BANGALORE, INDIA: The Great India Developer Summit(GIDS), an event for the independent software professionals and developer community, produced by Saltmarch media was organized from 22nd_25th April 2009 at the Indian Institute of Science Bangalore.

The event witnessed over three thousand delegates with eighty speakers attending to 110 sessions.

The agenda of the event was to provide a single platform for learning and understanding of various technologies that can be further useful for building their careers.

The event covered range of topics that include Microsoft computing technologies, Java, Rich Web, Enterprise 2.0, SOA, Ajax, Agile.

This year the theme of the event was-tools, Technologies, Tips and Tomfoolery to Beat the Downturn. With the global economy witnessing a huge turmoil, the focus for the event this year remained on sharpening the skills of the developer community to tackle recession.

It involved various industry veterans speaking on new technologies and topics that can help in increasing speed, security, in turn enhance performance. The sessions also spoke about tuning and upgrading the available technologies without making any extra investment or incurring costs in new technologies.

The event also highlighted few technologies:

HTML5 Communication: One innovation- WebSocket- in particular that would enable full-duplex HTTP communication, and finally bring an end to the "click and wait" paradigm traditionally associated with the Web.

Microsoft SilverLight 3: a next version of Microsoft silverlight.

Yahoo Search Monkey: It allows developers to add their own flavor and spice to the Yahoo! Search page.

REST: an architectural style

AUSLO: A new modeling platform, which is being launched globally later this year

Groovy: dynamic language that runs on the JVM and gives advantage of meta-programming capabilities in Java applications by intermixing the two languages.