GTUG Kuala Lumpur Office Hours with Wesley Chun

We're back! Google I/O was full of exciting announcements, right? HTML5, Froyo and many more. For us, we like to introduce GTUG KL Office Hours.

GTUG Kuala Lumpur Office Hours is a session to get advice & help from product experts in an intimate and informal setting. We're lucky to kickoff our first session by having Wesley Chun, a Developer Advocate from Google on June 13, 2010 at iTrain, Kuala Lumpur.

Wesley Chun is author of Prentice Hall's bestseller 'Core Python Programming', its video training course 'Python Fundamentals' and co-author of 'Python Web Development with Django'. He is a software architect and developer advocate at Google and runs a consulting business called CyberWeb. And you'll meet him at PyCon APAC 2010.

Here's the agenda:

1300 - Opening intro by Nazrul, GTUG KL Community Manager.

1315 - Office Hours with Wesley Chun, Developer Advocate from Google.

1530 - Breakout sessions

If you have questions to ask Wesley about App Engine or Python programming, submit them at Google Moderator: http://bit.ly/c2vrh5

Please RSVP your attendance to make sure there's enough seats. Here's the link: http://bit.ly/d0qhEY

See you there!

P/S: It's our 1st year anniversary! Wuhoooo! Thank you Google :)

Directions to iTrain for today's meetup

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Here are the details about the meetup. What will happen today?

2:30pm - Introduction
2:45pm - We Code Android
4:45pm - Lightning talks
3:45pm - Chrome Extensions 101
5:30pm - Breakout!

We Code Android
A presentation about CodeAndroid Malaysia plans for 2010. We will also showcase 3 new Android applications recently developed by our community of developers: The Star Online by Marvin Lee, KL Traffic Cam by Bernie Eng & Antollroid by Leong Hean Hong.

Chrome Extensions 101
Google Chrome OS is Google's answer for a netbook operating system which is tighly integrated with Google Chrome, the browser. With the introduction of Chrome Extensions, you'll be able to extend & enhance Google Chrome's functionality & improve your browsing experience. Armed with HTML, CSS & Javascript, this session will show you how you can start building your own Chrome extensions.

There will be a lightning talk session today. So if you have something interesting to share, like your "secret" project or new developer ninja tricks with the community, come on over! We heard that someone from myPrize, the infamous RM1 million global developer competition, is coming over too.

See you there :)

Watch GTUG KL meetup #1 video

Thank you to iTrain for sharing with us these awesome videos. I shall see you in our next meetup =)

How to get to iTrain for the GTUG KL meetup?

Hey everybody,

Just a quick reminder that tomorrow will be GTUG KL's 1st inaugural meetup. The event will happen at iTrain, starting from 4:30pm till approximately 6:30pm, depending on how "hot" it gets.

A big thank you to iTrain and here's nifty gadget by the iTrain people to help you getting to the venue. You can even add the gadget to your iGoogle page.

It's made using Google technology. Awesome :)

More information on what's happening at GTUG KL meetup can be found here.

I hope to see you guys there!

O.M.G

Oooh.. My.... Gooodieness....

I have absolutely awesome schwag to be given away to the best lightning talk presented by participants of GTUG KL meetup this weekend. All that you have to do is:

1. Make it to GTUG KL meetup this weekend.
2. When the "Lightning Talk" session begins, volunteer yourself to speak& share your experiences, tips or even your cool application orproject using Google technology.
3. You have 5 minutes to talk. Use whatever presentation materials you like. Anything goes. Really.
4. We go by the crowd. Shout "yea!" if you like =D

The presenter with the most & loudest shoutout, wins them goodies! I have limited goodies to given away at this moment, but I'll have more in future GTUG KL meetups. A big thank you to Stephanie Liu Developer Technical Program Manager from Google Developer Relations team for these awesome goodies.

See you this Saturday!

GTUG KL meetup #1

We're having our 1st meetup this 27th June 2009!

For our 1st meetup, we will be talking about Android. Android is a complete set of software for mobile devices: an operating system, middleware and key mobile applications developed by the Open Handset Alliance, an initiative led by Google. With more Android based phones coming out from the factoires of HTC, Samsung and other major phone makers, Android is hot stuff. We're going to introduce & talk a little bit about Android, the Android Market & how to begin developing Android applications.

Here's our agenda:

4:30pm - Opening by the organiser.
4:45pm - "Hello Android" by Nazrul Kamaruddin.
5:15pm - Lightning Talks.
6:00pm - Break. Breakout sessions.

Hello Android

Nazrul will be talking a little bit about Android: the origins, the potential, how to begin making apps. For the last part of the presentation, he will be demoing the Android SDK and a demo app.

Lightning Talks

A Lightning Talk is a short presentation at GTUG KL meetups. Unlike other presentations, lightning talks last only a few minutes and several will usually be delivered in a single period by different speakers. You can share your experiences or rants using GMail, Picasa, YouTube and any other Google technology & services. Share your shortcuts working around Google Docs. You can even talk about your own personal projects that's using App Engine. You can pre-submit your lightning talk session by sending me an email: nazrul at gtugs dot org. You can just do it spontaneously on that day!

RSVP your attendance at the Facebook event page & see you there!

GTUG KL Meetup - Let's talk about Google Android

For our 1st meetup, it's going to be about Google Android. With more Android based phones coming out from HTC, Samsung and other major phone makers, Android is hot stuff. Today, Google Code Blog posted a nice set of Android related session videos from the recent Google I/O conference.

Nice timing!

Have a read 1st and let's talk more at our meetup! We will try to play Android videos, so that everyone can watch & learn together.

We're still looking for a good venue for the 1st meetup, and we're kinda fussy like that :D That's because we'd prefer a place where there's good, reasonable WIFI, the very least. If there is a cocktail or coffee bar, that's a super plus! If you have any suggestions, tell us & let us know where so we can check the place out.

Have a good weekend! Cheers :)

Oh, when is the 1st meetup you ask? It's going to be on the 27th this month. Hope you can make it!