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11:00am Wednesday, 07/21/2010
Go
Event
 Location: F150_El Camp
Tags: go, emerging_languages
This session is part of Emerging Languages Camp.
Rob Pike (Google, Inc.)
Average rating: ***..
(3.88, 8 ratings)
Go's approach to concurrency differs from that of many languages, even those (such as Erlang) that make concurrency central, yet it has deep roots. The path from Hoare's 1978 paper to Go provides insight into how and why Go works as it does. Read more.
4:30pm Wednesday, 07/21/2010
Practical Clojure Programming
Java
 Location: D137
Tags: clojure, build, ide, plugin
Howard Lewis Ship (TWD Consulting)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 12 ratings)
Aside from learning Clojure's syntax and approach to functional programming and concurrency, there's also the more mundane issues: What editor do I use? How to I build large projects? How do I share my work with others? This session will discuss IDEs and plugins, command line build tools, and web sites. Read more.
9:45am Thursday, 07/22/2010
Public Static Void
Keynote
 Location: Portland Ballroom
Tags: languages, programming
Rob Pike (Google, Inc.)
Average rating: ****.
(4.02, 52 ratings)
Object-oriented programming began, back in the 1960s with Simula, as a way to describe the behavior of interacting items - objects. It was purified through languages such as Smalltalk, in which everything is an object and every operation a message send, a clear and beautiful model. But then something went very wrong. Read more.
10:40am Thursday, 07/22/2010
Programming WebSockets
JavaScript
 Location: Portland 255
Tags: ajax, html5, websockets
Sean Sullivan (-)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 35 ratings)
WebSockets is an exciting new technology that enables bidirectional communication between web applications and server-side processes. Google's Chrome browser already provides WebSockets and developers can expect to see the technology in other browsers in 2010. This presentation will cover the WebSocket protocol, JavaScript API, and server-side implementations. Read more.
11:30am Thursday, 07/22/2010
Powerful Pythonic Patterns
Python
 Location: D136
Tags: design_patterns, pattern_languages, idioms, template_method
Alex Martelli (Google)
Average rating: ***..
(3.33, 9 ratings)
Does Python have Design Patterns? You bet! Whatever the misguided meme going around is claiming to the contrary, every field of human endeavor has Patterns, and so of course does Python. This talk shows how and why, recapping what Patterns are all about, Design patterns in particular, and presenting examples of how they work best in Python, both singly and as part of a Language of Patterns. Read more.
2:30pm Thursday, 07/22/2010
Rewrite or Refactor: When to Declare Technical Bankruptcy
Community
 Location: D137
Tags: community, management, productivity
Laura Thomson (Mozilla Corporation)
Average rating: ****.
(4.42, 12 ratings)
There comes a time in a project's life when you have to make the decision: can this code be saved? Should we fix it, or declare technical bankruptcy to cancel our technical debts and start again? In this talk I'll look at when and how to make this decision without regrets. Read more.
10:00am Friday, 07/23/2010
Practical Concurrency
Tools & Techniques
 Location: E145/E146
Tags: concurrency
Tim Bray (Google, Inc.)
Average rating: ****.
(4.22, 27 ratings)
Computers are getting wider, not faster. If you want your code to run faster, it has to have some parallelism. This is hard, and threads probably aren't the answer. There is a lot of new concurrency technology on the scene. This talk surveys the 2010 state of the art in tools to empower developers to write concurrent code, and makes some predictions. Read more.
10:00am Friday, 07/23/2010
GWT 2.0
Java
 Location: Portland 251
Tags: java, gwt, ajax, web2_0
Sean Sullivan (-)
Average rating: ***..
(3.09, 11 ratings)
Google Web Toolkit (GWT) is a development toolkit for building and optimizing complex browser-based applications. This talk will highlight new features in GWT 2.0. We'll discuss GWT 2.0 development mode, declarative UI, layout panels, and the new Google Plugin for Eclipse. Read more.
11:00am Friday, 07/23/2010
Scribe - Moving Data at Massive Scale
Tools & Techniques
 Location: Portland 255
Tags: scalability, logging, logs
Robert Johnson (Facebook)
Average rating: ***..
(3.29, 17 ratings)
One piece of software we've found to be particularly useful in scaling our site is Scribe, an open source system for aggregating massive amounts of logging data from thousands of machines, or more generally moving around large amounts of data in an asynchronous and mostly-reliable way. Read more.
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • Facebook
  • Rackspace Hosting
  • (mt) Media Temple, Inc.
  • ActiveState
  • CommonPlaces
  • DB Relay
  • FireHost
  • GoDaddy
  • HP
  • HTSQL by Prometheus Research
  • Impetus Technologies Inc.
  • Infobright, Inc
  • JasperSoft
  • Kaltura
  • Marvell
  • Mashery
  • NorthScale, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • OpSource
  • Oracle
  • Parallels
  • PayPal
  • Percona
  • Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
  • Rhomobile
  • Schooner Information Technology
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • SourceGear
  • Symbian
  • VoltDB
  • WSO2
  • Linux Pro Magazine

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