Brian Sletten

Presentations

Visualizing Data on the Web

We are far from the early days of ugly HTML. We have sophisticated visualization tools available to us now to help our users consume complex data in attractive and informative ways.

Come hear how you can adopt these visualization systems (calling them libraries is inappropriate) today.

This talk will introduce:

• D3.js
• RGraph
• SVG in the Browser
• Highcharts
• Raphael
• Reusable widgets from the Simile Project

NetKernel: Making IT Matter Again

The premise of Nicholas Carr's "Does IT Matter?" book was that if everyone uses the same tools, processes, products, etc., is there any competitive advantage to be had from the average IT organization?

NetKernel represents a fundamentally different approach to building systems. It takes what we like about Unix, REST and SOA and mixes it together. It inexplicably changes everything while allowing you to reuse existing code, services and libraries. Not only can it make building the kinds of systems you are building today easier, it does it more efficiently, with less code and a far more scalable runway to allow you to take advantage of the emerging multi-core, multi-CPU hardware that is coming our way.

This workshop will be a deeper dive into Resource-Oriented Computing with NetKernel. We will explore:

• the resource model as it applies to general computing
• the intersection of REST and the resource model
• scaling your software without really trying
• interacting with relational databases
• orchestration around different service types
• logically-layering applications for flexibility
• advanced caching strategies
• leveraging dynamic languages with the resource model
• instant cloud support

It is rare that a technology comes along that is both revolutionary and lets you reuse what you already know. All it takes is a bit of different thinking and a little courage to try something new.

Semantic Web Workshop

The Web is changing faster than you can imagine and it is going to continue to do so. Webs of Documents are giving way to machine-processable Webs of Information. We no longer care about data containers, we only care about data and how it connects to what we already know.

Perhaps the concepts of the Semantic Web initiative are new to you. Or perhaps you have been hearing for years how great technologies like RDF, SPARQL, SKOS and OWL are and have yet to see anything real come out of it.

Whether you are jazzed or jaded, this workshop will provide you with the understanding of a technological tidal wave that is heading in your direction.

In this workshop, we will:

Explain the Web and Web architecture at a deeper level Apply Web and Semantic Web technologies in the Enterprise and make them work together Integrate structured and unstructured information Create good, long-lived logical names (URIs) for information and services Use the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to integrate documents, services and databases Use popular RDF vocabularies such as Dublin Core, FOAF, DOAP Query RDF and non-RDF datastores with the SPARQL query language Model and Do Inference with the Web Ontology Language (OWL)

Bring your laptops. This is a hands-on workshop.