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Summary Adrian Cole discusses his jclouds project, which is an open source library that helps Java developers get started in the cloud and reuse their Java development skills. Cole also talks about some of the challenges of creating a cloud agnostic library, such as the use of different hypervisors and that various cloud implementations are written in different languages, such as VB, Python, Ru...

Yes, it actually works! We snuck into Dell’s secret suite to get the goods on the hottest product at CES.It’s Dell’s new slate, a concept model with a beautiful 5” screen. The handheld slate is based on Android – and includes Facebook, video playback and more.

Best phone at CES: Motorola's new Backflip phone offers a unique twist on the cellphone.It's a keyboard/full screen Android-based phone that folds in and out lengthwise. But instead of folding the keyboard on top of the screen like a traditional clamshell, the Backflip folds so the keyboard and the screen both stay on the outside! Why do that? Well first, it lets the phone operate as a full-scr...

It’s a brave new car, with digital screens on the dashboard and around the speedometer, plus LCD mood lighting and twitter integration. Ford introduced its updated SYNC interface, showing off a completely customizable dashboard, along with an open API that will allow other internet applications to easily plug into its upcoming lineup. They also showed off web applications streaming to the new T...

Today, we're bringing Twitter and Friend Connect even closer together. Now you can join one of over nine million Google Friend Connect sites using your Twitter login. Once signed in, your Twitter profile will be automatically linked and you can tweet your new site membership, share discussions from the comments gadget, and invite your friends via Twitter. Already using Google Friend Connect on ...

Twitter (twitter.com) is a micro-blogging service that allows users to answer the question “What are you doing?”. It takes a simple 140 character string (a tweet), and distributes that to a user’s following (or “friends”) list. Over the last few years, Twitter has experienced a variety of challenges scaling its site to serve millions and millions of users. From hos...

Summary In this talk from QCon London 2009 Evan Weaver shows how Twitter keeps up with growth, by focusing on three performance milestones: caching strategy, the message queue and the cache client. Bio Evan Weaver is the services team lead at Twitter, and a well-known specialist in Ruby on Rails performance. Formerly he worked at CNET Networks and SAP AG. His blog is at http://blog.evanweaver.c...

SummaryDaniel Crenna and Jason Diller showcase their new creation TweetSharp: the .NET API to all that is Twitter.BioDaniel Crenna is a Microsoft MVP and the creator of TweetSharp, an open-source Twitter API development library. He is currently writing "Professional Twitter Development" for Wrox Press and is working on a Twitter-based startup with co-creator Jason Diller. Daniel was a contribut...

Twitter’s content and APIs make it one of the best targets around for creating mashups. It’s now easier than ever to do so using TwitterAuth, a Rails gem/plugin that utilizes Twitter as a Single Sign-on provider (SSO). Material will include: Generating a TwitterAuth application using Rails templates Navigating the Twitter API Harnessing the power of Twitter Search Watching an e...

This talk walks through how we developed TweetCongress.org including Finding APIs and free data sources online Building a Twitter mashup using the Twitter API and Twitter Search API Spreading the word Twitter Facebook Meetups Media Recruiting volunteers Takeaways WYNN NETHERLAND Squeejee Wynn loves the creative side of building software, from brainstorming with clients to designi...