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Webcast: Managing Complex Asynchrony with the Reactive Extensions (Rx) - Aug 22 2012

Ian Griffiths — Wed, 22 Aug 2012 03:28:40 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

In webcast number two in the series Ian Griffiths, author of Programming C# 5.0 discusses Asynchronous systems and their complexity. The new language features for dealing with them in C# 5.0 are only half of the story: library support is also essential. The Reactive Extensions for .NET (or Rx, as they're usually known) use simple but well thought out abstraction for representing streams of events and subscribers. These are the basis for an extensive and powerful set of operators for using, processing, combining, and orchestrating streams of events from multiple independent sources. These include all the standard LINQ operators, which is why Rx is sometimes known as LINQ to Events, but it has a much larger repertoire than any other LINQ provider. Don't miss this informative webcast presentation.

About Ian Griffiths

Ian Griffiths is an independent WPF consultant, developer, speaker and Pluralsight instructor and a widely recognized expert on the subject. He lives in London but can often be found on various developer mailing lists and newsgroups, where a popular sport is to see who can get him to write the longest email in reply to the shortest possible question. Ian maintains a popular blog at http://www.interact-sw.co.uk/iangblog/ and is co-author of "Windows Forms in a Nutshell" and of "Mastering Visual Studio .NET".

Webcast: C++ AMP - Aug 21 2012

Kate Gregory — Tue, 21 Aug 2012 04:29:20 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Did you know that most of the computers on which you deploy applications have more power in the GPU on the video card than in the CPU, even multi-core machines? Harnessing the power of the GPU is the next step in the manycore/multicore revolution and can mean astonishing improvements in execution time. Depending on how data parallel your calculations are, you might see a speedup of 5, 10, or even 50x!

Imagine a calculation that takes a month today completing in half a day instead. Until recently, running code on the GPU has meant using one of several "C-like" languages. The upcoming release of C++ AMP means that you can use accelerators like the GPU from native C++. Visual Studio 11 includes debugging and profiling support for C++ AMP, and you don't need to download or install any new libraries to accelerate your code.

In this webcast presented by Kate Gregory, author of Accelerated Massive Parallelism with Microsoft Visual C++®,she will show you the power of C++ AMP and you'll learn the basic concepts to adapt your code to use this massive parallelism.

About Kate Gregory

Kate Gregory has been using C++ for over twenty years and is well-known as an enthusiastic instructor, speaker, and author. Managing, mentoring, technical writing, and technical speaking occupy much of her time, but she still writes code every week. Kate is the author of over a dozen books and speaks at DevTeach, TechEd (USA, Europe, Africa), and TechDays, among others. Kate is a C++ MVP, a founding sponsor of the Toronto .NET Users Group, the founder of the East of Toronto .NET Users group, and a member of adjunct faculty at Trent University in Peterborough. Since January 2002 she has been Microsoft Regional Director for Toronto and since January 2004 she has been awarded the Microsoft Most Valuable Professional designation for Visual C++. In June 2005 she won the Regional Director of the year award and in February 2011 she was designated Visual C++ MVP of the year for 2010. Her firm, Gregory Consulting Limited, is based in rural Ontario and helps clients adopt new technologies and adjust to the changing business environment.

Webcast: Debugging Mobile Apps - Aug 16 2012

Jonathan Stark — Thu, 16 Aug 2012 03:30:38 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Mobile app development is still in its infancy. Because of this, the tools available for troubleshooting are quite limited. Debugging apps - especially cross- and multi-platform - can be extremely difficult. Fortunately there are a few cutting edge technologies and techniques that can ease the pain while we wait for more mainstream solutions.

What will be covered?

Webkit developer tools
Remote JavaScript console with JS Console
Remote DOM inspection with WEINRE
Web debugging proxy with Charles
Remote hardware access with DeviceAnywhere

Who is this webcast for?

This webcast is for front-end designers and developers who are interested in creating web or hybrid mobile apps. A working familiarity with standard HTML, CSS, and JavaScript is recommended.

About Jonathan Stark

Jonathan Stark is a mobile and web application consultant who the Wall Street Journal has called an expert on publishing desktop data to the web.

He has written two books on web application programming, is a tech editor for both php|architect and Advisor magazines, and is quoted in the media on internet and mobile lifestyle trends.

Jonathan began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-80 and still thinks Zork was a sweet game.

