RUBY: Competitious On Rails
Google engEDU
59 min – Mar 8, 2007

Google Tech Talks
March 1, 2007

ABSTRACT

Kris Rasmussen and Andy Holt from Competitious will be sharing their experience using RoR in a production environment in a new startup. In addition, they’ll explain some of the many advantages Rails has for companies like theirs and smaller teams, as well as some of the disadvantages and gotchas of production Rails apps. Finally, they’ll describe their architecture and cover some unique solutions to common problems, including squeezing extra performance out of AJAX with javascript templates and handling activity logging more elegantly. Read the rest of this entry »

Team Server / Ajax Development with IntelliJ IDEA
Google engEDU
1 hr 13 min – May 15, 2006

Google TechTalks
May 15, 2006

Dmitry Jemerov
Mike Aizatsky

ABSTRACT
The first presentation is completely dedicated to our new product Team Server, which has to bring to the whole team the same level of productivity as IDEA does for the individual developer. We will talk about continuous integration, server-side code analysis, peer-to-peer collaboration, and many other interesting things.

The second presentation is dedicated to a lot of new and cool stuff in IntelliJ IDEA 6.0 related to Java, Web/J2EE and JavaScript/AJAX development. Read the rest of this entry »

Glassbox: Automated Troubleshooting
Google engEDU
54 min – Sep 25, 2006

Google Tech Talks
September 25, 2006

Ron Bodkin is the leader of the Glassbox project, and spearheads its efforts to revolutionize enterprise troubleshooting by simplifying it and bringing it into the open source technology stack. Dave Pickering leads engineering for Glassbox, and in a prior life ran Call Center development for Oracle.

Dave Pickering

ABSTRACT
Glassbox is an open source troubleshooting and monitoring agent for Java apps that diagnoses common problems automatically.

Drop the Glassbox web application into your server and Glassbox’s aspect-oriented programming will discover your existing apps and pinpoint errors and performance issues in plain English. Using AspectJ, Glassbox can provide low overhead effective monitoring without needing to "bake in" instrumentation up front–no code changes or recompilation is needed. Glassbox includes an analysis layer, an Ajax web-client and an automated installer. It is open source and modular, so contributors can add monitors for more problems or additional analysis as desired for their own projects.

Glassbox’s goal is to automate the daily grunt work of troubleshooting common problems, and free the expert to get back to solving the core technical problems. This talk will illustrate how Glassbox 2.0 identifies problems, how to integrate it into an existing monitoring environment, and how it can be extended to better analyze custom applications without code changes. Read the rest of this entry »

XML11: An Abstract Windowing Protocol
Google engEDU
1 hr 12 min – Jun 1, 2006

Google TechTalks
June 1, 2006

Arno Puder
Arno Puder received his masters and Ph.D. in computer science and is currently working as an Assistant Professor at San Francisco State University. He is one of the founders of the MICO CORBA implementation. His special interests include distributed systems, middleware architectures and ubiquitous computing environments.

ABSTRACT
This presentation introduces XML11, an abstract windowing protocol inspired by the X11-protocol develop by MIT. XML11 is an XML-based protocol that allows asynchronous UI updates of widgets to an end-device. To overcome high-latency connections, XML11 allows migration of application logic to the end-device.

The prototype implementation of XML11 runs in any standard web browser without Java capabilities on the client-side and replaces AWT/Swing on the server-side. This also allows us to expose legacy AWT/Swing applications as web applications. Ultimately XML11 can be used for writing Ajax applications withoutrequiring any JavaScript knowledge. The prototype implementation of XML11 is released under the GPL and available at www.xml11.org Read the rest of this entry »

Does my button look big in this? Building testable AJAX applications
Google engEDU
51 min – Sep 7, 2006

Google London Test Automation Conference (LTAC)
Google Tech Talks
September 7th, 2006

Presenters:
Adam Connors & Joe Walnes Read the rest of this entry »