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"name": "Migrating to the Web Using Dart and Polymer - A Guide for Legacy OOP Developers",

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"description": "The web development platform is massive. With tons of libraries, frameworks and concepts out there, it might be daunting for the 'legacy' developer to jump into it.\r\n\r\nIn this presentation we will introduce Google Dart & Polymer. Two hot technologies that work in harmony to create powerful web applications using concepts familiar to OOP developers.",

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"name": "Refactoring 101",

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"description": "Refactoring code (altering code to make it cleaner, simpler, and often faster, while not sacrificing functionality) We hate to do it, so learn how to do it better. Covers: When to refactor. How to refactor. Why refactor. How refactor can help us write better code. Common methodology for refactoring.",

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"name": "Open Source and Mobile Development: Where Does it go From Here?",

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"description": "Until iOS and Android came along, the opportunities for open source to flourish in the mobile space were limited, because platforms were totally proprietary. Now you can find countless FL/OSS projects that help mobile developers get their job done. So what's on the horizon, and what are the best open source tools today to deliver the next great app?",

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"name": "Open Source Protocols and Architectures to Fix the Internet of Things",

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"description": "Everyday things are becoming smarter. The problem? The things are becoming smarter, but they\u2019re also becoming selfish and you\u2019ve ended up as a mechanical turk inside your own software. How can we fix the Internet of Things? The things have to become not just smarter, but more co-operative, and the Internet of things needs to become anticipatory rather than reactive.",

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"name": "Scaling PHP in the Real World!",

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"description": "PHP is used by the likes of Facebook, Yahoo, Zynga, Tumblr, Etsy, and Wikipedia. How do the largest internet companies scale PHP to meet their demand? Join this session and find out how to use the latest tools in PHP for developing high performance applications. We\u2019ll take a look at common techniques for scaling PHP applications and best practices for profiling and optimizing performance.",

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"name": "API Ecosystem with Scala, Scalatra, and Swagger at Netflix",

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"description": "At Netflix Engineering's Partner Product Innovation group, we underwent a revamp of the tech stack to make it API-driven. This was to not only help with the expanding list of API consumers, but also to address the evolving streaming business. With Scala, Scalatra, and Swagger, we achieved one of the best architecture for the scale, agility and robustness needed.",

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"name": "XSS and SQL Injections: The Tip of the Web Security Iceberg ",

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"description": "You might know about XSS and usual SQL injection, but time has changed and we have to keep up-to-date with the latest attack scenarios.\r\nDo you also know what a clickjacking is? If not I'll show you how to protect against it.\r\nI'll also present techniques like Perfect Pixel Timing and a combination of xss/time-based-sql-injection to access intranet sites, which are not even compromised.",

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"name": "Scalable Analytics with R, Hadoop and RHadoop",

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"description": "Do you use Hadoop for large scale data analysis? Do your data scientists love R? This presentation will discuss the challenges of scaling R to multi-terabyte data sets and how RHadoop can be used to solve them.",

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"name": "Eyes on IZON: Surveilling IP Camera Security",

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"description": "This presentation will provide insight into the security mechanisms being used by the IZON IP camera, some of the weaknesses found during research, and a few recommendations for them (or anyone else developing these sorts of cameras) to benefit from. Attention will be paid to topics such as network protocols, iOS app security, APIs, and other aspects of the camera's attack surface.",

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"name": "How to Fake a Database Design",

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"description": "Many expert programmers who write complex SQL without a second thought still struggle with database design. Unfortunately, many introductory topics cause eyes to glaze over when we read 'transitive dependencies' and 'Boyce-Codd normal form'. When you're done with this talk, you'll understand the basics of creating a database that won't make a DBA yell at you. We won't even use (many) big words.",

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"name": "Testing with Test::Class::Moose",

