Hyderabad

Hyderabad Barcamp 5 - Live ! Part 7

12:40 PM
Session : Women in IT By Kavita Vemuri, Technical Manager, IIIT-H
Kavita Vemuri delivered a splendid Off-beat topic on Women in IT and problems and how people think different, studies and statistics. The statistics that were demoed are very compelling.
She also talked on how things are seen from Women perspective.
I think this is one [...]


Hyderabad Barcamp 5 - Live ! Part 6

11:45 AM : Tea Break ! It’s suffocating due to some problem with AC system in Google !
Session : Amit Aggarwal talks about Build a Successful Blog.
Amit talks about his experiences around doing blogging for living….i.e Professionally…he is a well known tech blogger who get indexed by techmeme.com from India.
He blogs @ labnol.org.
Amit has [...]


Hyderabad Barcamp 5 - Live ! Part 5

11:24 AM
Session : Lighting the Web, Silverlight 2 By M.S.V Janakiram, Microsoft.
I somehow feel people tend to show MS as a devil and people doesn’t like them, but the fact remains that they use MS technology in and out in thier life. This session was started with a disclaimer that Janakiram will be talking much [...]


Hyderabad Barcamp 5 - Live ! Part 4

11:00 AM
Hysea Representatives talked on their activities and events. Boring  for developers like me !
Session : Prasad Y, CMD of  teleonto talking about his experiences about Product development. Boring again. More like self perspective session and people seems to be taking an unofficial break in Bar Camp….:-)
I will take a break too….
-Happy BarCamping !
Technorati [...]


Hyderabad Barcamp 5 - Live ! Part 3

10:47 AM
Session : Building Low Cost Scalable Web Apps - Ramesh Rajamani, Compassites, Bangalore.
Session seems to be focussing on High Availability, Performance and Storage solutions planning for such demanding applications. I feel, this session is more technology centric rather than practice centric (which I hate to listen in events like barcamp where people think technology [...]


Hyderabad Barcamp 5 - Live ! Part 2

10:30 AM
The first session is kicked off post introductory welcome by Ramesh Loganathan, VP, Pramati.
Sanjeev is doing Behavioral Driven Development  (BDD) now. He is from a little startup called “Corners“
This session started with Test Driven Development introduction…
BDD focuses more on defining the behavior of the system rather than designing the code. This comes [...]


Hyderabad Barcamp 5 - Live ! Part 1

Barcamp 5 @ Hyderabad is scheduled today and Google India is hosting the show for us. Thanks to Google
9:30 AM : I reached Google’s office at around 9:30 AM. Entry is super smooth (took just 5 mins including an official entry for my laptop) with pleasant welcome from Google’s reception.
Googlers turned their Cafe [...]


Hiring India, it’s IBM turn now !

According to the recent IBM’s annual report, their workforce was increased by 8%. Most of this is coming from their recruitment in India center. IBM has stated that at the end of year 2006, they have employed over 350k, up from 320k last year (2005).
IBM’s India center has the current staff of 52,000 people, which was 36,000 [...]