Streaming is an old concept in software, the reason why Unix works so well. It is important that we align with this philosophy when we do web development. During work of my part-time master project, I focused on how to make streaming large files to elastic search efficiently. Below is outline of talk I would […]
David and Goliah: from Firefox browser to Firefox OS
“David and Goliah” is a classics story in the Bible regarding how to compete with a giant. Looking back to the history of Mozilla and Firefox, it is also about competing with the strong or even dominated competitor to promote openness and freedom of the web. In this session, the speaker will talk about the […]
An Introduction to Garbage Collection Algorithm in OpenJDK
One of the main attraction of the Java Platform is automatic memory management. The OpenJDK JVM contains sophisticated Garbage Collector algorithms to ensure memory management is done efficiently and with minimal impact to the application. In this talk we will give you a brief tour of the different GC algorithm that is available in OpenJDK […]
XO4All: Eduvolunterism & OLPC
The One Laptop per Child (OLPC) has attracted thousands of volunteers since the XO laptop was announced in 2005. As a volunteer myself this has been a most rewarding experience. Why should people consider giving their time and effort to be eduvolunteers? Do you have the personality and attitude to contribute to its vision. OLPC […]
VLC 2.2 and VideoLAN introduction
As VLC media player version 2.2 is about to be release, we will introduce the VideoLAN project and community behind the versatile open-source media player and streaming server, what to expect from this new major version and from open-source multimedia in the near future. Speaker: Mr. Rémi Denis-Courmont (Finland) and Mr François Cartegnie (France). Mr. […]