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"description": "Perl is known for its testing culture. Unfortunately it's often focused on quantity over quality. Perl's Test::Class::Moose project started out as an experiment but morphed into a way of having higher quality testing. With this module, you can get fine-grained control over your test suite, better understand your *real* code coverage and get an quick boost to test suite performance.",

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"name": "An Elasticsearch Crash Course",

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"description": "Elasticsearch is about more than just search. It\u2019s currently being used in production for everything from traditional text search, to big data analytics, to distributed document storage. This talk will introduce you to Elasticsearch\u2019s REST API, and discuss the basics of full text search and analytics with Elasticsearch.",

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"name": "Building a Massively Scalable Cloud Service from the Grounds Up",

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"description": "In this talk, we'll go into excruciating technical detail about building a greenfield, massively scalable cloud service. Along the path to constructing a scalable cloud service, there are many options and critical decisions to take, and we'll share our choices that brought both success and frustrations.",

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"name": "Open/Closed Software - Approaches to Developing Freemium Applications",

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"description": "Developing freemium which involves OSS is not a trivial task. In this talk we\u2019ll showcase Artifactory, which successfully combines open-source and Pro versions. We will talk about developing, building, testing, and releasing hybrid freemium application and will review the existing approaches, discussing pros and cons of each of them.\r\n",

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"name": "How to Build Reactive Applications",

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"description": "An introduction to building Reactive Applications and what tools you can use to do so.",

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"name": "Designing Irresistible APIs",

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"description": "So you want to create a platform for your product? Creating a fantastic open API (or even a closed one) is not the same as creating other products. I'll talk about how what you need to know to design, plan and execute a successful, engaging API and how to avoid common pitfalls.",

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"name": "Quantifying your Fitness",

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"time_start": "2014-07-24 11:50:00",

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"venue_serial": 1475,

"description": "The Quantified Self movement is all about keeping measurements about your life in order to track progress in various ways. As geeks we all enjoy playing with new toys, and there are a variety of devices and applications out there to help measure steps, activity and fitness. Combining the data from these devices can help you build tools to track your fitness in a way that makes sense for you.",

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"name": "Introduction to Docker: Containerization is the New Virtualization",

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"description": "You've heard the hype about Docker and container virtualization now see it in action. This tutorial will introduce you to Docker and take you through installing it, running it and integrating it into your development and operational workflow.",

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"name": "Mind the Gap: Architecting UIs in the Era of Diverse Devices",

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"venue_serial": 1449,

"description": "Architecting and developing user interfaces used to be relatively easy, pick a server side framework, define a standard monitor resolution and spend your days dealing with browser quirks. But today, the landscape presents us with a plethora of screen sizes and resolutions. How does a team embrace this brave new world knowing that the future will introduce even more volatility to the client space?",

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"name": "Devoxx4Kids: So Your Kid Interested in Programming, Robotics, Engineering?",

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"time_start": "2014-07-22 11:30:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-22 12:10:00",

"venue_serial": 1462,

"description": "Devoxx4Kids is a worldwide initiative that introduces programming, robotics, and engineering to kids by organizing events and workshops. This session will share how Devoxx4Kids is giving Scratch, Greenfoot, Minecraft, Raspberry Pi, Arduino, NAO, Tynker workshops. The session will show a path that can be followed by parents to keep their kids engaged and build, instead of just play games. ",

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"name": "Debugging LAMP Apps on Linux/UNIX Using Open Source Tools",

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"description": "The purpose of this tutorial is to train web developers working on a Linux/UNIX ENV on production, development ENVs, or both.\r\nOften, these developers, while proficient in say, PHP, lack UNIX system knowledge and therefore come across a brick wall when debugging production issues.\r\nOften times, because the development ENV is different than production.",

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"serial": 33689,

"name": "Forty New Features of Java EE 7 in 40 Minutes",

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"time_start": "2014-07-22 10:40:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-22 11:20:00",

