Sessions at OSCON 2012 with link

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Monday 16th July 2012

• Introduction to Django

  by Jacob Kaplan-Moss

  Django is a high-level web development framework designed for rapid development of database-backed web sites. This tutorial is designed to introduce developers to Django. It will take attendees from a blank screen to a fully-functional web application. I'll cover all the basics you need to know to get started with Django.

  • Django

  At 9:00am to 12:30pm, Monday 16th July

  In D137-138, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage link

Wednesday 18th July 2012

• Aparapi: An Open Source tool for extending the Java promise of ‘Write Once Run Anywhere’ to include the GPU

  by Gary Frost

  Aparapi provides an API for expressing data parallel workloads in Java and a runtime capable of converting Java bytecode into OpenCL for execution on a GPU. For some data-parallel algorithms, executing on the GPU can offer substantial performance gains.

  We will introduce Aparapi, demonstrate key features as well as discuss lessons learned during the transition from closed to open-source.

  • aparapi
  • GPU
  • Java
  • Open Source

  At 5:00pm to 5:40pm, Wednesday 18th July

  In Portland 255, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage link

Thursday 19th July 2012

• Unlocking Proprietary Data with PostgreSQL Foreign Data Wrappers

  by Pat Patterson

  PostgreSQL 9.1 introduced ‘Foreign Data Wrappers’ (FDW) – a partial implementation of the SQL/MED standard for handling access to remote data sources. FDW allows PostgreSQL to expose remote data as foreign tables which then behave similarly to native PostgreSQL tables, in particular, allowing remote data to be queried with SQL statements.

  This session provides an overview of Foreign Data Wrappers, looks at the native interface for writing FDWs in C, and contrasts this with Multicorn, an open source framework that allows FDWs to be developed in Python. We will show a real-world Python FDW that retrieves business data from salesforce.com, with a sample client application that demonstrates how foreign data can be combined with data held in native PostgreSQL tables using a simple SQL JOIN.

  • PostgreSQL
  • Python

  At 5:00pm to 5:40pm, Thursday 19th July

  In Portland 252, Oregon Convention Center

  Coverage link slide deck