Developers Connect or preferably known as DevCon is an organization established support the growing population of young developers in the country. DevCon offers conferences wherein team buildings, interaction and knowledge are being shared to participants to help them grow and build their dream. As for now, the Institute of Computing had already embraced or joined DevCon’s community for already more than a year. Seminars and gatherings had really been a good help for students like us. Professional IT lecturers shared different interests thoughts, and ideas to share students of the possible fascinating things they might want to be indulged with and it’s a pleasure to say that those knowledge imparted had opened our young minds of the different fields in the profession were pushing through.
The Institute of Computing’s 2nd Developers Connect was attended by multiple students. During the program, some students were asked to have their thesis or research presentation. Part of the program was intended to give a chance for those students to experience an actual presentation in front of the crowd to help them build their confidence to face the world outside the university’s wall. It was an effective approach for them to improve or discover some of their hidden talents in defending what they’ve created and facing the crowd.
DevCon held Lightning Talks served by IT experts and Birds of Feathers with the topic about Operating Systems. Wordpress, Drupal, Python, ideas on how to retrieve a lost laptop and the significance of online map are just some of the coverage of the Lightning Talks. Topics being presented are all Open Source, meaning, these tools and software is free of any charges. Wordpress had been introduced during the presentation by one of the speakers. Wordpress is a powerful open source CMS tool with embedded features and templates that could help anyone create a dynamic website with less worry. Through the aid of the tool, managing work flows and procedures is now easy. Drupal on the other hand is more likely similar to Wordpress. Drupal is also a competitive open source CMS tool that could run in nay platform and supports the use of PHP and common databases like MySQL, Microsoft SQL Server and etc. Python is really not that much known to Filipino programmers as for the moment, but Python users had been growing in population as programmers multiply. Anyway, python is a programming language and is also free to use. It runs with Windows, Linux and Mac Operating Systems. The speaker of this topic leaved a funny but interesting quote, “There are only few users of Python Language for programming here in Philippines, hence making a good deal of encountering good offers as a Python user”. Another topic is an idea of how to retrieve a lost laptop, as far as I could remember it goes something like this. Each unit has its own unique IP address which is composed of binaries which represents or serves as the unit’s ID while surfing over the internet. The main idea is to track down the lost unit through tracking the unit’s current position through its IP address as it connects over the internet. Though it might just been an idea, but it could possibly be brought to reality by some programmers. The last one is the significance of online mapping. There are teams out there, plotting each street in the City, making a visual representation of them to contribute to an online map. This powerful map keeps down a track of possible routes that is mostly helpful for travelers and emergencies. Showing the shortest path and revealing possible routes to go through is the main purpose of maps basically. Through this, response time for emergency rescues perhaps is optimized.
It’s a pleasure joining the event and learning a lot from these experts coming from different fields. Hope to see them around next time to keep an update from outside community.
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