O'Reilly Events Copyright O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://events.oreilly.com/ 2013-05-25T02:15:25-08:00 O'Reilly Media, Inc. no O'Reilly Media, Inc. webmaster@oreillynet.com http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2684

<p> In this webcast we will talk about the new high availability solution that is introduced in SQL Server 2012. The session provides an overview of AlwaysOn and explains how you can build a high availability solution using the new features and capabilities. In this session you will learn about how to deploy an AlwaysOn solution, how to utilize your secondary hardware for better return of investment and how the new solution simplifies deployment, management of high availability in your environment. The session will also describe how to manage application connectivity of your primary OLTP applications and reporting applications in an AlwaysOn environment. </p> <h3>About Patrick LeBlanc</h3> <p>Patrick LeBlanc is a Data Platform Technical Solution Professional at Microsoft, working directly with customers on the business value of SQL Server. He co-authored SharePoint 2010 Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer and Knight's Microsoft Business Intelligence 24-Hour Trainer, and founded <a href="http://www.sqllunch.com">www.sqllunch.com</a>, a website devoted to teaching SQL Server technologies. </p>

Patrick LeBlanc 2013-08-23T02:15:25-08:10 http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2728

<p> Data journalism is journalism's current big thing. But journalists - some who have been operating solo - soon learn that to be able to do it well (i.e. make the data serve audiences, not baffle or bore them) requires the team effort of many different specialists. A data journalism story is usually a project. A statistician/data scientist/researcher spots the trend. A coder and/or developer hones into the trend and data sets to translate it to the screen. From this, a visualizer/graphic artist tells a visual story, by creating a chart or infographic. An app developer ensures this sequence can be followed again and again from the same data sets to highlight many different stories, trends or hypotheses. The journalist is the director who orchestrates all this - then decides: how do I make sure this talks to my audience? A tall order! But a few simple techniques - and perhaps a rethink of newsroom jobs - can make this new big thing sing. The Country Director of <a href="http://www.internewskenya.org">Internews</a> in Kenya, <a href="http://strataconf.com/rx2013/public/schedule/speaker/155596">Ida Jooste</a> (<a href="https://twitter.com/idajooste">@idajooste</a>), walks through some projects put together by data journalism teams in Kenya, and invites you to brainstorm how one might make data journalism a sustainable new addition to newsroom culture. </p> <h3>About Ida Jooste</h3> <p> Ida Jooste is the Country Director for Internews Kenya - a seasoned television, radio and print journalist and news manager, journalism trainer and media development manager. As journalist, Ms. Jooste's work spanned African politics, development, science and health journalism, elections programming and investigative documentary production. A winner of over 20 journalism awards, she has played a leading role in political and social development journalism for the past 20 years, in various capacities at the South African Broadcasting Corporation (SABC), as consultant, university guest lecturer and most recently as Country Director at Internews in Kenya, where she has oversight of a growing portfolio of health, human rights and democracy and governance related journalism training programs. </p> <a href="http://strataconf.com/rx2013"><img alt="O'Reilly Strata Rx Conference" border="0" height="90" src="http://cdn.oreilly.com/images/oreilly/strata-rx2013-banner-528.png" width="528" /></a>

Ida Jooste 2013-08-22T01:15:27-08:11 http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2729

