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Sebastian Bergmann
(thePHP.cc)
Average rating:
(4.00, 11 ratings)
In this tutorial, Sebastian Bergmann, a pioneer in the field of quality assurance in PHP projects and creator of PHPUnit, imparts comprehensive knowledge and experience about testing and quality assurance in PHP-based software projects.
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Tools & Techniques
Location: Portland 256
Location: Portland 256
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Neal Ford
(ThoughtWorks)
Average rating:
(3.57, 35 ratings)
My latest book The Productive Programmer shows developers how to supercharge their effectiveness. It consists of two parts: mechanics and practice. The mechanics section covers productivity principles like acceleration, canonicality, focus, and automation. The practice section shows how productive thinking and questioning assumptions makes you a better developer.
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Cloud Computing
Location: Portland 255
Location: Portland 255
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!
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Graham Weldon
(Cake Development Corporation)
Average rating:
(2.40, 5 ratings)
A complete application build from concept through design, modelling, development and deployment in a three hour session. Lead by a Core CakePHP developer, this session is a combination of CakePHP overview of capabilities as well as an introduction to improvements and changes in the recently released CakePHP 1.3 beta.
Take this opportunity to learn rapid development from a CakePHP developer
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Event
Location: F150
Location: F150
Please note: this sponsored tutorial is open to all OSCON attendees with a badge.
Lars Kurth
(Citrix Systems Ltd),
Paul Beusterien
(Symbian Foundation)
Average rating:
(2.75, 4 ratings)
During this tutorial, we will discuss the global platform opportunities at Symbian, along with how to best create, develop and deploy a web app using our Symbian Web Tools. Then we will explore Qt, a cross platform application and UI framework. Using Qt you can deploy apps across desktop, mobile and embedded operating systems without rewriting the source code.
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Brian Aker
(HP),
Stewart Smith
(Percona)
Average rating:
(2.00, 6 ratings)
Drizzle is a fork of the MySQL server focused on modularity, improved performance, and community development. This tutorial will give an overview of the current state of Drizzle, the tools around it, and the various language APIs available. The tutorial will go through the steps to install Drizzle, how to get started with management, writing simple applications, and porting existing applications.
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Giuseppe Maxia
(Continuent)
Average rating:
(2.86, 7 ratings)
MySQL 5.1 has been GA for 18 months. It is reliable and efficient. Demanding users are also looking expectantly at the goodies offered by MySQL
5.5, available in beta, where more performance and features are in store. If speed is what you are looking for, you can have it today with MySQL 5.1,
by using the InnoDB plugin, which is GA as of MySQL 5.1.47.
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Eric Day
(craigslist)
Average rating:
(3.88, 8 ratings)
Drizzle is a fork of the MySQL server focused on modularity, improved performance, and community development. This session will give an overview of the current state of Drizzle, tools around it, and the various language APIs available. The session will go through the steps to install Drizzle, how to get started with management, and things to watch out for when porting and writing applications.
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Robert Treat
(OmniTI)
Average rating:
(3.73, 26 ratings)
Database scalability means different things to different people. Vertical vs. Horizontal scaling? Federating vs. Sharding? Despite the labels database scalability tends to fall into a few common patterns that anyone can apply. In this talk we'll discuss factors for applying these patterns including the life-cycle of your database, how hardware affects your choices, and tools to help you on the way
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Giuseppe Maxia
(Continuent)
Average rating:
(2.69, 13 ratings)
Sharding is a hot topic. Every big web site is using some sharding technique with home made solutions. The quest for the silver bullet goes on without apparent good results. This session will present two MySQL storage engines (Spider and Vertical partitioning) that implement transparent sharding techniques.
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Jeffrey Osier-Mixon
(Intel Corporation)
Average rating:
(3.78, 9 ratings)
The Beagle Board is a tiny yet powerful self-contained system on a single board, three inches square, created as an open-source hardware board by Texas Instruments. This presentation demonstrates how to boot Linux on the Beagle. It also showcases several ongoing open-source projects, gives an overview of the process of designing your own, and introduces the Beagle Board community.
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Matt Jadud
(Allegheny College),
Christian Jacobsen
(University of Copenhagen)
Average rating:
(4.67, 6 ratings)
This talk will introduce Plumbling, a set of tools to support artists and makers in the programming of low-cost, open-hardware platforms like the Arduino. Plumbing is a library of parallel components written in occam-pi, a small language with a long history.
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Kristina Chodorow
(MongoDB)
Average rating:
(3.76, 25 ratings)
MongoDB (from "humongous") is a high-performance, open source, schema-free document-oriented database.
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Haiping Zhao
(Facebook)
Average rating:
(3.44, 9 ratings)
HipHop programmatically transforms your PHP source code into highly optimized C++ and then uses g++ to compile it.
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Brandon Savage
(Mozilla)
Average rating:
(3.88, 8 ratings)
Replacing double quotes with single quotes makes your PHP applications faster, right? This talk covers that and more, with advanced optimization techniques and beginner pitfalls.
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Luke Welling
([Redacted])
Average rating:
(3.36, 14 ratings)
Future Luke has traveled back from the year 2050 to give past Luke a beating for leaving bad code behind. Find out what you can do now to prevent future you from hating yourself, what happens to PHP over the next 40 years, and get an opportunity to ask somebody from 2050 when we will finally get our flying cars and why everybody in science fiction versions of the future has to wear a jumpsuit.
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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.
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Sebastian Bergmann
(thePHP.cc)
Average rating:
(3.70, 10 ratings)
This session, given by the creator of PHPUnit, will shine a light on best practices when it comes to testing PHP code.
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John Mertic
(SugarCRM)
Average rating:
(2.50, 2 ratings)
Talks about how to develop PHP applications that can be deployed on many different platforms with ease.
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Nick Barcet
(Canonical UK Ltd)
Average rating:
(3.00, 1 rating)
What to expect and how to upgrade you Ubuntu Server to 10.04LTS.
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Federico Lucifredi
(Canonical USA)
Average rating:
(4.00, 6 ratings)
Using off the shelf hardware, we integrate small, network-capable single-purpose devices delivering a true time source (via GPS) and a generator of perfect randomness (via Geiger counter). An entertaining introduction to embedded systems delivered while creating actually useful tools. Targeted at budding embedded system Developers and Administrators interested in the gory low-end details.
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Bruce Momjian
(EnterpriseDB),
Matthew Momjian
(Student)
Average rating:
(3.25, 8 ratings)
Last year I presented a talk on home automation at OSCON, focusing on the hardware aspects. This year my home automation talk will cover
the software aspects of controlling home automation systems. Practical applications include turning off all the lights at night, summoning everyone for mealtime, and broadcasting caller-id
information to all computers.
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Kevin Hoyt
(Adobe Systems, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.33, 6 ratings)
Open source hardware has arrived, and it’s taking the market by storm. In this session get a gentle introduction to the world of electronics hardware featuring Arduino - an open source prototyping platform. We will collect sensor data for light, distance, temperature and humidity, send it wirelessly to the cloud, and then display all that beautiful data using the open source Adobe Flex SDK.
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