SG-GTUG Meet-up: Sat 4 Feb 2012 - Google App Engine

Theme: Google App Engine

Venue: "Franklin" Room, Level 11, 1 Fusionopolis Way Connexis (South Tower), Singapore 13863.
MRT Stop: CC23 "One North" station.

Time: Saturday 4 February 2012, 1:00pm to 3:30pm.

Pre-register here!

Schedule

The speakers will be Mr S. P. T. Krishnan (one of the co-founders of SG-GTUG) and Mr Mani Jagadeesan, an entrepreneur (Online Education) and independent software consultant.

• 1:00PM - 2:00PM Talk 1 and Q&A
• 2:00PM - 3:00PM Talk 2 and Q&A
• 3:00PM - 3:30PM Networking and Closing

Talk 1: Introduction to Google App Engine

In this talk, the speaker will introduce the salient features of Google App Engine (Python Edition). Recently, Google App Engine has graduated to be a full Google product and this talk will provide everything what you need to know to get started.

Talk 2: Building a Web Application - Technology and Business considerations

The speaker will share his experiences in building a web application for the education domain.  This talk will provide insights into the evolution of a web based product, both from technology and business points of view.

As usual, please pre-register using the Registration form. We look forward to seeing you at the meetup!

Annual Google DevFest Singapore 2011 on Nov 12 2011

Dear Members,

The annual Google DevFest Singapore 2011 is scheduled for Nov 12 2011. Yes, it is next Saturday. We will have talks on Google+, Android Market, HTML5, Google App Engine, YouTube and more. This year the DevFest will happen in the city.

Location:
Grand Hyatt
10 Scotts Road, Singapore
Republic of Singapore 228211


The registration was open this afternoon and more than 20% of the places have already been taken. Register asap at this URL http://code.google.com/events/devfests/2011/seasia.html#singapore


cheers,
--Kris

Apps Script meetup

A little more than 2 weeks ago, just under 40 of us gathered at the Google Singapore's office for SG-GTUG's July meetup. The theme was Google Apps Script.

This was the first time we had the unusual situation where all of the speakers were abroad: with Saurabh located in New York City, USA, and Romain in Paris, France. On top of that we were of course in 3 different time zones. The logistical problems were nicely solved by using various social media technologies: Google Hangout (an excellent video chat feature in Google+) for the actual presentations, Cisco WebEx Web Conferencing for the slides, and the occasional texting using Google Chat. Despite some initial hiccups due to power trips in the planned venue (thanks to Owen from Google for helping us to find an alternative room so quickly), I am glad to say that everything turned out well and we all learnt something useful that day!

Here are the slides for Saurabh's introduction to Google Apps Script.



Finally a big thanks to Saurabh for staying up for us on a Friday night - I believed he ended up going to bed around 3am - and Romain for having an early start to Saturday.

Till the next meetup!