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Webcast: The Art of the Scientist - Aug 14 2013

Ash Maurya — Wed, 14 Aug 2013 03:25:31 PDT

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.

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.

Even though the mechanics of running experiments are quite straightforward, most lean practitioners fail to run effective experiments.

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.

About Ash Maurya

Ash Maurya (@ashmaurya) 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 ashmaurya.com, and which turned into a book: Running Lean. Ash resides in Austin, Texas, with his wife, two children and two dogs.

Best of Strata + Hadoop World 2012: Analyzing Millions of GitHub Commits - Aug 8 2013

Ilya Grigorik — Thu, 08 Aug 2013 14:26:36 PDT

Join us for an exclusive presentation by Ilya Grigorik recorded live at Strata + Hadoop World 2012

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.

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:

Who are the most productive developers using GitHub?
Which languages are growing in popularity and why?
Which language features result in the most angst and developer pain?
What makes open source developers happy?

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.

About Ilya Grigorik

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.

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Webcast: Designing Products that Help Users Change Their Behavior - Aug 7 2013

Steve Wendel — Wed, 07 Aug 2013 03:27:36 PDT

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.

In this webcast you will learn:

A quick overview of how the mind makes decisions about what to do next (and when it's on autopilot)
A step-by-step approach to designing products that help people change their daily behavior (from exercising to checking email)
Guidance on how to integrate explicit behavioral goals into existing product development, UX, engineering, and QC processes
Techniques for quickly assessing the behavioral bottlenecks in an application that block its effectiveness

About Steve Wendel

Steve Wendel is the Principal Scientist at HelloWallet, where they develop products that help people take control of their finances — 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 actiondesign.hellowallet.com.

Webcast: Lean Analytics 201: Five Lessons Beyond the Basics - Aug 6 2013

Alistair Croll, Jonathan Stark, Benjamin Yoskovitz — Tue, 06 Aug 2013 12:28:28 PDT

By now, you're probably heard of Lean Analytics. 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.

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:

using the data you already have to find new ideas to test
how to pick the right experiments
the role of subversiveness in growth hacking
how to apply Lean Analytics methods to enterprise-focused innovation
and what intrapreneurs within existing organizations do differently

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.

About Alistair Croll

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.

Alistair is the chair of O'Reilly's Strata conference, Techweb's Cloud Connect, and the International Startup Festival. "Lean Analytics" 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 "Solve For Interesting".

About Benjamin Yoskovitz

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.

Webcast: Better Product Definition with Lean UX and Design Thinking - Jul 30 2013

Jeff Gothelf, Eric Ries — Tue, 30 Jul 2013 02:29:26 PDT

During the first part of this exclusive webcast event we welcome Eric Ries, @ericries, author of New York Times bestseller "The Lean Startup" for a fireside chat with Jeff Gothelf @jboogie, author of "Lean UX" and learn the story behind "Lean UX" and how the material was chosen for the book.

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.

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.

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:

how recognizing your assumptions increases the speed of finding the right solutions
why cross-functional, collaborative teams bring better products to market faster
why managing towards outcomes generates better solutions
how a Lean UX approach, coupled with Design Thinking, brings out the entire team's creative insights

About Jeff Gothelf

Jeff Gothelf is a designer & Agile practitioner. He is a leading voice on the topics of Agile UX & 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, & AOL.

About Eric Ries

Eric Ries is the author of the blog Lessons Learned. He was the co-founder and served as Chief Technology Officer of IMVU, 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.

O'Reilly Open Source Convention (OSCON) - Jul 22-26 2013

Mon, 22 Jul 2013 02:30:23 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.

Kevin Kline at SQL Saturday 214 - Louisville, KY - Jul 12-13 2013

Kevin Kline — Fri, 12 Jul 2013 11:31:32 PDT

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

Webcast: Location, Location, Location: Mastering HTML 5 Geolocation - Jul 11 2013

Andy Gup — Thu, 11 Jul 2013 02:38:24 PDT

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.

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.

About Andy Gup

Andy Gup is a Tech Lead at Esri 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.

