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8:30am Monday, 07/19/2010
Introduction to 3D Animation with Blender
Tools & Techniques
 Location: D136
Tags: blender, animation, 3d
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Matthew Momjian (Student)
Average rating: ****.
(4.50, 12 ratings)
This talk will introduce the world of 3D animation to novices and beginner users. Using Blender, users will learn how to perform many tasks, including modelling (mesh editing, subsurfing, etc), texturing (procedural and image-based), material design, animation, and lighting. Intermediate users will also learn a lot from this tutorial, as the new version of Blender, 2.6, has significantly changed. Read more.
1:30pm Monday, 07/19/2010
Django Deployment Workshop
Python
 Location: Portland 251
Tags: web, django, deployment, scaling
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Revolution Systems, LLC), Frank Wiles (Revolution Systems, LLC)
Average rating: ****.
(4.29, 14 ratings)
So you've written a Django site... now what? Writing the application is just the beginning; now you've got to put it into production! In this hands-on workshop we'll walk through the creation of a full Django deployment environment running on a cluster of (virtual) machines. Read more.
8:30am Tuesday, 07/20/2010
Introduction to Google App Engine
Cloud Computing
 Location: Portland 255
Tags: app, cloud, cloud_computing, infrastructure, java, web, php, google, mysql, scalability, python, nosql, linux, google_app_engine, app_engine, hosting, datastore, memcache, google_accounts, xmpp, email, sandbox, amazon, ec2, s3, salesforce, force_com, microsoft, azure, windows_live, sdk, api, lamp, task_queues, images, blobstore, gfs, bigtable, apps, apache
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Ikai Lan (Google, Inc.)
Average rating: **...
(2.89, 19 ratings)
Google App Engine is an development & hosting platform that lets you build & deploy web applications on Google's high-traffic infrastructure. You only need to upload your code: no more worrying about machines, storage, scalability! This tutorial introduces attendees to its architecture & various service APIs. In the hands-on lab, you'll build+deploy a real app to the cloud using Python in minutes! Read more.
1:30pm Tuesday, 07/20/2010
Grails: Bringing Radical Productivity to the JVM
Java
 Location: Portland 255
Tags: java, web, groovy, grails
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Dave Klein (Independent)
Average rating: ***..
(3.44, 9 ratings)
Developers around the world, from boutique web development shops to fortune 100 corporations, are discovering how they can get more done in less time with Grails. In this hands-on tutorial we'll see why. We'll work together to build and a deploy an Ajax enabled, database backed web application and have fun doing it! Read more.
11:30am Wednesday, 07/21/2010
loke/Seph
Event
 Location: F150_El Camp
Tags: clojure, erlang, emerging_languages
This session is part of Emerging Languages Camp.
Ola Bini (ThoughtWorks)
Average rating: ***..
(3.00, 5 ratings)
Ioke is a dynamically typed language - a language experiment with a focus on expressivity. It's prototype based, object oriented, homoiconic and have powerful macro facilities - and runs both on the JVM and the CLR. Seph is a language currently being developed, based on Ioke. It's a functional object oriented hybrid with explicit concrrency features inspired by Erlang and Clojure. Read more.
1:40pm Wednesday, 07/21/2010
Building Twitter with Grails in 40 Minutes
Java
 Location: D137
Tags: java, web_development, grails, twitter
Jeff Brown (SpringSource)
Average rating: ****.
(4.40, 10 ratings)
In this session Jeff Brown, core member of the Grails development team and a senior engineer at SpringSource, will demonstrate how the basics of Twitter can be built using Grails and JMS in only 40 minutes. 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.
11:00am Thursday, 07/22/2010
Clojure
Event
 Location: F150_El Camp
Tags: clojure, emerging_languages, lisp
This session is part of Emerging Languages Camp.
Rich Hickey (Datomic)
Average rating: ****.
(4.75, 8 ratings)
This talk will provide a brief experience report on Clojure, a dynamic, functional language targeting the JVM. It will detail the challenges faced in providing a practical and approachable programming language featuring pervasive immutability on top of the commodity infrastructure of the JVM. 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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