Ruby on Rails - Sat, 17th November at 5pm

Ruby on Rails is an Open Source web framework that's optimized for programmer happiness and sustainable productivity. It lets you write beautiful code by favoring convention over configuration.

You will be glad to know that the next TSM is on "Ruby, Ruby on Rails".

The TSM is scheduled to be held on Sat, 17th November at 5pm on 5th Floor, Conf Room, CommVault Systems, S.P. Road, Begumpet.

Mr. A. P. Rajshekhar will be the speaker for this talk.

Mr. Rajshekhar will talk in detail about:
. Brief overview of Ruby language
. Ruby on Rails Framework architecture
. M.V.C. Design Pattern
. Scaffolding
. O-R (object-relational) mapping
. Packages - Active Record Action Pack, Active Support, Action Mailer and Action Web Service.
. JavaScript and Ajax interaction support
. Code Examples
. Live Demos

Date: Sat, 17th November, 2007.

Time: 5pm - 7:45pm.

Venue
5th Floor Conf Room,
CommVault Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Ashoka Janardhan Chambers
S.P. Road,
Begumpet
Hyderabad 500 016.

To help locate the venue, a photo of the building is available here.
http://www.twincling.org/images/sponsor/commvault.jpg

All the members are cordially invited to attend this hands-on informative session and benefit from it.

This is a FREE event.

You are requested to kindly reach the venue 10 min in advance to handle the security check. All the attendees are requested to kindly cooperate in this matter since the security has to handle large number of visitors.

For assistance, please call the Society helpline :
+91 - 98482 37656
+91 - 99492 53753

Please feel free to forward this post to your colleagues and friends.

regards
News & Editorial Team (TSNET)

Firefox hackathon and party photos

a big thank you to all the participants of the Firefox Hackathon.

The spirit of Open Source was seen with the various members sharing their knowledge with the rest of the community. Trying out code, show casing examples and lots of interactive discussion were the finest point of the day.


Special thanks to P. Janaki Ram for show casing the PracticeManagement system that he has developed.

Special thanks to Appaji Rao, whose team won $150 USD for the best Firefox plugin of the month award.

Thank you for sharing your knowledge and furthering the cause of Open Source.



We also had a Geek party after the hackathon to treat ourselves to some tasty snacks and chocolate pastries. Soft drinks were also available to boost the Zing factor.

FREE T-shirts were given to all the attendees of the event.

Look forward the participation of more Hyderabadi's in the future Hackathon events.

Firefox 3 Hackathon - Slashdot Party - Sat,. 27th Oct, 5pm - 9pm

Some Geeky News here for firefox lovers and Open Source enthusiasts !

Firefox 3 Hackathon on Saturday, 27th October at 5pm

The Hackathon event will involve hacking Firefox code and creating some useful modules and code.

We will try to learn
. about Gecko layout engine
. programming with component technologies like XPCOM, XPInstall.
. how to write firefox plugins
. how to write firefox extensions

So get in your laptops and plugin for the event.

Wireless access point will be provided with a DHCP server running on 192.168.1.x/24 subnet.

We will also be having a party after the Hackathon - 'Slashdot 10yr anniversary party'.

Slashdot party registration is required, if you want ThinkGeek t-Shirts from Slashdot.

Step1:
Create a new account on slashdot
http://slashdot.org/login.pl?op=newuserform

Step2:
You will be mailed your password on email address you used for registration.
Please confirm your account and login in Slashdot.org
(you can directly click on the link in the mail)

Step3: (optional)
if you are not logged in, please click this link
http://slashdot.org/login.pl

Step4:
Visit this link
http://slashdot.org/anniversary.pl

You will see a drop-down list (used to search for party).
Select "OTHER" (it is the last entry in the drop down)

Step5:
You will see a list of many parties on the page.
Just search for 'twincling'
Select/Click the (*) radio button before the party description.
Next go to the end of the page (scroll down)
Click the button [Attend Party]

The response page will come up and say 'Party Attendance saved'.

Step6: (optional)
To verify that you name has been entered, visit this URL
http://slashdot.org/anniversary.pl?view_id=761

Verify that your name is there among the list of attendees.
That's it. You're in !

Please note that we will be giving out TWINCLING T-Shirts anyway to the Hackathon participants !

Special Interest Groups (SIGs)

The Board of Directors in their quest to bring the best of Open Source to the members have aligned the Society activities around the (Special Interest Group or SIG model.

The S.I.G. model is the corner stone of focussed activities in societies like the I.E.E.E. (Institute of Electrical and Electronic Engineers) and A.C.M. (Association of Computing Machinery).

