Upcoming Webcasts
OSCON 2011: Take-aways, Trends, and Highlights
Presented by Edd Dumbill, Sarah Novotny, Laurel Ruma
Thursday, August 11, 2011
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In this event wrap-up, OSCON co-chairs Edd Dumbill, Sarah Novotny, and Laurel Ruma will identify and discuss the trends and announcements that emerged from the event and how these will impact the tech world in the year to come.
The Office 365 Small Business Revolution!
Presented by Jaime Velez
Thursday, August 18, 2011
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In this presentation Jaime Velez will introduce Small and Midsize Businesses to Office 365, its main capabilities, and will discuss the real business value behind this revolutionary service provided by Microsoft.
The Complex Anatomy of the Home Network
Presented by Ciprian Adrian Rusen
Tuesday, August 23, 2011
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If you want to learn just how complex home networks are today and what are the main challenges of home networking, don't hesitate to join this webcast.
Sneak Peek - BookRiff, LiquidText, and MagAppZine
Presented by Paul Canetti, Rochelle Grayson
Thursday, August 25, 2011
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Sneak Peeks are a TOC webcast series featuring a behind-the-scenes look at publishing start-ups and their products. This is the second SneakPeek webcast and includes presentations from BookRiff, LiquidText, and MagAppZine.
Create better Office 2010 documents, presentations, and workbooks more easily
Presented by Stephanie Krieger
Friday, August 26, 2011
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In this webcast, get real-world, expert tips for experienced Microsoft Office users that can help you overcome some of the most common (and most frustrating) stumbling blocks.
Securing Windows 7 and Internet Explorer
Presented by Mike Halsey
Thursday, September 1, 2011
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In this webcast, Mike Halsey MVP, the author of Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out will describe what to look for to keep yourself safe, and how you can configure Windows and Internet Explorer to keep yourself, your family, small business and your personal data safe from prying eyes and online thieves.
Gamification by Design
Presented by Gabe Zichermann
Thursday, September 8, 2011
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This webcast provides highlights of the design strategy and tactics you need to integrate game mechanics into any kind of consumer-facing website or mobile app.
Android Honeycomb Fragments: Creating Large-Screen UIs for Android Devices
Presented by Blake Meike
Friday, September 9, 2011
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With Android 3.0 SDK (API 11), Honeycomb, Android's developers introduced Fragments, a new, complex and powerful tool to encourage great large-screen UIs with consistent feel and behavior. This talk will introduce Fragments, give a thorough example of their use, and describe some of the traps that lurk in their use.
OpenStack, An Open Source Cloud Framework
Presented by Andrew Shafer
Wednesday, September 14, 2011
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Join Andrew Clay Shafer for a guided tour of the OpenStack projects and ecosystems. He'll start with the history and context of the project, then walk through the architecture and some of the tools to deploy and operate the services.
Office 365 & SharePoint Online
Presented by Jaime Velez
Thursday, September 15, 2011
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In this webinar we will explore the main functionalities of SharePoint Online and we will also demonstrate how other businesses are using and getting value from this hosted collaboration and communication platform today.
Become an Expert Google Searcher in an Hour
Presented by Stephan Spencer
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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Learn how you too can become an expert Google searcher and extract invaluable data about your competitors and about the market like never before -- with laser-like accuracy and extreme efficiency.
Mobile Application Development with Couchbase, iOS and Android
Presented by J. Chris Anderson, Dale Harvey
Wednesday, September 28, 2011
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In this event, J. Chris Anderson and Dale Harvey will demonstrate the steps to getting a Hello World application up and running with Couchbase.
Digital Bookmaking Tools Roundup #2
Presented by Peter Meyers
Thursday, September 29, 2011
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Back by popular demand, in a second look at Digital Bookmaking Tools, author and book futurist Pete Meyers explores the existing options for creating digital books.
Create better Word 2010 documents more easily
Presented by Stephanie Krieger
Friday, September 30, 2011
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In this session, take a glimpse at six key features with which experienced users can create virtually any Word 2010 document: themes, styles, tables, graphics, sections, and dynamic content.
Troubleshooting Windows Update and Service Pack Problems
Presented by Mike Halsey
Thursday, October 6, 2011
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In this webcast Mike Halsey MVP, the author of Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out, will talk you through how to repair common problems and diagnose and repair more complex issues that can bring your computer to a standstill.
Practical application of project management
Presented by Leonard Weekley
Friday, October 7, 2011
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Real world application and scenarios in project management. How does the PMI model work in corporate America.
Office 365 & Office Web Apps
Presented by Jaime Velez
Thursday, October 13, 2011
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In this webinar we will explore how Office Web Apps integrates with Office 365 and we will also demonstrate some co-authoring scenarios where multiple remote users can work real-time on the same document online.
Create better PowerPoint 2010 presentations more easily
Presented by Stephanie Krieger
Friday, October 21, 2011
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Best practices for creating PowerPoint presentations have changed dramatically over the past two versions. In this session, get real-world tips from a hands-on expert that can help you create the kind of presentations you've always wanted.
Troubleshooting Networking Issues in Windows 7
Presented by Mike Halsey
Thursday, November 3, 2011
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In this webcast Mike Halsey MVP, the author of Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out, will discuss how you can diagnose and repair networking problems on your PC.
Office 365 & Exchange Online
Presented by Jaime Velez
Thursday, November 17, 2011
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Learn how the new Exchange Online service of Office 365 allows you to have access to email, calendar, and contacts from virtually anywhere from your desktop, browser, and mobile devices.
Create better Excel 2010 workbooks more easily
Presented by Stephanie Krieger
Friday, November 18, 2011
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In this session, get real-world tips for experienced Excel users that can help you make use of existing, new, and improved features to simplify your work with Excel workbooks and charts, and improve your results.
Office 365 & Lync Online
Presented by Jaime Velez
Thursday, December 1, 2011
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In this webinar learn how Lync Online can transform interactions with your colleagues, customers, and partners from today's hit-or-miss communication to a more collaborative, engaging, and effective experience.
Take it to the next level: introducing VBA and Office Open XML for Word, PowerPoint, and Excel 2010
Presented by Stephanie Krieger
Friday, December 9, 2011
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In this webcast, get an introduction to both VBA and Office Open XML that's specifically intended for experienced Microsoft Office users.
Video Archive of Webcasts
Webcasts are made available as a video shortly following each live event.
Building Access Applications with SQL Server Databases
By Andrew Couch | August 09, 2011
In this session we will be demonstrating the construction of DSN's, linking tables, views, and using stored procedures and views in pass-through queries. This will include a discussion of the benefits in using SQL Server Schemas and Synonyms.
Securing Your Files and Data in Windows
By Mike Halsey | August 04, 2011
In this webcast, Mike Halsey MVP, the author of Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out will talk you though how to keep your files and data safe from even the worst disaster.
The Changing World of Digital Rights and Publishing Agreements
By Dana Newman, Jenny Bent | July 28, 2011
Join Dana Newman and Jenny Bent as they discuss the changing world of digital rights and publishing agreements.
SharePoint 2010 - Let's Automate This Process
By Johnathan Lightfoot | July 22, 2011
This session will use actual business cases to show you how SharePoint has been utilized to automate business processes using workflows.
What's new and cool in Drupal 7?
By Angela Byron, Jeff Eaton | July 20, 2011
Drupal 7 co-maintainer Angela Byron and core developer Jeff Eaton will provide information on what's new and cool in Drupal 7, the latest release of the open source content management platform.
Skills to succeed in a complex technology job market
By Jonathan Reichental, Ph.D. | July 15, 2011
In this webcast, Dr. Jonathan Reichental, CIO of O'Reilly Media, discusses the changing nature of the technology job market. He will provide practical guidance for those entering the technology job market for the first time as well as for experienced...