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.

Webcast: 3D Printing for Everyone - Jul 10 2013

Ed Snajder — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 02:39:08 PDT

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.

About Ed Snajder

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.

Webcast: jQuery: Mobile Sites That Feel Like Apps - Jul 10 2013

Anna Filina — Wed, 10 Jul 2013 02:40:08 PDT

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.

About Anna Filina

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.

Anna also organizes ConFoo, a world-renowned conference for developers. She herself gives presentations at conferences all over the world.

Webcast: How to Build Websites Like Hollywood Builds Movies - Jul 9 2013

George DeMet — Tue, 09 Jul 2013 02:38:26 PDT

In this webcast, we'll look at the lifecycle of various Web development projects through the lens of Hollywood storytelling. Learn how to deliver successful projects that are on time, on budget, and meet customer expectations through a comparison of how the narrative structure of various films compares to different process models for site development. Not only will you come away with a better understanding of how to approach your next Web development project, but you'll also gain a greater appreciation for the life lessons taught by some of your favorite Hollywood films.

About George DeMet

George DeMet is the founder and CEO of Chicago-based Web development firm Palantir.net, a member of the Drupal Association advisory board, and the co-chair of DrupalCon Chicago 2011. With more than over 17 years of experience in Web design and development, he's overseen the development a full range of custom interactive Web sites, and Internet-enabled software for corporate, educational, cultural, and non-profit clients.

The Best of Strata Santa Clara 2013: The Business Singularity - Jul 2 2013

Alistair Croll — Tue, 02 Jul 2013 11:36:46 PDT

Join us for an exclusive presentation by Alistair Croll recorded live from Strata Santa Clara 2013.

For centuries, business has been about scale. Business students are taught that cconomies of scale are the only long-term sustainable advantage, because with scale you can control markets, set prices, own channels, influence regulators, and so on. But thanks to software and big data, however, scale's importance is waning.

Software is eating the world, and it's different from people in two different ways. First, it can be analyzed. Second, it can be optimized. Analysis and optimization lead to a closed loop of continuous improvement. And companies that learn to harness the power of data iteratively stop worrying about scale, and start worrying about cycle time. Accountants don't have a metric for "how fast the organism learns," but they'd better get one soon.

About Alistair Croll

Alistair is the chair of O'Reilly's Strata Conference, Techweb's Cloud Connect, and the International Startup Festival. "Lean Analytics" 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 "Solve For Interesting".

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Webcast: Using DTrace on Your Application Code - Jun 27 2013

Mark Allen — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 12:37:26 PDT

In this hands-on webcast we'll talk about applying the open source dynamic tracing (DTrace) facility available in Solaris (and friends), Mac OS X, and FreeBSD to python. We will learn about what DTrace is, how it works and a little bit about its powerful scripting language "d". We will also talk about DTrace support in Python itself. Then we will demonstrate using DTrace on a running python application to profile performance and application behavior.

About Mark Allen

Mark Allen has over 10 years of experience as a software developer, system administrator and security architect. He has given presentations to hundreds of peer developers at his $dayjob and at venues like OSCON, Frozen Perl workshop, YAPC::NA, Pittsburgh Perl workshop and others.

Webcast: Hiring for Devops - Jun 27 2013

Dave Zwieback — Thu, 27 Jun 2013 15:38:33 PDT

Our organization has embraced the Devops philosophy, and is growing. You can set out to hunt for Devops practitioners, and quickly find that the usual hiring approaches (e.g., recruiters looking on LinkedIn) simply don't work.

What do these mythical Devops creatures look like? (Hint: a lot like unicorns and combs). What is their natural habitat? (Shockingly, they don't hang out on LinkedIn). How can you capture them?

In this webcast presented by Dave Zwieback, we will discuss what makes Devops hiring different and challenging, and how to find and hire the best candidates even in a competitive job market.

