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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The next generation chips from IBM is to be powered with DNA if sources are to be believed. “The cost involved in shrinking features to improve performance is a limiting factor in keeping pace with Moore’s Law and a concern across the semiconductor industry,” said Spike Narayan, manager, Science & Technology, IBM Research – Almaden.

“The combination of this directed self-assembly with today’s fabrication technology eventually could lead to substantial savings in the most expensive and challenging part of the chip-making process.” This would mean researchers could pack in more speed and computational powers into chips.

The challenge faced by the semiconductor industry is developing the necessary lithographic technology for features sizes smaller than 22nm. The ability of the DNA structures which can serve as scaffolds or miniature circuit boards they hope will help in developing the necessary technology to overcome the sub 22nm problem.  This allows the possibility to assemble components precisely on a much smaller scale.

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Motorola and Verizon Wireless is all set to roll out Motorola Droid phone by the end of October. It is a smart phone running on Android version 2.0. code name Eclair featuring a 5 megapixel camera with flash. Other standard features include a 3.5mm jack and a full slide out QWERTY keyboard. It provides Google skin and pack. The phone is promoted as an iPod killer.

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SatNav technologies this festival season has  gifts galore for anyone wishing to buy a SatNav product. This season, SatNav will give away over 10 FREE TRAVEL TICKETS to BANGKOK , more than 10 SatGuide PNDs and hundreds of Mobile Phone and Laptop softwares across various retail outlets. In all SatNav will be giving away prizes and gifts worth Rs. 1 crore at  large format retailers (FRs) like Croma, EZone, HyperCity, Reliance Digital, Staples and many more.

The offer that began on September 15^th, 2009 ; extends for a period of two and a half months until November 30^th, 2009. For a product purchase above Rs 3,000 at listed LFRs, the customers become eligible for the lucky draw and a chance to take away free gifts from SatNav.

SatNav Technlogies makes GPS based technologies that are popular worldwide.

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