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Thu, Sep 24
Responses to the session:
Scaling Apache 2.x in all dimensions
Using the right tricks, the Apache httpd server is capable of astounding performance; handling tens of thousands of concurrent downloads, ultra-responsive and ultra-fast web-serving and clever caching of dynamic requests. This session will cover ...... [session page]
anas samara:
Hello Dear: Am trying to see the presentation or the work in this topic "scaling apache 2.x .. but i cannot get this video.. can aby one help me..
thanks
Tue, Dec 9 at 2:21PM
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Delia Frees posted
Next stop, Beijing!
Take a look at the "Apache Meet Up" (5 December 2008) http://us.apachecon.com/c/accn2008 -- and -- "BarCamp Beijing" (6 December 2008) http://barcamp.org/BarCampBeijing
Then, of course, there's "ApacheCon Europe" (23-27 March 2009) in Amsterdam http://eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/
Delia Frees:
Well, not *my* next stop (bummer) but take a look at the first APACHE MEET UP in China (5 December 2008) http://us.apachecon.com/c/accn2008 and BARCAMP BEIJING (6 December 2008) http://barcamp.org/BarCampBeijing
Then, of course, there's APACHECON EUROPE in Amsterdam (23-27 March 2009) http://eu.apachecon.com/c/aceu2009/
Fri, Nov 21 at 5:51PM
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Monju posted
Captcha
First I want to know that what is captcha?What is importance?Is it really protect spammers and how?Recently we found captcha operator job or work.What is it?Is it legal?
Apache can make software.So what kind of software they make?What is the adventage of their software?
Delia Frees:
Hi Monju... Check out the Wikipedia definition of "Captcha" http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Captcha
Also, you can take a look at the numerous Apache Projects here: http://apache.org/
Have you been to ApacheCon? If you're able to make it to Beijing, China you may want to consider attending the Apache Meet Up and/or BarCamp Beijing (5-6 December 2008) http://us.apachecon.com/c/accn2008 and http://barcamp.org/BarCampBeijing
Fri, Nov 21 at 5:17PM
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Danny Angus posted
Post your Photographs to the Flickr Group
If you're a flickr user please post some of your photographs of the week to:
http://www.flickr.com/groups/apachecon
Shane Curcuru:
Reminder: we ask folks to also tag their photos immaterial of what website they host them on. Use either/both of:
apachecon
ApacheConUS2008
Feel free to make comments on our http://wiki.apache.org/apachecon/ApacheconPictures:"ApacheConPictures " wiki page as well.
Tue, Nov 11 at 9:01AM
(1 comment)
Responses to the session:
Do You Believe in the Users?
Too many programmers have forgotten about the lost art of customer service. All software has users, though most developers have forgotten how to respect them, trust them, or "sell" their software to in an exciting (but honest!) manner. This talk ...... [session page]
Scott Lamons:
Amen Brian! As I mentioned you should consider recording this session and put it up on YouTube. Good stuff which applies to really any software development effort, Open Source or commercial.
Sat, Nov 8 at 8:21AM
(1 comment)
Responses to the session:
Voluntourism Day
UPDATE: We'll be posting the detailed plan on our Voluntourism day page. But please sign up for this event if you'd like to attend, or add questions in the Comment box below.
A...... [session page]
Richard Tauber:
It was a great time and felt good giving back.
Looking for photos of day if there are any.
Erik Hatcher:
What a great day! We shoveled mud and built a fence. A great turn-out.
Shane Curcuru:
We're gathering at 8:30am sharp, and have arranged a bus for transport to the worksite. Note that we're still working on getting transport back from the worksite, so if you do have a rental car with space, let us know, so we can reduce the number of cabs we'll need.
Note that depending on the number of volunteers, we don't know how long the job will take.
In any case - please bring an ApacheCon or ASF feathered tshirt if you have one! And if you have a good camera, bring that too; we're going to want to take a picture of our creation (presuming, of course, we can get a bunch of geeks to build a fence in a straight line instead of a fractal.
