Personal schedule for Estelle Weyl

In this keynote, Brian Aker, HP Fellow, will share challenges and best practices from his work with OpenStack software, including how a rich set of APIs must be developed in order to drive broad platform adoption as well as the need for formal APIs. Read more.

A look at the state of PHP in 2012 and how it fits into the current technology stack. The session will cover common mistakes and a detailed review of new PHP 5.4 features. Read more.

Design is often perceived as “making things user-friendly.” To combat that oversimplification, designers shroud their work in specialized tools & jargon. This gives designers a false sense of value & control over their work. In actuality, this drives divisions between designers & their teams. By open sourcing design process via transparency, the true value of Design and designers becomes clear. Read more.

Did you know that the newest version of PHP ships with its own development server? This talk discusses when this might be useful (and when it isn't!) and also covers a selection of the other features new in PHP. Read more.

Learn how to take vanilla Android, rip it open, remix it, and build a new image that can run on your device on choice. In this talk, we'll explore the black magic of Android internals. You will learn how to reconfigure the build system by adding our applications, services, daemons, or libraries. By the end of this talk, you should have basic understanding of creating a custom ROM. Read more.

Believe it or not, the JavaScript party hasn't stopped. What other libraries are out there? What do they offer? This talk will survey the field of modern JavaScript libraries getting you up to speed on what's new. Read more.

How does programming change and what will it be like in 25 years when you take your flying car to the office? Do the past 25 years of Perl give us enough perspective to see 25 years into the future? We'll look at recent progress, new features, and see how you can use a deeper knowledge of the inner workings to revolutionize your approach solving problems today. Read more.

Why don't more companies practice code review? We all know how beneficial it is, and we've all seen it's successes in open source. What's so hard about bringing it over to the world of commercial software development? Nothing! This is a success story about adopting code review from the open source community and applying it to commercial development. It worked for us. It can work for you too. Read more.

This session aims to give you the tools to import the real world into the programming scope of your trusty $30 microcontroller, by covering the technology fundamentals and integration essentials of a wide variety of sensors and actuators, as well as providing a few alternative power schemes and even mobility options to increase the variety of your design arsenal. Read more.

You package your assets. You use CSS sprites. You serve up everything with gzip compression. You obsess over Yslow recommendations. But you are still not SPDY. Fundamental limitations in HTTP and TCP/IP still add up to 60% overhead to your site. Find out how to reclaim that lost bandwidth and increase the robustness of your sites at the same time. Read more.

Following on from a popular OSCON 2011 Ignite talk, the Diabolical Developer and Ben Evans (the voice of reason) returns with a full length presentation full of controversy and thought provoking material. In short, this session provides a wealth of tips and tricks to free you from the chains of so call 'modern software development best practices'. Read more.

Testing HTML UIs - can it be done? Most people instinctively say no, but it doesn't have to be like that. Using technologies like Webdriver, Selenium, and Geb, it actually becomes possible, and we'll take a look at how. Read more.

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 the Handbag for Android project makes development easier. Read more.

Whether you're consumer or provider, getting the API right is a puzzle. This session gives the best practices for making this relationship easier all round, with clear PHP-based examples and a few war stories to go with them. Read more.

Unicode isn't new, but it still seems hard when you're starting at the beginning and haven't even been told the difference between a glyph, a codepoint, a character and a byte. Every year there are talks and tutorials at conferences about it, but if you haven't grasped the basics, you can feel frustrated and lost much too quickly. Fear not! It's about to get easier. Read more.

If you are flummoxed with HTML5 video—browers, codecs, and containers—this is your talk. In a plain-spoken, easy to understand style, Scott Davis will help you cut through the hype and the hope and add video to your website. Read more.

Watch as we show you how to rapidly build a functional hybrid mobile app starting from conception to a working application for iOS and Android devices – with time left over to discuss various deployment challenges to developing hybrid applications. Read more.

WebRTC is a new web standard for HD video calling and conferencing that will be supported in Chrome and Firefox this summer. We'll give an overview of the APIs and protocol stack and explore how it will change the way people communicate. Read more.

