcase the industry's most compelling and cost
effective virtualization offerings. Visit www.sun.com/launch on
September 10 at 9:00am PT, or view the on-demand replay after the
event.
Monday Sep 08, 2008
Sun sees the promise of open source software as the perfect way for
society and business alike to forge a world of expanded opportunity,
increased flexibility, and continual innovation. Software Freedom day
is a global celebration of these virtues. So join in, release your
ideas, launch a community, explore new code, ... have fun!
Tuesday Aug 05, 2008
Congrats to Angad Singh!
Angad is a Campus Ambassador Technology Lead. He is the winner of Sun's Code for Freedom Contest and the NetBeans Innovator's Grant for his project proposal, Regular Expressions Module.
Read more about Angad's adventures as a Campus Ambassdor on his blog.
And if you are interested in learning more about Sun's Campus Ambassador program, check out the info here.
Cheers!
Heidi
Thursday Jul 17, 2008
In this episode, Ezequiel Singer, Argentinian Campus Ambassador, talks about his exposure to communities and open source. Plus you'll hear about the use of open source in the Universidad de Buenos Aires library project.
Monday Jul 14, 2008
We've just launched our Sun Total Access Network set on Flickr
and we'd like you to join us. Become a contact and upload your Sun
Developer Network-related photos...old or new! Whether a JavaOne snap
from 2000, a group shot from a Java User Group event, or a photo of you
at Tech Days 2008, we want 'em on our set! And to make things
interesting, we'll be giving away a Prize Pack to one of our new
contacts. Upload your photos between July 14, 2008 and July 28, 2008
and tag them with SunTAN/Sun Developer Network/Event title/Event
date/Persons shown and you will be entered into a drawing for our Prize
Pack which includes a Sun SPOT Development kit, Sun t-shirt, SMI press
book, and Java ipod carrier. It's pretty cool...but we expect your
photos to be even cooler. Become a contact and start uploading today!
-Heidi
Thursday Jul 10, 2008
Yesterday we had a chat in Second Life on OpenSolaris. We were lucky
to have a terrific panel including Tim Cramer, Glynn Foster, David
Comay and Stephen Hahn. We had some technical difficulties (such is
life in Second Life!) so we were unable to use voice chat. The good
news is that allowed us to copy a transcript to share here! Also, the
slidedeck is now available on slideshare.net. Check it out here.
And away we go:
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Tuesday Jul 01, 2008
Winners announced here. Congrats!!!
Friday Jun 27, 2008
Today marks the launch of Shift Radio, "Your Digital Life in Overdrive."
Hosted by Chris Melissinos, this weekly show will cover the latest
gadgets, technology, do-dads, and of course, video games. :) This
week's taping includes an interview with Hal Halpin, President of the
Entertainment Consumers Association. Go check it out. I am!
-Heidi
Monday Jun 23, 2008
Check out some of the new resources for young developers over at the New to Java Programming area. Never too early to start your kids, younger siblings, nieces, nephews, etc. on the path to development!
Friday Jun 13, 2008
We've got another hot author chat lined up later this month. Join us
in Second Life as we talk to Cay Horstmann about his new SMI Press
books: Core Java, Volume II -- Advanced Features and Core Java, Volume
I, Fundamentals, Eighth Edition. Cay is a professor of computer science
at San Jose State University and a frequent speaker at industry
conferences. Come take a listen and then participate in a Q and A
session.
Date: June 25, 2008
Time: 9am PT/SL
Location: Sun Pavillion, Andromeda Theater
http://slurl.com/secondlife/Sun%20Microsystems%201/128/81/71
Hope to see y'all there!
-Heidi
Wednesday Jun 11, 2008
Check it out. Join the OpenSolaris community at the OpenSolaris
Developer Conference in Prague, June 25-27. This conference aims to
bring y'all together to meet, talk, and network while learning and
creating code. The topics range from kernal hacking to networking to
dtrace sniffing and that is just a teeny tiny sample.
Read the conference overview and then go register. Looks to be a hot event.
Friday May 30, 2008
This month's featured Campus Ambassador is Christopher Leung. While Christopher's time as a Campus Ambassdor is coming to a close, what he has done in the past year is really inspiring. Christopher is graduating from the University of Southern California with a Masters of Science in Computer Science.. Among his many accomplishments, Christopher is the founder and chair of Project:
Possibility, a nonprofit,
community service project committed to creating groundbreaking open
source software for the disabled community.
You can read about Christopher's adventures as a Sun Campus Ambassdor here.
And keep up with all of his new adventures here.
Best of luck Christopher!
-Heidi
Wednesday May 28, 2008
I love an adventure. And I'm willing to bet most of y'all do too. So I'm really pleased to announce the launch of the SunQuest Chronicles! Read
and play along with our adventurer as he quests for the Ruby of Destiny
in our choose-your-own-adventure style minibook- SunQuest Chronicles.
Register as an SDN member (current SDN members just log-in) before you start
the story and you will be entered to win one of seven SunSPOTs.
Cool story, cool giveaways. Great way to start the summer. Check it out, and let me know how your story goes!
-Heidi
Wednesday May 21, 2008
Check it out! Sun is now offering an Introduction to Sun SPOTS course. This course is intended to be used by students wanting to learn how to develop application fo Sun Small Programmable Object Technology (SPOTS) and will be taught by Simon Ritter, Angela Caicedo, Arshan Poursohi and Roger Meike.
While you are checking out the Sun SPOT course you'll also want to look at:
Introduction to Solaris
and OpenSolaris.org and Real World Technologies: NetBeans GUI Builder, JRuby,
JavaFX and
JavaME.
Cheers!
Heidi
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