Sat, Nov 8 at 1:26AM
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Responses to the session:
Advanced Reverse Proxy Load Balancing in Apache HTTP Server 2.2
One of the main new features in Apache 2.2 is the enhancement of the proxy module, allowing Apache to proxy not only HTTP as before, but also AJP. Coupled with the dynamic load balancing capability also new in 2.2, see why Apache is now an even m...... [session page]
Danny Angus:
A tremendously well presented talk blending high level explanation an detailed how-to's which successfully compressed a day's learning into an hour's session. One of the most worthwhile sessions I've attended at any conference, not just ApacheCon.
Fri, Nov 7 at 9:17PM
(1 comment)
Responses to the session:
Stormin' the coffee cup with Apache Harmony
Since it's inception in May 2005, the Apache Harmony project has enjoyed phenomenal progress, such that three years later we have virtual machines, JIT compilers, and over 99% of Java 5 and Java 6 SE APIs complete. Harmony's pluggable, modular ar...... [session page]
Dave Newton:
Nice overview of the modular nature of Harmony, and irritating reminder of Sun's recalcitrance :/
Fri, Nov 7 at 7:13PM
(1 comment)
Responses to the session:
Apache James - The Complete Email Application Platform
This presentation will introduce the audience to the Apache James mailserver, outlining its major features and focusing on James' capability as a mature and highly flexible email application platform that can be used in complex enterprise systems...... [session page]
Dave Newton:
Good high-level overview of what James brings to the table.
Fri, Nov 7 at 7:12PM
(1 comment)
Responses to the session:
Scripting your Java Application with BSF 3.0
One very important functionality of modern extensible applications is support for developping such extensions in any scripting languages. Many scripting languages available today provide some sort of Java integration but each integration is diffe...... [session page]
Dave Newton:
Tough to cram a lot into 50 minutes, but it would have been nice to see more realistic, even if small, examples about Java/BSF-language integration. More OSGi information than seemed necessary for the primary topic.
Fri, Nov 7 at 7:11PM
(1 comment)
Responses to the session:
Service Oriented Integration With the Apache ServiceMix ESB
SOA is simply a way to think when designing systems. Service oriented integration is a way to leverage investments in existing IT systems. Apache ServiceMix is an enterprise service bus (ESB) that provides a platform for system integration utiliz...... [session page]
Carlos Sanchez:
Good introduction on ESB, JBI, ServiceMix,... and Bruce is a great speaker, getting everybody's attention, even mine!
Fri, Nov 7 at 3:11PM
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Responses to the session:
ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, Camel, and CXF - An integration toolbox
ServiceMix, ActiveMQ, Camel, and CXF are all complimentary technologies that can be used to create an integration toolbox. This session will show how to use each of these components together to create a flexible and full featured integration plat...... [session page]
Shane Curcuru:
Our apologies - the speaker, Chris Custine, went to the hospital earlier today with back problems, and will not be able to give this talk today. We wish him well and hope he feels better soon.
Bruce Snyder has very kindly volunteered to lead a 30 min discussion about Camel during this time instead, since we have no other backup speakers at the moment. Bruce will then be heading immediately for the airport, so please email him followup questions so he doesn't miss his flight. Thanks Bruce!
Fri, Nov 7 at 2:53PM
(1 comment)
Responses to the session:
iBatis, Cayenne, OpenJPA - Apache Persistence Layers
iBatis, OpenJPA and Cayenne all offer their own unique solution to the Java persistence and O/R mapping problem. Each of these solutions has its own merits and advantages. This talk introduces to these projects, shows their strengths and gives ex...... [session page]
Martijn Dashorst:
Nice overview of the three products, but didn't get to the details much. Unfortunately, but I can't expect anything else if you have just 50 minutes to discuss 3 persistency frameworks.