Webcast: ROC'ing the world - Aug 7 2012

Tom Geudens — Tue, 07 Aug 2012 03:31:06 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Resource Oriented Computing and it's implementation NetKernel are in danger of becoming a ten-year old overnight sensation. In this webcast Tom Geudens, author of Resource-Oriented Computing with NetKernel, aims to answer the following questions:

What is it about?
What are its origins?
What can it do?
What are its strengths?
What are its weaknesses?
Why did I not hear about this before?

All that will be sprinkled with a liberal dose of examples (the slideshow itself is one of them). And finally I will answer the question ... do I (listener) have to take your (speaker) word for it?

About Tom Geudens

At the age of 15, Tom Geudens' parents gave him a choice. Either become a baker or go into IT. That Christmas Santa brought a MSX homecomputer, the choice was made. At twenty and with a Bachelor in IT under his belt, he joined the IT department of Colruyt, a Belgian retailer specialized in 'Lowest Price' and doing this through automation. Recently he set up his own IT consultancy company, Elephant Bird Consulting. He has worked with technologies from PL/1 through HPUX and Linux, and battled distributed applications development and configuration management issues.

Webcast: Asynchronous Programming with C# 5 - Aug 1 2012

Ian Griffiths — Wed, 01 Aug 2012 03:31:34 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Although asynchronous programming techniques are critically important, they have been strangely neglected in languages and libraries for years. On the server side, they are the way to get the best performance possible, and on the client side, they're they path to a responsive, smooth user interface. The best known feature of C# 5 is its language-level support for asynchronous work, which makes it possible to use these techniques far more elegantly. In this webcast, Ian Griffiths, author of Programming C# 5.0, will discuss these features and techniques.

This is the first of two webcasts that Ian Griffiths will present so please register for the second webcast where Ian will discuss a lesser known but very important library feature called RX (short for Reactive Extensions) which provides very powerful abstractions for managing multiple independent sources of asynchronous events.

About Ian Griffiths

Christopher Schmitt at CSS Summit 2012 - Jul 31-Aug 2 2012

Christopher Schmitt — Tue, 31 Jul 2012 03:34:00 PDT

Join author Christopher Schmitt (CSS Cookbook, HTML5 Cookbook) as he hosts the 4th annual online, live CSS Summit. Over 3 three days, speakers cover topics like CSS3, Responsive Web + Mobile Design, Preprocesses (Sass, Compass, Coffeescript) and much more.

Webcast: The Current State of OAuth 2 - Jul 27 2012

Aaron Parecki — Fri, 27 Jul 2012 03:33:49 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

If you've ever written any code to authenticate with Twitter, you may have been confused by all the signature methods and base strings. You'll be happy to know that OAuth 2 has vastly simplified the process, but at what cost?

In this webcast presentation, Aaron Parecki, author of OAuth 2.0 The Definitive Guide, will give an overview of OAuth 2. Topics include:

Various options for building web apps and native apps
What the end user sees
What developers using an OAuth 2 API deal with
What developers of OAuth-2-compliant APIs will need to know to successfully implement an OAuth 2 service of their own

Presenter: Aaron Parecki (book soon to be released)

Aaron Parecki is a Portland-based iPhone and web developer interested in solving practical problems with technology. He has been tracking his location every six seconds for the past 3 years, and using it to automate aspects of his life. In 2010, he co-founded Geoloqi, a private, real-time mobile and web platform for secure location sharing with Amber Case in an effort to help people connect in the real world.

Webcast: New and Upcoming Features in LINQPad and C# 5 - Jul 25 2012

Joseph Albahari — Wed, 25 Jul 2012 12:34:43 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Meet Joe Albahari, creator of LINQPad, for a rare live session. In this webcast presentation Joe will demonstrate new features, invite feedback, and discuss topics such as extensibility, asynchrony and future directions. There will be demos that combine LINQPad with C# 5, Reactive Framework and WPF, as well as numerous tips and ideas on becoming more productive and maximizing your experience in the programmers' playground. Don't miss this informative presentation.

About Joe Albahari

Joseph Albahari is author of C# 3.0 in a Nutshell, LINQ Pocket Reference and C# 3.0 Pocket Reference. He has been developing large-scale enterprise applications on .NET and other platforms for more than 15 years, and is author of LINQPad - the popular utility for querying databases in LINQ.

