Virang Patel's Blog: Sun Campus Ambassador

I conducted last tech demo at UTS on DTrace and ZFS.
21 students and a staff member attended the demo. It was really
good. For the first time I got such a good response to the demo.
I combined the demos of DTrace and ZFS and it lasts for around 1 hour.
I give away some TShirts and Sun Developer Network DVDs.

The Presentation on Solaris Features :DTrace and ZFS : DTrace and ZFS Presentation

I conducted 2 tech demos on Sun SPOT and OpenSolaris. 10 students and a professor attended it. There were some of the questions like "Why Sun is pushing Solaris towards Desktop computers?" and "What is the range of Sun SPOT? What frequency it operates on? etc." It was easy to answer. Andrew who is the Snr. Accounts Manager at Sun Australia explained some of the business aspects of those questions and Solaris.

Sun SPOT Presentation : Sun SPOT

All About Sun SPOT: Sun SOPT Official Website

OpenSolaris Presentation : OpenSolaris Installation and Introduction

OpenSolaris Website : OpenSolaris Official Website

Hi,

I conducted first tech demo on "NetBeans 6.0 and Desktop Application Development". It went well with approximately 10 students attended it. There was a couple of simple questions after the demo and was simple to answer. I discussed about NetBeans 6.0, what is new in it, Developer collaboration, Matisse GUI building, Debugging and profiling and resources where students can find information about NetBeans.

Link to the demos I gave are as follow :

Flicker Demo : How to create a simple Desktop Application

Reality Demo : How to create a Database Application

Presentation : Presentation on NetBeans 6.0 (File size :1.14 MB, fileformat : Microsoft Powerpoint(.ppt))

Hi All,

Sun is organizing big Tech Day event in Sydney, Australia from 4 to 6 March 2008. It is one of the rare opportunity to gain lot of knowledge. You can find all the information on This link.

Register your place and enjoy the event..

Hi All,

These are some of the interesting topics that you may wants to learn about. Something really going on in the industry.

Check the link "HOT TOPICS"

You will find about virtualization, multi-threading, Java EE, Java DB, jMiki etc. and lot more...

The JavaFX Script language also referred as JavaFX is a declarative and statically typed scripting language.It is easier way to create content-rich applications. It is the way to implement GUI applications declaratively rather then procedurally coding everything. There are plugins available for most of the major IDE's like NetBeans and Eclipse. Though there is no drag and drop facility available for JavaFX in any IDEs yet it is surprisingly and fairly simple to hand code the GUI. If you are not using any IDE then you can use the JavaFX Pad to code the JavaFX application. Those who are familiar with Swing and Java 2D find it more easier to learn.

You can find some important information from following links:

http://java.sun.com/developer/technicalArticles/scripting/javafx/lc/part1/

http://java.sun.com/javafx/script/

https://openjfx.dev.java.net/Getting_Started_With_JavaFX.html

https://openjfx.dev.java.net/JavaFX_Programming_Language.html

Hi.... Yesterday I received a giveaway items from the Sun and it contains the most exiting item "Sun SPOT". It is a technology from the Sun Lab. Sun SPOT (Sun Small Programmable Object Technology) is really a cool technology to work on. The SPOT is a kind of Wireless Sensor Network technology. It is really a small device so you can not have any OS on it but it contains the Java Virtual Machine(JVM) directly on the hardware. It is the best example of Java's "Run Anywhere" paradigm. The Sun SPOT is currently in version 3.0 beta. The Sun SPOT kit contains two free range SPOT units, one base station, connecting cables and software disk. You can find a lot of information on http://www.sunspotworld.com/ Have a look and have fun!!!

Hi Everyone, This is my first blog on blogs.sun.com and I am quite exited about it.Let me introduce myself first. I am the Sun Campus Ambassador for University of Technology Sydney, Australia. It is really a big opportunity for me to work with such a big IT conglomerate. It is just like "Welcome to the real world....". I will be conducting tech demos during next semester about Sun Microsystem's Open Source technologies and products. So keep checking my blog as time to time I will post information about my tech demos and other cool stuffs. Thank You all... Regards, Virang Patel