Open Android: What it means to be open and why you would care
By Marko Gargenta | July 08, 2011
In Open Android talk, we'll explore how Android is open and why that is important to you. We'll also look at where Android came from and where it could be going with its open-ness.
Digital Bookmaking Tools Roundup
By Peter Meyers | June 30, 2011
For those of us who aren't code slingers, what's the easiest way to create a digital book? There are a small but growing number of tools, ranging from big guns like those from Adobe to iPad-based efforts that aim to make publishing a touch and drag affair...
CodeRunner 2: Creating a Learning IDE
By Matthew Roberts, Trish Gray | June 28, 2011
Join Matt Roberts, developer of CodeRunner 2, as he describes the challenges inherent in creating an online education tool and discusses what tools he used to create one.
Velocity 2011: Take-aways, Trends, and Highlights
By Steve Souders, John Allspaw | June 24, 2011
The web performance and operations community gathered for three days at Velocity Conference in Santa Clara, California. In this webcast following the conference, program chairs Steve Souders and John Allspaw will identify and discuss key trends and announcements...
What Traditional Publishers Can Learn from Self-Publishers
By Mark Coker, Chad Jennings, Pete Nikolai, Bob Young | June 23, 2011
The lines between traditional and self-publishing is blurring. In fact, some traditional publishers are launching their own self-publishing imprints. We've lined up four leaders of the self-publishing world to share lessons learned and how we can all...
What Do eReader Customers Really, Really Want?
By Michael Tamblyn | June 02, 2011
In an encore performance of one of TOC NY's most popular sessions, Michael Tamblyn will cover reader trends learned from the Kobo platform. You won't want to miss seeing some of the more interesting and unexpected trends Kobo has discovered.
Sneak Peek - 24symbols, Valobox, Appitude, Active Reader and OnSwipe
By Justo Hidalgo, Anna Lewis, Jason Baptiste, Dan Brazelton, Vj Anma | May 31, 2011
SneakPeeks are a TOC webcast series featuring a behind-the-scenes look at publishing start-ups and their products. The inaugural SneakPeek webcast includes presentations from 24symbols, Valobox, Appitude, Active Reader and OnSwipe.
IPv6 Fundamentals - Keys to Avoid Common Transition Mistakes
By Owen DeLong, Cricket Liu | April 21, 2011
This session with leading O'Reilly authors and IPv6 experts will help you get prepared to successfully manage the transition from v4 to v6, identify when and how to get started and avoid mistakes.
Couchbase: Find Out What the Merger of CouchOne and Membase Means for Users
By J. Chris Anderson, Dustin Sallings | April 19, 2011
In this webinar we'll introduce you to the Membase caching and clustering architecture, and show how CouchDB is a drop-in fit as the storage and query engine.
The Fringes of Git
By Tim Berglund, Matthew McCullough | April 13, 2011
In this webcast, Matthew McCullough and Tim Berglund, authors of the O'Reilly Git Master Class videos, will introduce you to the very edges of Git's capabilities. We'll show you how Git reaches further than any other version control system to provide...
Essential Troubleshooting Tips for Windows 7
By Mike Halsey | March 10, 2011
Windows 7 might be the most stable and reliable version of Microsoft's operating system yet, but things still can and do go wrong. In this webcast Mike Halsey MVP, the author of Troubleshooting Windows 7 Inside Out, will show you some of the ways you...
Dealing with Legacy Perl Code
By Peter Scott | February 25, 2011
Tune in on Friday, February 25th as Peter Scott, author of the O'Reilly School of Technology's Perl Programming Certificate series, talks about how to deal with legacy Perl code - written by someone else, or maybe even yourself when you were younger...
Python Release 3: Unknown territory?
By Steve Holden | February 25, 2011
Join author Steve Holden in a discussion of Python Release 2 versus Python Release 3 and which one would serve you best as a programmer.
Realtime Web Systems
By Tom Hughes-Croucher, Steve Huffman, James Phillips | February 24, 2011
In this Development session we are going to have Q&A with three of our speakers. First Steve Huffman will field questions on the use of Tornado and ZeroMQ at Hipmunk. Second James Phillips will reveal how AOL is able to target ads instantly. Finally...
SproutCore: Writing Code for a Multi-Device World
By Yehuda Katz | February 22, 2011
In this talk, Yehuda will talk about how the multi-device user changes how you should build applications. As a core developer on the SproutCore and Rails projects, he will also cover specific ways that you can use web technologies to advance this objective...
Conversion Optimization: Double Digit Revenue Growth For Your Online Business
By Khalid Saleh | February 18, 2011
When it comes to conversion optimization, many questions come to mind: How should you design a particular page on your website? Which visitor flow should you consider? What copy or content should you develop to generate the most revenue from your website...
A Stick, Some Wire, A Can, and Some Wax: The $10 Electric Guitar
By David Erik Nelson | February 11, 2011
This webcast will take you from a pile of scrap wood and hardware to a working one-string electric guitar, all for well under $10. Along the way we'll talk about magnetic pickups, induction, musical scales, fabrication improvisation, and the history ...
How Sharding Works
By Kristina Chodorow | February 04, 2011
This talk is a combination of whitepaper and Magic School Bus tour of how MongoDB scales across multiple machines. For applications that outgrow the resources of a single database server, MongoDB can convert to a sharded cluster, automatically managing...
Inside Google eBooks: The Platform, Partners and Titles
By Abraham Murray, Chris Palma | February 03, 2011
Google eBooks is a device-agnostic e-commerce platform that helps publishers, authors and retailers reach new, connected readers. Two months since launch, what does Google eBooks mean to you? Test your know-how, refresh your memory and learn the latest...
Hands-on Performance Testing and Analysis with WebPagetest
By Patrick Meenan | January 19, 2011
In this webcast we'll explore hands-on performance testing and analysis with WebPagetest - the advanced capabilities you never knew existed. We'll briefly touch on basic page testing but quickly dive into testing the impact of 3rd party content on your...
Rethinking the Publishing Business Model: Taking Advantage of Integrated Publisher Solutions to Grow Your Business
By Larry Brewster, Mark Ouimet | January 13, 2011
As the pressure to invest in the future of content in its many forms becomes increasingly important, publishers are facing operating and capital investment decisions that are being influenced by the industry's fast changing environment. Publishers are...
How to Decrease the Pain in Building Distributed Systems
By Bradford Stephens | January 12, 2011
Building distributed systems is painful. Many organizations are approaching the point where their data and application infrastructures are being run on many servers (in the cloud or datacenter). Our software practices don't reflect that, often with disastrous...
Developing Effective OCUnit and UI Automation Testing for iOS
By James Turner | January 11, 2011
In this one hour screencast, you'll learn how to create an OCUnit project in XCode, and then write and debug OCUnit test cases. You'll find out what the limitations of OCUnit are, and how some of them can be mitigated with testing using the Instruments...
Gamification Patterns & Pitfalls
By Gabe Zichermann | January 07, 2011
Gamification is a hot topic, with big brands and startups alike trying to leverage the power of points, badges, levels, challenges and rewards to engage users, generate virality and solve problems. Join Gabe Zichermann, Gamification Expert and Author...
Tapworthy: Designing iPhone Interfaces for Delight and Usability
By Josh Clark | January 06, 2011
Tapworthy apps cope with small screens and fleeting user attention to make every pixel count, every tap rewarding. Learn to: capture the elusive ingredients of irresistible mobile interfaces; craft comfortable ergonomics for fingers and thumbs; dodge...
CouchDB for .NET Developers
By Hadi Hariri | December 21, 2010
What does that mean to a .NET Developer? How do we store and retrieve data? How do we query it? If you've been interested in document databases but do not know where to start, then this is definitely the webcast for you. We'll see what CouchDB is about...