Fri, Nov 7 at 2:11PM
(1 comment)
Responses to the session:
Java Monitoring and Trouble Shooting Tools In Action
CNET Networks owns a global network of popular web sites with a combined average daily page views of over 86.3 million. To keep our sites running smoothly, we frequently have to monitor and trouble shoot our Java applications. In additional to th...... [session page]
Vivek Kumar:
This session was really help full and good in content and presentation.
Bill Au:
My perl script was written specifically for thread dumps taken from a resin3 appserver. It classifies the threads into different categories by name. The names will be different for other appservers. It should be a simple hack to change the thread names that the script is looking for to make it work for thread dumps from other appservers. Or one can ignore the name and simply classify the threads by the state that they are in:
idle - in Object.wait()
blocked - waiting for monitor entry
running - runnable
Free feel to contact me at billa at apache dot org if you have any questions on the script or any part of the talk.
I had to skip one demo since I went out of time. I am thinking about splitting the talk into two, heap dump analysis and thread dump analysis. What do you think?
Jeremy Thomerson:
This was a GREAT session! I really appreciated all of Bill's very helpful and informative examples, and seeing some tools I hadn't used before.
I took as many notes as I could and posted them here:
http://www.jeremythomerson.com/blog/2008/11/07/apachecon-java-monitoring-and-troubleshooting-tools-in-action/
Fri, Nov 7 at 11:01AM
(3 comments)
Responses to the session:
Open Development in the Enterprise
In this talk, we will explore the question: what can corporate IT organizations learn from leading OSS communities? We will look at how open development concepts such as transparency, meritocracy and community oversight can be applied in corporat...... [session page]
Brett Porter:
Great talk that not only drew great parallels between open source projects and enterprise development teams, but also illustrated the patterns (and anti-patterns) for successful open source communities in the first place.
Phil delivered a clear and well structured presentation, full of "aha!" moments. This should be required listening for all development managers - and I'm not just saying that because he kept mentioning my name :)
Fri, Nov 7 at 10:30AM
(1 comment)
Responses to the session:
How Do You Do? Writing Documentation Your Audience Can Read
Documentation is often seen as the 'ugly sister' of open source work. Everyone knows they need it, but no one wants to write it. But writing documentation doesn't need to be a pain, and the advantages of having usable documentation are many. This...... [session page]
Dave Newton:
Good talk, good examples, good advice--enjoyed the talk quite a bit, and it mirrors recent experiences.
Hollie C. Hollis:
Excellent information, well organized and thorough. My pain comes from knowing all of the documentation I need to create for our company. Thank you for taking the time to present this information!
Brett Porter:
Great talk from Noirin, though a little painful to listen to as I recalled examples of our own docs for every illustration of what not to do! A great set of tips for all developers to take note of and use to make some reasonable improvements to their documentation. I would love to hear more about the aspects of attracting (luring?) experienced documentation writers into an open source community for a future talk.
Fri, Nov 7 at 10:21AM
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Cuong posted
Great conference, are the presentations available?
This being my first ApacheCon, has been a great experience. So many sessions, so little time. A lot of presenters have noted they would post their slides but I'm having difficulty tracking them down. Will they be collected in a central area or per individual? I just don't have a photographic memory like everyone else ;-) it seems.
Thanks and looking forward to another full day of sessions.
Shane Curcuru:
Yes, we are still working with all of our speakers to collect and post presentation slides. Many are available now on the apachecon.com half of our website, and after the conference we'll post an easy way to download them.
For now, go to the SCHEDULE link in the header above, and click through to the session you're interested in. Every session will either have state "No Materials Available" - which means we haven't uploaded the speaker's slides yet - or will have clickable links for any materials that are available.
Please note - rating sessions, and providing comments on sessions, is provided on the COMMUNITY or apacheconus2008.crowdvine.com portion of our site, where you can build a My Schedule.
Fri, Nov 7 at 9:38AM
(1 comment)
Responses to the session:
Opening Plenary
Conference welcome and announcements.
