Sessions at Open Source Bridge 2011 about Code with notes

Tuesday 21st June 2011

• GraphViz: The Open-Source Body Scanner for Code, Systems, and Data

  by Matt Youell

  Do you generate, manage, or analyze a lot of data? Do you develop software? Do you like pretty pictures? If your answer was "yes" to zero or more of these questions, this talk is for you.

  GraphViz is an open source program for displaying the structure of data. We'll discuss:

  • Graphs, GraphViz, and DOT, the data format that drives GraphViz
  • How to peer inside of a running system with a little bit of code and a whole lot of GraphViz
  • Debugging and state modeling techniques for programmers
  • Techniques for finding patterns in data sets.
  • Problems with GraphViz

  Developers! Say goodbye to println debugging

  Analysts! Find simple ways to look at systems and data.

  Suits! Find patterns and opportunities you didn't know were there.

  Aesthetes! See the natural beauty of data.

  • Analysis
  • Code
  • Data
  • graphviz
  • Mining

  At 3:45pm to 4:30pm, Tuesday 21st June

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Thursday 23rd June 2011

• JavaScript Up and Down the Stack

  by Mikeal

  If you didn't think JavaScript was ubiquitous enough being in every browser you're certainly happy now that it's taking over as a backend platform languages and even getting embedded in to databases :)

  This talk will cover the common elements of different JavaScript environments in browsers, node.js and CouchDB and various strategies for breaking up and structuring code that can be modularly used across environments.

  I'll also cover some real world use cases and a few libraries that straddle the different JavaScript worlds as well as the fate of CommonJS.

  • Code
  • CouchDB
  • JavaScript
  • Node.js

  At 2:30pm to 3:15pm, Thursday 23rd June

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