The next BarCamp Kerala(8) is at MACFAST, Thiruvala on March 28^th, 2010. Finally its here to refresh the minds with technical beverages – its Barcamp time.
For those of you who don’t know what a BarCamp is…

BarCamp is an international network of user generated conferences – open, participatory workshop-events, whose content is provided by participants – often focusing on early-stage web applications, and related open source technologies, social protocols, and open data formats.

Wikipedia

Venue

BarCamp Kerala 8 will be held at MACFAST, Thiruvala. More details are available at the venue page

Registeration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. When this post was written we have 65 attendees.

Sessions

Till now we have 6 sessions. If you want to handle a sessions at BarCamp, you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

If you are still hesitant about coming to BarCamp Kerala, checkout these reports about the previous ones…

• BarCamp Kerala on May 3
• Barcamp kerala 6
• About Geeks and BarCamps
• Barcamp Kerala 6 – my experience
• BarCamp Time for Kerala

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Adobe air applications are gaining popularity by the day and its R is intended to be a versatile runtime environment, as it allows existing Flash, Actionscript or HTML and JavaScript code to be used to construct a more traditional desktop-like program. Adobe positions it as a browser-less runtime for rich Internet applications that can be deployed onto the desktop, rather than a fully-fledged application framework. The differences between each deployment paradigm provides both advantages and disadvantages. For example, a rich internet application deployed in a browser does not require installation, while one deployed with AIR requires the application be packaged, digitally signed, and installed to the user’s local file system. However, this provides access to local storage and file systems, while browser-deployed applications are more limited in where and how data can be accessed and stored.^[7] In most cases, rich internet applications store users’ data on their own servers, but the ability to consume and work with data on a user’s local file system allows for greater flexibility.

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I just found something interesting which I would like to share. Now with the help of lab gmail created a feature to change your default font. I would like to send my emails in Trebuchet format. I used to select the font every time I send the email.

Select your lab feature enable “Default text styling” after that change your font style in the general tab of settings.

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Its BarCamp time again in Kerala We are holding BarCamp Kerala 7 on 20^th of December 2009! BarCamp Kerala or BCK is the biggest and coolest techy event in Kerala.

Think barcamp is about lawyers? Or about alcoholics? Think again…

BarCamp is an ad-hoc gathering born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment. It is an intense event with discussions, demos and interaction from participants who are the main actors of the event

Venue

BCK 7 will be at Kristu Jyoti College of Management and Technology, Chetipuzha, Changanassery, Kottayam. For more details, go here

Registeration

You can register for the event in the BarCamp Kerala Site. As of yet we have 47 attendees.

Sessions

When this post was written we have 10 sessions. If you want to handle a sessions at BarCamp, you can add yourself in the sessions page.

BarCamp Kerala So Far…

If you are still undecided about coming to the BarCamp, checkout these reports about the previous ones…

• BarCamp Kerala 5 @ Technopark on May 3rd
• BarCamp Kerala Part 5
• Barcamp Kerala 5
• Barcamp kerala 6
• Barcamp Kerala 6 – my experience

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Rapid deployment of web applications never became so much easier with the development of the symphony framework aimed at reducing repetitive codes. Compatible with propel and doctrine symphony has helped programmers immensely to create and maintain applications. One setback however was the availability of easy to master tools of Symfony making the job of understanding and deploying Symfony based applications a bit tedious and time consuming.

However and endeavor towards this by Packt Publishing House which has brought out the book Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development authored by Tim Bowler and Wojciech Bancer. Both of them renowned scholars in their field has come together to author this book which is easy for the novice to master and a guide for the hardcore programmer. The style of writing is pretty straight forward and simple which should please anybody who would want to be led in to the world of Symfony.

The book divided into 10 chapters covers enough ground for one to have a  firm grip on the inner working of Symfony. All the chapters in the book has been augmented with the help of sufficient code and flowcharts to give the readers a sense of tasks they are dealing with.  Overall it’s a great buy well charted well spaced book which should be easy for the novice as well as a guide for the geek. The most important beauty of this book is it can be used for amateur and also for professionals. Please check the sample chapter of Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development for a better understanding of how the book is paced. You can purchase Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development from packthub.

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Ubuntu 9.10 makes open source experience much better and installing the latest version of this popular software is as easy as a walk on the cake. All one need to do to install Ubuntu is download the latest version from the download centre and then click on the file to install it onto a new drive on your Windows machine. The next time your machine boots up you get to use Windows or Ubuntu.  This is as simple as that. Adding software to the new version of Ubuntu is very easy and it can be done in a few simple clicks.

The Operating System comes preloaded with Firefox and Open office. More than hundred programs are available for installation. Visit www.ubuntu.com for downloading your  free copy. Burn the image and well follow the simple procedures as instructed  to install your copy of Ubuntu. The interface is clean and the experience is similar to Windows. Well its free and open source alternative to Windows and Mac.

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Google docs has become more and more popular among large and small scale enterprises .presentations, spread sheets and documents are all useful considering the fact they are free and can be shared on-line. If one wants he can also download the doc onto his desktop. there was a problem that is one could download only one file a ta time. Google Docs recently upgraded that feature and one could convert, zip and download all the files at one go. The new features are conviniently avaialbleat the homepage. One clicks it select the advanced more options and download. The number of file formats that one can use is plenty.

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Microsoft launched Windows7 and students in UK and USA can get it for much lower prices .Students having valid email address of student bodies in the UK and USA can avail of the offer. Windows7 Professional is avilable for as low as 30 pounds whereas Microsoft Office Ultimate is available for 38.9 pounds.  More details can be had at http://www.microsoft.com/uk/education/studentoffer/.

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Students are increasingly making use of the computer for educational purposes and one cannot do with out a computer during their colleges years. A few Firefox addons that would make the life os students much better.
These include
1.Taboo.
This helps to save the multiple tabs that one has opened for later usage. The exact location of the tab is also saved along with it.

2.Firefox Environment Backup Extension
This helps to save a lot of information like your password, sessions and other details.theseare saved in .xpi fileswhch means they can beused on other computers as well.

3.Reminder Fox
Reminder Fox helps you to remind things and it also coantins a simple todo list applciation. The remaiiders can be invoked anytime and it can automatically sent you remainders.

4.Leechblock
this addon helps you to block all thsoe unwanted sites.

5.Trailfire
This addon helps you comment on various sites and also helps you to create trails of information.

6.Juice
Juice is an intelligent addon which helps to search for informations semantically.

7.Delicious helps you to save your bookmarks and share it with others. You can also import your links to other computers.

8. Wired Marker helps you to highlight texts on web pages using various colours.

9.Zotero is used to collect and arrange research articles.

10.Firecal is a simple calculator which can be used by all.

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Google Wave is available only to a select number of users but that has not stopped the excitemnet surrounding goolge Wave. People are all eagerly waiting for a wave invite. The first Firefox addon for wave is very simple it notifies when a new wavelet has arrived .The user needs to supply a wave user name .This is much similar to the Gmail notifier . The plug in is compatible with Firefox 3.x.x but not version 3.7a1pre.

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