My eContent Wish List
By Joe Wikert | December 16, 2010
Despite the recent surge in ebook sales we're still very much in the early stages of this new platform. In this webcast Joe Wikert of O'Reilly will talk about the current state of the econtent world and present more than 10 different improvements and...
Netflix and the Second Coming of the Internet
By Mike Debnar, Michael Hart, Daniel Jacobson | December 15, 2010
This webcast will include presentation and discussion on successfully developing an API strategy for retail, media and ecommerce companies in the new internet. Learn how to drive mobile apps, cloud services and innovation using APIs for developer adoption...
Paul's Python Pearls
By Paul Barry | December 09, 2010
In this webcast, Paul discusses what it is about his current favorite language--Python--that makes it a stand-out programming technology for him. Paul discusses those Python features that are pearls , in his opinion. You may not agree with all of Paul...
Hadoop - Tips, Tricks, Optimizations, and Pitfalls
By Ken Goodhope | November 23, 2010
We'll use real world examples in this webcast that demonstrate how to best utilize MapReduce with Hadoop. We'll also examine the appropriate uses of special partitioners, combiners, and configuration optimizations. We'll expose some common mistakes and...
PHP and CouchDB
By Benjamin Young | November 17, 2010
This talk will cover the basics of the CouchDB HTTP API and how to use it from PHP with and without helper libraries. We'll discuss some architecture approaches and briefly look at things to avoid when moving from an RDBMS to a Document Database such...
5 Reasons Why You'll Love Office for Mac 2011
By Dux Raymond Sy | November 12, 2010
One of the top selling Mac software just got better - introducing Office for Mac 2011. The recently release office productivity tool for Mac has been greatly improved with new collaboration capabilities, multimedia enhancements, visual reporting tools...
Probabilistic Data Structures and Breaking Down Big Sequence Data
By C. Titus Brown | November 10, 2010
Many data analysis problems are not easily parallelizable, often because the relevant analyses require an all-by-all analysis step. Applying heuristics often requires approximation, which introduces errors, noise, and bias. Recently, in confronting the...
Indexing Matters: A MongoDB Optimization Primer
By Kyle Banker | October 29, 2010
We all know that MongoDB is one of the most flexible and feature-rich databases available. In this session we'll discuss how you can leverage this feature set and maintain high performance with your project's massive data sets and high loads. We'll cover...
Points of Control: The Battle for the Internet Economy
By John Battelle, Tim O'Reilly | October 27, 2010
John Battelle and Tim O'Reilly will debate and discuss these shifting points of control as the board becomes increasingly crowded. They'll map critical inflection points and identify key players who are clashing to control services and infrastructure...
Scaling Out CouchDB with BigCouch
By Adam Kocoloski | October 22, 2010
This talk will cover the basics of BigCouch, including deploying and managing your first CouchDB cluster, as well as some advanced features like quorum reads/writes and design patterns for distributed couchdb. Finally, for the erlang hackers out there...
9 Myths About Building iPhone/iPad Apps
By Ken Yarmosh | October 21, 2010
Taking inspiration from his first book App Savvy, Ken Yarmosh addresses the most common myths, misconceptions, and misbeliefs he regularly encounters from those trying to build iPhone and iPad apps. Whether an entrepreneur, developer, or marketer, this...
The Myths of Innovation: Remixed and Remastered
By Scott Berkun | October 13, 2010
Berkun is back with new stories, advice and inspirations based on the true history and present of innovation. Scott will share lessons and insights he's learned from 3 years of traveling the world speaking about innovation to universities, corporations...
Are You Naked Online?
By Ted Claypoole, Theresa Payton | October 07, 2010
You are exposing yourself every day online. You probably don't know how naked you are and how much sensitive information you display. Learn about the many ways you show yourself to others, what naughty bits they learn about you and what you can do to...
Publishing without Boundaries: What's on the O'Reilly Radar for the Future of Publishing
By Andrew Savikas | September 30, 2010
Readers are changing their habits, and are demonstrating they're as eager as ever to find--and buy--quality content and entertainment. But the transition to digital--and increasingly mobile--media delivery, consumption, and participation presents real...
An Introduction to building mapping apps for the iPhone and iPad
By Alasdair Allan | September 28, 2010
This webcast will discuss how to use both the CoreLocation and MapKit frameworks to build map-based applications on the iPhone platform. It will talk you through how to build, embed and annotate maps directly into you iPhone applications. We'll then ...
How to Effectively Plan, Execute and Control SharePoint Projects
By Dux Raymond Sy | September 23, 2010
Microsoft SharePoint has shifted the paradigm in enterprise information management and team collaboration. By empowering knowledge workers, SharePoint can increase worker productivity, improve business process efficiency and streamline business processes...
Using CouchDB on Android
By Aaron Miller | September 22, 2010
Why CouchDB on a phone is awesome, and what you can do with it Deploying existing CouchApps to Android CouchDB Using CouchDB in native Android apps
Scaling with MongoDB
By Kristina Chodorow | September 17, 2010
MongoDB's architecture features built-in support for horizontal scalability, and high availability through replica sets. Auto-sharding allows users to easily distribute data across many nodes. Replica sets enable automatic failover and recovery of database...
The State of Hadoop
By Tom White | September 15, 2010
Apache Hadoop is a part of a growing ecosystem of projects for large-scale data analysis which is being used to solve problems for organizations in a wide range of disciplines. This talk will touch on what's new in the second edition of Hadoop: The Definitive...
Tapworthy: Designing iPhone Interfaces for Delight and Usability
By Josh Clark | September 14, 2010
Tapworthy apps cope with small screens and fleeting user attention to make every pixel count, every tap rewarding. Learn to: capture the elusive ingredients of irresistible mobile interfaces; craft comfortable ergonomics for fingers and thumbs; dodge...
Sara Ford's 101 Visual Studio Tips in 55 minutes Challenge
By Sara Ford | September 01, 2010
This webcast is a rematch of Sara against the clock. Last time she missed by 15 seconds. Will she succeed? Watch and see!
Self-Service Business Intelligence with Microsoft PowerPivot
By Andrew J Brust | August 26, 2010
Ever wonder why there's no light version of SQL Server Analysis Services (SSAS)? Find yourself wishing that SSAS offered an in-memory operation model akin to some of its competitors? And why are OLAP cubes nearly impossible for end-users to build while...
Asynchronous architectures with the CouchDB _changes feed
By Jan Lehnardt | August 25, 2010
Learn how to build robust web services using CouchDB's built-in facility for near-realtime updates. We'll explore a few patterns _changes can be used for: Building custom external indexers like CouchDB-Lucene, Powering CouchDB's replication, Real-time...
Introduction to MongoDB
By Michael Dirolf | August 24, 2010
MongoDB -- from humongous -- is an open source, non-relational, document-oriented database. The goal of the MongoDB project is to bridge the gap between key-value stores (which are fast and highly scalable) and traditional RDBMS systems (which provide...
Best Practices for Upgrading and Migrating to SharePoint 2010
By Joel Oleson, Dux Raymond Sy | August 20, 2010
Microsoft SharePoint 2010 is touted as the business collaboration platform for the enterprise and the web. It's a big leap from previous versions with its wide array of new features and capabilities.
Programming Beyond Relational Features in SQL Server 2008
By Leonard Lobel | August 19, 2010
Leonard Lobel will guide you through detailed demos that showcase the new beyond relational features introduced in Microsoft SQL Server 2008.
Cyborg Anthropology: A Short Introduction
By Amber Case | August 05, 2010
Cyborg Anthropology is a way of understanding how we live as technosocially connected citizens in the modern era. Our cell phones, cars and laptops have turned us into cyborgs. What does it mean to extend the body into hyperspace? What are the implications...
Cloud Independence with Dasein Cloud
By George Reese | July 30, 2010
Dasein Cloud is an Open Source Java API that enables write-once, run against any cloud programming. With Dasein Cloud, you can run the same application across any number of supported clouds without any need for a recompile. This developer-oriented webinar...
