Amazon Web Services

Featuring Nicola Cardace

In this brief talk, Nicola introduces Amazon Web Services. Nicola gives a quick illustration of how Amazon Web Services can be used and several

Using Elastic Server

Featuring Patrick Kerpan

In this talk Patrick gives a very quick introduction to the Elastic Server Factory. Although a proper explanation of what the Elastic Server Factory is really for would take much longer

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Demystifying the Cloud

Featuring Chris Purrington

In this talk from April’s Minibar, Chris Purrington gives a very useful talk on cloud computing. The aim is to remove any of the ambiguity surrounding what is actually meant by Cloud Computing by giving a straightforward description

cloud

Azure Services Platform

Featuring David Gristwood

In 5mins and 3 slides David Gristwood gives a brief overview of the Azure Services Platform explaining what it will mean for the average developer.

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Resolver Systems Technology

Featuring Jonathan Tartley

Jonathan Hartley, a developer at Resolver Systems talks about the IronPython, and how it is used at Resolver Systems.

Resolver Systems's first product, Resolver One, is a desktop and web-accessible spreadsheet aimed

Lots of Data, Little Money

Featuring Martin Dittus

Martin Dittus from Last.fm on "What to do when the data you have to analyse keeps growing but your budget doesn't?" a discussion of why Last.fm ended up using Hadoop and being one of the biggest users of commodity distributed systems.

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Founding Resolver Systems

Featuring Giles Thomas

Giles Thomas shares the story of founding Resolver Systems and answers questions about the company. Resolver Systems was founded in 2005 to produce a next generation spreadsheet. The founders, Giles Thomas, Robert Smithson and Patrick Kemmis

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Agile Pragmatic Systems Administration

Featuring Pris Nasrat

In contrast with the software development community there seems to be much less open discussions about principles and practices within the field. Yet we need to adapt to constantly shifting demands of responsiveness and agility to serve the business practices such as

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Coding Dojo

Featuring Ivan Sanchez

A Coding Dojo is a meeting where a bunch of coders get together to work on a programming challenge. They are there to have fun and to engage in DeliberatePractice in order to improve their skills...

coding-dojo

JAVAWUG BOF 47 HazelCast

Featuring Talip Ozturk

Today's applications are getting more and more distributed everyday and it is well-known that distributed programming is hard. With Hazelcast...

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A Modular Approach to Views

Featuring Jon Gilbraith

Jon Gilbraith is not keen on HTML as he finds it takes the joy out of programming and it also seems unsightly. Alternatives like Haml are a nice improvement, but with Haml things still get untidy once the logic is laid out

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Using Geokit in Social Apps

Featuring Paul Jensen

Geokit is a RubyGem and Rails plugin with a wrapper interface to various geocoding providers and supports geocoding addresses, latitude/longitude coordinates and IP addresses. Amongst several other things, Geokit also calculates distances between two points and the mid-point between them

geokit ruby

In The Brain of Rachel Davies:Agile Coaching Tips

Featuring Rachel Davies

Rachel identifies the groups level of experience and the roles that they play in their organizations explaining that the objective for this seminar is to find out a little more about how to apply agile and how to introduce change in teams.

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Ruby Invoicing Framework Gem

Featuring Martin Kleppmann

Martin Kleppmann recently released his Ruby invoicing gem version 0.2. For a general commercial invoicing application one might start with . . .

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Android, An introduction to the open platform

Featuring Carl-Gustaf Harroch and Kieran Gutteridge

We are currently living the revival of the mobile industry.

The advent of new smartphone devices are revolutionizing the way we communicate. In the last 2 years, the mobile market has been flooded with new hardware and operating systems. Thus creates a new way for software developers to promote...

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NBehave

Featuring David Ross

In this In The Brain session, David Ross introduces Behaviour Driven Development and the tools required in this development approach. The main aim is that instead of focusing purely on a test driven approach, more consideration is given to the user story

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HADOOP-1722 and Typed Bytes

Featuring Klaas Bosteels

This talk is about the Hadoop Core - Jira issue with the key HADOOP-1722, which is about Make streaming handle non-utf8 byte array...

hadoop

Hypercubes in HBase

Zohmg is a data store for multi-dimensional time series. it's built on top of hbase and provides tools for data aggregation using hadoop. Data retrieval is designed to be quick; most of the aggregation happens during data import...

hadoop

Apache HBase

Featuring Michael Stack

HBase is the Hadoop database. Its an open-source, distributed, column-oriented store modeled after the Google paper, Bigtable...

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Having Fun with PageRank and MapReduce

Featuring Paolo Castagna

This talk is about implementing PageRank with MapReduce. PageRank is a link analysis algorithm used by the Google Internet search engine that assigns...

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