Is Your Sysadmin Dumber Than a Hamster?

Featuring John Arundel

In this talk, John speaks about Puppet and Chef covering some or more of the following topics: "Why aren't sysadmins as smart as developers?", "How do you build 100 servers in a day?", "How to automate the dumb stuff"...

ruby puppet chef system

Players in the Cloud

Featuring Daniel Sikar

Cloud computing is maturing and is here to stay. Names change but the principle remains; CPU, Memory, Disk Space and Bandwidth are a commodity.

cloud amazon web eucalyptus azure rake space gogrid google engine

Evolutionary Project Planning

Featuring Niels Malotaux

In this session Niels Malotaux explains how Evolutionary Project Planning helps to get and keep the timing of the project under control while improving the results.

project planning

What is Ubuntu Cloud Computing

Featuring Nicolas Barcet

The scalability of enterprise applications have continued to be an issue. The outcomes of attempts aimed at solving this have been success disasters, failure to due to unplanned demand which have in turn, increased the capital investment on the IT infrastructure.

ubuntu enterprise cloud utility private public amazon gogrid eucalyptus

HTML 5 and ASP.NET

Featuring Dylan Beattie

HTML 5 introduces a set of new tags, new APIs and new techniques that make web developers focus on content and structure when building their applications.

xml w3c asp.net mvc sgml

Java 7 Modularity – a View from the Gallery

Featuring Neil Bartlett

In this talk Neil Bartlett, draws together publicly available information from expert group mailing lists, conference papers and code repositories to present the current status and likely future of modularity in Java.

java osgi jigsaw modularity

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How we build quality software at uSwitch.com

Featuring Hemal Kuntawala and Michael Wagg

Hemal and Mike will provide an experience report on how we build quality software at uSwitch.com. Around 9 months ago the development team shifted from having a separate QA team to adopting a whole-team approach

Situation Normal, Everything must change

Featuring Simon Wardley

In today’s computing world, it can often feel like we are drowning in wave after wave of new trends such as mashups, service oriented architecture and cloud computing.

cloud utility ubuntu service architecture

What I've learnt since I read the book(let)

Featuring Phil Wills

Phil Wills of guardian.co.uk will be presenting to the group on what he has learnt since reading the book.

design architecture dsl entity erd

In-Field Data Discovery

Featuring Gobe Hobona

In this session, Gobe Hobona gives a talk on Location-Based Discovery Of Geoscientific Datasets During Fieldwork.

java android field

Understanding Android bytecode

Featuring Gabor Paller

In this session, Gabor Paller talks about the dedexer disassembler.

dex java bytecode android

Scaling Flex for enterprise applications

Featuring Børre Wessel

In this session, Børre Wessel covered how to scale Flex for enterprise applications.

He started his presentation by talking on the High Level Flex Architecture, Module & Component Architecture and Multiple modules.

flex java adobe web ria parsley modularization integration lcds messaging fiber

The importance of staying open source

Featuring Boris Devouge

With costs and reliability a key area of focus for businesses, more and more companies are switching to open source solutions.

open-source

XForms and Ajax

Featuring Mark Birbeck

Mark Birbeck delivers a seminar on XForms and AJAX. Mark guides the viewers through the architecture behind the classes of some XForm processors and broadly overviews the implications of using this W3C specification for Web 2.0 development.

xforms user group ajax mark

New Approaches to Risk Management

Featuring David J. Anderson

This tutorial will describe in detail 3 techniques that have evolved in the kanban community that provide improved project flexibility and business agility together with increased sophistication in risk management.

risk-management kanban

Hyperic HQ

Featuring Alan Fryer

October meetup

Featuring Mark Brewer

This is a rare opportunity to meet a very senior figure with enormous insight on the world of open source technology and it will be fascinating to hear him discuss the future of SpringSource, the companies it recently purchased and the future for the key projects that you are using right now.

spring

Thinking functionally in ruby

Featuring Tom Stuart

During our last meeting, Tom was surprised by how many people (both Ruby newbies and "Rails not Ruby" programmers) were asking questions about Enumerable, e.g. what map/inject/zip etc do.

ruby

A trio of gems

Featuring Brent Snook

Brent offered to talk about one or more of the following three gems he's been working on:

ruby

OSGi in Anger

Featuring Tara Simpson

Instil Software has spent the past 2-3 years helping their client (Aepona) develop 'Telecom Web Services', a platform that exposes Telco operator capabilities such as SMS and Location to third-party applications.