Jan 15th, 2009 |
Are you a developer?
Do you care about lightweight frameworks, Ajax, Flash, and Silverlight?
Would you wear a t-shirt that says “I <3 coding”?
Our Development track is for experienced programmers looking to improve their understanding of the technical ecosystem – what’s baked now and what’s lurking below the radar.
Read on to see some of the sessions we’ve announced so far, more will go live in the coming weeks. But first…
Coding for Greener Applications: Style Makes a Difference
Tenni Theurer (Yahoo!)
As the next billion people access the web, the need to support all that data becomes a real concern from both a load perspective and a cost standpoint. Yahoo!’s Green Coding Initiative aims to define the meaning of coding efficiently, determine the metrics to measure efficient code, develop the tools that enable developers to code greener, and share our learnings with the world.
Drizzle, Rethinking MySQL for the Web
Brian Aker (MySQL)
Ever wondered what would happen if we could rethink a decade worth of design changes? Drizzle is a fork of the MySQL server targeted at web development and cloud computing. We are looking at how to create database for modern multi-core, large memory databases that fit inside of an overall application framework.
Inside Picnik: How we Built the Picnik Backend
Justin Huff (Picnik.com), Mike Harrington (Picnik.com)
Building a web backend from scratch can be a daunting task, especially for a team with little web experience. We’ll provide an overview of where our backend started, what it looks like today, and where we think it’s going.
Life’s Too Short, Write Fast Code
Steve Souders (Google)
The creator of YSlow, Hammerhead, and UA Profiler evangelizes new best practices including splitting dominant content domains, CSS performance pitfalls, and image optimization. He illustrates these performance improvements with real world examples and live demonstrations.
Papervision3D: Welcome to the Third Dimension
John Lindquist (Papervision3D)
3D is nascent stages on the web. 3D removes the limitations of the flat web where you’re restricted to rows, columns, and scrollbars. In this presentation we’ll cover the basics of a 3D scene and the tools you need to work with Papervision3D. Then we’ll explore a variety of 3D user interfaces and the code behind them to help inspire you to build your first great 3D website.
Publishing on the GeoWeb
Keith Golden
We will discuss options for publishing your data, from getting it indexed by search engines to publishing it in the cloud.
Scaling with Your Data: An Introduction to Hadoop
Christophe Bisciglia (Cloudera, Inc), Aaron Kimball (Cloudera, Inc)
This year, at the Web 2.0 expo, Cloudera will provide a tutorial aimed at producers and users of large volumes of data. Do you deal with TBs on a regular basis? Are traditional databases not doing what you need? Are your challenges related primarily to processing and analyzing data, rather than simply finding it? Hadoop and MapReduce might be just what you need.
Web Developer Tools: How to be productive building for the Web
Ben Galbraith (Ajaxian), Dion Almaer (Google)
The Web Platform often gets dinged for its lack of great tools. In the past, that would have been a fair demerit. And while, in the present, there are surely some gaps when compared to other environments, in reality, there are a bunch of interesting developer tools for the Web. In this session, we explore some of the most popular of these, including Firebug and another new tool from Mozilla.
Why Scala?
Alex Payne (Twitter)
Making the case for the Scala programming language as an ideal tool for building the architecture of Web 2.0.
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