Go here for all the photos. Here’s a snap of the afternoon schedule.

WATiR (Web Application Testing in Ruby) is being demoed by Angrez Singh from Persistent Systems now at delhibarcamp. It looks like a compelling way to generate test scripts for web applications. You turn it on, use the web application according to your test, and it automatically generates Ruby script that will replicate the action. You can also write the script yourself. The API looks pretty simple and well-designed. This would work for any application, you don’t need to use RUBY in your development.
WATiR is IE-specific, which is a drag. The folks at Persistent Systems (based out of Pune) have built a Firefox extension that lets you use WATiR to test on Firefox! They also have built an extension that supports querying the DOM by XPATH in your text scripts. Everything they’ve written is open-sourced and available for anyone to use for free.
Lots of Ruby and AJAX stuff is happening in Dehli. But frankly there are at least 10 people at this conference who flew in from Pune. If I was starting up in India I would consider Pune as a base: it seems to have a lot of super-enthusiastic hackers.

Kapil (a software engineer at Uzanto) is presenting now at BarCampDelhi. He’s giving a tutorial on using the MCV pattern in the context of AJAX. It’s good stuff … besides MVC, he’s covered an explanation of closures, a basic approach to packaging, minimizing the javascript that is included in the initial download, and some other stuff I probably forgot. Good stuff. I can’t wait till we can show the stuff he’s been working on ;->

I’m sitting at barcamp Delhi. VeerChand Bothra of NetCore is demoing a very slick “microcontent client” called mytoday.com. It seems to be a specialized AJAX homepage. It allows the quick creation of niche publications that aggregate and present rss data. The design is very slick, with geographic filtering. It also has very rich integration with phone (at sister site m.mytoday.com). It makes it very simple to great aggregated feeds. Check out mytoday.com/bcdelhi, which they built in an hour and which is consuming all the blogs, tagged photos, etc from barcamp delhi. Awesome!
The core insight of this approach seems to be that most “real people” won’t build up an rss reader from scratch. But they’ll be OK with deleting feeds from a pre-existing set.
Presentation available here.
UPDATE: emergic writes about MyToday.