Vintner Jared Brandt of A Donkey and Goat winery was a technical product manager before the first dot-com crash. He and his wife spent a year in France learning biodynamic wine production methods before returning to Berkeley to found their winery. Jared discusses their approach to winemaking in this evening talk at Pivotal Labs SF.
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Talking to users is a good idea but where to begin? Qualitative Research expert Laura Klein gets you started garnering valuable feedback from current and potential users. She covers appropriate research for the various stages of the development cycle and what questions qualitative research can answer effectively. The talk features practical tips on screening and recruiting users for feedback, moderating the sessions, and analyzing your data.
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Riak is a fault tolerant, highly-scalable key/value store being used by companies like Mozilla, Mochi Media, Comcast and Vibrant Media. This talk focuses on the origins of Riak, the high level architecture decisions, the problems it solves and what to think about when using it to build applications.
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As a popular web rendering engine, WebKit is mostly used via browsers. Sencha Engineering Director Ariya Hidayat presents a different angle: using WebKit as a library to write web development tools. Includes how to get and compile the WebKit code.
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CrowdFlower enables a quality, fast, large, global workforce to complete simple tasks. Brian O’Rourke and Chris Van Pelt create a sample app to demonstrate the API and the quality analysis tools. They also discuss lessons learned in its development.
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The founders of Irrational Design present Insightster, an app to help you encourage, discuss, iterate on, rediscover, prioritize, and execute on ideas from all over your organization. They demo a “Clean out your Icebox” Pivotal Tracker integration.
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Most events are written by developers to help them debug server side functionality. Semantic events are written explicitly for building analytics. Splunk allows developers to create sophisticated analytics for their system without resorting to the typical RDBMS and data cube. Chief Architect Rob Das describes what semantic events are and the best practices for creating them, and follows with a demonstration of how Splunk is used on this type of data.
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Sencha‘s Sr. Software Architect Ed Spencer describes and demonstrates their Touch framework. Sencha Touch is an open-source javascript app framework that helps developers build web apps for HTML5-capable touch devices like Android, iPad and Blackberry. It has an object-oriented design with a rich event-handling system and pre-built UI components like carousels and scrollable lists. Ed gives a quick conceptual introduction for orientation and then shows sample code, demos, and how to wrap your web app for app store/marketplace distribution. He also shows some of the amazing stuff you can do with CSS3 these days.
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Maxwell Salzberg and Raphael Sofaer, two of the four founders of Diaspora, discuss the privacy aware, personally controlled, do-it-all, open source social network. Diaspora aims to put users back in control of their data and privacy, and to make sharing between the people they care about easier and more meaningful. Started by four NYU students in April of 2010, they set out on a summer of development (with a bit of help from the internet) they hope to make their first open source release in mid September, and create a free hosted joindiaspora.com around mid October.
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Diego Basch and Santiago Perez Gonzales of Flaptor describe their new product IndexTank, a hosted, scalable, real-time search solution. They share the features and the API of the service and the benefits that make IndexTank an interesting choice when considering search platforms. They also show examples on how to migrate a ThinkingSphinx based solution to IndexTank.
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