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(3.92, 24 ratings)
Grab a drink and kick off the 13th edition of OSCON by meeting and mingling with exhibitors and fellow attendees.
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(4.22, 37 ratings)
Step right up and join us at the O'Reilly OSCON Carnival. There will be games, clowns, sumo wrestling, log rolling, tattoos, and lots more. There's free food, free wine, and free beer. You’ve never seen a carnival like this. Trust us.
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(4.08, 12 ratings)
Join Puppet Labs and SwellPath Interactive at their headquarters in the Pearl District. The party is free, as in free beer, food and fun. Two floors, two open bars, and more. Take the Green or Yellow line (free transit) west to Union Station and walk 2 blocks west to 411 NW Park Ave.
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Location: Portland Ballroom
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(3.63, 19 ratings)
Keynotes today will be shared by OSCON, OSCON Data, and OSCON Java.
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Jono Bacon (Canonical Ltd)
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(2.64, 55 ratings)
In this new keynote, Jono Bacon, author of The Art of Community (O'Reilly),
founder of the Community Leadership Summit and award-winning Community
Manager for the global Ubuntu community, talks about the new
opportunities and challenges we face in understanding the art and
science of community leadership.
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Gianugo Rabellino (Microsoft)
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(2.51, 49 ratings)
The world is changing, and so is Microsoft. We are continuing down the path of even greater openness and interoperability in new ways . . . not just in development, but rising to meet the challenges and opportunities of the cloud and becoming flexible and nimble in the world of mobile.
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Ariel Waldman (Spacehack.org)
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(4.35, 62 ratings)
From launching robots into space to discovering distant galaxies: how people are creating open source space exploration and hacking science.
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Ricardo Signes (Pobox.com)
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(4.19, 16 ratings)
Not sure whether you want to run out and upgrade to Perl 5.14? Have your eyes glazed over trying to read the list of changes from previous versions? This talk walks through the most useful changes for day-to-day use, with practical examples of how to get the most out of Perl 5.14.
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Stoyan Stefanov (Facebook)
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(2.78, 18 ratings)
Doing more with less? How about learning one language and doing everything with it: client-side browser scripting, server-side programming with node.js, shell scripting, cross-OS desktop applications, browser extensions, photoshop scripting and even native phone apps. Come learn how to leverage "the world's most misunderstood language".
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Nicholas Zakas (Box)
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(4.27, 15 ratings)
There's a lot of information around about using different patterns in your JavaScript. This is only part of what you need to know to build a large-scale web application. Learn how to keep your JavaScript objects loosely coupled and build an architecture that can grow and change as your application does.
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Brian Fitzpatrick (Google, Inc.),
Ben Collins-Sussman (Google, Inc.)
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(3.64, 14 ratings)
Are languages, compilers, debuggers, and algorithms all you need to be a successful software engineer? In a perfect world, those who produce the best code should be the most successful. Unfortunately, we live in a world of imperfect people, and collaborating with others is at least as important as having great technical skills if you want to write great software.
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Sarah Sharp (Intel)
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(4.00, 9 ratings)
Open source folks are naturally lazy. Anything mundane task they can automate, they will. So what does an open source developer do when faced with planning, planting, and tediously watering a garden? Automate!
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Tatsuhiko Miyagawa (COOKPAD)
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(4.11, 9 ratings)
Plack and PSGI have opened a new landscape of developing Perl web frameworks and servers. Now that most web frameworks have adopted PSGI support, this talk will focus on the other side of the ecosystem: how to deploy Plack based web applications.
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Richard Hipp (SQLite.org)
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(3.93, 14 ratings)
Geeks hate paperwork and protocol, which presents a challenge to
anyone trying to organize a quality-control system for an
open-source software project. This talk describes and demonstrates how
simple, unintrusive checklists that can reduce development time and
improve software quality without provoking a mutiny.
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Philip Lindsay (rancidbacon.com)
Average rating:
(3.83, 6 ratings)
The Android Open Accessory Protocol makes it possible for you to
create custom Arduino-based accessories for your Android phone or
tablet.
Attend this session to learn how to get started, the hardware &
software required and how Handbag makes development easier.
Content will be useful whether you have previous Android or Arduino
experience or neither.
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Scott Mattocks (GSN Digital)
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(2.50, 16 ratings)
This talk looks at the advantages and disadvantages of different techniques for dynamic content updates: short polling, long polling, and WebSockets. These techniques allow web developers to provide users with a fluid experience that keeps pace with their expectations. The talk concludes with a deep dive into both the WebSocket API and protocol.
