Sean O'Halpin
Expert Overview
Things I'm Doing
Talks I've Given
I’m currently a Senior Software Engineer in Audio and Music Interactive at the BBC in London, UK specialising in Ruby and message queues.
Talks I've Given
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Processing Tweets at the BBC
Featuring Sean O'Halpin
Sean O'Halpin will talk about how his team at the BBC is using Ruby to process tweets in real-time to discover inbound links to the BBC Zeitgeist and how they're reading the Twitter Firehose (about 1,000 tweets/sec = about 90 million a day) and storing the data in Amazon S3.
twitter hadoop ruby -
What every computer programmer should know about time
Featuring Sean O'Halpin
I've been putting some notes together on time similar in spirit (if not in detail) to "What every computer programmer should know about floating-point arithmetic."
utc localtime ntp date-arithmetic -
Ruby FFI
Featuring Sean O'Halpin
Sean O'Halpin will be talking about Ruby FFI, probably using his FFI-ncurses gem to provide some examples.
ruby-ffi ruby