<p>Bionimbus is an open source petabyte scale community cloud based upon OpenStack for managing, analyzing and sharing large genomics datasets that is operated by the not-for-profit Open Cloud Consortium.</p> <p>It contains a variety of public datasets, including ENCODE and the 1000 Genomes dataset.</p> <p> Join us for a webcast talk by Robert Grossman where he shares how his organization recently expanded Bionimbus so that researchers can analyze data from controlled datasets, such as The Cancer Genome Atlas (TCGA) in a secure and compliant fashion. TCGA contains data from over 6,000 cancer patients, spanning 20 different types of cancer. Tissues samples from both cancerous and normal tissue are collected and sequenced. </p> <p> In this webcast we will discuss: </p> <ul> <li>the role of private, community and public clouds in bioinformatics</li> <li>the Bionimbus architecture</li> <li>the Bionimbus security and compliance framework</li> <li>how Bionimbus interoperates with Amazon Web Services</li> <li>how to interoperate your own resources with Bionimbus</li> <li>adding data to Bionimbus</li> <li>how Bionimbus allocates computing resources to the community</li> <li>how to get involved with Bionimbus</li> </ul> <h3>About Robert Grossman</h3> <p> Robert Grossman is a faculty member and the Chief Research Informatics Officer in the Biological Sciences Division of the University of Chicago. He is a Senior Fellow in the Institute for Genomics and Systems Biology (<a href="http://www.igsb.org/">IGSB</a>) and the Computation Institute (<a href="http://www.ci.uchicago.edu/">CI</a>). He is also the Founder and a Partner of <a href="http://www.opendatagroup.com/">Open Data Group</a>, which specializes in building predictive models over big data. His areas of research include: big data, predictive analytics, bioinformatics, data intensive computing and analytic infrastructure. He has led the development of open source software tools for analyzing big data (<a href="http://code.google.com/p/augustus">Augustus</a>), cloud computing (<a href="http://sector.sf.net/">Sector</a>), and high performance networking (<a href="http://udt.sf.net/">UDT</a>). In 1996 he founded Magnify, Inc., which provides data mining solutions to the insurance industry. Grossman was Magnify's Chairman until it was sold to ChoicePoint in 2005. He is also the Chair of the <a href="http://www.opencloudconsortium.org/">Open Cloud Consortium</a>, which is a not-for-profit that supports the cloud community by operating cloud infrastructure, such as the <a href="http://www.opensciencedatacloud.org/">Open Science Data Cloud</a>. He blogs about big data, data science, and data engineering at <a href="http://www.rgrossman.com/">rgrossman.com</a>. </p> <a href="http://strataconf.com/rx2013"><img alt="O'Reilly Strata Rx Conference" border="0" height="90" src="http://cdn.oreilly.com/images/oreilly/strata-rx2013-banner-528.png" width="528" /></a>

Robert Grossman 2013-08-20T11:15:31-08:12 http://oreilly.com/events/#2682

The most the external dynamic website companies face the same challenge: page must be fast loading, infrastructure must expand, sites and services must be reliable, and complete all also within the scope of the team can withstand, but also can not exceed budget. Velocity is the best land of all Web performance and operation and maintenance professionals together on this planet, to peer learning, and experts to exchange ideas, share best practices and lessons learned.

O'Reilly Media, Inc. 2013-08-20T02:15:24-08:13 http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2720

<p> While running experiments is a key activity in a Lean Startup, running effective experiments that lead to breakthrough insights is still considered more art than science. </p> <p> At the earliest stages of the product lifecycle, when we have relatively few customers, we struggle with making sense of seemingly small scale and qualitative customer feedback. </p> <p> Even though the mechanics of running experiments are quite straightforward, most lean practitioners fail to run effective experiments. </p> <p> In this webcast talk, Ash Maurya will teach you how to avoid these pitfalls and instead use a systems approach to craft the right next experiment no matter the stage of your product. </p> <h3>About Ash Maurya</h3> <p>Ash Maurya (<a href="https://twitter.com/ashmaurya">@ashmaurya</a>) is the founder of USERcycle. Since bootstrapping his last company seven years ago, he has launched five products and one peer-to-web application framework. Throughout this time he has been in search of better, faster ways for building successful products. Ash has more recently been rigorously applying Customer Development and Lean Startup techniques to his products, which he frequently writes about on his blog <a href="http://www.ashmaurya.com">ashmaurya.com</a>, and which turned into a book: Running Lean. Ash resides in Austin, Texas, with his wife, two children and two dogs.</p>

Ash Maurya 2013-08-14T02:15:31-08:14 http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2731

<p>Join us for a hands-on webcast presented by Mike Westerfield author of <em><a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029281.do">Building iPhone and iPad Electronic Projects</a></em>, and we'll look at one way to control an Arduino from iOS using a WiFly serial bridge. All of the techniques and techBASIC source code will be shown. Don&#8217;t miss this interactive webcast.</p> <h3>About Mike Westerfield</h3> <p> Mike started programming on a PDP-8 using a teletype terminal. As the personal computer revolution got going he sold his car and rode a bike for several months to raise cash to buy an Apple II computer. He wanted to write a chess program but couldn't find a good assembler, so he took a summer off to write his own. Two years later he finished ORCA/M, which went on to become Apple Programmer's Workshop, the Apple-labeled development environment for the Apple IIGS. </p> <p> Born the same year as Steve Jobs and Bill Gates, Mike made the mistake of getting an education instead of getting rich. A slow learner, he graduated from the U.S. Air Force Academy in 1977 with a degree in Physics, earned an M.S. in Physics from the University of Denver, and was working on a Ph.D. when he started making more money from his sideline software company than from the Air Force. </p> <p> Since then Mike has developed numerous compilers and interpreters, software for mission-critical physics packages for military satellites, plasma physics simulations for Z-pinch experiments, multimedia authoring tools for grade schoolers, disease surveillance programs credited with saving lives of hurricane Katrina refugees, advanced military simulations that protect our nation's most critical assets, and technical computing software for iOS. </p> <p> Mike currently runs the Byte Works, an independent software publishing and consulting firm. He is a PADI scuba instructor who lives in Albuquerque with his wife, enjoying being an empty nester and spoiling his grandchildren. </p>

