Personal schedule for Robert Hoelz

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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.
Emerging Topics, Programming, Web Applications
Location: Ballroom A2
Peter Saint-Andre (Cisco), Jack Moffitt (Collecta)
Average rating: ***..
(3.50, 12 ratings)
Jabber/XMPP technologies are the gold standard for real-time messaging, presence, and collaboration over the Internet. This interactive tutorial provides a fast-paced introduction to XMPP, including many practical guidelines and "gotchas" that will help you get off to a fast start with XMPP-based software projects. Read more.
Perl, Programming
Location: Ballroom A3/A6
Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Average rating: ****.
(4.34, 32 ratings)
This course presents a minimalist approach to interface design known as "S.A.T." Developed by Damian Conway over the past decade, this design philosophy can produce smaller, better focused, more usable module APIs. Read more.
Perl
Location: Ballroom A4/A5
Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia), Jacinta Richardson (Perl Training Australia)
Average rating: ****.
(4.12, 24 ratings)
You already know some Perl. You've read a book, written a few scripts, maybe even a module, but are you sure you're doing it right? Languagues and techniques evolve over time, and Perl is no exception. This detailed tutorial covers many of the best modern and practical techniques in Perl, including Moose, autodie, Devel::NYTProf, Devel::Cover, PAR, Perl::Critic and more. Read more.
Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Allison Randal (DrugDev, Inc.), Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. )
Average rating: ***..
(3.55, 31 ratings)
Opening remarks by the OSCON program chairs, Allison Randal and Edd Dumbill. Read more.
Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating: ****.
(4.24, 41 ratings)
Keynote by Tim O'Reilly. Read more.
Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Dirk Hohndel (Intel Corporation)
Average rating: ***..
(3.51, 37 ratings)
Imad Sousou, Director of Intel Open Source Technology Center will present the technology vision and direction for Intel’s overall Open Source efforts, including Mobility, Virtualization, Power, and Performance. Read more.
Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Michael Lopp (Rands in Repose)
Average rating: ***..
(3.83, 47 ratings)
In 15 minutes, discover 15 years of secrets behind building software faster, more efficiently, and using less floppy disks. Read more.
Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Average rating: ***..
(3.06, 17 ratings)
An open microphone question and answer session with the morning's keynote speakers. Read more.
Databases, Programming, Web Applications
Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Jonathan Steinert (SixApart)
Average rating: **...
(2.48, 23 ratings)
Many people know how to use memcached, the popular caching system powering much of web1+. Most folks, though, don't know how not to use it, and how improper usage can cause data problems, poor site/application performance, and an incredibly grumpy DBA. Learn what memcached is good for, and what it's not good for from those that have learned the wrong way. Read more.
Jesse Vincent (Best Practical)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 4 ratings)
SD is a disconnected, replicated bug tracking system designed to let developers track and resolve bugs without sacrificing the flexibility of the modern workflows that distributed version control systems have made possible. This talk will teach you how to start becoming more productive with SD without giving up your existing bug tracker. Read more.
Databases, Programming, Web Applications
Location: Ballroom A4/A5
Peter Zaitsev (Percona Inc)
Average rating: ***..
(3.17, 6 ratings)
Sphinx Full Text search engine became increasingly popular over years powering search for number of Alexa 100 sites as Craigslist and NetLog. Sphinx combines powerful full text search features with ease of use and high performance. Being specially designed for indexing database content it is natural fit for modern database powered web sites. Read more.
Perl
Location: Meeting Room J2
Patrick Michaud (pmichaud.com)
Average rating: ****.
(4.33, 6 ratings)
This talk presents ways in which people can become active contributors to Perl 6 and Rakudo Perl. It presents the details needed to quickly become a Rakudo Perl and Perl 6 library developer. Read more.
Programming
Location: Meeting Room B2
Allison Randal (DrugDev, Inc.)
Average rating: ***..
