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All Conference Events (9)
August 22Friday
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Central Florida Software Symposium
August 22, 2008 at 8am to August 24, 2008 at 6pm – Four Points by Sheraton Studio City (Rate of $99/night - Make sure and join us for the 2008 Central Florida Software Symposium! The premier Java/Agility event series, NFJS Tour returns to Orlando! Event Name: Central Florida Software Symposium 2008 Dates:… Organized by Big Sky Technologies | Type: Conference
September 11Thursday
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Izeafest - Content Creation, Blogging and Social Marketing
September 11, 2008 at 8am to September 13, 2008 at 6pm – Grand Bohemian Hotel I wanted to invite you to join me at Izeafest in a few weeks. http://www.izeafest.com is an event about content creation, blogging and social marketing. It's aimed at social marketers that want to le… Organized by Izea | Type: Conference
October 11Saturday
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Tampa Bay BarCamp
October 11, 2008 at 8:30pm to October 12, 2008 at 5:30pm – South Florida College of Business in Tampa Announcing Tampa Bay’s first ever BarCamp Event. BarCamp is an unConference, organized entirely by attendees, for attendees. Born from the desire for people to share and learn in an open environment… Organized by Peter Radizeski | Type: Conference
November 6Thursday
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RubyConf
November 6, 2008 at 9am to November 8, 2008 at 4am – OMNI Champions Gate hotel Everything you always wanted to know about what's going on right now in Ruby, from getting started to cloud computing. Organized by contact@rubycentral.org | Type: Conference
December 1Monday
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The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC)
December 1, 2008 at 2pm to December 4, 2008 at 3pm – Orange County Convention Center The Interservice/Industry Training, Simulation and Education Conference (I/ITSEC) promotes cooperation among the Armed Services, Industry, Academia and various Government agencies in pursuit of impro… Organized by http://iitsec.org/ | Type: Conference
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SpringOne
December 1, 2008 at 6pm to December 4, 2008 at 6pm – Westin Hotel SpringOne America 2008, formerly The Spring Experience, is the conference for the Spring community. This one-of-a-kind event is tailored for application developers, solution architects, and project m… Organized by SpringSource | Type: Conference
January 17Saturday
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The Perl Oasis
January 17, 2009 at 8am – The Ramada Gateway Orlando Mongers is organizing a one day Perl conference called, "Perl Oasis", that will focus on practical applications of Perl. Topics will be appropriate for both beginners as well as seasoned hack… Organized by Orlando Perl Mongers | Type: Conference
January 21Wednesday
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Florida Educational Technology Conference
January 21, 2009 at 6pm to January 24, 2009 at 6pm – Orange County Convention Center FETC ( Florida Educational Technology Conference ) takes place January 21-24 in Orlando. Here's the side with info: http://www.fetc.org/ This is a fascinating conference dealing with the use of compu… Organized by | Type: Conference
February 6Friday
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Acts As Conference
February 6, 2009 at 9am to February 7, 2009 at 5pm – Ramada Orlando Celebration Resort & Convention Center Acts as Conference 2009 is a two-day Rails conference that will make you a more competitive Rails developer by learning from those driving the innovation that is fueling the Rails community. Held Feb… Organized by Robert Dempsey | Type: Conference
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Spotify's engineering team developed the 2025 "Wrapped Archive," generating 1.4 billion personalized reports for 350 million users. This system identifies key listening days and crafts narratives using a language model. As companies increasingly provide narrative recaps, concerns about user privacy and data tracking persist, necessitating a balance between insights and privacy safeguards.
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Madelyn Olson discusses the evolution of Valkey's data structures, moving away from "textbook" pointer-chasing HashMaps to more cache-aware designs. She explains the implementation of "Swedish" tables to maximize memory density. She shares insights on systems intuition, memory prefetching, and the rigorous testing needed for mission-critical caches.
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