The Upside of Downtime: How to Turn a Disaster into an Opportunity
By Lenny Rachitsky | July 29, 2010
Your site will inevitably go down. Worse yet, thanks to Twitter and blogs there's a good chance that all of your customers will find out about your downtime. This presentation aims to help you turn that downtime from a disaster into an opportunity to...
Best Practices in Developing Requirements for SharePoint Projects
By Dux Raymond Sy | July 28, 2010
Poor requirements can be attributed to failed SharePoint implementations. The key to successful SharePoint implementation is properly developing requirements. A lot of people know that this is important, however, only a handful of folks truly understand...
MySQL Upgrades With No Downtime
By Sean Hull | July 27, 2010
In this webcast we'll discuss a two-node MySQL multi-master replication setup. We'll take the audience step-by-step through the process, and then uses MMM (MySQL Multi-master Manager) to manage & automate the process exposing a virtual IP address...
GPU Supercomputing for Finance
By Andrew Sheppard | July 15, 2010
GPU supercomputing in finance is about doing things faster than ever before. Trading is already mostly real-time, because it pays to be there first, ahead of the other guy. And even those aspects of finance that are not yet real-time (currently risk ...
Flexible Scaling with CouchDB Replication / Or how I learned to stop worrying and love Eventual Consistency
By J. Chris Anderson | July 14, 2010
CouchDB is known for having a flexible schemaless JSON storage API. But that is just the tip of the iceberg when it comes to flexibility. In this webcast we'll learn how replication can be used to share data securely, build offline-capable applications...
5 jQuery mistakes you're probably making in your project
By Jonathan Sharp | July 13, 2010
The ease and simplicity of jQuery's API can be attributed to its success and shortcomings as new developers tackle larger and more complex tasks. Join us for this session as we walk through The Top 5 Mistakes jQuery Developers Can Make. We'll look at...
Five Ways the iPad Can Entertain You
By J.D. Biersdorfer | July 09, 2010
In this live, one-hour webcast, bestselling author J.D. Biersdorfer will guide us through the most entertaining apps on the iPad.
Combining Photos and Vectors in Photoshop
By Lesa Snider | July 08, 2010
Learn how to easily combine illustrations with photography in this super creative session. Glean the secret to importing vectors into your document so you can experiment with them as backgrounds, artful embellishments, ornamental photo frames, and more...
Automated Infrastructure is on the Menu with Chef
By Joshua Timberman | July 07, 2010
This tutorial will teach how to automate infrastructures using Chef, including real examples of application deployment and system integration of infrastructure components such as load balancers, application servers and monitoring systems.
Effective Data Destruction Practices
By Ben Rothke | June 29, 2010
Changes in data storage technologies, new Federal and State data privacy regulations and other factors have created an urgent need to have effective electronic records destruction practices. This session will detail the specifics of these changes and...
Effectively Planning, Tracking and Controlling Projects with Microsoft Project 2010
By Dux Raymond Sy | June 25, 2010
Project managers today must work within tight schedules, changing scope and limited resources. If utilized appropriately, Microsoft Project 2010 is a powerful tool that can help you break a project down into manageable parts, define a realistic schedule...
What's new in CouchDB 0.11 & 1.0
By Jan Lehnardt | June 22, 2010
This webcasts highlights new features and refines in the latest and upcoming release of CouchDB. It rehashes old solutions to problems that are now way easier to solve. We look at how the new features help you make your life and development work easier...
All You Really Need to Know about UX - Effective User Interfaces
By John McRee | June 17, 2010
Successful user experience strategy and planning are essential as users increasingly expect effortless, engaging interaction with desktop, Web and mobile applications. Pulling key concepts from the book, Effective UI: The Art of Building Great User Experience...
First Steps with Arduino
By Brian Jepson | June 16, 2010
In this webcast, Brian Jepson will introduce the basics of Arduino, the open source electronics prototyping platform. You'll learn what Arduino is, where to get one, and how to connect electronic components to it. You'll also learn how to write simple...
High Dynamic Range Imaging and Adobe Photoshop CS5
By Jack Howard | June 11, 2010
Adobe has significantly improved the HDRI functionality in Photoshop CS5 with the most significant upgrades since HDR and 32 bit file types were originally added to Photoshop back in CS2. Jack Howard, photographer, writer, HDRI expert, and author of ...
CouchApp Evently Guided Hack w/ CouchDB
By J. Chris Anderson | May 20, 2010
Learn to hack jQuery CouchApps -- p2p web applications that can be deployed anywhere there's a CouchDB. Apache CouchDB can host HTML5 apps natively, serving them over HTTP. Learn how to write JavaScript CouchApps which run on both the client and the...
Cloud Computing and Security: Can't We all Just Get Along?
By Bernard Golden | May 19, 2010
This one-hour presentation will offer a framework to analyze security issues, and present a set of best practices toward implementing security in cloud-based applications.
Automakers 2.0 - A Maker Faire Webcast
By Dale Dougherty | May 19, 2010
What would it mean to write a Hello, Car program? What kind of applications might interact with a networked automobile? What happens when the car becomes a platform for open innovation? It just might transform the auto industry by providing new opportunities...
Hiring the Next-Generation of Cyber Security Professionals in Government
By Lewis Shepherd | May 13, 2010
The shortage of qualified cyber security professionals is a real and immediate concern for all levels of government. Lewis Shepherd of Microsoft Research is right in the thick of this discussion and has been thinking about this problem for a while. Join...
5 Reasons Why SharePoint 2010 Will Revolutionize Your Organization
By Dux Raymond Sy | May 11, 2010
Mixed feelings about Microsoft SharePoint abound in organizations today. Some say it's great and others, don't want anything to do with it. That's sooo 2007. Welcome to the year of SharePoint. On May 12, Microsoft will launch SharePoint 2010 which is...
What is Gov 2.0?
By Tim O'Reilly | May 11, 2010
What is the open government revolution and why should technologists care about it? Join Tim O'Reilly, O'Reilly Media founder and CEO, for a discussion about improving efficiency and transparency in government, citizen-government collaboration, and government...
Nullology: The Zen of Database
By C.J. Date | May 07, 2010
Nullology is the study of the empty set. Of course, sets crop up all over the place in the database world; but the question is--and it's a crucial one--what happens if the set under consideration happens to be empty? For example, a relation contains ...
Spear Phishing: A Smarter and More Dangerous Social Web
By Jeff Jonas | May 06, 2010
This webinar will be a future-looking forecast about targeted attacks on identity, email, and data on the Internet. What happens when every ad doesn't feel like spam because of increased information sharing and improving analytics? Spear phishing is ...
Preparing for a Cyber Attack
By Jeffrey Carr | April 29, 2010
This one-hour presentation will separate the hype from the facts regarding ongoing foreign intrusions into government networks and the targeting of government employees. It will also provide practical advice on how to protect yourself and your organization...
An introduction to building mapping applications for the iPhone and iPad
By Alasdair Allan | April 28, 2010
This webcast will discuss how to use both the CoreLocation and MapKit frameworks to build map-based applications on the iPhone platform. It will talk you through how to build, embed and annotate maps directly into you iPhone applications. We'll then ...
Web 2.0 Expo Preview
By Brady Forrest, Sarah Milstein, Tim O'Reilly | April 22, 2010
Web 2.0 Expo, co-produced by O'Reilly Media and UBM TechWeb, showcases the latest Web 2.0 business models, development paradigms and design strategies for the builders of the next-generation Web. In this webcast, we'll provide insight into the big themes...
Introduction to Apache CouchDB
By J. Chris Anderson | April 21, 2010
CouchDB is a distributed document database accessed via HTTP and JSON and queried using JavaScript Map Reduce. CouchDB focuses on simplicity and reliability, with a data replication model that makes it well suited for mobile and offline applications...
