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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.
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Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating:
(3.80, 5 ratings)
JRuby is Ruby on the Java Platform, so it brings the advantages of Ruby to the JVM and the advantages of Java to Ruby. This session shows Ruby syntax and lots of integration techniques with Java, including building Swing-based UI's using Swiby and how to unit test Java code with JRuby.
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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.
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Tom Christiansen (TCPC)
Average rating:
(2.77, 13 ratings)
Perl5 is alive and well, and this tutorial outlines the many significant changes appearing in the 5.10.0 release and beyond, especially in regular expressions and modules.
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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.
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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.
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Theo Schlossnagle (OmniTI/Circonus)
Average rating:
(4.13, 23 ratings)
Internet traffic spikes aren't what they used to be. It is now evident that even the smallest sites can suffer the attention of the global audience. This presentation dives into techniques to avoid collapse under dire circumstances. Looking at some real traffic spikes, we'll pinpoint what part of the architecture is crumbling under the load; then, walk though stop-gaps and complete solutions.
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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.
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Bradley Kuhn (Software Freedom Conservancy),
Benjamin Mako Hill (Massachusetts Institute of Technology),
Evan Prodromou (StatusNet Inc),
Nathan Yergler (Creative Commons),
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.33, 3 ratings)
At OSCON 2008, Tim O'Reilly raised in his keynote a new challenge we face: Software as a Service. This panel discusses the work spawned by autonomo.us to inspire the Open Source and Software Freedom Movement to address the challenge. The talk will discuss the AGPL, a license designed to address these concerns, and the federated service model that must exist to succeed in addressing this problem.
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Valerie Aurora (formerly Henson) (The Ada Initiative)
Average rating:
(3.80, 10 ratings)
Btrfs is a new file system for Linux. It includes snapshots, pooling of multiple devices, and checksums. This talk will describe btrfs for both the systems administrator and the programmer.
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Alex Martelli (Google)
Average rating:
(3.79, 14 ratings)
Abstraction is a powerful servant, but a dangerous master. We code, design, think, debug ... on a tower of abstractions. Spolsky's Law tells us that "All abstractions leak". This talk explores why they leak, why that's often a problem, what to do about it; I also cover why sometimes abstractions SHOULD "leak", and how best to produce and consume abstraction layers.
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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.
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Rick Clark (Cisco Systems),
Søren Hansen (Canonical Ltd.)
Average rating:
(3.09, 11 ratings)
A discussion and demonstration on building and managing a private cloud using Ubuntu Server, and Eucalyptus
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Danese Cooper (Wikimedia Foundation and Open Source Initiative),
Greg Elin (Sunlight Foundation),
Brian Behlendorf ((self-employed)),
Silona Bonewald (SLC),
Michael Tiemann (Open Source Initiative)
Average rating:
(2.50, 2 ratings)
Panel of movers and shakers in the movement to open government using the principals of Open Source.
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Clint Talbert (Mozilla),
Joel Maher (Mozilla)
Average rating:
(4.33, 3 ratings)
The Mozilla project has six test frameworks with over 100,000 combined tests. For the Fennec mobile Firefox project, we coerced those frameworks to run on Maemo, Windows Mobile, and Symbian platforms. We will cover the challenges we faced and the lessons we learned. Come find out how we did it and how to apply these ideas to your next mobile project.
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Donald Smith (The Eclipse Foundation)
Average rating:
(4.20, 5 ratings)
Have you ever had a manager or legal department slow down your project why they try to figure out software licensing issues? This session will arm you with all the key information you need to join the conversation and recognize when your lawyer is trying to pull a fast one, versus when you’re facing a legitimate challenge.
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Mike Olson (Cloudera)
Average rating:
(2.82, 17 ratings)
Hadoop is a powerful open source tool for analyzing large volumes of data. I'll provide an overview of Hadoop's architecture and describe some real-world use cases.
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Simon Wardley (Leading Edge Forum (CSC))
Average rating:
(4.37, 19 ratings)
In today's computing world, it can often feel like we are drowning in wave after wave of new trends such as mashups, service oriented architecture and cloud computing. This sea of concepts are simply the manifestation of an underlying change in IT. In this session we will explore what is happening and why open source is the dominant model for the future.
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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.
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Rich Wolski (University of California, Santa Barbara (UCSB))
Average rating:
(4.00, 14 ratings)
We will present Eucalyptus -- Elastic Utility Computing Architecture for
Linking Your Programs to Useful Systems -- an open source software
infrastructure that implements IaaS-style cloud computing.
