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8:30am Monday, 07/19/2010
Using the Neo4J Graph Database to Build a High Performance Social Network
Databases
 Location: D135
Tags: neo4j, databases, social_network, graphdb, graph_database
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Emil Eifrem (Neo Technology / Neo4j)
Average rating: ***..
(3.77, 22 ratings)
This workshop will show you how to build a high-performance social network backend based on the open source Neo4j graph database. We will investigate the implementation of a small but working social network backend with simple but powerful APIs to find paths between people and analyze the social graph. Finally, we will show how it outperforms a relational backend by a factor of 1000x or more. Read more.
8:30am Monday, 07/19/2010
Introduction to JRuby
Java, Programming Languages, Ruby
 Location: D139/140
Tags: ruby, java, jruby
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating: *****
(5.00, 1 rating)
JRuby allows you to truly explore the potential of the Java virtual machine. This tutorial shows you concrete examples of why JRuby is the most powerful yet practical language for the JVM. It covers syntax, conventions, meta-programming, and other unique features of this elegant yet robust language. Read more.
1:30pm Monday, 07/19/2010
The Seductions of Scala
Java
 Location: D137/138
Tags: java, languages, scala
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Dean Wampler (Think Big Analytics)
Average rating: ***..
(3.90, 20 ratings)
Scala is a hybrid object-functional language for the JVM. Java programmers can easily migrate to Scala as an improved Java, then learn to exploit its powerful support for Functional Programming. Developers from other languages can exploit the JVM's power and rich libraries using a state-of-the-art language. Come learn why Scala is seductive; why it meets the needs of the modern developer. Read more.
5:00pm Tuesday, 07/20/2010
"Infoware" + 10 Years
Location: Portland_Ballroom
Tags: cloud
Tim O'Reilly (O'Reilly Media, Inc.)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 4 ratings)
Ten years after Tim O'Reilly created the term infoware, have things turned out and in the way he was expecting? Read more.
9:00am Wednesday, 07/21/2010
Welcome
Keynote
 Location: Portland Ballroom
Allison Randal (DrugDev, Inc.), Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. )
Average rating: ***..
(3.56, 27 ratings)
Opening remarks by the OSCON program chairs, Allison Randal and Edd Dumbill. 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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