Jesse Vincent

Jesse Vincent
President, Best Practical

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Jesse Vincent is the creator of RT, SD, Hiveminder and K-9 Mail, and the founder of Best Practical Solutions, LLC, a company dedicated to open tools to help people and organizations keep track of what needs doing, when it gets done, and who does it.

In his free time, he does unspeakable things to e-book readers and helps put out releases of Perl 5.

Sessions

1:30pm Tuesday, 07/20/2010
Request Tracker Bootcamp
Operations
 Location: E143/E144
Tags: rt
Please note: to attend, your registration must include Tutorials.
Jesse Vincent (Best Practical)
Average rating: ****.
(4.80, 5 ratings)
Request Tracker (RT) is an enterprise-grade ticketing system. It's designed to help your organization track what needs to get done and what still needs doing. From basic customer service to advanced back-office workflows, RT is flexible enough to keep your processes smooth and effective. This tutorial will cover deployment and day to day use of RT as well as basic customization. Read more.
11:30am Wednesday, 07/21/2010
Perl 5.12
Perl
 Location: Portland 256
Tags: perl
Jesse Vincent (Best Practical)
Average rating: ***..
(3.97, 35 ratings)
Perl 5.12 is the latest major release of Perl 5. In addition to new features and numerous bugfixes, this release marks a major change in how we develop and release Perl. Come learn about how we're refactoring the language and the community. Read more.
2:30pm Thursday, 07/22/2010
K-9 Mail: Forking Android for Fun and Profit (mostly Fun)
Mobile
 Location: D139/140
Tags: android, mobile
Jesse Vincent (Best Practical)
Average rating: ****.
(4.00, 7 ratings)
K-9 Mail is an open source email client for Android. It began life as a single feature fork of Android 1.0's core email client. Since fall of 2008, K-9 has seen several dozen contributors and a few thousand commits. Picking up Android from scratch can be somewhat daunting. This talk will give you a leg up as you start into your first Android application. Read more.
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  • HP
  • HTSQL by Prometheus Research
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  • Qualcomm Innovation Center, Inc.
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  • Schooner Information Technology
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • SourceGear
  • Symbian
  • VoltDB
  • WSO2
  • Linux Pro Magazine

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