The goal of Eucalyptus is to allow sites with existing clusters and server
infrastructure to host an elastic computing service that
is interface-compatible with Amazon's AWS.
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Roland Bouman (XCDSQL Solutions / Strukton Rail)
Average rating:
(4.25, 4 ratings)
Nowadays, data is everywhere: databases, spreadsheets, the web...if only we could access it at on time, at the right place, in the right form...
Turning data into information is a struggle. Like diamonds are mined and cut to create jewels, so must data be extracted and transformed to create information.
Learn how the open source data integration tool Kettle helps to fight your data dragons.
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Eric Hammond (Campus Explorer, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.00, 9 ratings)
Learn how to create your own Linux machine images (AMIs) for running on Amazon EC2 (Elastic Compute Cloud) customized with your choice of software packages and application software configured to your liking. Use the latest open source software to build custom images from scratch in a secure, automated, reproducible process. Discover when to use a public image with automatic customization at boot.
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Howard Lewis Ship (Formos)
Average rating:
(3.50, 4 ratings)
Clojure is a functional programming language that runs on the JVM and features great performance and innovative concurrency support.
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Steven Bengston (Pioneers of the Inevitable)
Average rating:
(3.75, 4 ratings)
Know Javascript, HTML, and CSS? Interested in music, and exploring what's possible when you combine the power of Mozilla, add-ons, and music on the web? Songbird, a desktop media player powered by Mozilla's XULRunner/Firefox platform, allows you to build Javascript extensions to create new digital media mashups using open APIs, and media web services.
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Alex Polvi (Cloudkick)
Average rating:
(3.33, 3 ratings)
This talk will discuss the on going effort to standardize the interfaces into the cloud. Currently every cloud provider has a unique, proprietary, API for consuming the services they offer. The Cloud Computing Interoperability movement aims to provide standards that will overcome vendor lock-in, benefit the consumers, and allow the cloud ecosystem to grow transparently.
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Bradford Stephens (Drawn to Scale)
Average rating:
(3.14, 7 ratings)
The end of "scale-up" computing is near. The coming wave of web-scale
data is too big to justify exponentially increasing hardware costs for
decreasing returns. Apache's "Cloud Stack" (Hadoop, Lucene, HBase,
etc) is enabling Visible Technologies to move from a non-scalable
MS-exclusive platform to a large cluster processing millions of pieces
of content a day.Here's what we learned.
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Andy Lester (petdance.com)
Average rating:
(4.75, 8 ratings)
An engaging, frank discussion of the job interview, its failings,
and how to make it work for all involved. Effective interviewing
reframes the interview as what it really is: The candidate's first
day on the job. This session, aimed at the specific needs of the
technical professional, shows how manager and candidate must work
together for their common benefit.
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Bruce Lawson (Opera Software ASA)
Average rating:
(4.42, 12 ratings)
A pragmatic look at HTML 5 by experimenting with converting a real site to HTML 5 - how does it work? Where it useful and where is it annoying? How is support in current browsers?
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Bernard Golden (HyperStratus)
Average rating:
(3.00, 2 ratings)
Many new applications are being created to take advantage of cloud computing. But what about the enormous installed base of existing apps? How can those leverage cloud computing? This presentation describes migrating an existing application into Amazon's EC2, and covers the technical, organizational, and financial aspects of migration.
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Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia)
Average rating:
(4.90, 10 ratings)
A good programmer needs many qualities: intelligence, foresight, dedication, and the ability to fight off a hundred angry targh armed only with your bat'leth. On Qo'noS, software developers undertake an intensive course in combat programming before they are cleared for active duty.
Join Paul Fenwick as he examines how Perl's new autodie pragma can bring you the very best of Klingon programming.
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Douglas Crockford (Yahoo! Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.88, 8 ratings)
How JSON overcame intolerance, inurement, and death threats to become the preferred data interchange format.
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Jonathan Ellis (DataStax)
Average rating:
(3.85, 13 ratings)
Replication. Partitioning. Relational databases. Bigtable. Dynamo.
There is no one-size-fits-all approach to scaling your database, and the CAP theorem proved that there never will be. This talk will explain the advantages and limits of the approaches to scaling traditional relational databases, as well as the tradeoffs made by the designers of newer systems like Google's Bigtable.
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Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Average rating:
(4.47, 19 ratings)
The usual smorgasbord of new and improbably useful modules beamed straight into your mind from the secret island hideaway of Perl's own Dr Evil.
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