Videos in category Conferences

We interviewed Steven Yaskin and Paul Tenberg of Queplix about their GWT based open source application, Queweb. They discuss how open source affects their business, and how they use GWT, and other Google APIs.

Today is a milestone. Jun Yang and the GData team released GData JavaScript Client Library for Calendar. This is a JavaScript API that allows you to do fully authenticated, secure, read/write access from the browser. Jun took some time to introduce the concept. Samples Developer's Guide

In this session, we will talk about various options for hosting your Geo data, including Google App Engine. We will outline different design patterns, highlighting the advantages and disadvantages of each, and show code samples. Specifically, we will look at storing Geo data as static files, in databases, and extracting Geo data from Google properties, such as Calendar and Spreadsheets. This wi...

Roger will present a quick overview of Sun Labs, the research arm of Sun Microsystems Inc. He will then talk about Project Sun SPOT (http://www.sunspotworld.com), a completely open source development platform designed to inspire the next generation of gadgets. Sun SPOT devices are Java-based, small, wireless, mesh networked, secure, sensors and effectors that can be used in everything from sens...

Today many workers find themselves caught between (a) a message centric world of email filled with natural language and (b) the form and report centric world of IT systems filled with structured information. Workers spend many hours navigating interfaces in order to complete tedious update and retrieval tasks to connect these worlds together. For example, an office assistant will be asked via e...

Every material has a distinctive spectrum. The spectrum of a material tells us about its chemistry. Hyperspectral images produce a spectrum (represented as several hundred numbers) at each pixel in an image. So hyperspectral images enable us to map variations in chemistry. The first hyperspectral scanners, built in the 1980's and 1990's, were designed for airborne applications, primarily for mi...

Dr. Elmer E. Huerta is the Principal Investigator (PI) of the Latin American Cancer Research Coalition (LACRC) and a member of the LACRC Steering Committee. He is currently the President of the American Cancer Society and the Founder and Director of the Cancer Preventorium at the Washington Cancer Institute in the Washington Hospital Center, the only cancer prevention/screening service for Lati...

I’ve noticed that when people try to improve the state of the art of software design, they try to think bigger: big patterns, big principles, discussions about classes and modules and components, layers and tiers. Last year I heard a talk called “Strategic Design”. But I’ve personally had a lot better luck thinking small. In this talk, we’ll explore just a few smal...

Having worked with RoleModel Software in Raleigh, NC, I’ve since moved to Tanzania, East Africa, where my wife runs a home for street children. I’m continuing to develop software for local organizations and have started pairing with a local guy who just graduated from university. There are a number of non-profits doing worthwhile work here, but most of them are too understaffed and ...

As a refugee of the cubicle jungle where the project status overlords patrolled the aisles, one of the most exciting aspects running a Ruby consultancy is using all the neat tools keep a virtual development team at cruising speed. This talk provides a quick overview for many of the (often free) tools available to distributed Ruby teams and how you can integrate them to improve communication and...