Google DevFests India 2011

Google has been organizing many developer events across the globe to meet the developers and understand their expectations. DevFest is one such event which provides a great opportunity to learn more about Google technologies and developer products. Developer advocates and engineers from Google will be present at the event. This will be an useful forum for the developers to interact with Google engineers. The event is open to all. There are only limited seats. Register here.

Event  : Google DevFest 2011

Venue : The Lalit Ashok Bangalore
Date    : Sep 15, 2011 08:30 - 17:00

Venue : HICC and Novotel, Hyderabad
Date    : Sep 17, 2011 08:30 - 17:00

More details here.

-- Varun

Intro to WebSockets

Last week I had the opportunity to meet up with some of the geeks from Chennai at the Chennai Geeks Techmeet-3. Chennai is really a happening place for technology-minded folks – Lots of tech meets, technology user groups, barcamps, etc. Having missed the first two editions of Techmeet, I desperately wanted to attend the third one. The third edition was organized at Thoughtworks on Dec 18, 2010. One of the topics for this edition was “Intro to WebSockets” by Gaurav Oberoi. He gave an overview about WebSockets, need for WebSockets and its limitations. In short, WebSockets is a HTML5 feature which lets you stream data to and from web browsers. Google Wave (now Apache Wave) uses WebSockets technology for its real-time communication layer. Attaching the slides from Gaurav’s talk on WebSockets.

-- Varun

Google Tech Talk: Challenges and Learnings in Enterprise Search Quality

Google India is organizing yet another Tech talk on 19th Nov 2010. The topic for the same will be “Challenges and Learnings in Enterprise Search Quality”. Dr. Shailesh Kumar, Senior Software Engineer, Google is delivering the talk. The event is free and open to all in Computer Science, Engineering, Information Technology and related fields. Register here.

Talk abstract

Enterprises are growing in age, size, and diversity and so is their repository of internal documents e.g. e-mails, internal wikis, special pages for people, projects, and products, etc. Searching this ever growing corpus with high precision, recall, and scale is becoming increasingly important and difficult for Enterprises.

This talk will highlight some of the fundamental differences between web search and enterprise search problems and then a number of opportunities for improving Enterprise search in the light of these differences will be discussed.

Talk     : Challenges and Learnings in Enterprise Search Quality
Date    : Friday, Nov 19, 2010, 5:30 to 6:45 PM
Venue : Google India Campus, Hyderabad

-- Varun