Sun Tech Days

We a group of three Kunal,Shantaram and myself set out on 26th at about 12 noon.Reached there by 6am on 27th got a lodging placed things there and set out for the Programme(Sun Tech Days).

Sun Tech Days is the biggest developer Tech Days of all - both in terms of the number of attendees and tracks/sessions. This was my first ever visit to a Sun Tech Days. This might sound weird as most of the people there were atleast second timers. Oh what an ambience. Believe it or not once you enter the main conference hall, it's hard to differentiate between a seven star hotel and Hyderabad International Convention Center (HICC). Starting from the entrance, conference rooms, audio/video facilities and the crew is just amazing and very helpful.


The main convention hall can accomodate upto 5000 people at a given time and it was packed for the opening keynote by Rich Green (Executive Vice President, Software, Sun Microsystems).It was a pretty funny situation with the Vice President being in a black t-shirt and most of the attendees in Blazers.

Followed by the key note the crowd dispersed of into one of the tracks 5(in all). There were three stunning sessions before lunch(Ohh that was better than one you could lay hands on in a 5 start hotel.)

There were lots of cool demos ranging from JavaFX, & jMaki(Some Chineese word don't confuse with hindi).

The evening concluded by a great performance by Euphoria - one of the most popular Rock bands in India.It was a great experience to see corporates jump and dance to showcase their other side.

Sun Tech Days Hyderabad 2008 - Day 2

We reached a little late for this day as we were preparing for the presentation we were about to give.So we missed on the key note and some part of the breakfast.

We attended two sessions before lunch. Then came the most interesting thing of my life. Our presentation about the project we are working on.The kind of response it triggered of from the audience(java gurus.).was just amazing. David Lindt gave us his card and asked us to send him our presentation and to keep up with the good work.
Stacy David Thurston (http://www.linkedin.com/in/tigerfarm)one of the pioneers of the dot com world had a private talk with us after the event when he told us that James Gosling(Father of java) meets him once in a while and had once suggested about an idea like one of our plugins..We were in 7th oh no the eighth heaven. This was followed by some other sessions which were quite interesting too.The day culminated with a fashion show.

Sun Tech Days Hyderabad 2008 - Day 3
There were 3 days of which we could select one. Obviously we choose the netbeans day.
The lectures by Roumen Strobl were not only eye opening but also was pretty much fun.
We also got to meet Amit Kumar Saha (NetBeans Community Docs Coordinator) someone we were quite aquainted with in the virtual world but got to meet him personally.Also got to meet Rohan Ranade one of the Sun guys who used to help us during the Code For Freedom Contest.

Is that all oops... i forgot the most intersting thing the gifts we got T-shirts,bags,Duke..... the list goes on...

PROJECTS

We the sack team members are currently working on the
following projects

1.Notes
2.Picture Explorer
3.Blogger Support
4.WhiteBoard

Detect invisible people on yahoo messenger..

When a user seems offline, in fact he/she may be online but with Invisible status (avoiding you?), but Yahoo! Messenger will show him/her as offline (the gray face icon).

Here is a site which would tell you the actual status of the concerned user.
INVISIBLE

There are many spywares and small softwares available on the internet for this purpose but i don't recommend them as they may expose you hackers and let them know your passwords. So avoid using such softwares and just visit the above site.

Download youtube and google videos...

Seeing a video on youtube or google videos. its hurting you. you know that the moment you close the window not only does the file gets deleted but also your this current months download limit is being reached. Regarding the download limit theres no solution but if you would like to save the video to your hard disk then try one of the following....
if you are using firefox then you could try on with the following solutions.
a. Right click anywhere on the page and select 'view page info' from the menu. Go to the media tab and look for the different files. If you see the video click save as button.
b. Download and install greasemonkey
c. The best option I would suggest is go to flv videos. paste the link of the page containing the video and say save download link as... with the location. It will get saved.





If you have or know about any other methods do post your ideas here.

Mozilla launches new "Prism"

Mozilla Labs is launching a series of experiments to bridge the divide in the user experience between web applications and desktop apps and to explore new usability models as the line between traditional desktop and new web applications continues to blur. Prism is one launch with this aim...

Prism is an application that lets users split web applications out of their browser and run them directly on their desktop.When invoked, these applications run in their own window:

To download prism for windows click
Prism