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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.
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PJ Cabrera (Freelance trouble-maker)
Average rating:
(1.86, 7 ratings)
In this tutorial, learn about the use of open source tools to help develop native applications for the iPhone platform on Windows and Linux, and learn about the source code of a basic iPhone application in Objective-C. Explore open source libraries that help accelerate the creation of native iPhone games and apps without having to use the iPhone SDK directly.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.24, 41 ratings)
Keynote by Tim O'Reilly.
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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.
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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.
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Satya Komatineni (Active Intellect, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.29, 7 ratings)
Handheld is the new personal computer. The open sourced handheld plaftform, Android SDK, presents a great opportunity for programmers all around the world to make an impact on education and entertainement. This session will take you through the Animation and OpenGl capabilities of the Android SDK to get you started on a path of innovation.
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Larry Wall (The Wall Nuthouse),
Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
Average rating:
(4.09, 22 ratings)
Larry Wall and Damian Conway will present the latest features of Perl 6, and discuss the on-going implementation of the new Perl.
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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.
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Tim Bray (Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.00, 2 ratings)
The good news is that you can do what the title says, and pretty easily too. The even better news is that the platform and market are radically open. There are some warts and some bad news too; this talk is a personal narrative covering the lessons, pleasing and painful, learned in the course of my first hands-on Android project.
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Akkana Peck (*)
Average rating:
(4.00, 9 ratings)
This talk will cover ways of configuring a Linux distribution to run
efficiently on slow CPU, low memory machines. You can get big
performance gains from areas such as:
* speeding up the boot process
* options for lightweight window managers
* performance tools that can help you find bottlenecks
* tuning your kernel
* Finding lightweight alternatives to big applications
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Simon Wardley (Leading Edge Forum (CSC))
Average rating:
(4.60, 40 ratings)
Keynote by Simon Wardley, Canoncial Ltd.
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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?
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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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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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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.
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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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Average rating:
(2.50, 10 ratings)
In the lands where the camel roams, the white (albino) camel is a rare and revered individual. The White Camel Awards recognize the many significant contributions made by the unsung heros of the Perl community. The efforts of these volunteers collectively make the Perl language and the Perl community better for all of us.
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Larry Wall (The Wall Nuthouse)
Average rating:
(3.82, 17 ratings)
The OSCON tradition continues as Larry Wall delivers the annual State of the Onion Address.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Gunnar Hellekson (Red Hat)
Average rating:
(3.77, 22 ratings)
The current Administration talks the talk in terms of its adoption of new technology solutions, access to information, and the call for transparency and increased citizen participation. But can it walk the walk? This keynote will address how open source advocates can help the Federal Government unlock the innovative potential of the open source development model.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Erik Meijer (Microsoft)
Average rating:
(3.05, 20 ratings)
This talk argues that fundamentalist functional programming-that is, radically eliminating all side effects from programming languages, including strict evaluation-is what it takes to conquer the concurrency and parallelism dragon.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Average rating:
(2.55, 20 ratings)
Open source software. Ecosystem services, distributed "smart" electrical grids, and sustainable economics. Collective intelligence, the Science Commons, and Wikipedia. What do all these have in common? They seem to represent a new ethos of "letting go" of centralized control--in project management, industrial and economic infrastructure, and culture.
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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Mark Surman (Mozilla Foundation)
Average rating:
(3.67, 18 ratings)
Openness and participation are now a pervasive part of digital life. Firefox. Wikipedia. Apache. Linux. Millions of Creative Commons pictures on Flickr. We have moved mountains. The question is: what's next?
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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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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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Location: Exhibit Hall 3
Jim Zemlin (The Linux Foundation)
Average rating:
(4.12, 16 ratings)
Join Jim Zemlin as he takes a look back at the big moves that drove Linux to dominate the server and super computing markets and how we are seeing similar trends start now in the desktop.
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