Webcast: Adaptive Images in Responsive Web Design - Jul 24 2012

Christopher Schmitt — Tue, 24 Jul 2012 13:35:51 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

The open web doesn't stop at our desktop. Smart phones and tablets not only contain more computing power and better browsers than the computers that started the Internet economy, they have better displays. In this webcast session presented by Christopher Schmitt, we will work through tips and tricks to develop future friendly images in our sites and apps.

About Christopher Schmitt

Christopher Schmitt is the founder of Heat Vision, a small new media publishing and design firm, based in Cincinnati, OH. An award-winning web designer who has been working with the Web since 1993, Christopher interned for both David Siegel and Lynda Weinman in the mid 90's while he was an undergraduate at Florida State University working on a Fine Arts degree with an emphasis on Graphic Design. Afterwards, he earned a Masters in Communication for Interactive and New Communication Technologies while obtaining a graduate certificate in Project Management from FSU's College of Communication.

He is the author of CSS Cookbook, which was named Best Web Design Book of 2006, and one of the first books that looked at CSS-enabled designs, Designing CSS Web Pages (New Riders). He is also the co-author of Adapting to Web Standards (New Riders), Professional CSS (Wrox), Photoshop in 10 Steps or Less (Wiley) and Dreamweaver Design Projects (glasshaus) and contributed four chapters to XML, HTML, and XHTML Magic (New Riders). Christopher has also written for New Architect Magazine, A List Apart, Digital Web and Web Reference.

He is the list moderator for Babble, a mailing list community devoted to advanced web design and development topics. With the Web Standards Project, Christopher helps co-lead the Adobe Task Force while contributing to its Education Task Force.

On his personal web site, Christopher shows his true colors and most recent activities. He is 6'7" and doesn't play professional basketball but wouldn't mind a good game of chess.

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Webcast: Building Offline Web Apps with HTML5 - Jul 19 2012

Jonathan Stark — Thu, 19 Jul 2012 02:37:32 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

For years, the terms "web" and "online" have been intrinsically linked in people's minds. With HTML5, the web's dependency on a connection to the internet has been broken. Web apps can now run offline in modern browsers thanks to HTML5 support for client-side storage of relational data, key/value data, and static assets.

What will be covered?

Web Storage
Web SQL Database
Offline Application Cache
Indexed DB
Offline data sync strategies
Fallback techniques for older browsers

Who is this webcast for?

This webcast is for web designers and developers who are interested in adding offline support to web sites and web apps. A working familiarity with standard HTML and JavaScript is required.

About Jonathan Stark

Jonathan Stark is a mobile and web application consultant who the Wall Street Journal has called an expert on publishing desktop data to the web.

He has written two books on web application programming, is a tech editor for both php|architect and Advisor magazines, and is quoted in the media on internet and mobile lifestyle trends.

Jonathan began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-80 and still thinks Zork was a sweet game.

Webcast: An Introduction to OAuth 2 - Jul 17 2012

Aaron Parecki — Tue, 17 Jul 2012 03:37:34 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Join O'Reilly author Aaron Parecki for a webcast presentation that will give an overview of OAuth 2, starting with:

Various options for building web apps and native apps
What the end user sees
What developers using an OAuth 2 API deal with
What developers of OAuth-2-compliant APIs will need to know to successfully implement an OAuth 2 service of their own

Presenter: Aaron Parecki (book soon to be released)

O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) - Jul 16-20 2012

Mon, 16 Jul 2012 03:38:48 PDT

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.

Webcast: Photoshop CS6 Power Hour - Jul 13 2012

Lesa Snider — Fri, 13 Jul 2012 15:40:29 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Get up to speed on the new version of Photoshop of Camera Raw! In this entertaining yet informative webcast presented by Lesa Snider, author of Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual , you'll learn how to use:

CS6's new Content-Aware tools to scoot objects around in your images
How to use CS6's new set blur
Adaptive Wide Angle filter
Oil Paint filters
Learn how to use layer filtering
Create dashed and dotted lines
Edit video
and more!

Even if you're not immediately upgrading to CS6, you'll pick up practical editing techniques you can use each and every day. Don't miss this informative webcast!!

