Saturday, May 16, 2015

AngelHack Mumbai



AngelHack Mumbai is going on at prestigious Bombay Exchange India and will end up on Sunday May 16. Students, Start up enthusiasts ,representatives from IBM Blue MixHP havenondemand ,Zone Start ups and Amazon web services have gave up their precious weekends and  are participating in this hackathon.
The hackathon kicked off with a note from Ratish Narayan , the Angelhack representative and then wannabe team members explaining their skill sets, participants with ideas pitching for teams.

We had an impressive session from IBM Bluemix representative on how to make an app live in seconds and various services and apis provided by it.

It is followed by HP haven representative explaining wonderful hp haven services like face recognition ,image to text conversion and so on.

Then aws representative took over from there explainig how scalable and highly popular apps like freecharge are build over amazon web services and how do it.

Three startups from zone have announced some of their problem statements and their services 
pykih a cool data visualization start up from zone with their great analytics is also in run for competition.

Then the actual fun started with people finalizing their ideas and platforms. Evangelists from various platforms was helping developers in their short journey of building app.

Forget to mention food was at its best thanks to BSE for that with the perennial coffee and tea is keeping everyone awake over the night.

Some of the app ideas are interesting like intelligent apps which will go silent when you got to a classroom.

Let see who makes it too big tomorrow thats all from today ..


Wednesday, May 6, 2015

JAVA FX - The Forgotten hero

Why are we so moving into native applications in mobile area and web application for out desktops?
Facebook launched its popular mobile version but not bothered to launch a desktop app.

Similar questions were in my mind when I planned to build an application for my company internal competition where theme was log management. I decided to go for a desktop application.At start it was a joke as I am familiar with only Java and whether a  good technology which we can master is easily available.

Then we came to know about java fx a cross platform techonology where we can build desktop apps. It needs minimum java 7.
It got Screen builder where you can design screens similar to android apps which creates FXML its own tag languages,.
It also got css files where you can customize your styles.
We completed the app and have created good Gui with the help of java fx  and developed desktop application LOGON for log management