LinkedIN: Beyond the Basics
By Irene Koehler | April 20, 2010
While there are many opportunities to connect and showcase yourself online, there is no way around the fact that you simply must be using LinkedIn. If you aren't using its features to their fullest, you may likely be missing out on opportunities to connect...
What will users pay for?
By Eric Wilhelm | April 15, 2010
If advertising alone won't pay the bills and paywalls are tough to get right, how can web-based businesses make money? This is a question Instructables.com CEO Eric Wilhelm has already confronted. We'll dig into the Instructables model and consider potential...
Subversive Collaboration: Co-creating for kick-ass results
By Nilofer Merchant | April 13, 2010
Curiosity and passion said Thomas Friedman, are key components in a world where information is readily available to everyone and global markets reward those people. This implies that there's a different set of rules by which we'll thrive and succeed...
The iPad's first 48 hours: impressions and reactions
By Mac Slocum | April 05, 2010
The iPad has finally gone from mythical dream device to an actual product. Join us for a roundtable video discussion where we'll weigh in on features we like and dislike, look at surprising functions or oversights, and see how the iPad compares to our...
Take the Pain Out of Saving Money
By J.D. Roth, Mac Slocum | April 01, 2010
In this live event, Mac Slocum, online editor for O'Reilly Media, will conduct a video interview with J.D. Roth, financial expert and author of Your Money: The Missing Manual. Roth will discuss practical tips for saving money and helpful techniques that...
Insider Tips for Submitting a Winning Proposal to Web2Expo
By Sarah Milstein, Brady Forrest | March 29, 2010
Back by Popular Demand! Web 2.0 Expo is one of the biggest tech conferences in SF and NY every year--making it a great show for exposure and conversation. Because it's an appealing event, we generally get at least 10 session proposals for each available...
Pivot Tables in Microsoft Excel
By Michael Milton | March 24, 2010
Pivot tables let you put together in seconds data summaries that would take forever to create with Excel formulas. That speed gives you the ability to get answers about your data as quickly as you can think up questions for it. Pivot tables are one of...
LINQPad: Version 2 and Beyond
By Joseph Albahari | March 23, 2010
Join Joe Albahari (C# 4.0 in a Nutshell and LINQ Pocket Reference) in an interactive session on the new and upcoming features of LINQPad. We'll demonstrate support for C# 4.0, the new extensibility model and some exciting enhancements to autocompletion...
Introduction to Gearman
By Eric Day | March 12, 2010
Come learn the fundamentals of how to leverage Gearman, the open source, distributed job queuing system. Originally designed to scale LiveJournal.com, Gearman is now faster than ever and can help you build your own scalable applications. Gearman's generic...
Where 2.0
By Brady Forrest | March 10, 2010
The idea of constantly-updated community maps are now the norm and the modifications are constant. The base data of the map you are looking at could have been updated in the past couple of days in time those updates will be instantaneous. The data layered...
The Science of Social Media Marketing
By Dan Zarrella | January 28, 2010
More and more people are using social media sites like Twitter and Facebook to talk about companies and products with their friends and colleagues. Learn what drives people to share information and opinions online and learn scientifically proven best...
Tour the Top 10 Treats in Entity Framework 4
By Julia Lerman | January 27, 2010
Visual Studio 2010 and .NET 4.0 bring us a new version of ADO.NET Entity Framework, called Entity Framework 4. From the designer, to the APIs to entire new feature sets to support agile development, even former EF skeptics are getting excited about this...
Using ICT (Information & Communications Technology) to Create a Sustainable Business
By Sarah Sorensen | January 21, 2010
Sustainability is not a catch phrase or a flash-in-the pan endeavor; it is a guiding principle that drives a business's value creation. It ensures that an organization is able to sustain long-term economic opportunities, competitive differentiation...
Cloud Security & Privacy
By Subra Kumaraswamy, Shahed Latif, Tim Mather | January 20, 2010
This 75-minute webcast will discuss current issues in cloud computing with regard to security and privacy. The presenters are the three coauthors of a recently published O'Reilly book, Cloud Security and Privacy. In this webcast, they will discuss cloud...
Cloud Security Deep Dive
By Subra Kumaraswamy, Shahed Latif, Tim Mather | January 20, 2010
In this 90 minute webcast, the three coauthors of Cloud Security and Privacy (recently published by O'Reilly) will take a deep dive into cloud security issues and focus on three specific aspects: (1) data security; (2) identity management in the cloud...
DRBD and MySQL - An HA Match Made In Heaven
By Sean Hull | January 19, 2010
DRBD has grown in popularity as an excellent low-cost high availability solution for MySQL. It provides synchronous replication of your data without MySQL having to worry too much about the details. Combined with Linux Heartbeat, and you have automatic...
Confessions of a Public Speaker
By Scott Berkun | December 02, 2009
For leaders, managers and anyone who speaks and expects someone to listen, Scott Berkun shares an insider's perspective on how to effectively present ideas to anyone. Loosely based on his third book, Confessions of a Public Speaker, this fun, interactive...
Tokyo Cabinet in One Hour
By Kirk Haines | November 17, 2009
Tokyo Cabinet is a fast, synchronous key/value database library with support for several major languages, including Ruby. We will look at both its benefits and its problems, and work through several examples that demonstrate its capabilities, ease of...
Open Transportation Data in One Hour
By Joshua Robin | November 05, 2009
For many years, transportation agencies and authorities have given out thousands of free copies of paper maps and schedules. However, transportation agencies often resist sharing the data behind those maps and schedules. In July 2009, The Massachusetts...
How to Effectively Utilize Microsoft Project 2010 with SharePoint 2010
By Dux Raymond Sy | November 03, 2009
Microsoft Project is a project management tool widely used by project managers today. Its' ability to support project managers to define a schedule, assign resources to tasks and track project status has been instrumental in contributing to project success...
Two Big Data Analysis Tricks for Everyone
By Michael Milton | October 28, 2009
Data analysis skills are critical to staying competitive in the 21st century economy. In this webcast the author of Head First Data Analysis, Michael Milton, provides some useful tips for common data problems that everyone faces.
MurderBoarding: It's not about the ideas you keep, but the ones you kill
By Nilofer Merchant | October 22, 2009
Making the right choices leads us and our organizations to thrive. In this webcast, author and business strategist Nilofer Merchant (The New How: Building Business Solutions Through Collaborative Strategy) provides you with a framework for nailing the...
Nuclear Energy: Future Directions
By Per F. Peterson | October 15, 2009
This talk will discuss the current status of nuclear energy, and review the potential directions the technology may go in the future.
Augmented Reality in One Hour
By Chetan Damani | October 14, 2009
In this webcast, Chetan Damani provides an introduction to Augmented Reality. In addition to answering the most common question, What the heck is Augmented Reality? .
Architecting Applications for the Cloud
By Jorge Noa | October 13, 2009
This presentation analyzes aspects of the Amazon EC2 IaaS cloud environment that differ from a traditional data center and introduces general best practices for ensuring data privacy, storage persistence, and reliable DBMS backup.
Virtual Currency in One Hour
By Tom Hale | October 09, 2009
Second Life's virtual economy has a GDP of 500 million US Dollars all enabled by the Linden DOLLAR. In this interactive session, Chief Product officer Tom Hale will cover the basics of the Second Life economy, explore the dynamics of managing a virtual...
How To Save Math Education (And A Tiny Piece Of The World Along With It)
By Dan Meyer | October 01, 2009
For everything it does well, the US model of math education conditions students to anticipate narrowly defined problems with narrowly prescribed solutions. This puts them in no place to anticipate the ambiguous, broadly defined, problems they'll need...