About Lesa Snider

Lesa Snider, internationally acclaimed author and speaker, is on a mission to teach the world to create better graphics. She's a stock photographer and chief evangelist for iStockphoto.com, and founder of the creative tutorial site PhotoLesa.com. Lesa is the author of several books including Photoshop CS6: The Missing Manual, Photoshop CS5: The Missing Manual, and coathor of iPhoto 11: The Missing Manual, as well as several videos training titles on Photoshop, Photoshop Elements, Camera Raw, and iPhoto. She writes a regular column for Photoshop User, Elements Techniques, and Macworld magazines, and contributes frequently to DesignToolsMonthly.com. Lesa is also a long-time member of the Photoshop World Dream Team of instructors and the Advanced Photoshop professor for Sessions.edu. She can be spotted teaching at conferences several conferences around the globe.

During free time, you'll find her carving the twisties on her sportbike or hanging with fellow Apple Mac enthusiasts. Lesa is a proud member of the BMWMOA, F800 Riders Club, CoMUG and NCMUG.

Webcast: Designing for Mobile First - Jul 12 2012

Luke Wroblewski — Thu, 12 Jul 2012 03:40:28 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

For years, most Web teams have designed for the desktop. Mobile, if it even happened, was a port off the desktop version, designed and built before anyone even considered the mobile experience. This made perfect sense for a while. Browsing the Web on mobile phones was painful; carriers controlled access to the Web on their devices; and mobile network speeds made everything often grind to a halt. Designing for mobile first can not only open up new opportunities for growth, it can lead to a better overall user experience for a Web site or application.

In this webcast presentation, Luke Wroblewski will dig into the three key reasons to consider mobile first:

Mobile is seeing explosive growth
Mobile forces you to focus
Mobile extends your capabilities

About Luke Wroblewski

Luke Wroblewski is an internationally recognized digital product leader who has designed or contributed to software used by more than 700 million people worldwide.

Luke was Co-founder and Chief Product Officer (CPO) of Bagcheck which was acquired by Twitter Inc. just nine months after being launched publicly. Prior to this, Luke was an Entrepreneur in Residence (EIR) at Benchmark Capital and the Chief Design Architect (VP) at Yahoo! Inc. where he worked on product alignment and forward-thinking integrated customer experiences on the Web, mobile, TV, and beyond.

Luke is the author of the upcoming book Mobile First, two already popular Web design books (Web Form Design & Site-Seeing: A Visual Approach to Web Usability) and many articles about digital product design and strategy. He is also a consistently top-rated speaker at conferences and companies around the world, and a Co-founder and former Board member of the Interaction Design Association (IxDA).

Previously, Luke was the Lead User Interface Designer of eBay Inc.'s platform team, where he led the strategic design of new consumer products (such as eBay Express and Kijiji) and internal tools and processes. He also founded LukeW Ideation & Design, a product strategy and design consultancy, taught graduate interface design courses at the University of Illinois and worked as a Senior Interface Designer at the National Center for Supercomputing Applications (NCSA), the birthplace of the first popular graphical Web browser, NCSA Mosaic.

Luke's complete resume and recommendations are available on LinkedIn.

Webcast: Executing for Every Screen: A New Philosophy of Implementation - Jul 10 2012

Steven Hoober — Tue, 10 Jul 2012 11:42:08 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

There are many ways that multi-platform development processes can miserably fail users and the business when trying to launch your project. Massive changes, blame, and missed opportunities are the usual results.

The answer is to create a new philosophy of implementation that avoids pitfalls and plays to the strengths of your team to operationalize a functional design and development processes.

Steven will talk about methods he's devised and used with business, analysts, and developers that help assure projects actually launch.

About Steven Hoober

Steven Hoober has been documenting design process for all of his 15 years in interactive design, and entered mobile full time in 2007 when he joined Little Springs Design. His work includes the design process book Designing by Drawing, frequent blog entries on design, and a collection of well-used drawing tools and templates. Steven has led projects on security, account management, content distribution, and communications services for products from construction supplies to hospital recordkeeping. Steven spent eight years at U.S. mobile operator Sprint and currently is working on projects including mobile browsing and multi-channel retail.

Webcast: Pinterest - Architecting and Building our Sharded MySQL Datastore - Jun 29 2012

Yashwanth Nelapati, Marty Weiner — Fri, 29 Jun 2012 17:43:24 PDT

Cost: Free

We all know Pinterest as the social platform focusing on pictures, allowing users to create themed "pin boards" where they can "pin" pictures they find online or upload from their computers or phones. But, what many people don't know is how the technical side of the platform works. What does it take to handle millions of users all uploading millions of pictures?

