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APIs for parallel programming

scoundrel — Mon, 29 Oct 2007 19:13:23 GMT

Intel's James Reinders looks at Message Passing Interface (MPI), an API for parallelism.

Host: James Reinders Director, Intel Corporation

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Railscast: Stopping Spam with Akismet

scoundrel — Wed, 17 Oct 2007 13:28:16 GMT

The Railscasts site has been getting a lot of comment spam in the past, but no longer. In this episode I will show you how I solved this problem by using the Akismet web service.

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Google Developer Day Sydney: Google Gadgets

scoundrel — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:44:22 GMT

Google Gadgets
Presented by Zhen Wang

Got content but want attention? Learn how to take your web application and make it distribute to millions of users and tens of thousands of sites across the internet by making a Google universal Gadget. In this session, we'll introduce Gadgets and their ecosystem, show you just how easy it is to make your first gadget, and go over some interesting advanced techniques that will really make your gadget pop. A Q&A session will follow.

Zhen Wang is a core member of the Google Gadgets team, mainly working on Gadget API and integration with other Google products. Prior to joining Google, Zhen studied A.I. and forensics as a Ph.D. (incomplete) student at Nanyang Technological University.

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Google Developer Day Sydney: Mapplets: Making Maps Mashups Discoverable

scoundrel — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:42:58 GMT

Mapplets: Making Maps Mashups Discoverable
Presented by James Macgill

Thousands of Google Maps mashups have been created in the two years since we released the Google Maps API, but most of these sites are islands of information and few users know that they exist. We will discuss an approach to make these sites more discoverable by users around the world. More details will be provided at Developer Day.

James Macgill holds a PhD from the University of Leeds in the UK where he worked on innovative spatial analysis techniques. James subsequently worked as deputy director of the Centre for Computational Geography at Leeds on a variety of geospatial research initiatives. Among those was the foundation of the open source GeoTools library, a Java GIS toolkit for developing standards compliant solutions which now powers a number of other open source geospatial projects including GeoServer and uDIG. Before moving to Google in 2005, James was a Senior Researcher at the Penn State GeoVISTA Center, working on research in geovisualization methods and tools.

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Google Developer Day Sydney - Bo Majewski: Maps API

scoundrel — Wed, 03 Oct 2007 15:41:11 GMT

Maps API
Presented by Bo Majewski

The Google Maps API lets you create compelling maps mashups on your websites. In this session, we'll go over all of the latest features in the API. You'll learn how to take your maps mashups to the next level and discover how to build highly interactive maps with the Google Maps API, learn about controls, overlays, and map events using the API, how to create custom overlays, either programmaticaly or using KML and GeoRSS and understand how to optimise performance of your maps.

Bo Majewski received his Ph.D. in Computer Science at the University of Queensland. Upon completion he moved to Newcastle, where for 2 years he taught algorithms, networks and software engineering. In 1998 Bo left the academia, and Australia, to pursue career in software industry in the heart of Silicon Valley where he worked in diverse areas such as computer graphics, electronic commerce and computer networks. Bo was eventually drawn back to the Land Down Under and joined Google Australia in Dec 2005. He currently spends most of his time working on Google Maps and supporting projects.

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MWRC: Michael Hewner - Ruby USB

scoundrel — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:33:33 GMT

One of the really neat things about USB devices is that they are almost entirely self-describing, which makes it easy to let Ruby just "do the right thing" when communicating with them. This presentation will give a brief introduction to the USB spec and then a discussion of the difficulties of integrating Ruby with this spec (and the libUsb library that wrapped it). Then there will be a tutorial about how to use RubyUSB to discover the interface of a random USB device and how to write short ruby scripts that do cool things with these USB devices.

Michael Hewner is currently applying to graduate school for his Ph.D. in Computer Science. Until recently he worked as a programmer for Amazon.com. He has a M.S. in Computer Science from the University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign.

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MWRC: James Britt - Black-boxing with Ruby

scoundrel — Thu, 27 Sep 2007 00:30:29 GMT

While it's tempting to want to rewrite everything into The One True language, often it is better to deal with these applications on their own terms, and use Ruby as an API proxy. This allows one to use Ruby for day-to-day interaction while avoiding the overhead of reinventing the wheel. My talk will use examples from some of my real-life projects created to allow the use of some best-of-class non-Ruby software while abstracting assorted interactions behind a handy set of Ruby tools and services.

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