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Personal schedule for Richard Fontana

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8:30am Monday, 07/20/2009

Perl 6: Why? What? How?

Perl
Location: Meeting Room B1/B4

Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)

Average rating:

(4.76, 21 ratings)

This half-day tutorial provides a comprehensive and practical introduction to the new language, specifically designed to get current Perl 5 programmers up to speed on the new and powerful features of Perl 6. Read more.

1:30pm Monday, 07/20/2009

Git 101

Programming
Location: Ballroom A4/A5

Scott Chacon (GitHub)

Average rating:

(4.31, 13 ratings)

Git is a new distributed version control system that is fast, flexible, works offline and supports powerful local branching and easy merging that encourages non-linear workflows and makes developers far more productive and efficient. This tutorial will introduce you to Git, rid you of your SVN sins, and teach you how to become more efficient and productive as a programmer. Read more.

8:30am Tuesday, 07/21/2009

Linux System and Network Performance Monitoring

Administration, Linux
Location: Ballroom A4/A5

Darren Hoch (StrongMail Systems)

Average rating:

(4.59, 32 ratings)

The Linux System and Network Performance Course teaches systems administrators practical methodologies for monitoring systems using standard system tools. The course breaks performance into 4 functional components: CPU, Memory, I/O, and Network. Read more.

1:30pm Tuesday, 07/21/2009

Learn to use Semantic Technologies using Open Source Tools

Databases, Emerging Topics, Programming, Web Applications
Location: Meeting Room J2

Jamie Taylor (Metaweb), Toby Segaran (Google), Colin Evans (Metaweb)

Average rating:

(3.88, 8 ratings)

Semantic Technologies provide a simple, standardized methodology for representing, combing and sharing data and serve as the foundation for creating communities of open data. These technologies are both easy to learn and easy to use. This tutorial will introduce you to semantic programming using a variety of open source tools and programming techniques that you can use on your projects today. Read more.

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