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8:30am Monday, 07/20/2009
Introduction to Google App Engine
Python, Web Applications
 Location: Ballroom A3/A6
Joe Gregorio (Google)
Average rating: ***..
(3.44, 16 ratings)
Overview of App Engine and its major components, including an overview of the APIs the SDK provides, the underlying technologies App Engine is built on. Tutorial is a hands on event where we will build multiple applications over three hours exploring many of features and APIs in App Engine. Read more.
1:30pm Monday, 07/20/2009
Request Tracker Boot Camp
Administration, Business
 Location: Ballroom A7
Jesse Vincent (Best Practical)
Average rating: ***..
(3.80, 10 ratings)
Request Tracker (RT) is an enterprise-grade ticketing system. It's designed to help your organization track what needs to get done and what still needs doing. From basic customer service to advanced back-office workflows, RT is flexible enough to keep your processes smooth and effective. This tutorial will cover deployment and day to day use of RT as well as basic customization. Read more.
8:30am Tuesday, 07/21/2009
The PhoneGap Project: Designing for the Device Neutral Mobile Web
Mobile
 Location: Meeting Room B1/B4
Brian LeRoux (Nitobi Inc.), Rob Ellis (Nitobi Inc.), Brock Whitten (Nitobi Inc.)
Average rating: ***..
(3.67, 6 ratings)
Created at iPhoneDevCamp 2008, PhoneGap is an open source initiative for bringing native device capabilities to mobile browsers. Use PhoneGap to author apps in HTML and JavaScript and still take advantage of native mobile device capabilities like geo location, camera, vibration and sound. Learn to build apps for iPhone, Android, Nokia S60 and Blackberry and how to contribute back to the project. Read more.
1:30pm Tuesday, 07/21/2009
Using Drupal
PHP, Web Applications
 Location: Meeting Room J3
James Walker (StatusNet Inc), Addison Berry (Lullabot)
Average rating: ****.
(4.64, 11 ratings)
Drupal is a highly modular, Open Source Content Management System with a wealth of powerful add-on modules. Learn to harness it all and build dynamic websites with Drupal from authors of the book, Using Drupal. Read more.
1:45pm Wednesday, 07/22/2009
Green Computing for the Little Guys: What Can a Fortune 2000 Company Do To Green Their Centralized Computing Resources?
Administration
 Location: Ballroom A7
James Turner (O'Reilly Media), Bill Weihl (Google, Inc.), Jim Oberholtzer (United States Bowling Congress), Allyson Klein (Intel Corporation)
Average rating: ***..
(3.50, 2 ratings)
Large data center providers such as Google and Microsoft are taking significant steps to cut down their power and cooling requirements, but how about a typical company with a campus-sized data center? What can be done to make a server room full of rack-mounted 1U systems more efficient? Does virtualization hold the key? Are more cores better than less? Our panelists will clue you in. Read more.
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • SourceForge.net
  • Sun Microsystems
  • Facebook
  • Gear6
  • Kaltura
  • Liferay
  • MindTouch
  • MySpace.com
  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • Rackspace Cloud
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Symbian Foundation
  • Twilio
  • WSO2
  • Yabarana Corporation

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