"venue_serial": 1456,

"description": "The Java EE 7 platform has 4 new components (WebSocket, JSON-P, batch, and concurrency), 3 that are significantly updated (JAX-RS, JMS, and EL), and several others that bring significant changes to the platform. This session explains each feature with a code snippet and provides details on where and how you can use it in your applications.",

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"serial": 33704,

"name": "Building a Recommendation Engine with Spring and Hadoop",

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"time_start": "2014-07-23 11:30:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-23 12:10:00",

"venue_serial": 1456,

"description": "Recommendation engines are the mainstay of e-commerce sites. What if you could build one with only a few lines of code using open source tools. Come to this talk to find out how as we build one using the data from StackOverflow!",

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"serial": 33709,

"name": "Introduction to Parallel Iterative Deep Learning on Hadoop\u2019s Next\u200b-Generation YARN Framework",

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"time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",

"venue_serial": 1452,

"description": "In this session, we will take a look at how we parallelize Deep Belief Networks in Deep Learning on the next\u200b-generation YARN framework Iterative Reduce and the parallel machine learning library Metronome. We\u2019ll also take a look at some real world applications of Deep Learning on Hadoop such as image classification and NLP.",

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"serial": 33727,

"name": "Open Sourcing Mental Illness",

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"time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",

"venue_serial": 1451,

"description": "I was diagnosed with depression and anxiety when I was thirteen, and I've been struggling with it my whole life. In this talk, I'll discuss how it has impacted my work as a developer, husband, and father. By speaking openly about my experiences, I hope those struggling with mental illness will know the are not alone, and others can better understand how to be helpful and supportive.",

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"name": "When PostgreSQL Can't, You Can",

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"time_stop": "2014-07-24 10:40:00",

"venue_serial": 1475,

"description": "After using PostgreSQL for a while, you realize that there are missing features that would make it significantly easier to use in large production environments. Thankfully, it's extremely easy to make add-ons to enable some of those features right now, even without knowing C! This talk will discuss projects I've worked on and show how easy it is to make an impact in the PostgreSQL community.",

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"serial": 33741,

"name": "How to Achieve Enterprise Storage Functionality with OpenStack Block Storage",

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"time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",

"venue_serial": 1475,

"description": "In this session, SolidFire's John Griffith will review some of the key features included within OpenStack Block Storage to help achieve the enterprise storage functionality they require to host production applications in their cloud infrastructure. ",

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"name": "Building Native iOS and Android Apps in Java",

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"description": "This tutorial will demonstrate the use of Codename One to develop a cross-platform mobile application in Java. In it you will build a non-trivial application and deploy it to your mobile device.",

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"name": "Presentation Aikido",

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"venue_serial": 1475,

"description": "This tutorial explores a set of simple and practical techniques for giving better, more effective, more entertaining technical presentations. Discover how to capture an audience, hold their interest, convey your message to them clearly\u2026and maybe even inspire them.",

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"name": "Everyday Perl 6",

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"venue_serial": 1465,

"description": "Perl 6's many advanced features (junctions, multiple dispatch, generics, grammars, lazy evaluation, coroutines, etc.) may well offer awesome cosmic power, but for most of us the real and immediate benefits of switching to Perl 6 are the numerous minor Perl annoyances it fixes. This talk offers a dozen practical reasons why Perl 6 might now be a better choice as your everyday go-to problem-solver.",

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"serial": 33841,

"name": "The Conway Channel",

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"time_start": "2014-07-22 17:00:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-22 17:40:00",

"venue_serial": 1465,

"description": "Join Damian for his annual kaleidoscopic tour of the strange and wonderful new Perl modules he's been developing over the past twelve months.\r\n ",

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"name": "Building a Resilient API with Open Source",

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"time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",

"venue_serial": 1452,

"description": "How do you build and maintain a stable API while rapidly iterating and innovating in your business? Change can never be eliminated, but its impact can be minimized. GitHub takes a pragmatic approach to Hypermedia that emphasizes workflows over data retrieval and employs open source to ensure a consistent experience for API consumers.",

