O'Reilly Events Copyright O'Reilly Media, Inc. http://events.oreilly.com/ 2013-05-16T02:15:31-08:00 O'Reilly Media, Inc. no O'Reilly Media, Inc. webmaster@oreillynet.com 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 2013-08-14T02:15:31-08:10 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 2013-08-08T13:15:36-08:11 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 2013-08-07T02:15:36-08:12 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 2013-08-06T11:15:28-08:13 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 2013-07-30T01:15:26-08:14 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 2013-07-22T01:15:23-08:15 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 2013-07-12T10:15:32-08:16 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 2013-07-11T01:21:24-08:17 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 2013-07-10T01:21:08-08:18 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 2013-07-10T01:21:08-08:19 http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2643

<p> 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. </p> <h3>About George DeMet</h3> <p> George DeMet is the founder and CEO of Chicago-based Web development firm <a href="http://palantir.net">Palantir.net</a>, 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. </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>

George DeMet 2013-07-09T01:18:26-08:20 http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2724

<p> Join us for an exclusive presentation by Alistair Croll recorded live from Strata Santa Clara 2013. </p> <p> 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. </p> <p> 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. </p> <h3 style="margin-bottom: 5px;">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> <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>

Alistair Croll 2013-07-02T10:15:46-08:21 http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2711

<p> 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. </p> <h3>About Mark Allen</h3> <p> 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. </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>

Mark Allen 2013-06-27T11:15:26-08:22 http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2694

<p>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. </p> <p> 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? </p> <p> 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. </p> <h3>About Dave Zwieback</h3> <p>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 &amp; Co., and enterprise monitoring tools at Morgan Stanley. He also ran an infrastructure architecture consultancy for 7 years. Follow Dave <a href="https://twitter.com/mindweather">@mindweather</a> or on his website, <a href="http://mindweather.com">mindweather.com</a>. </p> <a href="http://velocityconf.com/velocity2013"><img alt="O'Reilly Velocity Conference" border="0" height="70" src="http://cdn.oreilly.com/images/oreilly/velocity-banner-537.png" width="537" /></a>

Dave Zwieback 2013-06-27T14:15:33-08:23 http://oreillynet.com/pub/e/2712

<p> The Go programming language adoption for Site Reliability Engineering and Operations has been rapidly growing at Google and other companies. </p> <p> This webcast talk presented by <a href="http://www.oscon.com/oscon2013/public/schedule/speaker/150125">Gustavo Franco</a> 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. </p> <h3>About Gustavo Franco</h3> <p> Free software enthusiast and Debian developer since 2001, founded pkg-LTSP and Python modules teams.</p> <p> 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. </p> <p> Led a team responsible for the FIFA Soccer World Cup 2010 live streaming in Brazil. </p> <p> 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. </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>

Gustavo Franco 2013-06-26T12:15:46-08:24