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Death of a Web Server: Crisis in Caching: Velocity 2009 - O'Reilly ...

By Richard Campbell

Go beyond the case study and watch a real-time crash, analysis, repair and recovery of a web site under load. In this workshop Richard brings an actual web farm to the stage, load tests it to failure, diagnoses the problem and repairs it.

[Publish Date: June 22, 2009]

Building Next Generation Web Apps with Rails and SproutCore: RailsConf 2009 ...

By Mike Subelsky

Future web apps will be built on the client-server model: faster, more fluid, desktop-like apps that cannot be fully realized with traditional Rails techniques for building browser views. But Rails is the perfect server framework to integrate with SproutCore, an exciting new framework for building web browser clients. Students will build a full-fledged client-server app using both frameworks.

[Publish Date: May 04, 2009]

Speaker: Molly Holzschlag: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by ...

Molly E. Holzschlag is a well-known Web standards advocate, instructor, and author. She has served as Group Lead for the Web Standards Project (WaSP), has been an invited expert to the W3C, consultant to numerous browser vendors and corporate clients, and has written more than 30 books covering client-side development and design for the Web.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Speaker: Scott Prevost: O'Reilly Found Conference - SEO for Web ...

Dr. Scott Prevost is Powerset's General Manager and Principal Development Manager at Microsoft Live Search. Scott has worked to bring natural language processing technology to the marketplace for over a decade. As a graduate student at the University of Pennsylvania, he developed theoretical models of prosody for synthetic speech, as well as technology to generate dialogue for autonomous agents. In post-doctoral research at the MIT Media Lab and Fuji Xerox Palo Alto Laboratory, he integrated gestures, facial expressions, and other interactional cues to create lifelike 3D characters with speech recognition, dialogue processing, and vision capabilities. Scott co-founded and served as CEO of Headpedal, Inc., a software company that specialized in creating virtual character interfaces for customer-facing applications on the web. Scott also previously served as CEO of Animated Speech Corporation, which produces interactive, animated tutors for speech and language development. Scott...

[Publish Date: June 09, 2009]

Drizzle, Rethinking MySQL for the Web: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - ...

By Brian Aker

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.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Speaker: Ross Mayfield: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by ...

Ross Mayfield is Chairman, President & Co-founder of Socialtext, the first wiki company and leading provider of Enterprise 2.0 solutions. A noted blogger and industry expert, he is a serial and social entrepreneur. Mayfield has grown Socialtext to over 4,000 customers with Software-as-a-Service, Appliance and Open Source solutions. Mayfield partnered with Dan Bricklin, the creator of the first spreadsheet visiCalc, to co-develop and distribute SocialCalc. Socialtext is backed by Draper Fisher Jurvetson, SAP Ventures and Omidyar Network. Previously, Mayfield served as VP of Marketing for a Fujitsu spinout and CEO of an enterprise risk management software company. Mayfield co-founded and served as president of RateXchange (AMEX:RTX), the leading B2B commodity exchange for telecom. Mayfield served as the marketing director of the largest privately held telecommunications group in Eastern Europe and was the internal lead manager of their Initial Public Offering. He also founded an...

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]