The three SIGs identified are :
. OpenSource
. Storage
. OpenSource and Entrepreneurship

Each SIG will have a chair(person), mailing list and volunteer leads. In this quarter, the chair for each SIG will be nominated and volunteer leads will be identified. The mailing lists have been piloted and significant interest has been seen.

Please visit SIGs webpage for more details.
http://sigs.twincling.org/

Please join the SIGs that interest you.

regards
News & Editorial Team (TSNET)

Slashdot Party in Hyderabad on 27th October

Dear Friends

TWINCLING Society is hosting the "SLASHDOT PARTY" on Saturday, 27th October at 5pm.

Slashdot.org is a site visited by many geeks and has about 5.5 million users per month.
It encourages its readers to read the articles linked to in the summary. Most of the articles are of technical nature and the discussions are very popular among geeks.

We are also planning to have 'Firefox Hackathon' on the same day to add to your Geek mood !

Here are the important details:

Title : Slashdot Party and Firefox Hackathon

Date : Saturday, 27th October, 2007

Time : 5pm - 7pm (Hackathon), 7pm - 9pm (Party)

Venue : 5th Floor, Conf Room, CommVault Systems, Ashok Janardhan Chambers, Begumpet.

For venue photograph and other details, please visit
http://events.twincling.org/

Hope to see all the Geeks out there !

daily POSIX

Here's something new for TWINCLING Community members and Linux/BSD/UNIX programming enthusiasts.

POSIX is Portable Operating System Interface (for UNIX) or "portable" API for Linux/BSD/UNIX.

More formally, POSIX is the collective name of a family of related standards specified by the IEEE to define the application programming interface (API) for software compatible with variants of the Unix operating system.

Almost all the languages on Linux/BSD/UNIX ie. C, C++, PHP, PERL, Ruby, Python, Shell provide POSIX APIs or functions or commands for programming. This ensures that the semantics of the function is the same as only the language binding is different.

To help the community get up to speed on understanding on POSIX, Society volunteers are starting a 'daily POSIX' posting. This will include the POSIX concept, function, programming examples and lots of discussion.

daily POSIX starts on Monday, 15th October and we run it till we have gone through the entire POSIX.

Stay tuned.


thanks & regards
News and Editorial Team.
http://www.twincling.org/

TSM - 13th October - AJAX and Web 2.0 programming paradigm

Dear Friends,

You will be glad to know that the next TSM is on
"AJAX and Web 2.0 programming paradigm"

The TSM is scheduled to be held on Sat, 13th October at 5pm at 5th Floor, Conf Room, CommVault Systems.(Please see complete details below).

Mr. Rajshekhar Sheela, will be the speaker for this talk.

About the speaker
The speaker, Mr. Rajshekhar Sheela is currently working as a Team Lead (R&D) at GetSet Software Solutions Pvt. Ltd., Hyderabad and is closely associated with building solutions in the Hospitality and Tourism domain.

He is interested in the architectural aspects of AJAX and Web 2.0 applications. On the middle-tier side, Mr. Rajshekhar Sheela, has focussed on Java/J2EE based solutions.

Mr. Rajshekhar will talk in detail about the following:
. AJAX Architecture
. Core technologies (XML, JavaScript, DOM, XMLHttp)
. AJAX programming solutions
. Designing AJAX based solutions

Date: Sat, 13th October, 2007.

Time: 5pm - 7:30pm.

Venue
5th Floor Conf Room,
CommVault Systems (India) Pvt. Ltd.
Ashoka Janardhan Chambers
S.P. Road,
Begumpet
Hyderabad 500 016.

To help locate the venue, a photo of the building is available here.
http://www.twincling.org/images/sponsor/commvault.jpg

All the members are cordially invited to attend this hands-on informative session and benefit from it.

This is a FREE event.

You are requested to kindly reach the venue 10 min in advance to handle the security check. All the attendees are requested to kindly cooperate in this matter since the security has to handle large number of visitors.

For assistance, please call the Society helpline :
+91 - 98482 37656
+91 - 99492 53753

Please feel free to forward this link to your colleagues and friends.

Mpower project launched

Feature rich Open Source content management platforms like Drupal power thousands of websites. The community of users visiting and accessing the services of these websites is increasingly found to be mobile phone or PDA users.

We at TWINCLING Society, see a great opportunity to provide value innovation to mobile users and existing drupal powered websites, by providing an Open Source 'mobile enabler' solution.

Mpower is an Open Source project to mobile enable your website and provide natural mobile user experience.

To know about the product value proposition, pleaese download the presentation slides.

Please visit the Mpower engineering website at http://www.twincling.org/node/121