Sessions tagged as Video
Comparing Web Video Technologies, from Flash to HTML5 to Silverlight
Location: Shiley Hall, Room 124
Flash is dead. Long live HTML5. Or not? There's a lot of misinformation spread by both standards and plug-in advocates. In this session, you learn the benefits and disadvantages to deploying online video with HTML5, Adobe Flash Player, and Microsoft Silverlight. Topics include codec decisions (AVC/H.264, Theora, and others), licensing, deployment scenarios (progressive download, adaptive streaming, and more). While Robert is a full-time consultant specializing with Flash-based solutions, more and more of his work is encompassing a broader range of online video technologies. Robert's discussion starts with his recent blog post, http://tinyurl.com/whyflash.
CPU Caches and Why You Care
Location: Franz Hall, Room 231
No matter what programming language or technology you use, if your software fails to make effective use of the underlying CPU caches, your system's performance will suffer. A lot. This session provides a wide-ranging overview of your CPU caches, how they operate, and how that affects high-level decisions on things like data structures and traversal strategies. Both single- and multi-threaded execution are considered. Specific topics include different cache types (data, instruction, TLB); private and shared caches; cache lines and speculative prefetching; false sharing; and cache-friendly program organization, data structures, and traversal strategies. If you care at all about performance, the information in this talk is essential. The fact that it's really interesting is simply a bonus :-)
The NoSQL Movement, LINQ, and MongoDB - Oh My!
Location: Franz Hall, Room 217
Learn how to leverage MongoDB to build .NET applications using LINQ as the data access language. This session will introduce the ideas around the so-called NoSQL movement. We will examine one of the up and coming open source databases called MongoDB. From there we will build out a .NET application using LINQ and MongoDB in a series of interactive demos using Visual Studio 2010 and C#. We will also be covering the NoRM LINQ to MongoDB library in our demos.