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"name": "The Full Stack Java Developer",

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"venue_serial": 1456,

"description": "Today's Java developer is a rare bird: SQL and JPA on the backend, or MongoDB or Hadoop? HTTP, REST and websockets on the web? What about security? JavaScript, HTML, CSS, (not to mention LESS, SASS, and CoffeeScript!) on the client? Today's Java developer is a _full stack_ developer. Join Josh Long and Phillip Webb for a look at how Spring Boot simplifies full-stack development for everyone.",

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"name": "How Instagram.com Works",

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"time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",

"venue_serial": 1448,

"description": "Instagram.com renders almost all of its UI in JavaScript. I'll talk about how our packaging and push systems work in great detail, which are clever combinations of existing open-source tools. Anyone building a large site using lots of JavaScript would find what we've learned interesting!",

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"serial": 33913,

"name": "Trolls Aren't the Only Threat Under the Bridge",

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"time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",

"venue_serial": 1457,

"description": "There's been a lot of talk about patent trolls, but how can the free and open source software community address the more complicated (and potentially more damaging) problem of anti-competitive litigation? ",

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"speakers": [130731],

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"Business",

"Community"

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"serial": 33937,

"name": "Kraken.js - Bringing Open Source to the Enterprise",

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"time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",

"venue_serial": 1457,

"description": "PayPal has recently moved their web application stack from a proprietary framework, resulting in weeks of training per developer and large maintenance costs, to an open source-based stack that allows our engineers to come in the door coding. This is the story of how we changed our enterprise culture and started giving back to the open source community.",

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"speakers": [183835,183908],

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"Business"

]

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"serial": 33943,

"name": "You Don't Know How Your Computer Works",

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"time_start": "2014-07-22 16:10:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-22 16:50:00",

"venue_serial": 1456,

"description": "Software development is easy. You tell a computer to do something. It does it. Someone sends you a packet. The OS receives it. Things don't happen unless you ask them to. Simple.\r\n\r\nBut what if that wasn't true? What if your computer is full of hidden magic? What if your hardware makes assumptions about your software? Vendors wouldn't do that, would they?\r\n\r\n(Spoiler: Yes, they would)",

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"speakers": [6852],

"categories": [

"Operations & System Administration"

]

},

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"serial": 33945,

"name": "Leaflet, Node.JS, and MongoDB for an Easy and Fun Web Mapping Experience",

"event_type": "40-minute conference session",

"time_start": "2014-07-24 10:00:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-24 10:40:00",

"venue_serial": 1450,

"description": "You have seen the stuff that FourSquare has done with spatial and you want some of that hotness for your app. We will load some data into MongoDB, show you how to handle spatial and finally plug in in some Node.JS JavaScript code to build simple REST services to query your data. Finally we will show how to use the REST service with OpenStreetMap and Leaflet for a fully interactive map.",

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"speakers": [142320],

"categories": [

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"serial": 33947,

"name": "The Simplicity of Clojure",

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"time_start": "2014-07-20 09:00:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-20 12:30:00",

"venue_serial": 1456,

"description": "Clojure: it's a Lisp that runs on the JVM and it's gotten a lot of buzz in the last few years. What is it actually good for? In this tutorial, you'll learn about Clojure's radically simple approach to data and state and how it can help you build real-world projects from web applications to servers to mobile apps.",

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"Emerging Languages",

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"serial": 33950,

"name": "There *Will* Be Bugs",

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"time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",

"venue_serial": 1449,

"description": "If you're pushing the envelope of programming (or of your own skills)... and even when you\u2019re not... there *will* be bugs in your code. Don't panic! We cover the attitudes and skills (not taught in most schools) to minimize your bugs, track them, find them, fix them, ensure they never recur, and deploy fixes to your users.\r\n",

