The Rich Internet Applications (RIA) DevCamp organised by the ACM Bangalore Chapter (www.acmbangalore.org) is an effort to educate and network professionals, entrepreneurs and students interested in and working on various rich internet platforms.

Main Audi

10.30 - 11.15 * Introduction to Rich Internet App platforms

This session will attempt to throw some light at the emerging trends in RIA technologies.  With more and more web applications becoming RIAs, it is now critical to look objectively at technology options and choosing the right one for the right job. This session also aims at demystifying some of the common misnomers about technology platforms and to take a positive and realistic look at the leading RIA platforms of today & the future. With Flash, HTML5, CSS3 and others, it's an exciting world to be in! jump in!

The speaker, Harish Sivaramakrishnan is a Computer Scientist & Platform Evangelist at Adobe Systems. He has over 10 years of experience working on the Adobe Flash Platform. With a keen interest in Internet and web technologies, Harish brings with him a wealth of experience in web programming languages & user experience design. Prior to joining  the evangelist role, he held engineering positions in the Adobe Flex SDK team and the Adobe Media Player team (now known as OSMF) He can also be found speaking at leading technology conferences and blogs actively athttp://blog.flexgeek.in

Break out room 1 : 

Speaker (11.30 - 1.30 pm) - Shiva Kumar is a Committer and a PMC (Project Management Committee) Member in Apache Geronimo, a free and open-source J2EE/Java EE 5 Server. He has been working in IBM India Software Labs for close to 7 years now, since completing his BE in Computer Science from R.V. College of Engineering, Bangalore. Since Aug-2008, Shiva is parallelly pursuing his Ph.D. in Machine Learning from Indian Institute of Science (IISc) under Prof. A.G. Ramakrishnan, Electrical Engineering Department. At IBM, he his currently in the WebSphere Web 2.0 Feature Pack development team and, his work involves contributing to Apache Wink project.

Following will be demoed in this session:

    *  Dojo Toolkit: an open source JavaScript library that enables building rich user interface consisting of Menus, Tabs, Tooltips, Sortable Tables, Dynamic Charts, Tree widgets that support drag-and-drop, attractive themes, Asynchronous communication, and many other cross-browser features.

    *  JAX-RS/Apache Wink: an open source Java framework that enables development and consumption of REST style web services. In addition, Apache Wink has support for Atom Syndication Format, Atom Publishing Protocol, RSS, JSON, CSV and OpenSearch.

    *  Server Side Push: a feature that enables the clients to be notified immediately of any server-side changes using the Bayeux protocol.

    *  Ajax Proxy: a convenient server-side proxy that can be used to enable cross-site scripting.  

Break out room 2 : 

11:30 - 12:20 pm 

Speaker - Prashant Kumar Singh is a technical evangelist working for Adobe on the Adobe Flash platform. He works on finding solutions to enterprise and user  problems, helping in establishing Adobe Flex as a technical standard. He regularly speaks at Industry and developer focused conferences having recently spoken at GIDS(Great Indian Developer Summit) and Adobe DevSummit. He also contributes to premium education by conducting workshops and hands on sessions to make the student population aware about the richer internet and the power of the Adobe Flash Platform.

Session Abstract: Take a whirlwind tour of Adobe Flash Catalyst - a sparkling new tool from Adobe.

12:30 - 1:20 pm
Speaker - Sujit Reddy G is a Technical Evangelist for Flash Platform technologies at Adobe. He brings with him a great deal of expertise in Flex, J2EE and PHP. He specializes in building enterprise applications on Adobe Flash Platform and has a blog focusing on the integration of Adobe
Flex with Adobe LiveCycle Data Services (and BlazeDS)  at http://sujitreddyg.wordpress.com <http://sujitreddyg.wordpress.com/> .

Session Abstract: See how to build engaging Rich Internet Applications using Adobe Flex framework for various server side technologies productively. While application created with Flex and Flash have ability to communicate with various back ends, see how data services can add power to a back end.
This session starts with discussing Adobe Flex and how to create Flex applications connecting to various server technologies. Next, see how to do model-driven development using Adobe Flex and LiveCycle DS.

1.30 - 2.30 pm : LUNCH

Break out room 1 : 

2:30 - 3:20 pm

Speaker - Hemanth Sharma is a Platform Evangelist at Adobe Systems Inc., Bangalore. He is a certified expert in Adobe Flash, and an active participant on IndiMaD (Indian Adobe Mobile and Devices User Group). He has a keen interest in developing Flash content for mobile and devices. He also has an expertise in development for Flash for Digital Home and RIA for desktops & Mobile. Keen sense of UI design and building rich experiences in the apps/games that he works on is his major priority. In his spare time, Hemanth writes articles, tips & tricks and tutorials on his website www.hsharma.com/tech.

Session Abstract:

The uniqueness of Adobe Flash Player not only extends to your Desktop and Web, but also to various Mobile and devices such as Set Top Boxes. Write code once and deploy on to multiple platforms, screens and other form factors with great ease. This session will provide an overview on
development techniques, emulation and will showcase how one can use Adobe Flash Platform to develop Rich Internet Applications, games, e-learning content, etc., targeting Adobe Flash Player and Adobe Integrated Runtime (AIR) for Mobile as well as other platforms.

Speaker (3.30-5.30 pm):  Allahbaksh is a Technology Lead at SETLabs, Infosys, with close to five years of industry experience. He is a GWT evangelist and has been associated with GWT almost since its inception. He has also extensively worked in other open source technologies like Apache Lucene, Solr search engines, Eclipse plug-in development etc. He is an active participant in most of the technology forums.

Break out room 2 : WCF, Silverlight

Mr Sandeep Chalke -  He is an Chemical Engineer from Mumbai University. Prior to joining he was associated with Cybertech India Pvt. Ltd, for over two years as a Developer. He is working in Microsoft since 5 years as a Technical Lead with Silverlight and Windows Presentation Foundation support team.

Ms Tulika Chaudharie – She is an Escalation Engineer working with Microsoft for the last 5.5 years. As an Escalation engineer she is the last point of support for customers who are developing their applications using IIS, ASP.Net and other Internet technologies. 

Speakers (2.30 -  5.30 pm) Sandeep and  Tulika would be presenting RIA Services – Sandeep would be doing the Silverlight portion of RIA while Tulika would be talking about what goes under the hood - like Domain services and Entity Framework.