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1:30pm Monday, 07/19/2010
Presentation Aikido - CANCELED
Community
 Location: D135
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
The best, most effective presentations capture the audience quickly, hold their interest effortlessly, educate and entertain them in equal measure, and sometimes even inspire them. This tutorial explores seven basic principles (and dozens of specific techniques) for achieving those goals in any kind of technical presentation. Read more.
8:30am Tuesday, 07/20/2010
Practical Erlang Programming
Programming Languages
 Location: D139/140
Tags: concurrency, erlang, fault_tolerant_systems, emerging_languages, functional_programming
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Francesco Cesarini (Erlang Solutions Ltd)
Average rating: ****.
(4.59, 17 ratings)
This hands on tutorial will give you an introduction to the Erlang programming language. You will learn the basics of how to read, write and structure Erlang programs. We start with an insight into the theory and concepts behind sequential and concurrent Erlang, allowing you to get acquainted with the Erlang syntax and semantics. Read more.
1:30pm Tuesday, 07/20/2010
Cooking with jQuery
JavaScript
 Location: Portland 251
Tags: jquery, javascript, web_development
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Mike Hostetler (appendTo, LLC), Jonathan Sharp (appendTo LLC.)
Average rating: ***..
(3.03, 30 ratings)
JavaScript is not a dirty word. The language itself is quite elegant. However, competing implementations by differing browsers has given it a bad rap. Yet, in this age of Ajax it is a must-have for any successful web application. Join this group of JavaScript gurus, who co-authored the O'Reilly jQuery Cookbook, for a tutorial session covering reliable techniques: intermediate to advanced. Read more.
4:30pm Thursday, 07/22/2010
Off the Beaten Path: Using Rails in the Enterprise
Ruby
 Location: Portland 252
Tags: rails, enterprise
Alex Rothenberg (-), Pat Shaughnessy (-)
Average rating: ***..
(3.33, 3 ratings)
Can you successfully write Rails applications in an Enterprise ecosystem full of existing databases, legacy applications and old technologies? Yes, but you may have to use Rails in a different way than usual. We'll show how we used standard Rails tools in just such an 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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