(3.80, 5 ratings)
The Parrot virtual machine hit 1.0 in March of this year, with a second production release (1.4) this week. A virtual machine like no other, Parrot targets dynamic languages such as Perl, Ruby, Python and PHP. This talk explains the overall architecture of Parrot and the theory behind that architecture. Read more.
Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Kirrily Robert (Freebase.com)
Average rating: ***..
(3.79, 43 ratings)
What's it like to be a woman in an open source project that's 99% men? What's it like to be a woman in a project that's 75%... women? Kirrily Robert, who has worked on both kinds of projects, will talk about the differences, and what we can learn from majority-female open source projects. Read more.
Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Chris DiBona (Google, Inc.)
Average rating: ***..
(3.52, 31 ratings)
Google crawls more than just web pages, we also crawl source code. Ever wondered just how much open source code is out there? What licenses is all that code under? Which projects are the most shared? We'll try to answer these questions in this talk. Read more.
Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Tony Hey (Microsoft Corporation)
Average rating: **...
(2.19, 31 ratings)
Microsoft External Research builds bridges between academia, industry, and government to advance computer science, education, and scientific research. Modern science and academic research increasingly relies on integrated information technologies and computation to collect, process, and analyze complex data. Read more.
Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Simon Wardley (Leading Edge Forum (CSC))
Average rating: ****.
(4.60, 40 ratings)
Keynote by Simon Wardley, Canoncial Ltd. Read more.
Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Clay Johnson (InformationDiet.com)
Average rating: ***..
(3.45, 31 ratings)
New Technology is crashing the gates of Washington, DC as a new administration begins to find its legs. Open Source developers are the key to making a lot of this change happen and we've got to move fast and work together in order to do it right. This talk is about strategy-- how can open source developers change their government? Read more.
Randal L. Schwartz (Stonehenge Consulting Services, Inc.)
Average rating: ***..
(3.80, 5 ratings)
Nearly all Web Applications need persistent solutions to be effective. For Perl and Ruby, the choice is generally "use an Object-Relational Mapper to put data into an SQL database", but with Smalltalk's object model, pure-object storage is also available as an option. We'll look at ORM and Object solutions for web apps built with Seaside, including a few commercial solutions like GemStone/S Read more.
PHP, Programming
Location: Meeting Room J2
Sebastian Bergmann (thePHP.cc)
Average rating: **...
(2.75, 4 ratings)
How do you write untestable code and anger an ancient goddess? These and other questions will guide us while we discuss testability, an often forgotten attribute of software design and quality. Starting from untestable code fragments, the audience will learn why the code is untestable and how it can be refactored for testability. Read more.
Emerging Topics, Java, Programming, Python, Ruby
Location: Meeting Room J3
Ted Leung (The Walt Disney Company)
Average rating: ****.
(4.30, 10 ratings)
This talk will be a survey of concurrent programming constructs which are currently available in some programming language or library. We will look at programming model being presented, as well as examining some of the implementation challenges for the various models. Read more.
Databases
Location: Meeting Room B2
David Fetter (PgExperts)
Average rating: **...
(2.64, 11 ratings)
PostgreSQL 8.4 is the first Open Source database management system to handle trees and lists using SQL:2008-compliant Common Table Expressions and Windowing functions. You'll learn how these work, see intriguing examples, and walk out ready to use them to your advantage. Read more.
Databases, Programming
Location: Meeting Room J1/J4
David Wheeler (PostgreSQL Experts, Inc.)
Average rating: ****.
(4.29, 14 ratings)
You unit test your application API. You unit test your presentation layer. You write integration and acceptance tests. But your database is tested only as a side-effect to testing everything else. That's a pretty important part of the stack to just leave to the assumption it works as expected! Come to this talk to learn about the tools that enable integrated unit tests for your database. Read more.
Databases
Location: Ballroom A2
Peter Zaitsev (Percona Inc)
Average rating: *....
(1.00, 1 rating)
Besides MySQL release officially available from Sun there are multiple patches and extensions developed by community. In this Presentation we will look into them to see what extra features patches from Google, Percona and OurDelta offer and how can you use them to make your MySQL life more fun. 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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