OpenJive Regional Challenge 2009 - Presentation and Finals

Next week will be quite a week for most of us in the club. Jivers who are participating in Sun's Microsystem OpenJive Regional Challenge 2009 - Presentations and Finals - are busy preparing their applications on the end.

We will be having our group presentations at ITE-Sun Engineering IT Solutions Centre, Technology Block, Level 4, ITE College East, 10 Simei Avenue, on 17th and 18th June 2009. The teams are:

1. Team ThinkIT
   App Name: EnviroJournal
   
   
   
   • Cannie Kor
   
   
   • Joel Cheng
   
   
   • Dennis Ng
   
   



2. Team AAA Battery
   App Name: Online Awareness on Diseases/Pandemics
   
   
   
   • Alphonsus Loh
   
   
   • Alvin Lim
   
   
   • Alicia Wong
   
   



3. Team ~Team Epics~
   App Name: Combat Against Pandemics/Diseases
   
   
   
   • Ng Jun Hao
   
   
   • Yeap Hooi Tong
   
   
   • Terence Teo Tze Xiang
   
   



4. Team Pinnacle
   App Name: Stay Connected
   
   
   
   • Foo Kim Li
   
   
   • Chow Wai Kuan
   
   
   • Jason Sia
   
   



5. Team Undefined
   App Name: Jitsaw
   
   
   
   • Nicholas Ooi
   
   
   • Sam Yong
   
   
   • Eric Lee
   
   

The top 6 finals presentation will be held on 18th June (2nd day) itself at Main Lecture Theatre, Admin Block, Level 3, ITE College East, 10 Simei Avenue.

Link: http://sg.sun.com/openjive/

Why call ourselves "Overflow"?

Definitions:

• Overflow condition, a situation that occurs when more information is being transmitted than the hardware can handle


• Arithmetic overflow, a condition that occurs when a calculation produces a result that is greater than what a given register can store or represent


• Stack overflow in which a computer program makes too many subroutine calls and its call stack runs out of space


• Buffer overflow, a situation whereby the incoming data size exceeds that which can be accommodated by a buffer

From Wikipedia: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Overflow

We call ourselves Overflow because firstly, in programming we will sometimes encounter the Overflow error. It may mean that we accidentally assigned a variable of a large size into a small memory size.

It represents that our ideas cannot be contained or limited, there is endless flow of critical thinking, and our creativity is limitless. We shall be the elites of the IT field.

Welcome Session

Hi there!

As members of Overflow SIG are participating in the upcoming OpenJive competition, there a OpenJive and Overflow SIG Welcome session on friday (29 May 2009) at Blk 27-05-01, 4pm to 5.30pm.

The session will cover the following:

1. Welcome


2. Introduction and goals of Overflow SIG


3. Various IT events and competitions


4. Introduction and briefing for Open Jive


5. Ice-breaking and contacts exchange

Competition participants will a welcome pack that consists of printed hard copies of the book "Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages I" and "Core Servlets and JavaServer Pages II" as well as its accompanying ebook.

So see you there.

Start Overflowing

Hi there!

NP Overflow, or NPOC, is a new Special Interests Group (SIG) in Ngee Ann Polytechnic School of InfoComm Technology.

In NP Overflow, we are a group of highly focused group of students set to compete in international, regional, and local InfoComm Technologies competitions for Ngee Ann Polytechnic. Examples of such competitions would be NIC, Imagine Cup, OpenJive and so on.

Such competitions will help us in attaining IT skills that are far beyond the teachings in tutorials and classes.

Apart from joining competitions, members also do peer tutoring to help one another in attaining various skills for various competitions. Through these activities and competitions, members can also learn more about IT, achieve greater academic results, and also gain more exposure.

From time to time NPOC also aims to organise ICT competitions for Primary, Secondary, Tertiary education and public to promote IT, identify talents and its correct use.

If you are interested in joining, do look out for our posters in ICT block 27 and 31 or take note of this blogging space.

Cheers
Sam Yong
School of ICT, Year 1
Ngee Ann Polytechnic Overflow