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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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J Chris Anderson (Couchbase)
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(3.75, 16 ratings)
Apache CouchDB can serve complete web apps, without a middle-tier application server. Because these apps can be deployed to any running CouchDB node (including user's local machines), they present potential for end-user innovation, but because of view source but also through peer based replication. We'll learn to use the CouchApp JavaScript and HTML framework to build sharable applications.
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Beth Tibbitts (IBM )
Average rating:
(5.00, 1 rating)
Eclipse is an open source IDE that has available extensions for a variety of languages and tools. How are these extensions created? This tutorial will cover how to install eclipse extensions ("plug-ins"), how to write your own including using the built-in wizards, how to write help for your plug-ins, and how to publish/package them so that others can easily download and use your plug-ins.
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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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Eric Day (Rackspace Cloud),
Brian Aker (HP)
Average rating:
(4.11, 19 ratings)
Come learn the fundamentals of how to leverage Gearman, the open-source, distributed job queuing system. Originally designed to scale LiveJournal.com, Gearman is now faster than ever and can help you build your own scalable applications. Gearman's generic design allows it to be used as a building block for almost any use - from speeding up your website to building your own Map/Reduce cluster.
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Ingy döt Net (Oui Code Software, LLC)
Average rating:
(3.62, 16 ratings)
YAML is the serialization language that enables sharing of complex data between Perl, Python, Ruby, PHP and Java. It does it so in a human friendly manner. Many popular frameworks use YAML, including Ruby on Rails.
In this talk, Ingy döt Net, one of the authors of the YAML specification, will show you how to share data objects not feasible by JSON or XML.
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Justin Erenkrantz (The Apache Software Foundation)
Average rating:
(3.00, 1 rating)
In most open-source projects, often left unsaid is how to effectively contribute within the accepted "societal norms" of a project. Do not become a poisonous person and instead learn how to constructively contribute to your favorite open source 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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Bill Karwin (Karwin Software Solutions)
Average rating:
(4.33, 6 ratings)
SQL is from Mars, Objects are from Venus.
This talk is for software developers who know SQL but are stuck trying to implement common object-oriented structures in an SQL database. Mimicking polymorphism, extensibility, and hierarchical data in the relational database paradigm can be confusing and awkward, but they don't have to be.
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Andres Almiray (Canoo Engineering AG),
Ixchel Ruiz (CCA)
Average rating:
(5.00, 2 ratings)
Learn how the Groovy language can help you enhance your testing experience of Java applications.
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Emil Eifrem (Neo Technology / Neo4j)
Average rating:
(4.00, 7 ratings)
A graph db stores data in a network structure rather than in relational tables. This model is well suited for many web use cases such as tagging, metadata annotations, social networks, wikis and other network-shaped or hierarchical data sets. This talk will introduce Neo4j: a high-performance, transactional open source graph db, which frequently outperforms RDBMSs with >1000x for such use cases.
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Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating:
(4.11, 9 ratings)
Design patterns describe common problems in software development, but many people believe that the GoF book demonstrates the best ways to implement these patterns. Dynamic languages provide more facilities than C++ or Java; this session shows alternative implementations of design patterns using dynamic languages (Ruby and Groovy).
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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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Karen Sandler (GNOME Foundation),
Simon Phipps (Open Source Initiative),
Gervase Markham (Mozilla Foundation),
Larry Augustin (SugarCRM),
Chris Messina (Google)
Average rating:
(4.00, 3 ratings)
Trademark law is designed to prevent confusion in the market place but understanding how it can benefit the FOSS community can often be confusing. This panel will discuss whether it is useful to register a trademark and, if so, how to permit its use by others. Various policies and enforcement strategies will be evaluated from corporate and non-profit perspectives, often in strong disagreement.
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