97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know
By Barbee Davis | September 30, 2009
Join us for this webcast based on the new book, 97 Things Every Project Manager Should Know, edited by Barbee Davis. You would need several lifetimes of experience to acquire the wisdom of these established team leaders from all over the world.
Psychotronica: Abusing and Leveraging Intelligence from Social Networking
By Nitesh Dhanjani | September 29, 2009
In this presentation, we will go beyond discussing the obvious security and privacy implications of social media. We will tie the items of discussion to privacy implications as well as how they can be leveraged for investigations as well as business ...
8 Steps to Microsoft Project Success
By Dux Raymond Sy | September 25, 2009
If utilized appropriately, Microsoft Project is a powerful tool that can help you break a project down into manageable parts, define a realistic schedule, identify required resources and track projects accordingly. In this presentation, you will learn...
Cloud Security & Privacy
By Subra Kumaraswamy, Shahed Latif, Tim Mather | September 24, 2009
In this webcast, the authors of Cloud Security and Privacy will discuss cloud computing's SPI delivery model.
Energy Literacy - Understand, Track, and Reduce Your Energy Consumption
By Saul Griffith | September 23, 2009
The big view and the little view of climate change. Climate change is in some real sense an energy problem. Attend this webcast to find out more.
Best iPhone Apps: The Must-Have Downloads
By Josh Clark | September 17, 2009
Join Josh Clark, author of Best iPhone Apps: The Guide for Discriminating Downloaders for a survey of the must-have apps to unlock your iPhone's potential.
iPhone Forensics: Live Recovery of an iPhone 3G[s]
By Jonathan Zdziarski | September 16, 2009
In this webcast, Jonathan Zdziarski will demonstrate the latest forensic method to conduct a live recovery of an iPhone 3G[s]. He will also demonstrate how to remove the device's pass-code and encrypted backup password.
Palm webOS: Application Basics
By Mitch Allen | September 09, 2009
This session begins with an overview of the basic webOS application structure and a demo of the core SDK developer tools, and includes detail presentations on the application launch lifecycle, and Mojo controllers and methods.
Intro to Snow Leopard
By Chris Seibold | September 03, 2009
In this webcast author Chris Seibold will introduce you to Snow Leopard, beginning with installation options. You'll learn about compatibility, the hidden advantages of Snow Leopard, and why you should or shouldn't consider installing this newest operating...
Information Security and Social Networks
By Ben Rothke | September 02, 2009
This webcast will detail the significant security and privacy risks that social network create, and will also provides detailed guidance on ways organizations and individuals can use social networks in a safe and secure manner.
Entity Framework Tips & Tricks
By Julia Lerman | August 27, 2009
Developers discover a lot of behavior in the ADO.NET Entity Framework that is quite unexpected. Programming Entity Framework author, Julie Lerman, will help you avoid some surprises and show you tricks to make the most of Entity Framework.
Git in One Hour
By Scott Chacon | August 20, 2009
In this webcast, Git evangelist Scott Chacon covers the basics of the Git source control system.
Ground-Zero PowerShell for the SQL Server DBA
By Sean McCown | August 14, 2009
This webcast is the first of a series designed to take DBAs with no knowledge of PowerShell and give them what they need to use this new scripting language.
5 Ways to Enhance SharePoint Site Usability
By Dux Raymond Sy | August 13, 2009
SharePoint is unlike existing technologies users are familiar with. In certain cases, out of the box SharePoint site interface and layout is not as intuitive to the greater user community. In this interactive presentation, you will acquire the practical...
Hands-on: Step-by-step MySQL Clustering Setup
By Sean Hull | August 04, 2009
MySQL's Clustering solution provides some pretty sophisticated functionality. In this webcast we'll take you through getting it up and running on your laptop or single node server, building a sandbox where you can play with the dials and levers and get...
Creating Your Social Media Policy
By Joshua-Michele Ross | July 30, 2009
This webcast will review guidelines for corporations considering how to responsibly integrate social media in the workplace. After delivering the framework, Joshua will open the webcast to a Q&A; discussion.
Open Source Language Roundtable
By James Turner | July 22, 2009
We all have our favorite languages in our tool-belt, but is there a best overall language? If anyone can hash that out, it will be the members of this roundtable discussion, some of the stars of the open source language space.
An Introduction to Hadoop
By Tom White, Christophe Bisciglia | July 16, 2009
In this webcast, Cloudera founder Christophe Bisciglia and O'Reilly author Tom White will provide an introduction to Hadoop/MapReduce, the open source project that allows organizations to process, store and analyze massive application datasets.
Security Monitoring
By Chris Fry, Martin Nystrom | July 15, 2009
How well does your enterprise stand up against today's sophisticated security threats? In this webcast, security experts from Cisco Systems demonstrate how to detect damaging security incidents on your global network--first by teaching you which assets...
Automated Unit Testing with the Palm Mojo SDK
By Christian Sepulveda | July 14, 2009
In this webcast we'll introduce Behavior Driven Development (BDD) and Jasmine (a BDD framework for JavaScript); install Jasmine and add related code to the app to support BDD; discuss how to write a failing test first, then add functionality to make ...
10 Ways to Wreck Your Database
By Josh Berkus | July 10, 2009
Want to make sure your database loses data, duplicates records, and can only handle 5 transactions a minute? Want to make your application developers curse you, your sysadmin hate you, and get yourself fired without a reference? These ten database design...
Cloud Computing: The Next Frontier for Open Source
By Bernard Golden | July 09, 2009
The current financial crisis has raised enterprise interest in two technology trends: open source and cloud computing. In this presentation, Bernard Golden, CEO of HyperStratus will discuss how the two trends reinforce one another, and why cloud computing...
YQL: select * from internet
By Jonathan Trevor | July 08, 2009
The Yahoo! Query Language is an expressive SQL-like language that lets you query, filter, and join data across Web services. With YQL, applications run faster with fewer lines of code and a smaller network footprint. With YQL, developers can access and...
Managing & Growing Open Source in the Enterprise: Advice from the Trenches
By Rod Cope, Carol J. Rizzo | July 07, 2009
In this webcast, Carol Rizzo, past CTO of Kaiser Permanente, AIG and CitiGroup, and Rod Cope, the founder and CTO of OpenLogic share their experiences and insights about using open source in the enterprise.
Radical Career Success in a Down Economy
By Chad Fowler, Andy Lester | July 01, 2009
We all know we're in the middle of an economic downturn. The news is full of statistics on job loss and unemployment. Everyone is feeling the crunch. In times like this it's natural to worry about your career. Career experts and authors Andy Lester and...
Web Squared
By John Battelle, Tim O'Reilly | June 25, 2009
As we approach the six-year mark from the original Web 2.0 thesis, the trends are becoming clearer than ever. Tim O'Reilly, CEO and Founder of O'Reilly Media, and John Battelle, Founder and Chairman of Federated Media Publishing will present the trends...
Around the world in 32 minutes with The Geek Atlas
By John Graham-Cumming | June 24, 2009
In this webcast, author John Graham-Cumming presents a tour of 32 places from his book, The Geek Atlas, in 32 minutes. From Jaipur to Hawaii, via Spain, Paris, London, New York and beyond, The Geek Atlas covers places that will fascinate anyone interested...
iPhone Forensics: Performing a Live Recovery Over USB
By Jonathan Zdziarski | June 09, 2009
In this webcast, Jonathan Zdziarski, author of iPhone Forensics, will guide you through an overview of his latest technique to recover the live user disk from an iPhone.
Twitter for Marketing & PR
By Mike Volpe | June 03, 2009
There's a lot of buzz around Twitter, but many marketers don't know how to translate that buzz into a worthwhile marketing tool for their business. Attend this free webcast to learn all the basics of how to use Twitter to market your business.