Mike Westerfield 2013-08-13T14:15:31-08:15 http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2725

<p> Join us for an exclusive presentation by Ilya Grigorik recorded live at Strata + Hadoop World 2012 </p> <p> Open source developers all over the world contribute to millions of projects every day on GitHub: writing and reviewing code, filing and discussing bug reports, updating documentation and project wikis, and so forth. The data generated from this activity can reveal interesting trends across many industries, including popularity of programming languages over time, defect rates, contribution metrics, and popularity of specific frameworks and libraries. </p> <p> To help us extract the insights from the public GitHub timeline which generated hundreds of thousands of daily events, we imported the entire dataset into Google BigQuery. This makes data about tens of millions of open source commits and discussions accessible to the world for quick interactive analysis. With that, we can run our analysis: </p> <ul> <li>Who are the most productive developers using GitHub?</li> <li>Which languages are growing in popularity and why?</li> <li>Which language features result in the most angst and developer pain?</li> <li>What makes open source developers happy?</li> </ul> <p> In this session, we will answer the above questions and much more. We will also discuss our experience in using BigQuery, how we modeled the GitHub event data, and the lessons learned in importing and making the data available. </p> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 5px;">About Ilya Grigorik</h3> <p>Ilya Grigorik is a web peformance engineer and advocate at Google, an open-source evangelist, an analytics geek, and a proverbial early adopter of all things digital. Prior to focusing on web performance Ilya was the founder and CTO of PostRank, a social analytics company which became the core of social analytics within Google Analytics. </p> <p style="padding-bottom: 0px; margin-bottom: 5px;"><strong>You may also be interested in:</strong></p> <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920029618.do"><img alt="Strata 2013 Complete Video Compilation" border="0" height="90" src="http://cdn.oreilly.com/oreilly/promos/ba-strata-video-538x90-20130222.png" width="538" /></a>

Ilya Grigorik 2013-08-08T13:15:36-08:16 http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2706

<p>In this webcast Steve will talk about how to apply the recent explosion of research on decision making and behavioral economics to the practical problems of designing software products. </p> <p> In this webcast you will learn: </p> <ul> <li>A quick overview of how the mind makes decisions about what to do next (and when it's on autopilot)</li> <li>A step-by-step approach to designing products that help people change their daily behavior (from exercising to checking email)</li> <li>Guidance on how to integrate explicit behavioral goals into existing product development, UX, engineering, and QC processes</li> <li>Techniques for quickly assessing the behavioral bottlenecks in an application that block its effectiveness</li> </ul> <h3>About Steve Wendel</h3> <p> Steve Wendel is the Principal Scientist at HelloWallet, where they develop products that help people take control of their finances &mdash; to figure out where their money is going, pay off debts, and save for the future. He has the joy of running experiments with HelloWallet's academic advisers, providing behavioral feedback on application design, and working with some awesome product and UX folks. He's a behavioral social scientist by training, and is fascinated with the rapidly growing experimental evidence on how we humans make decisions. He blogs regularly about how to design products to help people take action and change their daily routines, at <a href="http://actiondesign.hellowallet.com/">actiondesign.hellowallet.com</a>. </p>

Steve Wendel 2013-08-07T02:15:36-08:17 http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2722