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Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
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(4.43, 21 ratings)
Over the past eighteen months Damian has revisited some of his most popular Perl 5 modules and reimplemented them in "native" Perl 6.
In this talk he will walk through the changes needed to port several of those modules, a journey that gives a surprisingly thorough overview of how the two languages differ, as well as insights into the relative strengths of each.
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Eric Wilhelm (Sourcefire, Inc.)
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(4.25, 4 ratings)
Code execution speed affects development time, hardware, scalability, and the bottom line less than you would think and never where you expect it. Are your optimizations overpriced?
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(3.27, 11 ratings)
Quench your thirst with vendor-hosted libations and snacks while you check out all the cool stuff in the expo hall.
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(5.00, 1 rating)
Birds of a Feather (BoF) sessions provide face to face exposure to those interested in the same projects and concepts. BoFs can be organized for individual projects or broader topics (best practices, open data, standards). BoFs are entirely up to you. We post your topic and provide the space and time. You provide the engaging topic.
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(3.67, 6 ratings)
Come join us to toast OpenStack's One-Year Anniversary!
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Location: Left Bank Annex (101 N Weidler St.)
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(4.62, 8 ratings)
More information coming soon
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Jim Zemlin (The Linux Foundation)
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(4.28, 29 ratings)
On the eve of Linux’ 20th anniversary, Jim Zemlin invites the OSCON audience into his "Bizarro World” of 2011. The world of computing has been turned upside down. Microsoft’s stock is down. They now are filing anti-trust suits, not being the subject of them. Heck, Microsoft is even contributing code to Linux. And for good reason.
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Fred Trotter (FredTrotter.com)
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(3.13, 30 ratings)
Open Source software will power a new Internet layer, the
Health Internet, which will finally make healthcare data liquid. The
Health Internet will finally change healthcare the same way the
Internet changed everything else; better, faster, cheaper.
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Eri Gentry (BioCurious)
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(4.19, 31 ratings)
Join Eri Gentry, founder of BioCurious, the world’s first “hackerspace for biology” on a journey from garage biology to community lab.
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John Graham-Cumming (CloudFlare)
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(4.14, 21 ratings)
This talk tells the behind-the-scenes story of the apology campaign complete with source code, tips on dealing with the old-school media, how Twitter helped and didn't, and a call for people who want to change the world to be "reasonably unreasonable" because nothing ever gets done by the reasonable.
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Gabe Zichermann (Gamification.Co & Gamification Summit)
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(4.03, 33 ratings)
Creating engaging user experiences in software have become the mantra of businesses big and small - but what about open source? Do we do enough user-centric design and are we creating the kind of long-term user engagement we want? What are the challenges for open source advocates and developers to building truly engaging experiences and how can gamification make open-everywhere a reality?
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Gabe Zichermann (Gamification.Co & Gamification Summit)
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(4.67, 33 ratings)
Gamification is a critical trend, affecting industries from finance to fashion and beyond. But how does gamification affect open source, software development and community? How can we leverage the techniques of engagement to build better software and connect with end users. And, how do we make our lives more fun in the process?
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Damian Conway (Thoughtstream)
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(4.79, 28 ratings)
Once again, Perl's own Dr. Evil emerges from his secret lair on a remote Pacific island to beam a devastating onslaught of dangerously useful software ideas directly into your unsuspecting frontal lobes.
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Jacinta Richardson (Perl Training Australia)
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(4.22, 18 ratings)
Perl has come a very long way even in the last 6 years since Dr Conway's Perl Best Practices book was published. This talk will provide a lightning tour of the current status of Perl's best practices using many of the ideas from Modern Perl.
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Chris Prather (Tamarou LLC)
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(2.25, 8 ratings)
Perl's Post Modern Object System, Moose, provides an excellent way to simplify Object Oriented Design. Learn, or re-learn, the basics of Object Oriented Programming's design principles in this talk that focuses on the four fundamentals of a good object system: Abstraction, Encapsulation, Polymorphism, and Introspection.
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Piers Cawley (Headforwards)
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(3.29, 24 ratings)
Languages with first class functions are different. Callbacks and `each' are just the start - the fun really begins when you start learning from the Lisp guys and writing code that writes code that writes code. Think differently about your Javascript and do more with less code
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Piers Cawley (Headforwards)
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(3.61, 18 ratings)
"I'm sorry I coined the term 'objects' for this topic ... the big idea is "messaging"' - Alan Kay
Stop thinking about objects and start thinking about the messages you're sending and how they can be handled and you will have simpler methods. In this talk we cover a couple of key patterns and see how they open the door to simpler, clearer, more extensible code.
