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8:30am Monday, 07/19/2010
Observing and Optimizing your Application with DTrace
Tools & Techniques
 Location: Portland 251
Tags: performance, dtrace
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Angelo Rajadurai (Sun)
Average rating: ****.
(4.33, 28 ratings)
As application complexity increases, observing it in action becomes harder. Traditional tools are not very useful when going across programing languages. DTrace is a revolutionary tool that allows you to observe applications in AMP stack and those written in languages like PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, C, C++ and much more. This session will teach you DTrace and demonstrate techniques of using it. Read more.
8:30am Monday, 07/19/2010
Android for Java Developers
Mobile
 Location: E145/E146
Tags: android, java, mobile
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Marko Gargenta (Marakana)
Average rating: ****.
(4.34, 32 ratings)
Learn how to develop mobile apps for Android platform in this quick tutorial. Assuming you are familiar with Java or similar OOP, this hands-on example-driven tutorial will show you how Android uses Java and how you can quickly pick it up to start programming for mobile devices. Read more.
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
Faster Python Programs through Optimization
Python
 Location: D137/138
Tags: python, optimization, profiling, jit, parallel, algorithms
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Mike Mueller (Python Academy)
Average rating: **...
(2.88, 17 ratings)
Although Python programs may be slow for certain types of tasks, there are many different ways to improve performance. This tutorial will introduce optimization strategies and demonstrate techniques to implement them. Participants will learn how to decide what might be the optimal solution for a certain performance problem. Participants are strongly recommended to bring laptops. 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
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.
8:00pm Tuesday, 07/20/2010
Ignite OSCON Part 2
Event
 Location: Portland Ballroom
Average rating: ****.
(4.27, 22 ratings)
If you had five minutes on stage what would you say? What if you only got 20 slides and they rotated automatically after 15 seconds? Would you pitch a project? Launch a web site? Teach a hack? We’re going to find out when we conduct our second Ignite event at OSCON. Read more.
10:40am Wednesday, 07/21/2010
Android: The Whats and Wherefores
Mobile
 Location: D139/140
Tags: android
Dan Morrill (Google)
Average rating: ***..
(3.44, 25 ratings)
Android is an open-source OS and software stack for mobile devices. Come join the Android Open-Source Lead for a discussion of the Android open source philosophy, and insight into how the project is run. Read more.
2:30pm Wednesday, 07/21/2010
Google Open Source Office Hours
Products & Services
 Location: E143/E144
Tags: google
Tim Bray (Google, Inc.), Chris DiBona (Google, Inc.)
Average rating: **...
(2.67, 3 ratings)
Got questions about open source and Google? Come and talk with Chris DiBona, Tim Bray, and other Googlers during this free form hour of questions, answers, and general hanging out. Read more.
11:30am Thursday, 07/22/2010
Ruby and Mirah on App Engine
Ruby
 Location: Portland 252
Tags: cloud, ruby, java, google_app_engine, gae, appengine, duby, mirah
John Woodell (Google, Inc. ), Charles Nutter (Engine Yard, Inc)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 4 ratings)
Ruby apps can now be deployed to Google App Engine thanks to JRuby. New app instances spin-up on demand so there is no need to provision hardware but each new JRuby runtime can take several seconds. Mirah (formerly Duby) is a new language with Ruby-inspired syntax that compiles directly to Java bytecode. Duby is compelling for App Engine development because new instances can spin-up in a second. 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.
  • 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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