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"speakers": [3471,5199],

"categories": [

"Python"

]

},

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"serial": 33973,

"name": "Apache Cordova: Past, Present and Future",

"event_type": "40-minute conference session",

"time_start": "2014-07-24 10:00:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-24 10:40:00",

"venue_serial": 1449,

"description": "A review of the past six years of Apache Cordova development, starting from its origins as PhoneGap, to its donation to the Apache Software Foundation, told from the point of view of its longest running contributor. This will include a simple introduction to cross-platform hybrid applications on iOS and Android, and their evolution.\r\n",

"website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33973",

"speakers": [96208],

"categories": [

"Mobile Platforms"

]

},

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"serial": 33978,

"name": "WITH What? CTEs For Fun And Profit",

"event_type": "40-minute conference session",

"time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",

"venue_serial": 1466,

"description": "Have you tried some recursion in your SQL? In this session, we will go over the concept of Common Table Expressions (CTE), also known as WITH queries. We will explore syntax, features, and use cases for this powerful SQL construct.",

"website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33978",

"speakers": [25862],

"categories": [

"Databases & Datastores"

]

},

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"serial": 33994,

"name": "Rebooting Open Source at Facebook",

"event_type": "40-minute conference session",

"time_start": "2014-07-23 14:30:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-23 15:10:00",

"venue_serial": 1448,

"description": "Open source has always been a huge part of Facebook's culture. But in 2013, we rebooted our portfolio and launched a unique suite of internal tools & instrumentation to support hundreds of repos, thousands of engineers, and tens of thousands of contributors. The result? Better-than-ever community adoption - and an open & responsible stewardship, attuned to our ethos of hacking & moving fast.",

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"speakers": [118233],

"categories": [

"Main Stage"

]

},

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"serial": 33997,

"name": "CERN's Approach to Mass and Agility",

"event_type": "40-minute conference session",

"time_start": "2014-07-23 17:00:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-23 17:40:00",

"venue_serial": 1459,

"description": "As part of a large-scale adoption of cloud computing to support the increasing computing needs of the Large Hadron Collider processing over 35 PB/year, the infrastructure of CERN IT is undergoing major changes in both technology and culture. This session will describe the steps taken, the challenges encountered and our outlook for the future.",

"website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/33997",

"speakers": [170052],

"categories": [

"Cloud"

]

},

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"serial": 34005,

"name": "Let Them Be Your Heroes",

"event_type": "40-minute conference session",

"time_start": "2014-07-24 10:00:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-24 10:40:00",

"venue_serial": 1464,

"description": "How can you encourage involvement and participation in Open Source? They key is through empowerment. We'll discuss how to empower and encourage more people to participate in your open source project by enabling Heroism. This talk will also discuss issues of diversity and inclusion. ",

"website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34005",

"speakers": [144736],

"categories": [

"Community"

]

},

{

"serial": 34012,

"name": "A Presentation Toolbox that Just Might Blow Your Audience Away",

"event_type": "40-minute conference session",

"time_start": "2014-07-24 11:50:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-24 12:30:00",

"venue_serial": 1450,

"description": "Still building presentations in an office suite? That's so 2013! Today, you can build awesome, engaging presentations that run in your browser or on your phone, using nothing but HTML5 and a few clever JavaScript libraries. And it's super simple! This talk shows you how.",

"website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34012",

"speakers": [131884],

"categories": [

"Geek Lifestyle"

]

},

{

"serial": 34018,

"name": "Raspberry Pi Hacks",

"event_type": "40-minute conference session",

"time_start": "2014-07-22 13:40:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-22 14:20:00",

"venue_serial": 1465,

"description": "Ruth Suehle, one of the authors of Raspberry Pi Hacks (O\u2019Reilly, December 2013) will offer technical tips for hardware and software hackers who want to build around the Raspberry Pi computer. She\u2019ll start with some tips like how to add a power switch and go on to share fun projects, from costume builds to radios and light displays.",