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Alex Martelli (Google)
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(3.08, 26 ratings)
Designing interfaces so that other code can interact with ours (whether our code is a library, framework, application, website...) is a very common and clearly crucial activity, but fraught with dangers — stuff we all keep doing wrong time after time. This talks shows some common cases of API design errors encountered in the wild, with tips on how to avoid them when you design your next API.
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Tom Christiansen (TCPC)
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(3.80, 5 ratings)
Simple patterns like [a-z] or \d no longer cut the mustard, partly because Unicode is such a large character set, and partly because of multiple ways of writing characters with diacritics. There are many land mines in regular expressions now that Unicode matters
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Marc Lavallee (NPR)
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(3.00, 2 ratings)
Today's hybrid cars give you the best of both worlds, and hybrid web apps can do the same. We'll walk through how NPR's Project Argo quickly built a blogging platform by combining the strengths of WordPress and Django. Along the way, we'll cover the benefits and drawbacks of this approach, considerations and details of our implementation, and best practices for any hybrid web application.
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A.Sinan Unur (Unur)
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(1.60, 5 ratings)
HTML5's canvas element allows graphics generation to be offloaded to the client's web browser. Various Perl modules make it easy to take data in various "spreadsheet" formats and turn them into easily chartable data. This presentation will demonstrate a simple web application built using Perl's Dancer to tie these elements together.
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Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ),
Sarah Novotny (Meteor Entertainment)
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(4.18, 11 ratings)
Opening remarks by the OSCON program chairs, Sarah Novotny and Edd Dumbill.
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Dan Melton (Code for America)
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(3.50, 26 ratings)
Code for America is a new type of public service for geeks to leverage their engineering skills to bring open source practices to communities across America. We'll talk about the growing geek corps and the challenges of leveraging each other's work in building our digital communities.
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Brian Fitzpatrick (Google, Inc.)
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(4.53, 36 ratings)
Keynote by Brian Fitzpatrick, Engineering Manager, Google, Inc.
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Kevin Falcone (Best Practical Solutions)
As any open source project that leverages the power of the CPAN or other
dependency rich sources knows, streamlining installation for your users
is critical. Shipwright allows you to build and distribute relocatable
vessels that can ship everything above libc and allow a user a truly
dependency-free installation.
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Neil Mansilla (Mashery, Inc.)
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(4.33, 12 ratings)
A web API needs documentation, unit tests, functional tests and possibly a WADL. Usually one or more is out of date or just doesn't exist. The Unico DSL can generate all these for you from a natural-language document written by project manager-types. Build a quick API in this session and BELIEVE.
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Edd Dumbill (O'Reilly Media, Inc. ),
Sarah Novotny (Meteor Entertainment)
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(4.00, 2 ratings)
OSCON belongs to its attendees, and we want to hear what you think of this year’s show. Join the organizers to talk about what you loved and hated about OSCON, and what you’d like to see next year.
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Victor Felix (Univ. of Maryland)
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(4.33, 3 ratings)
With systems such as Grid Engine, Condor and others, it is relatively easy these days for organizations to create robust distributed compute farms. See how the Grid::Request Perl module can make the authoring, submission and control of large distributed jobs easy and in a scheduler agnostic manner.
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Nóirín Plunkett (Apache Software Foundation)
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(4.22, 9 ratings)
Whether you’re just rolling out a new project, or you’re maintaining ten years and three major versions of legacy code, good documentation is vital for your users. They won't bother downloading your software if they can’t work out what it does, and if all you have is the bare-bones documentation to help them to get up and running, you’ll end up spending more time than you want to on support.
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Michael Schwern (eval Empire),
Ricardo Signes (Pobox.com)
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(3.93, 14 ratings)
Git makes so much more sense when you understand how it really works. It only has two tricks, and they're really simple, but explanations go on about Directed Acyclic Graphs and Octopus Merges and a bunch of CS jargon nobody understands. Feh. You can illustrate and understand git using just children's toys!
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Paul Fenwick (Perl Training Australia)
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(4.92, 36 ratings)
Our brains are not-at-all suited for modern life, and are plagued by a raft of bugs and unwanted features that we've been unable to remove. Join us in a tour of some of the most amusing bugs and exploits wetware has to offer.
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(3.00, 4 ratings)
Take the opportunity to network one last time and exchange contact information with one another.
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