BarCamp Kerala 7

Its BarCamp time again in Kerala We are holding BarCamp Kerala 7 on 20th 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…

Symfony 1.3 Web Application Development

symfonyRapid 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.


Ubuntu 9.10 “Karmic Koala”

imagesUbuntu 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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