GeekcampSG – A gathering of developers who are passionate about their craft, coming together to share ideas and learn new technologies.
When I first heard about the camp, I immediately signed-up for the event and waited eagerly for its arrival. The event was well-received by the developer community and it was sold out weeks in advance. I was impressed by the camp which was organized by developers, for developers.
It was a Saturday morning but there are already tons of people waiting in line as early as 8:30am to get a chance at receiving one of the 100 limited edition GeekcampSG 2012 t-shirts.
Here’s shot of the awesome Geekcamp.SG 2012 t-shirt that is coveted by the camp attendees.
For attendees that are not fortunate to receive one of the 100 coveted limited edition t-shirts, they are able to grab one of the awesome stickers for GeekcampSG 2012.
In total, more than 400 developers and enthusiasts attended the camp. The auditorium was filled to the brim, with eager attendees occupying all of the available floor space in the room.
Here’s the opening address from the event’s Platinum Sponsor, Windows Azure.
And off we go! The keynote was presented by U-Zyn Chua on Cryptography: Why Bitcoin is safer than your bank. It was a controversial currency concept and U-Zyn had a challenging and engaging session during Q&A.
After a series of morning talks, it was lunch time! Everyone had a great lunch and it was simply awesome to see developers engaging each other in sharing sessions and lighting talks during the break.
In my opinion, one of the most engaging and interesting speakers of the day was Yap Neng Ginn, who presented on Windows Azure.
Here’s the best analogy that I’ve heard for the main categories of cloud offerings:
On Premises – Your Car
Infrastructure as a Service – Rented Car
Platform as a Service – Taxi
Software as a Service – SMRT
I ended my day with an interesting talk by Michael Cheng on Continuous integration for PHP with Jenkins and Sonar.
Thanks for all the great work put in by the Geekcamp.SG committee. I had a fantastic time mingling with fellow developers who are passionate about their craft. It was also great to see many student developers attending the event and eager to chip in to help for future events. I will definitely be back next year and hopefully I will have an interesting topic to present to all my fellow developers.
Did you attend GeekCamp.SG? What do you think of the event? Do you have other great tech events to recommend for us to attend? Do share
with us your recommendations in the comments below and we might just do a special report based on your recommendations!
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