The talk addresses an audience of proficient Python programmers and deals with several advanced topics: object creation: metaclasses, new, and init - attribute lookup mechanics and descriptor objects - introspection on objects, garbage collection, stack frames, tracebacks - Python bytecode inspection and alteration... (more)

The Python language, while object-oriented, is fundamentally different from both C++ and Java. The dynamic and introspective nature of Python allow for language mechanics unlike that of static languages... (more)

Presented by Monty Widenius.

MariaDB is a community developed, backward compatible, drop-in replacement branch of the MySQL(R) Database Server. What is MariaDB all about, and what is its future?.. (more)

JavaScript is a language with more than its share of bad parts. It went from non-existence to global adoption in an alarmingly short period of time. It never had an interval in the lab when it could be tried out and polished. JavaScript has some extraordinarily good parts. In JavaScript there is a beautiful, highly expressive language that is buried under a steaming pile of good intentions and blu.. (more)

Browsers are continually upgrading - providing new features from the latest specifications. We'll look at modern JavaScript and DOM techniques that you can easily drop in to your applications for instant speed-ups... (more)

Large-scale computing, Google-style: MapReduce, BigTable, Hadoop, HDFS and others.. (more)

Painless Python for Proficient Programmers Part II
Alex Martelli (Google)

Python is a popular very-high-level programming language, with a clean and spare syntax, simple and regular semantics, a large standard library and a wealth of third-party extensions, libraries and tools. With several production-quality open-source implementations available, many excellent books, and gr.. (more)

Painless Python for Proficient Programmers
Alex Martelli (Google)

Python is a popular very-high-level programming language, with a clean and spare syntax, simple and regular semantics, a large standard library and a wealth of third-party extensions, libraries and tools. With several production-quality open-source implementations available, many excellent books, and growing ac.. (more)

Learn how to create great web applications quickly on Google App Engine using the Django web framework and the Python language. Google App Engine lets you host complete, scalable web applications written in Python with minimal fuss. This tutorial assumes basic familiarity with Python but definitely no advanced Python knowlege; Django experience is optional. You will learn how to use the Django web.. (more)

Visualize your Data: Google Visualization API

The new Google Visualization API lets you access multiple sources of structured data that you can display, choosing from a large selection of visualizations. It also provides a platform that can be used to create, share and reuse visualizations written by the developer community at large. Several of the key benefits include:

more)

Building an Android Application 101
Jason Chen (Google)

This session is a practical introduction to building Android applications using the SDK and developer tools. We'll walk through building a non-trivial application and use it as the basis for discussing the various facets of the Android application framework... (more)