Sander Temme:
The sound in this room doesn't reach far enough back. They should have put some speakers in the back of the room for better distribution. As a result, speakers in the large room are not easily audible, which did Shane no favors. Shane, you were also going a little fast which I know is something one often does unconsciously.
Thu, Nov 6 at 3:19PM
(1 comment)
Responses to the session:
Member's Reception
Join the ASF membership in Laginappe on the 2nd floor for refreshments in our traditional Member's & Committers reception, sponsored as always by Spring Source.
Sander Temme:
Variety of food and beverage choices certainly a hit. Well source, Springsource.
Thu, Nov 6 at 3:17PM
(1 comment)
Responses to the session:
(In)secure Ajax and Web 2.0 Web Sites
Web 2.0 took the internet world by storm. Especially attackers welcome the new possibilities created by Ajax, the increased use of JavaScript, opening up applications via web services, and user generated content. This session shows common pitfall...... [session page]
Felix Meschberger:
Very interesting and very frightening talk !
Thu, Nov 6 at 3:15PM
(1 comment)
Sally Khudairi posted
HALO/Foodie Dinners – ApacheCon
We're doing it again!
Well into its eighth year, the Sally/HALO/Foodie dinners at ApacheCon continue to go from strength to strength. This one is particularly special for me, having lived in New Orleans during grad school so many years ago ... when Emeril had just opened his eponymous restaurant, media darling John Besh was a marine in Iraq and still in culinary school, John Folse brought Lafitte's Landing to London, Paul Prudhomme launche...... [read more]
Ted Guild:
see you there
Sally Khudairi:
What excitement, Shane? What are you referring to? As for restaurant proximity, it's less than 2-blocks away from the hotel. See you tonight!
Christian Wenz:
I think Shane refers to the proprietary software funeral march
Thu, Nov 6 at 1:05PM
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Shane Curcuru posted
Apologies on the live streaming interruption!
Our sincere apologies on the interruption to the live streaming. Sadly, network problems beyond the conference organizer's control seemed to have dropped part of the network connectivity from the whole hotel (we think) to the larger net.
Note that keynotes should be available in the archives later, although today's keynote may have a brief interruption.
Thu, Nov 6 at 12:21PM
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Responses to the session:
Great Code comes from Great Community: Meritocracy in Action
This presentation covers leveraging the meritocracy model to foster community participation in open source and free software. We will take a look at the dynamic community that can be built around a project or idea, and how this inclusive model ca...... [session page]
Scott Lamons:
This is the second time that I've seen this talk but still picked up on some useful tips and pointers such as the following presentation...
http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645
Nice job Chris!
Thu, Nov 6 at 12:20PM
(1 comment)
Responses to the session:
Open Source Collaboration Tools are Good For You!
What are the core requirements for a set of team collaboration tools? Looking at how ASF project communities collaborate online, we have identified four core drivers that help these projects succeed. We will show how the collaboration tools used ...... [session page]
Scott:
Bertrand is my boy! His intellect is evenly matched by his personality. This is my first time attending AC and I really did not know what to expect. The speakers rocked the house and I actually learned stuff! I attend Java One regularly and even though AC is a fraction of the size (and likely budget) the learning was on par and Bertrand was a key piece of the puzzle. I hope you have a safe flight back to Switzerland and maybe we can hook up over the fiber optics.
Great job dude,
Peace,
Scott Stanlick
Scott Lamons:
Nice overview of collaboration tools but more importantly focuses what are the requirements, needs, and the challenges that teams face in the adoption of these tools.
Thu, Nov 6 at 11:48AM
(2 comments)
Responses to the session:
Web Intrusion Detection with ModSecurity
Intrusion detection is a well-known network security technique--it introduces monitoring and correlation devices to networks, enabling administrators to monitor events and detect attacks and anomalies in real-time. Web intrusion detection does th...... [session page]
Jeremy Thomerson:
This was a good overview of ModSecurity. It moved really fast and there was no way I could take everything in. Despite that, I came away with a good understanding of what ModSecurity can do for me - and I know that it can do a lot - I'll just have to find the documentation and implement it!
