The last DevFest of the Kenyan series under the [devfestkenya] brand. The Devfest Nyeri was at Dedan Kimathi University of technology. The event was packed with over 80 enthusiastic developers, 20% of them Professionals and 80% Students.


The Event kicked off with a recap of the GDG Europe Summit from +Kenneth Kinyanjui . He expounded on Emerging Google Technologies such as the Chromium Project , Google Cloud Platform.  +Joseph Ndungu  Walked us th rough Chrome Dev Tools and +arlus ishmael  walked us through Google Cloud Platform.



+Femi TAIWO Took center stage and walked us through Web Development with HTML5. Detailed was this talk that we covered Android, BlackBerry and other Mobile platforms.

In the afternoon, we moved to the Codelabs where we had +James Odede takes us through the Android Codelab session and +arlus ishmael take us through the Google App Engine Session.

Finally, we had +Njeri Chelimo give a talk on Diversity in Technology. +Said Fuad , our last speaker talked about UI/UX design on the Android Platform, focusing on the Action Bar and why we should use it.

The event hashtags were #devfestnyeri on Google+, If you missed the event, you will have a feel of the online interactions during the event.

The day's pictures are "on the line". They have been uploaded on +GDG Kimathi University 's page in the album GDG Devfest Nyeri 2013. For more add +GDG Kimathi University  to your circles for better interaction.

We are now looking into the Google Cloud Developer Challenge and we are organizing a hackathon, so watch this space.

All the Speaker slides are on our Github Repo.

For more on the Devfest, visit our Devfest Nyeri 2013 Site


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