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Rube Goldberg Contraptions, Building Scalable Decoupled Web Apps and ...

By Ezra Zygmuntowicz

In this talk we will explore the state of the art deployment options for large scale ruby web apps. Ruby web apps become ecosystems of many moving parts over time as they scale. We will outline a scalable architecture for configuring, building, maintaining and scaling the system as a cohesive whole. We will explore technologies like rabbitmq, chef, nanite and EY's new cloud hosting platform.

[Publish Date: May 04, 2009]

Speaker: John Woodell: RailsConf 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, May 04 - 07, ...

John is a web developer at Google, working primarily on internal Rails applications. John is a Ruby enthusiast, he has hosted Google Tech Talks on Ruby topics such as: Merb, Rubinius, and the Rhodes Framework.

[Publish Date: May 04, 2009]

Speaker: Tim O'Reilly: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - 24, ...

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly Media also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference. Tim's blog, the O'Reilly Radar "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is on the boards of MySQL, CollabNet, Safari Books Online, Wesabe, and ValuesOfN, and is a partner in O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

Speaker: David Recordon: OSCON 2009 - O'Reilly Conferences, July 20 - 24, ...

David Recordon is Open Platforms Tech Lead for Six Apart, the largest independent blogging company in the world. Recordon has played a pivotal role in the development and popularization of key social media technologies such as OpenID. In 2005, Recordon collaborated with Brad Fitzpatrick in the original development of OpenID, which has since become the most popular decentralized single-sign-on protocol in the history of the web. During a year and a half at VeriSign, Recordon played an active role in refining and evangelizing OpenID, bringing it from an experimental technology to one that's been endorsed by major companies ranging from AOL to Microsoft, and implemented for over 120 million identities on the web. Recordon's history with open source software and open standards stretches back to the beginning of his career, when as a sophomore in high school he volunteered his time to lead an open source message board project with over forty members worldwide. This interest led to his...

[Publish Date: July 20, 2009]

Speaker: Veronica Belmont: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by ...

Veronica Belmont is a co-host of Revision3’s Tekzilla. She started her tech career as an audio producer for CNET's Buzz Out Loud podcast and quickly became the third co-host. She went on to start two other shows at CNET: MP3 Insider and Crave and also produced many tech how-to videos and segments for CNET TV. Since then, Veronica has been a regular on many technology and gaming-themed podcasts, such as This Week in Tech, Cranky Geeks, DL.TV, The Instance and more. In the past year she hosted the popular web show Mahalo Daily, where she covered lots of geek-themed topics and events, including CES with Engadget and the Game Developers Conference with Joystiq. In her free time, Veronica hosts the Sword and Laser podcast and book club with CNET personality Tom Merritt, and also helps run one of the largest Warcraft guilds around, Alea Iacta Est, on the Earthen Ring server.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Sunlight Labs Hackathon: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by ...

We’ve invited Sunlight Labs to host a hackathon at Web 2.0 Expo, where attendees build an application that promotes transparency in government. We welcome you to join our hackathon – stop by to help out for an hour or a day, contribute to rebuilding our democracy, and meet some great folks!

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Sunlight Labs Hackathon: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by ...

We’ve invited Sunlight Labs to host a hackathon at Web 2.0 Expo, where attendees build an application that promotes transparency in government. We welcome you to join our hackathon – stop by to help out for an hour or a day, contribute to rebuilding our democracy, and meet some great folks!

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Optimize Your Organic Search Results Leveraging Social Media and Your Own ...

By Heather Lutze, Scott Calvert

Verio, the global leading provider of web-based services and managed hosting solutions for SMBs, is proud to sponsor this workshop presented by Heather Lutze (a nationally recognized consultant, author, speaker and expert certified with Google and Yahoo!). Sponsored by Verio.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Sunlight Labs Hackathon: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by ...

We’ve invited Sunlight Labs to host a hackathon at Web 2.0 Expo, where attendees build an application that promotes transparency in government. We welcome you to join our hackathon – stop by to help out for an hour or a day, contribute to rebuilding our democracy, and meet some great folks!

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

W3C Hosts Workshop on Social Networking - O'Reilly Broadcast

By Kurt Cagle

Social Networking and Community 2.0 have both become critical parts of the web infrastructure, so it is perhaps not surprising that the W3C, keeper of all things web, is now weighing in on the topic. On January 15-16, 2009, the W3C will host the Workshop on the Future of Social Networking in Barcelona, Spain, where it will pull together vendors, project leaders, and social networking experts to explore the ramifications that social networking has for the web, and whether the W3C should establish a formal working group dealing with Social Networking related issues.

[Publish Date: January 13, 2009]

The Principles of Distributed Computing and the Birth of AWS: Web 2.0 Expo ...

By Werner Vogels

In this technical talk, Werner Vogels, CTO of Amazon.com, will dive deep into how Amazon used the principles of distributed computing to move to an ultra-scalable service-oriented architecture and in doing so gave birth to a host of loosely coupled services that make up Amazon Web Services.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]

Speaker: Tim O'Reilly: Web 2.0 Expo San Francisco 2009 - Co-produced by ...

Tim O'Reilly is the founder and CEO of O'Reilly Media, Inc., thought by many to be the best computer book publisher in the world. O'Reilly Media also publishes online through the O'Reilly Network and hosts conferences on technology topics, including the O'Reilly Open Source Convention, the O'Reilly Emerging Technology Conference, and the Web 2.0 Conference. Tim's blog, the O'Reilly Radar "watches the alpha geeks" to determine emerging technology trends, and serves as a platform for advocacy about issues of importance to the technical community. Tim is on the boards of MySQL, CollabNet, Safari Books Online, Wesabe, and ValuesOfN, and is a partner in O'Reilly AlphaTech Ventures.

[Publish Date: March 31, 2009]