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Personal schedule for Paul Scott

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8:30am Monday, 07/20/2009

The Open, Social Web Workshop

Emerging Topics, Web Applications
Location: Meeting Room J3

Chris Messina (Google), David Recordon (Facebook), Joseph Smarr (Google)

Average rating:

(3.83, 12 ratings)

As evidenced by Barack Obama’s successful presidential campaign, we have clearly entered the age of the social web. This developer-oriented workshop will emphasize the use and application of free, open building blocks for enabling social networking features on your site or service, and provide illuminating insights from some of the key figures creating these technologies. Read more.

1:30pm Monday, 07/20/2009

Scaling Your Web MySQL Application (mostly PHP/MySQL)

Databases, PHP, Web Applications
Location: Meeting Room J2

Duleepa Wijayawardhana (MySQL)

Average rating:

(3.50, 12 ratings)

Scaling is a perennial problem. One day you are happily serving 10,000 users and suddenly that pesky CNN picks you on you and you have to deal with a million users. It isn't all about putting the latest hardware, more disk or more RAM. Scaling is a subtle art of discovering pain points in the application and using various Open Source software and technologies to get you to where you want. Read more.

8:30am Tuesday, 07/21/2009

Gearman: Build Your Own Distributed Platform in 3 Hours

Databases, Web Applications
Location: Meeting Room J2

Eric Day (Rackspace Cloud), Brian Aker (HP)

Average rating:

(3.82, 11 ratings)

This tutorial will show you how to get started with Gearman, the flexible job queuing system used to power websites such as LiveJournal and Digg. We'll cover common architectures, installation, APIs, and deployment. A few use cases will be described and built, including a Map/Reduce cluster and database-driven URL mining application. 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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