I reached the venue by 9:15AM and the keynote by Oracle was about to start. I liked the venue for its ambiance and environment.
My first session, Google App Engine for Java Developers started at 10:40 and I had the hall full in few minutes. The audience were interactive and came with a good understanding of the core concepts. I managed to deliver the session in the stipulated 55 min. slot. I showed an end to end demo of a simple Twitter like application on GAE. I finally deployed this application on Google App Engine. Though it was challenging to cover all the concepts in the limited time, I am glad that I managed to cover all the aspects including the demo in my session. I enjoyed delivering this session.
You can find the live App Engine demo application at http://janakirammsv.appspot.com
Download the slides for Google App Engine for Java Developers session.
I had a gap of one hour between my sessions. I rebooted my MacBook Pro into Windows 7 partition and opened all the demos to cache them to avoid the delay. I thought I was all set for my Silverlight session till I walked to the podium to connect my machine to the projector. MacBook Pro comes with a Mini DisplayPort to VGA Adapter and the moment I connected the adapter, to my horror, Windows 7 blue screened! I thought it is one of the rare instances and went about rebooting and I tried plugging the adapter again. Windows just kept crashing repeatedly. I had no option but to boot into my Mac OS X partition and I was planning to open the slide deck by accessing my NTFS partition. To my shock, I couldn’t even see the Bootcamp partition in the Finder! I remembered that I saved a version of the slide deck on my OS X partition and luckily I was able to open the deck. But all my demos were designed and developed on Expression Blend and Eclipse on Windows I didn’t even have the Eclipse Silverlight plugin installed on Mac. I managed to deliver my session through the slide deck and I opened few websites that had Silverlight RIA and media scenarios. I am thoroughly disappointed the way my machine behaved today! I have to check if this is an issue with Windows 7 or a known issue with Windows. I want to thank my audience for being so cooperative and supportive during my session. I hope to get an opportunity to show my demos that I have exclusively created for this event.
Download the slides for Silverlight for Java Developers session.
Finally, My congratulations to Dilip Thomas, CEO of Salt March and his entire team! This was an excellent event with a great set of speakers and audience.
As a Cloud Computing Strategist, Janakiram MSV helps businesses understand and adopt the Cloud Computing paradigm. His core strength is designing and architecting solutions for the Cloud. Janakiram focuses on industry's leading Cloud Computing offerings including Microsoft Windows Azure.
