Two Saturdays, two meetups: Delhi User Group and BarCamp Delhi 9

So, I just spent two Saturdays in a row at tech meetups in Gurgaon, and I tweeted my way through both of them. :D Here’s the coverage while it’s still fresh: what was on, who spoke, and what I made of it.

Before these two: #gindia

The only event before this on my timeline is a Google India one that ran under the #gindia hashtag, on 5 September last year. I was there in person. I called Google Now on Jelly Bean the “most amazing virtual assistant ever”, got excited about a Hangout with a pirate effect (“amazing effects!”), and even enjoyed the KiSSFLOW bit: “business part was never so interesting!”

Saturday, 20 April: Delhi User Group at Microsoft

The Delhi User Group’s April meetup was a free half-day event at Microsoft’s office in DLF Cyber Greens, Tower A, 9th floor, in Cyber City. Sikandarpur is the nearest metro. Registration was from 9, and I was in the mood by 9:45: “lets bring it ON !!!! #DUG”.

The line-up was five talks back to back, mostly SQL Server:

Time	Talk	Speaker
10:00	Automate your manual tasks with PowerShell	Aman Dhally
10:45	SQL Server Databases: A Primer	Ahmad Osama
11:30	Nuts and Bolts of Security in SQL Server 2012	Sarabpreet Singh
12:30	Exciting features for Devs in SQL Server 2012 + Demos	Brij Bhushan Mishra
1:15	Data as a Service in .NET	Dhananjay Kumar

PowerShell was the surprise of the day. Aman showed scripts that ping a whole list of servers in one go, and my tweet after it was “#powershell is wayy awesome than i thought…”. He has put up his slides and pictures from the day. That night I explained it to a friend as “Scripting to use to automate your tasks ;)”, and told Aman on Twitter that PowerShell was “the most interesting part”.

SQL security came next on my timeline: “Nuts & bolts of #sql security at #dug…”, and half an hour in, “Demo time”. The break was supposed to be at 12:15. My “Coffeeee break… And its time for a ccd espresso” tweet went out at 12:48, so we were running late by then. :P

Dhananjay Kumar closed the day with OData and WCF Data Services, with a console client demo. By his own count there were around 20 of us in the room for that last slot.

Saturday, 27 April: BarCamp Delhi 9

BarCamp Delhi 9 (#bcd9) was a different animal. It was at SAP Labs in Vatika Towers on Golf Course Road, sponsored by SAP Labs, Telerik and Adobe, and it’s an unconference: anyone can propose a session. This time sessions were registered on the BarCamp site beforehand, and the day ran as two rooms in parallel with 30-minute slots:

• 9:00 check-in, 10:00 keynote
• 10:30 to 12:30: sessions
• 12:30 lunch
• 1:30 to 3:00: sessions, then tea
• 3:30 to 4:30: sessions
• 4:30 open house

The night before I tweeted “Bring it on… #bcd9 ;-) see you guys in morning !!!”, and come morning I was “ready to rock”. Three friends tagged along.

Here’s what was listed for the morning, which is the part I live-tweeted:

Time	Room 1	Room 2
10:30	J2ME to HTML 5: The Journey; Learn to create Hybrid Application
11:00	Lua programming languages	Design thinking for Business
11:30	SQL Server Backups	Getting started with NoSQL using CouchDB
12:00	Understanding Open Source licenses	Looking better: The new goodness in CSS

Hybrid apps got most of my tweets. Dhananjay Kumar again, this time on building one app for every platform: PhoneGap to deploy, a live demo, and the line I noted down as “Develop for all platforms in one go”. “Superb session”, I said, with a #gohybrid. Somewhere in there a Kendo UI joke went around the room: “Probably your face needs CSS 3.0 ;)”.

Then CouchDB. At 11:30 it was “Getting started with NoSQL using CouchDB”, and I tweeted “No sql with #couchdb”.

And then the hard choice. The 12:00 slot had “Understanding Open Source licenses” in one room and “The new goodness in CSS” in the other. I couldn’t decide, so I asked Twitter to pick for me.

The afternoon had more: a PowerShell session by Aman (“Use Powershell to ease you life”), a Big Data databases overview, JavaScript UI frameworks, CSS performance, in-memory technologies and enterprise gamification were all on the list. My timeline goes quiet after noon though, so I’ll leave those to people who took notes.

The organisers say 100+ people turned up. My count? 11 tweets with #bcd9, and 9 about #DUG the week before if you count replies and a retweet. Did anyone need that much live coverage? Nope. Was I having fun? Clearly!

Funny timing

The night before BarCamp I was asking Nokia Developer about a contest deadline and mentioned I had “just submitted 3apps to marketplace”. Those are my first Windows Phone apps. So a session about building for every platform in one go landed on a guy who has just shipped for exactly one. :P

The live coverage

Here’s all of it, in order:

#gindia

Google now most amazing virtual assistant ever on #jellybean #gindia #gindia2012

@jatinkrmalik, 5 September 2012

#gindia

#gindia #gindia a hangout pirate :O amazing effects!

@jatinkrmalik, 5 September 2012

#gindia

#gindia KiSSFLOW.... keep it simple silly ;-) business part was never so interesting!

@jatinkrmalik, 5 September 2012

Delhi User Group

@DelhiUserGroup ohh yes lets bring it ON !!!! #DUG

@jatinkrmalik, 20 April 2013

Delhi User Group

#powershell is wayy awesome than i thought.... #DUG

@jatinkrmalik, 20 April 2013

Delhi User Group

Nuts & bolts of #sql security at #dug.... ;)

@jatinkrmalik, 20 April 2013

Delhi User Group

Demo time :-D #DUG #SQLsecurity

@jatinkrmalik, 20 April 2013

Delhi User Group

Coffeeee break.... And its time for a ccd espresso ;-) #DUG

@jatinkrmalik, 20 April 2013

Delhi User Group

@anuuj Scripting to use to automate your tasks ;) #powershell is a really usefull tool...learned about it today at #DUG #MicrosoftIndia

@jatinkrmalik, 20 April 2013

Delhi User Group

@AmanDhally surely it was Sir :) #powershell was the most interesting part ! You really did a great presentation at #DUG

@jatinkrmalik, 20 April 2013

BarCamp Delhi 9

Bring it on... #bcd9 ;-) see you guys in morning !!!

@jatinkrmalik, 26 April 2013

BarCamp Delhi 9

#bcd9 ;-) ready to rock baby B-)

@jatinkrmalik, 27 April 2013

BarCamp Delhi 9

Hybrid mobile application with @debug_mode ;) #bcd9

@jatinkrmalik, 27 April 2013

BarCamp Delhi 9

#phonegap to deploy hybrid app ;-) #bcd9

@jatinkrmalik, 27 April 2013

BarCamp Delhi 9

Demo time #gohybrid #bcd9

@jatinkrmalik, 27 April 2013

BarCamp Delhi 9

Develop for all platforms in one go. . #gohybrid superb session by @debug_mode #bcd9

@jatinkrmalik, 27 April 2013

BarCamp Delhi 9

#bcd9 with @varundude23 @adi_b09 @suvik023 ;)

@jatinkrmalik, 27 April 2013

BarCamp Delhi 9

Guys which next session will you attend ? #Opensource or goodness in #css ? #bcd9

@jatinkrmalik, 27 April 2013

BarCamp Delhi 9

No sql with #couchdb #bcd9 ;-)

@jatinkrmalik, 27 April 2013

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