"website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34018",

"speakers": [108840],

"categories": [

"Open Hardware"

]

},

{

"serial": 34019,

"name": "From Cloud to Fog Computing and the Internet of Things",

"event_type": "40-minute conference session",

"time_start": "2014-07-23 13:40:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-23 14:20:00",

"venue_serial": 1449,

"description": "Open Source is ubiquitous in Cloud compute. Just as we became familiar with Cloud computing, a new model has emerged, an extension of the cloud to the edge of the network, some call it Fog computing, some call it the Internet of Things. This talk describes how the compute model is changing as the new generation of devices stretched what we previously knew as Cloud compute.",

"website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34019",

"speakers": [172370],

"categories": [

"Mobile Platforms"

]

},

{

"serial": 34026,

"name": "The Accidental DBA",

"event_type": "tutorial",

"time_start": "2014-07-21 13:30:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-21 17:00:00",

"venue_serial": 1475,

"description": "So, you\u2019ve inherited a PostgreSQL server. Congratulations? This tutorial will cover the essential care and feeding of a Postgres server so that you can get back to your real job.",

"website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34026",

"speakers": [3397],

"categories": [

"Databases & Datastores",

"Operations & System Administration"

]

},

{

"serial": 34037,

"name": "Distributed Robots with Elixir",

"event_type": "40-minute conference session",

"time_start": "2014-07-23 10:40:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-23 11:20:00",

"venue_serial": 1451,

"description": "This talk will take you on a journey from making an LED blink through to building your own Elixir-powered robot using a RaspberryPi and Android.",

"website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34037",

"speakers": [172532,172534],

"categories": [

"Open Hardware"

]

},

{

"serial": 34040,

"name": "What is Async, How Does it Work, and When Should I Use it?",

"event_type": "40-minute conference session",

"time_start": "2014-07-24 11:00:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-24 11:40:00",

"venue_serial": 1458,

"description": "Asynchronous frameworks like Tornado, Twisted, and Node are increasingly important for writing high-performance web applications. Even if you\u2019re an experienced web programmer, you may lack a rigorous understanding of how these frameworks work and when to use them. See how Tornado's event loop works, and learn how to efficiently handle very large numbers of concurrent connections.",

"website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34040",

"speakers": [172536],

"categories": [

"Python"

]

},

{

"serial": 34047,

"name": "Go for Object Oriented Programmers (or OO Programming without Objects) ",

"event_type": "40-minute conference session",

"time_start": "2014-07-23 16:10:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-23 16:50:00",

"venue_serial": 1465,

"description": "Object Oriented programming has dominated software engineering for the last two decades. Although Go is not OO in the strict sense, we can continue to leverage the skills we've honed as OO engineers. This talk will cover how to use our OO programming fundamentals in go, common mistakes made by those coming to go from other OO languages (Ruby, Python, JS, etc.), and principles of good design in go.",

"website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34047",

"speakers": [142995],

"categories": [

"Emerging Languages"

]

},

{

"serial": 34056,

"name": "Unicorns, Dragons, Open Source Business Models And Other Mythical Creatures",

"event_type": "40-minute conference session",

"time_start": "2014-07-22 14:30:00",

"time_stop": "2014-07-22 15:10:00",

"venue_serial": 1448,

"description": "No one size fits all formula can be applied to build a business around open source, and attempting to do so may end in humiliation and disaster.\r\n\r\nThere is no doubt that 'Open Source' has impacted the dynamics of all manner of business, but building a business on 'Open Source' is not a solved problem.\r\n\r\nA guided tour of open source business models, real and imaginary.",

"website_url": "http://oscon.com/oscon2014/public/schedule/detail/34056",

"speakers": [24052],

"categories": [

"Main Stage"

]

},

{

"serial": 34063,

"name": "Tutorial: Node.js Three Ways",