The first Google Technology User Group meet-up for this year will happen on 17 April 2010. They have lined up 4 exciting technical talks and 2 project/event announcements for this event. The theme for this meet-up is Google App Engine. They will be covering topics ranging from Google App Engine 101 to building games using this infrastructure. We are definitely going to be there for the event and we sure hope you can make it too.

Please proceed to the registration form to register for this meet up now.

Note 1: On site registrations will not be available if the capacity is reached through online registrations.

Note 2: You are encouraged to bring your laptop as presentation slides and other materials will be made available online.

12:30 – 01:00pm: Registration

01:00 – 01:10pm: Announcements by SG-GTUG

01:10 – 01:40pm: Show & Tell 1 – Junda Ong: Using App Engine for mobile apps

01:40 – 02:10pm: Show & Tell 2 – Stephan February: Securing your Grails webapp on App Engine

02:10 – 02:20pm: Short Talk 1 – Johan Sellstrom & Mikael Karon: Intro to OpenSocialGraph

02:20 – 02:30pm: Short Talk 2 – Sneha Menon: Curtain raiser to Echelon 2010

02:30 – 02.45pm: Refreshments & Networking

02:45 – 03:15pm: Show & Tell 3 – Chris Boesch: Building globally scalable games with Python, Django, and the Google App Engine

03:15 – 03:45pm: Show & Tell 4 – Varun Agarwal: Google App Engine 101

03:45 – 04:00pm: Upcoming event announcements, Q & A

04:00 – 04:30pm: Refreshments & Networking II & Meet up adjournment

Show & Tell 1 : Junda Ong : “Using App Engine for mobile apps”: I will discuss on how I use AppEngine (Java) for the development of SG 4D, one of the most popular Singapore iPhone app. The presentation will cover the technologies and techniques that I have used, such as framework for AppEngine, data mining, and Android.

Show & Tell 2 : Stephan February : Securing Grails on Google AppEngine: Description: The speaker will demonstrate how one should go about providing authentication for your GAE Grails application using a combination of Spring Security, OpenID and OAuth. The basics of OpenID and OAuth will be discussed.

Short Talk 1 : Johan Sellstrom & Mikael Karon : Introduction to Open Social Graph :The presenters will share the new open source project aiming to make sense of the multiple social connections across multiple social networks. Google App Engine has been selected as the platform for hosting this project. The speakers will discuss how AppEngine is useful for doing this successfully and what other technologies (primarily Google APIs) will be used in this regard. Currently members of Singapore GTUG are volunteers in carrying out the project. This will be a callout to all developers in Singapore to contribute using Google Code project hosting platform.

Short Talk 2 : Sneha Menon : A curtain raiser to Echelon 2010: The speaker will present a sneak preview of Echelon 2010 conference scheduled to happen in 1-2 June 2010 in Singapore. This conference has been rebranded from this year and previously was known as unconference.

Show & Tell 3 : Chris Boesch : Building globally scalable games with Python, Django, and the Google App Engine: In this Chris will share with us his experience and knowledge of using Python  (a dynamic programming language) with Django (a python based web-framework) with Google App Engine.

Show & Tell 4 : Varun Agarwal : Google App Engine 101: The Presenter will first introduce the Singapore Google Technology User Group @ SMU and showcase what has been done till now and discuss the future plans. The talk aims to capture technologies like Google App Engine from the perspective from an amateur developer. It also aims to go through chunks of code that make up an app engine app and study the variations that one can do with the same.