Videos in category Conferences

What Kind of App is BuddyPoke? BuddyPoke is a super cool application for personalized 3D poking + moods Love your friends? Hug them in 3D Someone annoying you? Punch them in 3D Feeling sad? Express yourself in 3D

Summary In this presentation, recorded at QCon London 2008, Mark Little explains the history of SOAP/WSDL/WS-*-based web services and RESTful HTTP and shows that both approaches have their roles to play in any good architects toolkit. He elaborates on where possible convergence could, or should, occur within the industry. Bio Dr Mark Little is Red Hat's Technical Development Manager of the SOA ...

Video talk at the Universidad Iberoamericana Leon in Mexico at the CESLG 08, in which andy talks about his career and his new book Pragmatic Thinking and Learning, he also gives tips to be a better programmer.

Summary In this presentation filmed during Agile 2008, Michael Mah analyzes the development process in 5 companies: 2 Agile (one of them BMC) and 3 classic. He measures the development productivity and effectiveness and compares the results with industry averages. He also presents the factors which contributed to the success of BMC's Agile adoption. Bio Michael Mah is director of the Benchmarki...

Summary In this interview filmed at RubyFringe 2008, Tom Preston-Werner talks about how both Powerset and GitHub use Ruby and Erlang, as well as tools like Fuzed, god, and more. Bio Tom Preston-Werner works for Powerset Inc., and is one of the founders of GitHub. He's created various Ruby tools such as the monitoring tool god, and many more.

Summary Greg Young interviews Dave Laribee who is the founder and current lead administrator of ALT.NET, a conference where varied and fringe ideas on programming languages and practices are encouraged. Bio Dave Laribee is a frequent speaker at local and national developer events, a Microsoft MVP, and a certified ScrumMaster. He writes about agile practices, software architecture, and the busin...

Have you tried the recently released Earth API yet? Have you been meaning to, but just haven't found the time to check it out? If so, then this talk is for you! We'll be running through a crash course on all the basics of the Earth Browser Plug-in and JavaScript API. We'll be showing off both new and older demos, as well as some of the newly available documentation and developer resources. Brin...

Sopogy is bringing smaller concentrated solar energy systems to the market: Process heat, air conditioning, and power generation. You will hear about the first renewable energy and solar technology to ever be awarded the New Product of the Year by the Society of Professional Engineers. A product will be set up for viewing. Speaker: Al Yuen Google Tech Talks September 18, 2008

GiveWell (www.givewell.net) performs in-depth research on charities to help people accomplish as much good as possible with their donations. Unlike existing evaluators, which focus solely on financials, we focus on how well programs actually work - i.e., their effects on the people they serve. We started as a group of donors looking to accomplish as much as possible with our own giving, and now...

Astronaut and physicist Dr. Jim Newman will talk about his experiences of working in space. NASA's space program has come a long way. From astronauts strapped in their seats monitoring flight data in a guided capsule, to crews performing complex tasks in the hostile and non-intuitive environment encountered during space missions. Hazards abound and handicaps are encountered in even the simplest...