About Dave Zwieback

Dave's been managing large-scale mission-critical infrastructure and teams for over 16 years. He's currently the Head of Infrastructure at Knewton. Prior to Knewton, he managed UNIX Engineering at D.E. Shaw & Co., and enterprise monitoring tools at Morgan Stanley. He also ran an infrastructure architecture consultancy for 7 years. Follow Dave @mindweather or on his website, mindweather.com.

Webcast: Go Language for Ops and Site Reliability Engineering - Jun 26 2013

Gustavo Franco — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 13:39:46 PDT

The Go programming language adoption for Site Reliability Engineering and Operations has been rapidly growing at Google and other companies.

This webcast talk presented by Gustavo Franco will cover the differences between traditional Operations and Site Reliability Engineering and how the Go programming language can help attendees to build powerful and future-proof tools to help their work in both cases.

About Gustavo Franco

Free software enthusiast and Debian developer since 2001, founded pkg-LTSP and Python modules teams.

Supervised the technical group of a non-profit responsible for a custom Debian distribution and program for more than 4 years which enabled NGOs and communities to get online in Brazil.

Led a team responsible for the FIFA Soccer World Cup 2010 live streaming in Brazil.

Born in Rio, Brazil currently living in San Francisco, California. Site Reliability Engineer at Google for the last 5 years. Compute Engine SRE tech lead.

Webcast: TDD Web Development from Scratch - Jun 26 2013

Harry Percival — Wed, 26 Jun 2013 12:46:30 PDT

In this hands-on webcast presented by Harry Percival author of Test-Driven Development with Python, you will learn:

How to use TDD to build a web application from the ground up
Full functional testing using the Selenium browser automation tool
Unit tests for all aspects of Django:
- urls
- views
- models
- templates

Who should attend this event: This live webcast is suitable for relative beginners, you should know basic Python, but if you've never used TDD or Django you should be fine.

About Harry Percival

After an idyllic childhood spent playing with BASIC on French 8-bit computers like the Thomson T-07 whose keys go "boop" when you press them, Harry spent a few years being deeply unhappy with Economics and management consultancy. Soon he rediscovered his true geek nature, and was lucky enough to fall in with a bunch of XP fanatics, working on the pioneering but sadly defunct Resolver One spreadsheet. He now works at PythonAnywhere LLP, and spreads the gospel of TDD world-wide at talks, workshops and conferences, with all the passion and enthusiasm of a recent convert.

Webcast: Intro to Raspberry Pi - Jun 25 2013

Ed Snajder — Tue, 25 Jun 2013 02:47:29 PDT

At OSCON Ignite 2012, I did a short presentation on a Raspberry Pi and integrating it with a 3D printer. Since then, I have been asked dozens of different questions, with the most common being "What is the difference between a Raspberry Pi and an Arduino?" I hope to answer that question and more! I am a hobbyist and a layperson when it comes to Raspberry Pis - there are people all over doing fantastic things with their Raspberry Pis and big brains.

Join Ed Snajder for an interactive webcast where we explore:

What is a Raspberry Pi
Difference between Raspberry Pi and an Arduino
Cool things being done with Raspberry Pi
Inspire you to make awesome things with Raspberry Pi

Be sure to register for Ed's 3D prining webcast on July 10th - register here 3D Printing

About Ed Snajder

Content Marketing Summit - Jun 24-26 2013

Dux Raymond Sy — Mon, 24 Jun 2013 10:49:41 PDT

Join Dux Raymond Sy, author of SharePoint 2010 for Project Management, as he presents the closing keynote at this content management summit. His presentation, "Lead the Digital Marketing Revolution: 4 Key Steps to Maximize Social Media," will show you real-world examples of how using social media can generate legitimate business results, including increased leads and loyalty among existing customers.

John Bambenek teaching SANS GSEC in Bloomington, IL - Jun 23-Aug 22 2013

John Bambenek — Sun, 23 Jun 2013 02:49:17 PDT

SANS +S™ Training Program for the CISSP Certification Exam is designed to prepare you to pass the exam. This course is an accelerated review course that assumes the student has a basic understanding of networks and operating systems and focuses solely on the ten domains of knowledge as determined by (ISC)2. Each domain of knowledge is dissected into its critical components. Every component is discussed showing its relationship to each other and other areas of network security. After completion of the course the student will have a good working knowledge of the ten domains of knowledge.

