DevCon 2004 @ Mumbai

DevCon 2004 @ Mumbai

DevCon 2004 : Mumbai"DevCon is a developer event organized by the developer community for the developer community " The objective is to enable developers to request for topics which they wish to be educated about and delivery of such content is by developers who are expert speakers. It covers topics which are of interest to developers chosen by developers themselves.

DevCon is a event organized by INETA , Mumbai User Group and Pune User Group at Thakur Engineerin College Kandivali,Mumbai on 7th and 8th August 2004. This year DevCon was targeted both to professionals and academics with two separate tracks of sessions for students and professionals.

I Volunteered for DevCon 2004 as the volunteere of INETA.

The topics forProfessional Track : (7th Aug. 2004, FULL DAY)
1. Skills in effective Software Development or Things to take care of whilewriting industrial strength applications - Dr. Nitin Paranjpe
2. Visual Studio 2005 Team System - Raj Chaudhuri
3. Yukon SQL Server 2005 - Nauzad Kapadia
4. VS.NET Developer Tips, Tricks and Secrets - Dr. Nitin Paranjpe

Students Track: (8th Aug. 2004, FULL DAY)

1. Introduction to .NET - Nauzad Kapadia
2. Building applications for Mobile Devices - Sanjay Shetty
3. VB.NET Inside Out - Raj Chaudhuri4. .NET VS JAVA - Akila Manian

It was my bad luck that I was not able to attend the first session of Dr. Nitin Paranjpe from startinfg; but whatever part I attend of that session was very exciting. He told about keeping the focus on the end-user of the application you build. You can sell something worth 30$ for 3000+$ for this he gave good example of Stopwatch.

The session on the Visual Studio 2005 Team System was great. The Visual studio 2005 Team system is something very exciting and this is the session I like the most session among all session . Mr. Raj Chaudhari explain in a really very good manner about this coming Visual Studio 2005 system.

Student Track : Day 2

Mobile application session with Sanjay was really great . I attend the Sanjay's session after such long time of around 7-8 month.The strating part of Akila's session was helpfull for me. but when she go in to deep of C#and Java then that was somewhat hammering for me since I don't have much idea of Java and C#. but It helped me understand C# . Anyways I know that Akila's session are always good.I couldn't attend the session of Nuazad. Nuazad sorry for that.Couldn't attend all the sessions as I was also volunteering .working with MUG volunteers was good experience. I got some new friend. I can take the name of Dhaval as my new good friend at DevCon from all of them

.We also planning to have this DevCon Event at Pune in September and at other cities like banglore, Delhi etc...

Mahesh Mitkarimahesh.mitkari@gmail.com
INETA India Volunteer.
Asst.Manager Pune User Group