Django's unique app structure enables developers to break their application into functional units from the start of a project. The next step is to move from many Django apps in a single project to many services that talk across defined contracts and API's. We'll walk through practices for doing this and how Django enables it easily, but also the places it introduces complexities. Read more.

Greenlightforgirls.org is a Brussels-based, international NGO promoting science, technology, engineering and mathematics to girls of all ages and backgrounds. We promote female role models from technical sectors to youngsters, and run events which inspire girls to study and pursue careers in technical areas, including computers. With this knowledge, we believe girls will save the world! Read more.

Create, develop, and deploy mobile applications with JavaScript, HTML, and CSS using PhoneGap. Read more.

Perl regexes are the wolverines of the programming world: compact, immensely powerful, and with a nasty tendency to maul you, when and where you least expect it. This talk demonstrates and explains a new Perl module (Regexp::Debugger) that helps tame unruly regexes by providing live interactive run-time visualizations of any regex in your code, as that regex matches. Read more.

Change is hard for individuals, and harder for organizations. Understanding how to navigate the forces affecting our habits and willpower will enable you to set about effecting real change in your organization. Discussed in terms of grassroots, clouds, elephants and jockeys, this practical perspective redefines the challenge of cultural change. Read more.

jQuery Mobile is a cross-platform framework made for smartphones and tablets. With its HTML5 interface, it looks and feels like an app. This presentation will teach you how to quickly create a mobile front-end with little effort. It will also feature a use-case of adapting an existing web application to the mobile. Read more.

Advanced 3D visualization has long been relegated to powerful workstations or supercomputers. Recent efforts have extended the open source, scientific computing tools VTK and ParaView to run on the popular Android and iOS mobile platforms. This proposal shows how to run and interact with Big Data on mobile platforms, as well as perform advanced visualization directly on the mobile device. Read more.

There are millions of software users with disabilities worldwide, yet many web application developers aren't aware of the techniques which can be used to make their software accessible. This talk will give an overview of what accessibility means and why it's important to you, a run-down of the technology and techniques for achieving it, and a look at how browsers provide accessibility support. Read more.

Its common to discuss the production environment in public but it is a black art on how to construct the development environment correctly, in fact it is a common problem that development doesn’t closely mirror the production experience. We will address why this is important, some common anti-patterns, and how it can be done correctly. Read more.

Nowadays many modern web applications are solely relying on JavaScript to render their frontend. But if you want to create mashups, load data from many different places or include external widgets into your site, you are quickly running into boundaries because of browser and security restrictions. In this presentation I will talk about techniques helping you with such problems. Read more.

Progressive Enhancement isn't important on the mobile web because all the browsers are Webkit right? Not so fast. Even among Webkit implementations events, css, and performance vary widely. We'll talk about the darker corners of the mobile web and show how jQuery Mobile can help you build sites that are reliable, accessible, and support more devices. Read more.

Most developers are developers, not DBAs, yet many smaller companies have inadequate database experience in-house. This is largely because databases like MySQL and PostgreSQL don't necessarily require a full-time DBA to administer. It's become more important for developers at smaller companies to have some basic knowledge of how to keep their database happy. Read more.

For the first time in Wikipedia's 11 year history, it rolled out open source WebFonts in January to make open knowledge more accessible to billions of readers in 14 major Indic languages. Learn more about how open source internationalization tools such as WebFonts, Narayam and language support are helping make valuable content on the Web more accessible. Read more.

The mobile web is now the ubiquitious web. Modern web developers building mobile web applications need to consider the many different devices with many screen sizes and densities. This talk focuses on the different techniques on how to deal with this on the web, regardless of whether this app is a website or a native application built using a framework such as PhoneGap. Read more.

How does Unicode support stack up across major platforms, including Java, Perl, Python, Ruby, and more? Who’s doing the best job, and who’s failing miserably? Is anyone doing a good job? Does anyone actually implement to standard, and to what extent? I’ll compare the major platforms to separate the losers from the not-so-losers. Read more.