In this webcast presented by Pinterest engineers Marty Weiner and Yashwanth Nelapati, they will highlight how architected our sharded MySQL solution, including:

UUID generation and what the alternatives were
How objects and mappings are stored
Shard topology and the process of adding more capacity
Caching

Towards the end of the webcast Marty & Yashwanth will share some details on where Pinterest.com is likely to go from here. Don't miss this informative presentation.

About Yashwanth Nelapati

Engineer at Pinterest dealing with infrastructure and scalability. Yashh has been an engineer with Pinterest since the beginning.

About Marty Weiner

Marty joined Pinterest in early 2011 as the 2nd engineer. Previously worked at Azul Systems as a VM engineer focused on building/improving the JIT compilers in HotSpot.

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Webcast: Agency vs. Wholesale Model: Which One is Best? - Jun 28 2012

Don Linn, Joe Wikert — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 17:44:24 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

The wholesale reseller model is still widely used but Apple and others have helped popularize the agency alternative. There are pros and cons to both and it's important to understand the differences.

In this webcast you'll learn:

The terms generally associated with both models
Why some publishers have opted for the agency model with ebooks
The financial impact of choosing one model vs. the other
How the recent DoJ ruling affects the agency model

Don Linn, President of Firebrand Associates, will walk us through the complexities of these two models and talk about why one option might be preferred over the other. We'll also leave time at the end of the webcast for audience Q&A.

About Joe Wikert

Joe Wikert is General Manager & Publisher as well as Chair of Tools of Change (TOC) at O'Reilly Media, Inc., where he manages the sales and editorial groups. He's the author of the Publishing 2020 blog where he's provided industry insights since 2005.

Prior to joining O'Reilly Joe was Vice President and Executive Publisher at John Wiley & Sons, Inc., in their P/T division.

He and his wonderful wife Kelly have 3 great kids: Sarah, Craig and Hannah.

About Don Linn

Don Linn is President of Firebrand Associates, a management consulting firm focused on helping publishers and others navigate the transition from print to digital. Don has a background as an M&A investment banker on Wall Street, running a large agribusiness concern, and serving as Head of Corporate Development for one of the country's largest private companies. He was owner/CEO of Consortium Book Sales & Distribution and publisher at The Taunton Press. He is an investor and advisor to several start-ups in the publishing space. He holds an MBA at Harvard Business School and a BA from Vanderbilt University.

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Webcast: Code Simplicity: The Science of Software Design - Jun 28 2012

Max Kanat-Alexander — Thu, 28 Jun 2012 13:43:49 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

In this webcast, Max Kanat-Alexander will give a basic overview of the newly codified fundamental laws of software development as covered in his newly released book, Code Simplicity. There will also be a Q&A session at the end of the webcast to discuss the laws, general best practices, and how we can improve the quality of engineering without sacrificing development productivity.

About Max Kanat-Alexander

Max Kanat-Alexander, Chief Architect of the open-source Bugzilla Project, Google Software Engineer, and writer, has been fixing computers since he was eight years old and writing software since he was fourteen. He is the author of codesimplicity.com and fedorafaq.org, and is currently living in Northern California.

Bill English at Richmond SharePoint User Group - Jun 26 2012

Bill English — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 16:46:23 PDT

Join author Bill English (SharePoint 2010 Administrator's Companion) as he presents "Aligning SharePoint Implementations with Business Strategy."

O'Reilly Velocity Conference - Jun 26-28 2012

John Allspaw, Douglas Crockford — Tue, 26 Jun 2012 03:46:32 PDT

All web companies face the same challenges: pages must be fast, infrastructure must scale up (and down) efficiently, and sites and services must be reliable. Velocity gives web ops and development professionals the in-depth, technical content they need to maintain the health of their company's IT infrastructure.

Webcast: Bringing strategic UX to Drupal projects - Jun 22 2012

Dani Nordin — Fri, 22 Jun 2012 16:47:49 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

In this webcast presentation, Drupal for Designers author Dani Nordin will talk about the process of user experience design for the Drupal CMS, and some specific techniques and tools which can help make the process easier. You will learn:

Why Drupal teams need UX designers, and how to sell strategic UX to your team.
How to identify core user groups and recruit participants for user interviews to flesh out your understanding of the site's target audience.
Why prototyping directly in Drupal isn't a great idea in the beginning phases of a project—and when going straight to Drupal is a good idea.
Specific techniques that can be used in your next project to step up the user experience.