I tried to do a writeup on the session here:
http://www.jeremythomerson.com/blog/2008/11/06/apachecon-modsecurity/
Thu, Nov 6 at 10:59AM
(1 comment)
Responses to the session:
Hardening Enterprise Apache Installations Against Attacks
Enterprise installations of Apache are particularly attractive targets for malicious attacks including Denial of Service, defacement, theft of data or service and installation of zombies or viruses. Hardening your deployment against such attacks ...... [session page]
Jeremy Thomerson:
Good session with a lot of really good tips. One of the best sessions yet!
I did a writeup on it here:
http://www.jeremythomerson.com/blog/2008/11/06/apachecon-hardening-securing-enterprise-apache-installations/
Thu, Nov 6 at 10:57AM
(1 comment)
Responses to the session:
Intuitive interfaces for complex e-commerce (Web 2.0 UIs for dynamic products with complex sub-assemblies)
A lot of e-commerce systems will let you "put the item in the basket" but OFBiz takes things to a whole new level. A single product may drive thousands of top level SKUs that feed into hundreds of thousands of sub-assembly configurations. Prices ...... [session page]
Dave Newton:
Barely talked about GWT, RPC, the powerful product configuration capabilities in the OFBiz e-commerce infrastructure, nor strategies for feeding those options into intuitive interfaces. I neither have nor needed any familiarity with OFBiz.
It could have been interesting, as the speaker is obviously knowledgeable as were other members of the audience (except for me :) but wasn't. I'm sure others with OFBiz experience/knowledge got much more out of it, but it was quite far afield of what I was led to expect from the description.
Note to *all* presenters: "check the tech" *before* the scheduled talk.
Thu, Nov 6 at 10:55AM
(1 comment)
Responses to the session:
Content analysis for ECM with Apache Tika
Apache Tika is an extensible content analysis toolkit designed for detecting and extracting metadata and structured text content from a large number of document formats. It represents an higher level layer over existing parser libraries. World-cl...... [session page]
Erik Hatcher:
Paolo - great job! I definitely got way more out of the talk than expected, and was surprised at how nice Tika is.
Best wishes for bobsledding in '10 :)
Dave Newton:
Nice overview of what seems like a very useful project, will definitely explore further--thanks!
Peter Lenahan:
Surprising good.
I didn't originally plan on attending this class.
So I was very pleased to learn about it because it was in the same room as the Lucene and Solr classes in the Developer track.
The material was well presented, the speaker was very good.
Having learned about this project in the class I will be using code in this projects.
Good job
Thanks,
Thu, Nov 6 at 10:43AM
(3 comments)
Responses to the session:
Introduction to Hadoop
Hadoop is an Apache project that provides a framework for running applications on large clusters of commodity hardware. The Hadoop framework transparently provides applications both reliability and data motion. Hadoop implements a distributed fil...... [session page]
Peter Lenahan:
A classroom changed caused about 25 people to miss the first 15 minutes of the class. So we walked into the middle of the class. This wasn't Owen's fault.
Starting in the middle of the class made it difficult to fully understand the remaining slides.
Owen presented the materials well.
It is a very impressive technology.
So I would rate the Owen as 5 Stars *****
But the event organizers on this one 0 stars XXXXX.
Thu, Nov 6 at 10:35AM
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Shane Curcuru posted
Room Update: Hadoop talks in Borgne Thursday
Changed room: Thursday morning's three Hadoop sessions are actually being held in Borgne, on the 3rd floor. Hadoop fans can simply stay in the room through the afternoon Hadoop Camp in the same room. Note that they will also be video taping (although not streaming) the sessions in Borgne throughout the day.
Thu, Nov 6 at 12:02AM
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