Education in India

National Institutes of Technology faculty seeks pay parity with those of Indian Institute of Technology. In a meeting with Kapil Sibal, Human Resource Development Minister, the NIT directors put strong rejection against differential pay structure. The meeting, which was scheduled as a courtesy call soon turned itself into a forum where [...]

Sri Sai Ram Polytechnic College is a newly established Polytechnic College in Chennai that has been inaugurated in the year 1996-97. However new it might be, the Institute never fails to offer excellent career oriented courses that are popular among the students as well as effective for their future [...]

Microsoft makes its Dream Spark program available to high school students. By offering free access to the latest Microsoft software, students may pursue their academic and professional goals, to become the next generation of IT and business leaders.
As part of Dream Spark, Microsoft Robotics Developer Studio 2008 Academic Edition is available [...]

Microsoft Imagine Cup, the "Olympics of Technology," is the preeminent student technology competition in the world.
In 2009, over 300,000 students from 100 countries are vying for a chance to compete in the Worldwide Finals in Cairo and all trying to solve the world’s toughest problems.
The [...]

Nokia says it’s developing technology that could draw enough power from ambient electromagnetic radiation waves to keep a cell-phone handset topped up. Wi-Fi transmitters, cell-phone antennas, TV masts, and other emit these waves.
Developers use the same principles as a crystal radio set or radio frequency identification (RFID) tag. [...]

10 Tips to go from a Beginner to Intermediate Developer
Having difficulty finding tips for to get your developer career to the next stage?
Don’t worry about that here are some suggestions on how to make that jump.
During an e-mail exchange with a Technical Republic member, he mentioned that blogs, [...]

Want to be stuck on the career treadmill? Hate your job. What it takes to move up in this business is not just dogged determination to bring home an ever growing paycheck but an actual enjoyment of your work.
If you do not like your work and you are a junior developer, [...]

Nothing marks an inexperienced coder like stupid variable names, poor indentation habits, and other signs of being careless. All too often, a developer learned how to program without being skilled the less interesting details such as code formatting–and it shows.
Even though learning these things will not always make your code [...]

At your job, take a look at the code the senior developers are writing and ask how and why things were done a particular way. If you can, check out open source projects as well. Even if other developers don’t have the best coding behavior, you’ll learn a lot about how [...]

Its one thing to write "Hello World", but it’s another to understand how the words appear on the screen. By learning the "groundwork" that supports the work you does, you will become much better at it. Why? Because you will understand why things work the way they do, what might be [...]