Personal schedule for April Johnson

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.

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.

Google App Engine is a development & execution platform that lets you build+deploy web+non-web apps on Google's scalable infrastructure using Python, Go, or Java. Your apps execute on the same servers that power our company (speed, scale, reliability). There is no thinking about VMs, OSs, databases, webservers, licensing, updates/patches, load-balancing, etc. BOF: quick intro then hands-on coding Read more.

Illustrated guide to how to write non-blocking code for Perl (and some Javascript). Goal for this session is to give some familiarity to high-level non-blocking APIs for engineers who want to dig into non-blocking programming. Read more.

I've recently been hired (part-time) by Arduino to wear a couple of different and flexible hats, the primary two responsibilities being community relations and educational materials. If you use, teach, or are in general interested in Arduino I'd like find out what you wish I would do. Read more.

Brackets is an open source code editor for the web written in JavaScript, HTML and CSS. Join a discussion with members of the Brackets team and learn how you can contribute to this active and exciting project. We can build a better editor. http://github.com/adobe/brackets Read more.

We will cover the migration from Flash players to HTML5 and tools to support that transition. We will look at challenges of creating a consistent user experience with HTML5 video across devices. We will share insight from our html5video.org survey of industry leading open source players including benchmarks on performance and supported plugins. Read more.

A quick intro to embedded Linux development and a survey of the capabilities and limits of the most interesting hardware available for experimenting by hardware hackers, and the skills needed to make effective use of it. Ranging from Plug Computers to bare development boards, miniaturized systems and rooted hard drives, the ever-growing bestiary of ARM devices at our disposal for projects is fun! Read more.

The optimizer is the "brain" of the database, interpreting SQL queries and determining the fastest method of execution. This talk uses the explain command to show how the optimizer interprets queries and determines optimal execution. Read more.

Dozens of toolkits offer a range of widgets to build rich web applications, but the included widget set is rarely enough. This presentation shows how a new component can be designed and implemented from scratch. Topics covered include considerations for choosing DOM structure, finding a balance between performance and features, implementation considerations and testing the component. Read more.

This session will teach you how to pull together jQuery, LESS, Twitter Bootstrap, Java, and Play Framework to build the Client/Server web app. You will also learn how to deploy Client/Server web apps on the cloud using a Content Delivery Network (Amazon CloudFront) for the Client and a Cloud Application Provider (Heroku) for the Server. Read more.

The JVM is capable of amazing network throughput and performance when used properly. Different languages (Java, Scala, Clojure), programming approaches (Asynchronous IO, Blocking IO) can greatly affect throughput and latency. This talk will draw on experience building networks of millions of devices to discuss best practices and contrast emerging idoms on the JVM. Read more.

If you've ever written any code to authenticate wtih Twitter, you may have been confused by all the signature methods and base strings. You'll be happy to know that OAuth 2 has vastly simplified the process, but at what cost? Read more.

Watch as data models compete for the top prize. Who will win? Contestants will be judged on performance, ease of querying, and scalability. Join us to find out who will be America's Next Top Data Model. Read more.

A stellar user experience and social indicators can be the difference between the checkout and back buttons. Learn how to work with and integrate facebook's new Open Graph APIs within magento. The session will provide a walkthrough of the facebook and magento setup, along with examples of customized user experiences which make the most of Open Graph and magento. Read more.

In this session, Andreas Kollegger will take you on a whirlwind tour of the current NoSQL landscape. He'll give a crash course overview of the four main categories of NoSQL databases, and discuss what's currently lacking to make the enterprise adopt NoSQL, and how to solve it. Read more.

This presentation demonstrates the potential of using JavaFX 2 together with alternative languages such as Groovy, Clojure, and Scala. It also will showcase the successor to JavaFX Script, Visage, a DSL with features specifically targeted at helping create clean UIs. Read more.