Finding Design Opportunities in the Twitter Ecosystem
By Kevin Makice | May 29, 2009
This webcast takes a closer look at the Twitter design space by reviewing existing applications across several dimensions and looking for unaddressed needs of the user and developer community.
Reconsidering Social Media
By Joshua-Michele Ross, Sam Lessin | May 27, 2009
This webcast will be highly interactive; a short explanation of Joshua-Michele Ross' points as detailed in his four-part article series on the Radar Blog - followed by open Q&A; and Debate.
An Introduction to Easy Mobile Development with PhoneGap
By Rob Ellis, Brock Whitten | May 26, 2009
In this webcast learn how to get started building a PhoneGap application that's app store ready and learn how to contribute back to the open source PhoneGap project.
What to Expect in Rails 3.0
By Yehuda Katz | May 22, 2009
In this live, online event, Yehuda Katz, Core Team Member on the Rails and Merb projects, will cover some of most important new features in Rails 3.0 and answer questions from the audience.
Twitter Power Tips
By Sarah Milstein, Tim O'Reilly | May 21, 2009
In this webcast, Tim O'Reilly and Sarah Milstein, Twitter experts and coauthors of the The Twitter Book, will show you how to use Twitter more effectively, whether you're on the site for personal socializing or to meet business goals.
Effective Communication: Making your point in a video-game culture
By Brett McLaughlin | May 19, 2009
In this 60-minute webcast, learn the fundamentals of effective communication. You'll understand how to tailor any content to be engaging, and to speak to your audience's needs in a manner to which they'll respond and interact.
iPhone Hacking - Intermediate & Advanced
By David Jurick, Adam Stolarz, Damien Stolarz | May 15, 2009
This webcast will focus on the last two chapters of iPhone Hacks, involving hardware and software development.
Showing Off Your Models: Presentations in Google SketchUp
By Bonnie Roskes | May 14, 2009
Google SketchUp is a free and powerful 3D modeling application, and it's easy to start right away and quickly create impressive models. If you already know how to create a basic model, this webcast can help get your models to the next level.
Leveraging SharePoint for the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) Transparency
By Dux Raymond Sy | May 12, 2009
In this case study based presentation by Dux Raymond Sy (SharePoint for Project Management), participants will learn what American Recovery and Reinvestment Act (ARRA) is all about, ARRA's reporting requirements, and how SharePoint can be leveraged as...
How to Build a Lean Startup, step-by-step
By Eric Ries | May 01, 2009
Get started with a detailed guide to three key lean startup techniques: continuous deployment, rapid split-testing, and root cause analysis (five why's). This webcast will cover the theory of how lean startups work, implementation details, and case studies...
What's New in Windows Server 2008 R2 Active Directory
By Brian Desmond, Laura E. Hunter | April 24, 2009
Bring your Active Directory questions and come learn what's new in Active Directory for Windows Server 2008 R2. Active Directory MVPs and authors Brian Desmond (Active Directory, 4th Edition) and Laura Hunter (Active Directory Cookbook, 3rd Edition) ...
XBRL: the what, why and who...
By Charlie Hoffman, Steve Levine | April 22, 2009
This webcast will introduce you to XBRL and answer your questions. What is XBRL? How is it different than XML? Who is using it today? Learn from Charlie Hoffman, Director, UBmatrix and credited as the Father of XBRL.
LINQPad - New Features for Entity Framework
By Joseph Albahari | April 16, 2009
In this webcast, Joseph Albahari will demonstrate some exciting new features that turn LINQPad into an essential tool for writing and performance-tuning Entity Framework queries.
How to Build a Project Management Dashboard with SharePoint
By Dux Raymond Sy | April 10, 2009
Microsoft SharePoint technologies provide a collaborative framework to enhance project management processes, team collaboration, and information management. The primary audience for this workshop includes project managers, project teams and executives...
Shooting Digital: What are YOU missing?
By Mikkel Aaland | April 09, 2009
In this webcast we will look at some commonly forgotten or unknown features of digital cameras and imaging software, then open the discussion to your experiences with the known and unknown world of digital photography.
Getting Started with Amazon Web Services
By George Reese | April 08, 2009
Amazon has rapidly established itself as the major player in the infrastructure as a service (IaaS) domain of cloud computing. Author of Cloud Application Architectures and enStratus founder and CTO George Reese provides this introduction into establishing...
How progress happens: the down and dirty truths and secrets that make innovation possible
By Scott Berkun | March 19, 2009
Talking about innovation is easy--making change happen in organizations is ridiculously hard. But there are things we can learn from the history of technology, political revolution and change, and there is a playbook we can reuse to help us avoid easy...
Photographing Kids, Family, and (other) Weird Things
By Harold Davis | March 18, 2009
Families, kids, holidays: we all want to capture them as fond memories, not stiff poses. During this not-to-be-missed presentation, Harold Davis will show us how to do so with more ease and fun in the shooting, showing us that Cameras don't take photos...
iPhone SDK Development: Tapping into Apple's New Audio Foundation Class
By Jonathan Zdziarski | March 12, 2009
The AVFoundation framework was introduced in version 2.2 of the iPhone SDK, and provides functionality for playing and mixing sound files, metering, and basic audio control. If you're adding simple sounds to your application, this framework can be implemented...
7 Ways to Leverage SharePoint for Project Management Success
By Dux Raymond Sy | February 27, 2009
In this presentation, you acquire the practical knowledge of how SharePoint can address common project management challenges such as Inefficient communication among stakeholders, poor document managementpractices and undefined project collaboration standards...
Developing Applications for webOS: A Preview
By Mitch Allen | February 25, 2009
In this live, online event, Mitch Allen, Palm's Software CTO and a member of the Palm webOS� design team, will recap the material included in the introductory chapter of Palm webOS: Developing Applications in JavaScript Using the Palm Mojo� Framework...
Grid 2.0
By James Governor, Tom Raftery | February 19, 2009
With the coming energy crunch set to dwarf the credit crunch Smart Grids are quickly becoming a really hot topic--why is that? Just how do Smart Grids help solve energy issues and what can we do with the masses of data which these Smart Grids will generate...
10 Things Every Software Architect Should Know
By Richard Monson-Haefel | February 17, 2009
In 97 Things Every Software Architect Should Know, Richard Monson-Haefel collaborated with over two dozen authors to collect 97 axioms of software architecture. In this presentation he has distilled knowledge from his own experience and from personal...
Advanced Twitter for Business: Conversation, Community, and Profit--140 Characters at a Time
By Sarah Milstein | February 06, 2009
Twitter matters. This free, nimble, and powerful messaging service is fast becoming an essential part of every smart business's social media toolkit. Learn everything you need to launch a successful Twitter strategy for your business from Sarah Milstein...
Designing Web Interfaces: Principles & Patterns for Rich Interaction
By Bill Scott | February 03, 2009
Join Bill Scott, for a discussion focused on interaction design: specifically, interaction design on the Web. And even more specifically, about rich interaction design on the Web.
Building RESTful Services with XQuery and XRX
By Kurt Cagle | January 28, 2009
Join Kurt Cagle, online editor for xml.com and O'Reilly Media and author of nearly twenty books on web development and xml technologies, as he explores XRX and the use of XQuery to build RESTful services in this 90-minute online presentation.
MySQL Replication: Audit, Test, & Verify
By Sean Hull | January 22, 2009
In this live online event, Sean Hull (Oracle and Open Source) will talk about why MySQL slaves get out of sync with the master, both in terms of things that happen in the application and in MySQL's implementation of statement-based replication. He'll...
Youth & Creativity: Emerging Trends in Self-Expression and Publishing
By Bill Westerman, Julie Baher | January 21, 2009
Youth are approaching digital self-expression and publishing from a more organic, collaborative angle than previous generations. They jump right in when the creative urge strikes, collaborating with others from around the globe, and 'publishing' an ongoing...
