Winning The DARPA Grand Challenge
Google engEDU
49 min – Aug 2, 2006

Google TechTalks
August 2, 2006

Sebastian Thrun

ABSTRACT
The DARPA grand challenge, technical details enabling Sebastian Thrun’s win, and an introduction to the next phase called "The Urban Grand Challenge". Read the rest of this entry »

The Scala Experiment: Better Language Support for Component Systems?
Google engEDU
1 hr 3 min – Nov 7, 2006

Google Tech Talks
November 7, 2006

ABSTRACT
The Scala Experiment — Can We Provide Better Language Support for Component Systems?
Scala is a new programming language which fuses object-oriented and functional programming while staying completely interoperable with Java. In this talk, I give an introduction to Scala and demonstrate how it helps solving some hard problems in the construction of component systems.

Martin Odersky is a professor at EPFL in Lausanne, Switzerland. His research interests focus on programming languages, more specifically languages for object-oriented and functional programming. His research thesis is that the two paradigms are just two sides of the same coin and should be unified as much as possible. To prove this he has experimented with a number of language designs, from Pizza to GJ to Functional Nets. He has also influenced the development of Java as a co-designer of Java generics and as the original author of the current javac reference compiler. His current work centers around the Scala programming language, which unifies FP and OOP while staying completely interoperable with Java and .NET. Read the rest of this entry »

An Introduction to SQLite
Google engEDU
51 min – 31-May-06

Google TechTalks
May 31, 2006

Richard Hipp

ABSTRACT
SQLite is a small C library that implements a self-contained, embeddable, zero-configuration SQL database engine. SQLite implements a large subset of SQL-92 and stores a complete database in a single disk file. The library footprint is less than 250 KB making is suitable for use in embedded devices and applications where memory space is scarce.

This talk provides a quick overview of SQLite, its history, its strengths and weaknesses, and describes situations where it is much more useful than a traditional client/server database. The talk concludes with a discussion of the lessons learned from the development of SQLite and how those lessons can be applied to other projects. Read the rest of this entry »

A Googly MySQL Cluster Talk
Google engEDU
55 min – 28-Apr-06

Google TechTalks
April 28, 2006

Stewart Smith
Stewart Smith works for MySQL AB as a software engineer working on MySQL Cluster. He is an active member of the free and open source software community, especially in Australia.

ABSTRACT
Part 1 – Introduction to MySQL Cluster The NDB storage engine (MySQL Cluster) is a high-availability storage engine for MySQL. It provides synchronous replication between storage nodes and many mysql servers having a consistent view of the database. In 4.1 and 5.0 it’s a main memory database, but in 5.1 non-indexed attributes can be stored on disk. NDB also provides a lot of determinism in system resource usage. I’ll talk a bit about that.

Part 2 – New features in 5.1 including cluster to cluster replication, disk based data and a bunch of other things. anybody that is attending the mysql users conference may find this eerily familiar. Read the rest of this entry »

[VIDEO TUTORIAL] PHP & MySQL (Course 10 Introduction).avi

9 min – 22-Feb-07

[VIDEO TUTORIAL] PHP & MySQL (Course 10 Introduction).avi Read the rest of this entry »