<p>By now, you're probably heard of <a href="http://shop.oreilly.com/product/0636920026334.do">Lean Analytics</a>. Maybe you've even learned about the five stages all startups go through, or how to pick the one metric that matters for your business model and how to draw a line in the sand. </p> <p> In this webcast, authors Ben Yoskovitz and Alistair Croll take you deeper down the Lean Analytics rabbit hole. In their practical, no-holds-barred style, you'll learn about: </p> <ul> <li>using the data you already have to find new ideas to test</li> <li>how to pick the right experiments</li> <li>the role of subversiveness in growth hacking</li> <li>how to apply Lean Analytics methods to enterprise-focused innovation</li> <li>and what intrapreneurs within existing organizations do differently</li> </ul> <p> Join Alistair and Ben on August 6 and learn why readers are calling Lean Analytics the must-read book of the year for founders and innovators. </p> <h3>About Alistair Croll</h3> <p>Alistair has been an entrepreneur, author, and public speaker for nearly 20 years. He's worked on a variety of topics, from web performance, to big data, to cloud computing, to startups, in that time. In 2001, he co-founded web performance startup Coradiant (acquired by BMC in 2011), and since that time has also launched Rednod, CloudOps, Bitcurrent, Year One Labs, the Bitnorth conference, the International Startup Festival and several other early-stage companies.</p> <p> Alistair is the chair of O'Reilly's <a href="http://strataconf.com/">Strata conference</a>, Techweb's Cloud Connect, and the International Startup Festival. "<a href="http://leananalyticsbook.com/">Lean Analytics</a>" is his fourth book on analytics, technology, and entrepreneurship. He lives in Montreal, Canada and tries to mitigate chronic ADD by writing about far too many things at "<a href="http://www.solveforinteresting.com/">Solve For Interesting</a>".</p> <h3>About Benjamin Yoskovitz</h3> <p> Ben Yoskovitz is a serial entrepreneur with 15+ years experience in web businesses. He started his first company in 1996 while completing university. In 2007 he co-founded Standout Jobs, a B2B software company in the recruitment space. The company raised $1.8M from venture and angel investors. In 2010 after exiting Standout Jobs, Ben co-founded Year One Labs, an early stage accelerator that provided funding and up to 1-year of hands-on mentorship to 5 startups. Year One Labs followed a Lean Startup program, making it the first accelerator to formalize such a structure. Three of five companies graduated from Year One Labs and went on to raise follow on financing. A great deal of Ben's experience and thought leadership around Lean Startup and analytics emerged during this time. </p>

Alistair Croll, Jonathan Stark, Benjamin Yoskovitz 2013-08-06T11:15:28-08:18 http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2676

<p>During the first part of this exclusive webcast event we welcome Eric Ries, <a href="https://twitter.com/ericries">@ericries</a>, author of New York Times bestseller "The Lean Startup" for a fireside chat with Jeff Gothelf <a href="https://twitter.com/jboogie">@jboogie</a>, author of "Lean UX" and learn the story behind "Lean UX" and how the material was chosen for the book. </p> <p> During the second portion you will learn about requirements-driven product definition is a sure-fire way to get 100% of the wrong product launched. The assumptions that requirements are based on are usually not accurate enough to determine the exact solution those requirements dictate. Instead, teams should focus on creating a series of hypotheses that define potential solutions to their business problem business problem and then work together to learn which of these hypotheses are keepers and which ideas to kill. </p> <p> In this webcast presented Jeff Gothelf author of Lean UX, he will provide an overview of how to apply the ideas behind Lean UX and Design Thinking to project definition and planning. </p> <p> Using a series of case studies from large companies such as Paypal, TheLadders and Sesame Street as well as a few select startups, Jeff will cover: </p> <ul> <li>how recognizing your assumptions increases the speed of finding the right solutions</li> <li>why cross-functional, collaborative teams bring better products to market faster</li> <li>why managing towards outcomes generates better solutions</li> <li>how a Lean UX approach, coupled with Design Thinking, brings out the entire team's creative insights</li> </ul> <h3>About Jeff Gothelf</h3> <p>Jeff Gothelf is a designer &amp; Agile practitioner. He is a leading voice on the topics of Agile UX &amp; Lean UX and a highly sought-after international speaker. He is currently a Managing Director in Neo's New York City office. Previously, Jeff has led teams at TheLadders, Publicis Modem, WebTrends, Fidelity, &amp; AOL. </p> <h3>About Eric Ries</h3> <p>Eric Ries is the author of the blog <a href="http://startuplessonslearned.blogspot.com/">Lessons Learned</a>. He was the co-founder and served as Chief Technology Officer of <a href="http://www.imvu.com/">IMVU</a>, his third startup. He is the co-author of several books including The Black Art of Java Game Programming (Waite Group Press, 1996). In 2007, BusinessWeek named Ries one of the Best Young Entrepreneurs of Tech. He serves on the advisory board of a number of technology startups including pbWiki, Smule, 750i and KaChing. </p>

Jeff Gothelf, Eric Ries 2013-07-30T01:15:26-08:19 http://oreilly.com/events/#2651

If you're passionate about the open technologies shaping our future, building communities, crafting beautiful code, designing for users, or just getting things done, join us at OSCON, the premier event for all things open source.