Equity Research in the Age of Web
By Robert Passarella | January 16, 2009
In this live, online event, Robert Passarella presents an eclectic, yet practical, look at Wall Street, Equity Research, Technology and the Internet. See how new ideas of finding and getting information are supercharging the research process for companies...
Social Media for Publishers
By Chris Brogan | December 16, 2008
In this live, online webcast, meet with Chris Brogan (See O'Reilly's Tools of Change for Publishing) for a not-too-techy and not-too-light dive into the world of social media from the mindset of a publisher. Learn how he views the tools and how they ...
Everything You Wanted to Know about Drupal but were Afraid to Ask
By Jeff Eaton, James Walker | December 05, 2008
In this live, online webcast, Drupal developers Jeff Eaton and James Walker (Using Drupal) will guide newcomers through the nuts and bolts of Drupal's content management system, content management framework, and community.
Making the Case for Print on Demand
By Brian O'Leary | December 03, 2008
Publishers who dismiss the use of print-on-demand technologies as too expensive may be missing an opportunity to better manage their inventory, total costs and the unit costs of books sold. This webcast will provide an economic rationale for more extensive...
Twitter for Business
By Sarah Milstein | November 13, 2008
Join the revolution with this webcast, which will show you how to use Twitter and other micro-messaging services at work. It will cover the the benefits and challenges of this exciting new medium, along with best practices and potential pitfalls you ...
What Publishers Need to Know about Digitization
By Liza Daly | November 12, 2008
No prior experience with digitization is assumed in this friendly and accessible overview of the conversion process. We'll start from the beginning: what's XML and do you need it? What's the cost-benefit analysis versus PDF or other formats? From there...
Creating Facebook Applications: A Beginner's Guide
By Jesse Stay | November 07, 2008
Facebook is taking the world by storm! In this session you'll learn how your apps talk to Facebook, how Facebook talks back, where to find the information you need, viral integration points to promote your app, and learn the very basics of creating a...
Trends and Technologies in Where 2.0
By Andrew Turner | October 24, 2008
In this live webcast, geospatial web expert Andrew Turner (Where 2.0: The State of the Geospatial Web) will discuss the current evolution of Where 2.0 and how it is affecting the entire landscape of Web 2.0 and next generation applications.
Why Publishers Should Care about SEO
By Jamie Low | October 22, 2008
Search Engine Optimization (SEO) expert Jamie Low uses a conversational format and live search queries to examine SEO elements and techniques, including: how publishers can get ranked for specific queries related to their content; why some pages earn...
When Times Get Tough, the Tough Get Tuning: Improve the Performance of Your Linux Systems
By Dee-Ann LeBlanc | October 21, 2008
When you experience reduced performance, your first inclination may be to groan and open your wallet. While new hardware often can offer the best bang for your buck, it's also possible that you don't need to invest that money just yet � or at least that...
Secrets of Digital Night Photography
By Harold Davis | October 17, 2008
In this webcast, professional photographer Harold Davis, author of Practical Artistry: Light & Exposure for Digital Photographers (O'Reilly) and creator of the Photoblog 2.0 and Digital Night web sites shows why night photography has become increasingly...
A Preview of iPhoneLive
By Bill Dudney, Raven Zachary | October 14, 2008
In this live, online event, Bill Dudney and Raven Zachary share a preview of the presentations they'll give at the upcoming iPhoneLive Conference taking place November 18 in San Jose. Following this preview, you'll have plenty of time to ask questions...
The Evangelist's Toolkit: A field guide to bringing social technologies into your organization
By Joshua-Michele Ross | September 30, 2008
While it has become cliché to talk about how much the Internet and the Social Web have changed business, what has been less well explored is how traditional (meaning non-Internet native) businesses successfully adopt new technologies such as social...
You are a Natural Born (Visual) Storyteller
By Nancy Duarte | September 17, 2008
We live in the most innovative time in history. That, coupled with pressure from a global economy, our corporate stories need to be told well and resonate deeply. In this session you'll learn how to step away from your traditional content development...
iPhone Forensics 101: Bypassing the iPhone Passcode
By Jonathan Zdziarski | September 11, 2008
In this live webcast, iPhone hacker and data forensics expert Jonathan Zdziarski guides you through the steps used by law enforcement agencies to bypass the iPhone 3G's passcode lock by creating a custom firmware bundle. This live presentation is aimed...
Success Factors: What traditional business really needs to know about Web 2.0
By Joshua-Michele Ross | July 21, 2008
This is a free live event. Scheduled for approximately 45 minutes. The business world is experiencing successive waves of disruption caused by new trends and technologies; from publishing to media and entertainment, software development to financial...
10 Key Ingredients for Cookin' Digital Pictures
By Rick Sammon | June 26, 2008
This is a free live event. Scheduled for approximately 45 minutes. In this live webcast, world-renowned photographer Rick Sammon will share his top digital photography tips, including his 10 Key Ingredients for Cookin' Digital Photographs. He'll also...
The Top Five Log Analysis Mistakes
By Anton Chuvakin | May 27, 2008
In this live webcast, security expert Anton Chuvakin will cover operational security challenges that organizations face while deploying log and alert collection and analysis infrastructure. The talk will center around the common mistakes organizations...
Adaptive Path's Subject to Change: Creating Great Products and Services for an Uncertain World
By Peter Merholz | May 15, 2008
The way most organizations think and work on products and services isn't suited to the unpredictable world we live in. Instead, companies need new ways of thinking and working to adapt into innovative, agile, and commercially successful organizations...
The Facebook Application Ecosystem: Why Some Thrive, and Most Don't
By Shelly D. Farnham | May 13, 2008
What do the killer apps on the Facebook platform have in common? What must you build into your application if you want Facebook users to adopt it and pass it on to their friends? In this live webcast, Shelly D. Farnham, Ph.D. discusses the application...
Even Faster Web Sites
By Steve Souders | April 24, 2008
Under his tenure as the Chief Performance Yahoo!, Steve released YSlow and wrote High Performance Web Sites (at one point the #1 selling computer book on Amazon). Now at Google, Steve is working on a new set of best practices for making web sites even...
iPhone Forensics Demonstration
By Jonathan Zdziarski | April 17, 2008
With the iPhone quickly becoming the market leader in mobile devices, the need for law enforcement personnel to perform forensic analysis of these devices is beginning to surface. Unlike most other smart phones, the iPhone incorporates desktop-like features...
Getting the iPhone Open Source Tool Chain
By Jonathan Zdziarski | April 03, 2008
In this webcast, Jonathan A. Zdziarski, one of the original hackers of the iPhone and author of iPhone Open Application Development will demonstrate how you can use the iPhone open source tool chain to design third-party software that will run on this...
Five Ways to Make Your Photos Look Better
By Derrick Story | March 27, 2008
In this webcast, Derrick Story, digital photographer, blogger, and author of The Digital Photography Companion, gives you the tools to capture the high quality pictures you've always wanted--photos that will distinguish your work from others. Thousands...
Control a World of Computers From Your Linux PC
By Carla Schroder | March 20, 2008
In this webinar, Carla Schroder, columnist, blogger, and author of the Linux Cookbook and Linux Networking Cookbook, covers the finer points of secure remote graphical administration from your Linux PC, showing how to run graphical applications, your...
Writing LINQ Queries with LINQPad
By Joseph Albahari | February 20, 2008
If you missed out on the live O'Reilly webinar, Writing LINQ Queries with LINQPad, you can still learn the ins-and-outs of using LINQPad directly from author Joseph Albahari. LINQPad is the querying tool that's sweeping the .NET world. This is a must...
Understanding Mobile Web Performance
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In this webcast we'll show how to measure and understand Mobile Web Performance. We'll focus on tools such as Blaze Mobitest and others, showing the options available to you. Lastly, we'll share insights already gleaned using these tools, and discuss...
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