Open Web Vancouver 2009 - Day 2

08:30A8Ning - Open Web Testing

We'll spend the first half of this talk talking about automated web testing - starting simple and then moving on to Business Driven Development.
http://awesnob.com
http://twitter.com/lukec
http://ingy.net/

09:45 Cross Domain Web Mashups with JQuery and Google App Engine

Over the past year some really great tools and practices have appeared for creating web mashups simply and quickly. Google's App Engine allows the easy creation and deployment of servers to provide the source for data.
http://www.agmweb.ca/blog/andy/
http://twitter.com/clearwind
http://geojsontweet.appspot.com/
http://svn.clearwind.ca/public/projects/presentations/open-vancouver-09/
clearwind.ca
http://json-time.appspot.com/
http://geohash.appspot.com/
http://atomtojsonp.appspot.com/
http://developer.yahoo.com/yql/

11:00Drupal: Under the Hood

You may have heard of Drupal, the fantastic open source content management framework that's powering sites such as Ubuntu, Recovery.gov and The Onion.
http://webchick.net/
http://twitter.com/webchick

01:00 Building Castles in the Clouds

'Cloud Computing' is an oft-heard buzzword lately - the premise is that instead of having "real" servers in a colocation facility somewhere, these servers are virtualized.Drew Smith is a longtime Linux network administrator.
http://disengage.ca
http://twitter.com/mux
http://aws.amazon.com/solutions/aws-solutions/
http://riotnrrd.com/bad_day.jpg
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02:15 The Smart Platform

Joyent's Smart Platform is an open source Platform-as-a-Service, letting developers to build scalable, complex web applications in JavaScript that runs on the server, and then deploy those applications into the "cloud" using Git.
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3:30 Open Data and Semantic Web Community Barn Raising

Open source is now a term that is increasingly understood, or at least talked about. One of the next battles in keeping the web open is keeping data open - from the content we "generate" for many social sites to the closed silos of government and businesses.
http://blog.baconpatiobeer.com/
http://vancouver.freebase.com/
http://bmannconsulting.com
http://twitter.com/bmann

4:00 How and Why to Extend Firefox in Javascript

If you know Javascript, writing Firefox extensions is easy! We talk briefly about the wonderful things you can do in a Firefox extenion
http://www.darkcoding.net
https://developer.mozilla.org/en/Command_Line_Options
http://mozdev.org/
http://gkgk.org/
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More conference resources

http://flowplayer.org/
http://www.lizakindred.com
http://twitter.com/LizaK
kindred-open_source_business.pdf
http://johnboxall.ca
http://twitter.com/johnboxall
boxall-squinty_eyes.pdf