Brian Aker, J. Chris Anderson, Matt Asay, David Ascher, Jono Bacon, Josh Berkus, Addison Berry, David Boswell, Tim Bray, Paul Brown, Tim Bunce, Angela Byron, Julian Cash, Francesco Cesarini, Kristina Chodorow, Tom Christiansen, Ben Collins-Sussman, Damian Conway, Rod Cope, Douglas Crockford, Selena Deckelmann, Chris DiBona, Edd Dumbill, Colin Evans, Brian W. Fitzpatrick, Brian Ford, Neal Ford, brian d foy, Tom Gaskins, Bernard Golden, Leslie Hawthorn, Evan Henshaw-Plath, Philipp K. Janert, Yehuda Katz, Austin King, Bradley M. Kuhn, Jan Lehnardt, Andy Lester, Alex Martelli, Danny O'Brien, Tim O'Reilly, Bryan O'Sullivan, Allison Randal, Kyle Rankin, Neil Rickert 2013-07-22T01:15:23-08:20 http://oreilly.com/events/#2704

SQLSaturday is a training event for SQL Server professionals and those wanting to learn about SQL Server. This year the event will be held July 13, 2013 at Indiana Weslyn University, 1500 Alliant Avenue, Louisville, KY 40299

Kevin Kline 2013-07-12T10:15:32-08:21 http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2654

<p> Do you know where your users are? The HTML 5 Geolocation API is a JavaScript-based interface that allows you to programmatically get access to a user's approximate latitude and longitude. You can get a snapshot of their location or even continuous updates. The best part is the API is now built into many of the latest generation of browsers. </p> <p> In this hands-on webcast presented by Andy Gup, he'll step you through how the API works, as well as take an in-depth look at the data it provides and how to use it effectively. We'll nail the key things you need to know to implement this API into your existing systems right away. You'll learn that not all data is created equally. To hit home the concepts we'll demonstrate using the API in several real world scenarios and show how this information can be successfully integrated into a backend system for analysis. </p> <h3>About Andy Gup</h3> <p> Andy Gup is a Tech Lead at <a href="http://www.esri.com/">Esri</a> where he focuses on web and mobile geo-spatial APIs. He is an active contributor to a number of open source projects in the geo community. </p> <p> His background includes working with a wide variety of cutting edge technologies from small websites and mobile apps to high-performance Fortune 500 enterprise systems. </p> <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013"><img alt="O'Reilly OSCON" border="0" height="90" src="http://cdn.oreilly.com/images/oreilly/oscon13-webcast-banner-528x90.png" width="528" /></a>

Andy Gup 2013-07-11T01:21:24-08:22 http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2647

<p> In this webcast, I will introduce you to my open source 3D Printer that I built from a kit. I'll share my experiences of both joy and tears, from assembly and tuning, to modeling and printing. We'll cover the kinds of open source models, compare their commercial counterparts, talk about heat, plastic types and potential. If you are curious about 3D printing, but don't know much about it, I hope to cover all of the basics. If you have been doing your research, but have some pointed questions that will get you off the fence, I hope to answer those too. By the end of the session, my hope is you will all want to build 3D printers of your own, and have all of the information you need to get started. </p> <h3>About Ed Snajder</h3> <p> Ed Snajder is the Database Administrator at Jive Software. When not having fun with databases, Ed is an aspiring hacker, with a 3D printer, a Raspberry Pi, and several mostly finished Arduino projects. Also an avid Portland tech community supporter, Ed has spoken at and participated in the PostgreSQL User Group, OSCON, Portland Code Camp, SQL Saturday and the Oregon SQL Developers' Group. </p> <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013"><img alt="O'Reilly OSCON" border="0" height="90" src="http://cdn.oreilly.com/images/oreilly/oscon13-webcast-banner-528x90.png" width="528" /></a>

Ed Snajder 2013-07-10T01:21:08-08:23 http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2667

<p> jQuery Mobile is a cross-platform framework made for smartphones and tablets. With its HTML5 interface, it looks and feels like an app. This hands-on webcast presentation will teach you how to quickly create a mobile front-end with little effort. It will also feature a use-case of adapting an existing web application to the mobile. Don't miss this informative presentation. </p> <h3>About Anna Filina</h3> <p> <p>Anna Filina is a Web software expert. As vice-president at FooLab, she helps companies by coaching developers and by providing valuable advice to help clients achieve their business goals. Her latest project was a mission-critical application to increase factory production, eliminate product defects and reduce raw material waste.</p> <p>Anna also organizes ConFoo, a world-renowned conference for developers. She herself gives presentations at conferences all over the world.</p> <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013"><img alt="O'Reilly OSCON" border="0" height="90" src="http://cdn.oreilly.com/images/oreilly/oscon13-webcast-banner-528x90.png" width="528" /></a>

Anna Filina 2013-07-10T01:21:08-08:24