Open Source Bridge

How to go from unmanaged to managed with Puppet, with devops practices and existing tools where possible and with open source hackery and spackle everywhere else.

You may know Java or C# ... but do you own it? Can you add new language features to suit your needs? Of course not ... but with Clojure, you can! Clojure is more than a powerful language, it's a powerful language toolkit.

The Oregon State Wireless Active Learning Device (OSWALD) is a fully open Ultra-Mobile Personal Computer (UMPC) platform designed, maintained, and used by students. Join us while we discuss the design process, software platform, and challenges we've run into while developing an embedded Linux platform for a custom-made handheld.

You've been through the tutorials on Django, and now you want to deploy a real site in it - and you're lost. Let's fix that.

Come on. You know you want to.

We provide you an introduction to the Scala programming language through its powerful capabilities to integrating with Java. We will demonstrate how Scala can be an effective means of exploring Java libraries such as JAXB, HttpClient and Hibernate. We will show why Scala is our preferred harness, with capabilities beyond Java, Beanshell or Groovy.

Exploring social application development techniques using OpenSocial 0.9, we'll look at how to harness user data to customize an application experience for each user and monetize that experience. Going further, we'll explore the vast improvements coming in the future for OpenSocial.

Every SQL database needs indexes, but which indexes? Learn how to index, when to index, why to index, and how to feel after you've indexed.

Why code when you can meta-code? Learn how you can leverage Tapestry's built-in aspect oriented technologies to eliminate cut-and-paste coding (and ugly inheritance hierarchies) with simple declarative annotations.

WebSockets is an exciting new technology that enables bidirectional communication between web applications and server-side processes. Google's Chrome browser already provides WebSockets and developers can expect to see the technology in other browsers in 2010. This presentation will cover the WebSocket protocol, JavaScript API, and server-side implementations.

This talk will explore using SugarCRM outside of it's normal usage as a CRM application, instead using it as an open source business application platform.

We know the future of the web is mobile, but what's the future of mobile? In this session, you'll learn how to step-up mobile app development with widgets and device APIs. Add these two technologies to your toolbox to begin building next-gen mobile apps today.

Which web framework will rule them all? As an audience member you pick the winner! We will present an introduction to a variety of web frameworks including Rails, Django, Symfony, and Sinatra.