About Dani Nordin

Dani Nordin is the founder and principal designer of the zen kitchen, where you'll find tasty marketing and design ideas with an eco-friendly twist. She has over 10 years of experience designing award-winning work for small to large businesses and non-profits.

Macintosh Terminal Pocket Guide

O'Reilly Media, Inc. — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 15:51:43 PDT

Every Mac user knows how to work with windows and icons, but there is a wonderful application behind the scenes—the Terminal—that provides tremendous additional power. With this handy guide, you’ll learn valuable commands that remove limits and open doors that many Mac users don’t know exist.

Webcast: Touch & Gesture Event Handling - Jun 21 2012

Jonathan Stark — Thu, 21 Jun 2012 03:49:24 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

The responsiveness of Web and hybrid mobile apps is sometimes described as sluggish compared to native apps. Often, this is because the developer has bound event handlers to mouse events rather than touch events. By taking advantage of the touch events exposed by modern mobile devices, developers can potentially shave hundreds of milliseconds off of each user interaction, as well as enable gesture interactions that would not normally be available in an HTML context.

What will be covered?

One-finger events
Two-finger events
Multi-touch events
Gesture events

Who is this webcast for?

This webcast is for front-end developers who are interested in creating web or hybrid mobile apps. Intermediate to advanced understanding of JavaScript is recommended.

About Jonathan Stark

Jonathan Stark is a mobile and web application consultant who the Wall Street Journal has called an expert on publishing desktop data to the web.

He has written two books on web application programming, is a tech editor for both php|architect and Advisor magazines, and is quoted in the media on internet and mobile lifestyle trends.

Jonathan began his programming career more than 20 years ago on a Tandy TRS-80 and still thinks Zork was a sweet game.

Webcast: Get the (data) vote out - Jun 20 2012

Alistair Croll — Wed, 20 Jun 2012 18:51:26 PDT

Duration: Approximately 90 minutes.

Cost: Free

After Eisenhower, you couldn't win an election without radio. After Kennedy, you couldn't win an election without TV. Obama showed us the same thing for social media. But in 2012, it's the data that will make the difference.

In this Strata Online Event, we'll look at the way data science is shaping elections, from visualizations to game theory, from understanding issues to targeting voters. In what promises to be a heated and controversial election year, get a glimpse into the data that's driving how we choose tomorrow's leaders.

Notes: Includes access to the recorded session after the live event

Strata Online Program Chair

Alistair Croll

Alistair Croll is the founder of Bitcurrent, a research firm focused on emerging technologies. He's founded a variety of startups, and technology accelerators, including Year One Labs, CloudOps, Rednod, Coradiant (acquired by BMC in 2011) and Networkshop. He's a frequent speaker and writer on subjects such as entrepreneurship, cloud computing, Big Data, Internet performance and web technology, and has helped launch a number of major conferences on these topics.

Alistair has co-authored three books on Internet technology, including Web Operations (2010, O'Reilly), Complete Web Monitoring (2009, O'Reilly), and Managing Bandwidth: Deploying QOS in Enterprise Networks (1999, Prentice-Hall). A product manager by trade, he's also an advisor to a number of venture firms and the founder of the Bitnorth conference.

Most of what he says winds up on his blog, solveforinteresting.com, or on Twitter (@acroll).

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Webcast: Expanding the Capabilities of your Arduino Projects - Jun 19 2012

Michael Margolis — Tue, 19 Jun 2012 19:51:20 PDT

Duration: Approximately 60 minutes.

Cost: Free

Michael Margolis is the author of Arduino Cookbook 2nd Edition, a collection of projects utilizing the physical computing platform of Arduino, the open source electronics prototyping platform. In this webcast Michael will discuss how to combine and apply multiple techniques from the Arduino Cookbook. Don't miss this informative presentation.

About Michael Margolis

Michael Margolis is a technologist in the field of real time computing with expertise in developing and delivering hardware and software for interacting with the environment. He has over 30 years of experience in a wide range of relevant technologies, working with Sony, Microsoft, Lucent/Bell Labs, and most recently as Chief Technical Officer with Avaya.