Open Source Bridge

This talk is about how I use language hacks to run the same code natively on PHP and Javascript (JS), which I call CASSIS for Client And Server Scripting Implementation Subset. I'll describe how I discovered CASSIS, how to use the open source library cassis.js to write middleware logic once for both client & server, and real-world use cases including where I've successfully deployed cassis.js for years (even as an essential part of my own site tantek.com).

To succeed, projects need to do so many things well, and usually they need to do them alone. This is daunting for all projects impossible for new ones. Community infrastructure will let us band together to get more projects to their goals. Here's how.

Private cloud computing has become an integral part of global business. While each platform provides a way for virtual machines to be deployed, implementations vary widely. It can be difficult to determine which features are right for your needs. This presentation will discuss the top open source private cloud platforms against Ganeti and provide analysis on which one is the best fit for you.

Have you been at a talk which sounded great on paper, but was lackluster in delivery? Have you discovered that some presenters can seem to make *anything* interesting? Do you want to know how to hack audiences to convince them that your talk is *freakin' amazing* even though it's content-challenged? Want to use your conference presentation skills to kickstart your career in world domination? BYO tinfoil hat.

Wikimedia is a key source of knowledge for centralized knowledge of women’s sport in Australia. There are over 1,500 articles covering some aspect of women’s sport on English Wikipedia which, if printed in a paper book, would be over 4,000 pages long. They cover a broad range of topics from competitor biographies, to team articles, to league and federation articles, to information on individual season performance, to broader topics such as specific histories of women’s sports in Australia. During the Olympic period, interest in Australian women’s sport peaked, with over 2 million total views to these articles, many of which linked back to Australian sport federation and government websites. Beyond Wikipedia, Wikimedia hosts a large number of free to use pictures on Commons and a number of stories about women’s sports have been published on Wikinews, a project that feeds to Google News. This material is re-used on sites like Facebook, linked on other sites like Twitter, and has a longer online visibility profile than traditional news sites.

Gitolite is next generation git server software. In this talk you'll learn about basic setup and advanced configuration. Awesome things such as branch-specific access controls, ldap/puppet integration, git hook madness and integration with redmine.

Need to isolate an application but don't want to spend the resources for virtualization? Linux Containers allow you to create quick isolated environments with minimal resources

I will present MoSQL, an open-source tool for mirroring data from MongoDB to PostgreSQL. I will argue for mixed SQL/NoSQL environments, and talk about my experience using MoSQL to expand the availability of easy access to data internally at Stripe.

Learn how the component model of OpenSocial enables creating ecosystems with ease.

From starting an open-hardware business, to designing user-centric products, to running a successful crowdfunding campaign, to managing manufacturing and fulfillment. There are lots of unknowns. We'll cover all the gory details of how we started Pinoccio, including lucky breaks and silly mistakes.

Private properties are not built-in to the JavaScript language, but can be attained through various mechanisms in the language. We will explore tricks to associate private state with objects while taking full advantage of prototypal inheritance.

Database change management has always sucked. This talk introduces Sqitch, the SQL change management application that doesn’t suck. Come see how it works, learn the few simple rules you need to get the most out of it, and liberate yourself from the suckitude.

The age of REST is in full swing for building a modern app but it's starting to show strain: increased development complexity across multiple APIs, managing state in mobile apps, and a reliance on centralizing services to solve problems.

The development of GNU/Linux has resulted in major parts of the platform evolving away from UNIX's core tenets.

Lessons learned from quitting my job to start an open source photo platform.

I've sub-titled this presentation "skeptical musings of a reluctant cyborg." I'm mostly going to talk about computational journalism, but don't be surprised if some science fiction finds its way into the discussion.

An in-depth comparison the differences between WordPress.com hosted sites and self-hosted WordPress-powered sites from the experience of testing on self-hosted then trying to migrate changes to WordPress.com.

Raw API data from different sites and services is the lifeblood that powers most web and mobile applications in the market. With this power comes increased network roundtrips, bandwidth consumption, and reduced product reliability from dealing with inconsistent and volatile APIs. ql.io, a new open source querying system built on top of Node.js, is an answer to these development woes. Providing a mechanism for mashing up raw data sources in an easily consumed package, as well as the ability to deploy the service from your own servers, ql.io is working towards taking away many of the sharp pains that we have all endured within our development careers.

The web is not as open as it used to be: monopoly platforms formed new proprietary layers on top of it. Apps always have storage attached to it, forming a package deal of »you get our app, we get your data«.

microformats are published on millions of sites, providing a simple API for the data on those pages with no additional URLs, file formats, callbacks etc. Similar approaches have subsequently emerged and grown as well, like RDFa and microdata. This talk discusses lessons learned in all HTML data in general, and how those lessons have been incorporated into microformats 2.0, the latest in the evolution of web data.

Two decades worth of lessons learned around open source development.

Since free software "is a matter of liberty, not price", developers and distributions are allowed to ask users to pay for free software (though most users can easily choose not to). Musicians like Radiohead have experimented with asking, but not requiring, users to pay for music (by choosing their own price, which could be $0). What would happen if we did this for free software?