Webcast: The Revolution Will Not Be Televised - Jun 20 2013

Jonathan Stark — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:44:23 PDT

Mobile computing as we know it today is just one application of wireless technology, and a fairly limited one at that. The iPhone—perhaps the most advanced piece of consumer electronics ever created—is going to look like a fax machine compared to what's next. Mobile is a warning shot—the coming wireless wave will profoundly change every aspect of society and potentially redefine what it means to be human. Please join Jonathan Stark for a hands-on webcast for a look at the past, present, and future—and what we can do to prepare for the revolution.

About Jonathan Stark

Jonathan Stark is a mobile consultant, web evangelist, and confessed techno-utopian who believes that wireless computing will transform every aspect of human society.

Jonathan is the author of three books on mobile and web development, most notably O'Reilly's Building iPhone Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript which is available in seven languages.

His Jonathan's Card experiment made international headlines by combining mobile payments with social giving to create a "pay it forward" coffee movement at Starbucks locations all over the U.S.

Webcast: Building HTML5 Games for Windows 8 - Jun 20 2013

Jesse Freeman — Thu, 20 Jun 2013 12:45:35 PDT

While HTML5 gaming is still in its infancy that doesn't mean you have to wait for it to fully mature on the web. Windows 8 is the only OS that makes HTML and JS a first class citizen. That means you can take your existing web skills and build HTML5 games today! Join this webcast talk by Jesse Freeman, author of Building HTML5 Games with ImpactJS, as he goes over the best HTML5 game frameworks to use, moving from the web to Windows 8, supporting mobile devices, testing/debugging your game and how to publish on the Windows 8 store. If you have your own HTML5 games and are looking for a better place to monetize them or you are interested in building HTML5 games for web, mobile and desktop you will not want to miss this webcast.

About Jesse Freeman

My name is Jesse Freeman and I am a Technology Evangelist at Microsoft focusing on Windows 8 and HTML5 Gaming. My job is to help developers build amazing apps and games for Windows 8. I have been a Web developer for over 13 years as well as a mobile app developer for the better part of the last 4 years. While living in New York have worked with some of the city's top companies such as MLB, the New York Jets, HBO, Tommy Hilfiger, Bloomberg and even internationally for clients such as VW. I have always used my passion for making games to help me learn new programming languages and this passion is one thing I hope to help share with others.

Webcast: Perly Linked Lists: What they look like, and why bother - Jun 19 2013

Steven Lembark — Wed, 19 Jun 2013 15:46:26 PDT

Linked lists are still useful even in the world of auto-extending arrays: for effective memory management and simpler threading. The first part of this webcast talk describes how to implement generic linked-list containers using Perl syntax; the second portion shows an efficient Object-oriented list manager that avoids the most common pitfalls of OO linked lists.

About Steven Lembark

Steven Lembark is a consultant working with ETL and automation code.

O'Reilly Velocity Conference - Jun 18-20 2013

Tue, 18 Jun 2013 03:49:28 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.

Kevin Kline and SQL Relay (Glasgow, Leeds, and Birmingham) and SQL Saturday Dublin - Jun 17-23 2013

Kevin Kline — Mon, 17 Jun 2013 11:48:32 PDT

SQL Relay is an annual community run series of SQL Server training events across the UK. Their aim is to enhance the existing SQL Server community in the UK by bringing world class training to each region. With speakers from Microsoft, global IT companies and a host of MVPs, and covering topics from DBA, business intelligence and development, you can't afford to miss the next event in your area!

Vagrant: Up and Running

O'Reilly Media, Inc. — Sat, 15 Jun 2013 21:50:13 PDT

How does Vagrant boosts the productivity of companies such as Mozilla, RackSpace, LivingSocial, and others? This comprehensive guide shows you how to create and distribute virtualized development environments with this powerful open source tool.