Tech Presentations

High Performance Widgets

Sergey Chernyshev — Mon, 14 Apr 2008 13:00:54 +0000

Another great presentation about web performance by Steve Souders at Widget Summit 2007.

First part is dedicated to general rules of web performance similar to his original High Performance Webpages presentation and in the second part he reviews performance characteristics of multiple widgets on the market and gives some advices.

See on TechPresentations.org: High Performance Widgets.

Presentation materials feed

Sergey Chernyshev — Thu, 10 Apr 2008 23:21:43 +0000

I’ve added one more useful feed, the one I’d be using most often (if I wasn’t the one who updates it mostly) - feed of conferences that posted a page with presentation materials (slides/videos/transcripts and etc).

If you’ll find a good presentations, you’re more then welcome to post it.

High Performance Web Pages

Sergey Chernyshev — Sun, 23 Mar 2008 06:11:48 +0000

Another interesting presentation about web performance from Yahoo!’s Exceptional Performance team, this time by Stoyan Stefanov, lead developer, YSlow.

20 more tips-n-tricks, a couple new tools and more interesting numbers. I wish there was a video with all minor details that slides don’t convey.

See on TechPresentations.org: High Performance Web Pages

Also see first High Performance Webpages presentation by Steve Souders and Tenni Theurer at Web 2.0 Expo 2007.

Google I/O

Sergey Chernyshev — Thu, 20 Mar 2008 05:40:03 +0000

Google organizes new conference for developers at Mascone West in San Francisco. It’s called Google I/O (and it’s logo is a little bit sexual, at least from my geeky perspective ;).

It’s going to be about AJAX, JavaScript, OpenSocial and other related open and specific to Google web technologies. Among the speakers Guido van Rossum, author of Python.

More info on TechPresentations.org: Google I/O 2008

New feeds

Sergey Chernyshev — Tue, 11 Mar 2008 18:45:41 +0000

I’m working on adding more feeds to the site (thanks to Semantic MediaWiki automation).

First two are, the most helpful ones:

I hope to add them for each topic, but it’ll take some URL rewriting and performance optimization magic which takes longer.

Enjoy!

Google Seattle Conference on Scalability 2008 on TechPresentations.org

Sergey Chernyshev — Fri, 15 Feb 2008 06:46:20 +0000

Google is planning Google Seattle Conference on Scalability 2008 this year on June 14^th. They are very quiet about this stuff and it’s hard to find a lot of information and there is no real page for it yet. Last year’s page had pretty scarce information too, but they had videos which is good.

They have call for papers running till April 11 so if you want to give a talk there, you can send them 500-word abstract.

While you’re waiting for more info on this years conference, take a look at last year presentations on TechPresentations.org:

Building a Scalable Resource Mgmt System for Grid Computing given by Khalid Ahmed
Lessons In Building Scalable Systems given by Reza Behforooz
Lustre File System given by Peter Braam
SCTPs Reliability and Fault Tolerance given by Brad Penoff, Mike Tsai and Alan Wagner
Scaling Google for Every User given by Marissa Mayer
System Abstractions for Handling Large Datasets given by Jeff Dean
Using MapReduce on Large Geographic Datasets given by Barry Brumitt
VeriSign’s Global DNS Infrastucture given by Patrick Quaid and Scott Courtney
YouTube Scalability given by Cuong Do

[via Google Research Blog]

That’s what I call planning

Sergey Chernyshev — Tue, 29 Jan 2008 16:50:16 +0000

I was looking for info about next year’s CES and found a list of all future events till … 2015!

That’s what I call planning ;) Obviously, I immediately entered them all: CES 2009, CES 2010, CES 2011, CES 2012, CES 2013, CES 2014, CES 2015.

P.S. I also added sharing widget from AddThis.com (at the top right corner of each page). Go ahead and share stuff with others ;)

High Performance Ajax Applications

Sergey Chernyshev — Sat, 29 Dec 2007 22:55:50 +0000

Very thorough overview of techniques to improve real and perceived performance of front-end heavy web applications by Julien Lecomte. Not only browser-server communication, but page rendering, JavaScript parsing, DOM manipulations, memory leaking and so on. He also mentions whole lot of tools for development and profiling.

See on TechPresentations.org: High Performance Ajax Applications

One Laptop Per Child (hardware, file systems, security)

Sergey Chernyshev — Tue, 27 Nov 2007 04:28:07 +0000

Thanks to Bill Clementson, I found out that I missed another OLPC technology presentation that was given by Ivan Krstić at Google Tech Talk.

Ivan talks about various interesting things in OLPC including their own approach to power management that reduced suspend time from 15 seconds (regular computers) to ~233 milliseconds (at the moment of presentation), file system with object store and unusual security requirements.

He also describes “View Source” button on keyboard - probably the first Open Source promotional tool of the kind.

See presentation on TechPresentations.org: One Laptop Per Child (Google Talk)

P.S. OLPC is running Give 1 Get 1 initiative that allows anyone to donate laptop to a child in development country and in return, get one for yourself. It just costs $400 for two laptops. Currently limited to US & Canada, but there are ways to get it elsewhere.

Open Platforms and the Social Graph

Sergey Chernyshev — Thu, 08 Nov 2007 07:36:46 +0000

David Recordon made a good overview of problems and emerging technologies for open and distributed social networking from identity (OpenID, OAuth) to data interchange formats (XFN).

See it on TechPresentations.org: Open Platforms and the Social Graph