Eight Exciting Days of Conferencing

Today and the next 7 days are going to be very exciting for me as well as many others as we see a lot of innovations that would move technology into a different level. I’m going to be attending 3 conferences within these days with so much information to grasp and hands on practical. In these 8 days I would be at San Francisco, Kuala Lumpur and again San Francisco. Thanks to the technology which makes this possible for me. This is what I refer to as “Cloud Conferencing”.

So what is really going to make these events exciting? For technology innovation enthusiasts like me, we will be seeing yet another rounds of innovation from the technology leaders particularly in Web and Computing. Sure, you guessed right – Google and Sun Microsystem.

I began the event with Google I/O Conference in San Francisco today,  “cloud conferencing” from Kuala Lumpur. If you have been excited with the recent innovations that make the Web a better platform then you should join me here. 2009 is going to be even more interesting with the adoption of HTML 5.

Have you ever wished to include videos on your website as easy as you do for images with the <image /> tag. You may smile now because this is what you get with the <video /> tag of HTML 5. If you are also a 3D geek, get your hands on the Google O3D which you can achieve with just HTML 5, CSS and Javascript; no plugins to worry about.

It becomes even more interesting with W3C Geolocation standards implemented in browsers (Firefox 3.5 will ship with that) which uses WIFI, GPS and/or IP to give you the best result. As a developer you can take advantage of that without worrying about proxies or GPS problems anymore.

Of course users are going to take more advantage of these innovations and enjoy better user experiences. Your slow/intermittent connections wouldn’t spoil your browsing experience with the cache and sqlite support of HTML 5. Say thanks to the background processing (web worker) implementation as well which defers your “not immediate” requirements till you ask for them.

Cross browser web development gets easier and more efficient with the upcoming version of Google Web Toolkit (version 2.0). Google Apps makes it even more interesting by saving you from development environment configuration and deployment issues.

With widgets such as youtube, creating dynamic and interactive websites have become easy. This even gets easier with the introduction of Google Web elements – a ‘copy and paste’ web development.

With over 4 billion mobile subscribers worldwide, the mobile platform is definitely as important as the web. The Google Android team have cool innovations to present.

Find more on these highlights from Vic Gundotra (VP Engineering of Google), Jay Sullivan (VP of Mozilla) and other Googlers in the I/O keynote. Today and tomorrow’s all going to be for Google I/O.

Thanks to Open Source which makes these technologies even better and drives for more innovations. That is why I am going to begin my “earth conferencing” this Sunday – an Open Source Conference supported by the Malaysian Government. It’s going to begin with a Hackathon day with sessions including Web Intrusion (Practical analysis with OSS tools), Web Application Security Common Problems and Analysing Compromised Web Server (RFI, SQL injection and Code injection).

Of course sessions for the promising Open Source operating system with its advanced kernel are also available for various distributions including Ubuntu, Fedora, OpenSuse and FreeBSD. The next 3 days will cover presentations by speakers from Sun Microsystem, Google, Red Hat, Ubuntu, Mozilla, Intel, Microsoft and many more.

Finally, the long-awaited JavaOne conference is kicing off on 2nd June and is going to last till 5th June. There is going to be great innovations as usual in network computing, enterprise applications, web applications, mobile applications, cloud computing, embedded systems, robotics and many more. Get ready for the big surprises and make sure you do not miss the Toy Show by the father of Java (James Gosling) if you are in San Francisco (or if you are going to join me in the “cloud conferencing”) on Friday, 5th June.

The excitement has begun and it is going to get more exciting. Stay tuned as I keep you posted.

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