QCon San Francisco, Nov 11-15 (g33ktalk Promo Code)

Aug 232013
 

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QCon San Francisco: November 11-15, 2013 is back.

QCon is a practitioner-driven conference designed for technical team leads, architects, engineering directors, and project managers who influence innovation in their teams. Some of the 15 tracks @QCon San Francisco include: API Design, Mobile Dev, Applied Date Science, Continuous Delivery, the Javascript Ecosystem, and more.

Our founder, Pete Soderling, is also leading the Culture track this year. Don’t miss out!

http://qconsf.com

You can watch the videos from QCon San Francisco 2012 here

Sign up here and save $800 before Aug 30th when you use “g33ktalk100”! 

 

g33ktalk Gig: Content/Growth Hacker

Apr 022013
 

g33ktalk is an innovative media company building an international network of startup oriented software engineers who love open-source technologies.

“Hacker” runs deep in our culture, and we’re looking for a startup-savvy content/growth hacker to help take our community to the next level. We’re looking for a special combination of tech blogger/product hustler who can work with our team to define the next steps in the user-facing vision of our platform and help create & execute our innovative distribution strategies.

Started by software engineer & serial entrepreneur Pete Soderling in 2012, we’ve currently launched in NYC and SF with plans to launch internationally this year. Via our own growth hacking techniques we’ve already built distribution to thousands of software engineers who trust g33ktalk to deliver high quality software engineering content.

You:
* have previously worked for, or founded, at least 1 startup (no posers)
* have experience with content marketing and can point to successful examples of of your work
* are wicked smart, write exceptionally well, have a dry sense of humor (you can’t blame us for wanting it all)

You, optionally:
* already write code
* have an interest in tech journalism
* have previous experience building a digital media product

You want:
* to be on the cutting edge of content marketing strategies, and part of a team building a platform that embodies them
* to help us take a stab at the crazy vision that a new media co doesn’t need to be funded by advertising
* to make the world a better place for software engineers
* the thrill of working on another early stage company

If you’re interested – email us at :
* send us at least one example of online content you’ve successfully produced & distributed
* tell us how you measure the success of your distribution
* include a list of the last 5 meetups you’ve attended

Web Development Internship

Apr 022013
 

About the company

g33ktalk is a NYC-based tech startup building an international community of software engineers and helping each developers level up their skills. Our curated software development content is a must-have resource trusted by thousands of developers worldwide. We also act as developer agents, connecting top engineers directly with the best CTOs across our international network of startups and tech companies. Our clients/partners include top startups like eBay, Foursquare, Netflix, Tumblr, Google, and others. We have offices in New York and San Francisco with our network expanded to London, Berlin and Moscow.

What you can expect from g33ktalk

g33ktalk is looking for 2-3 energetic CS students for an internship opportunity in web development in our NYC office. At g33ktalk, we work as a team. We care less about the formality but focus on the quality of work. This is your opportunity to work with a high-energy startup on a team that knows how to get stuff done, and you’ll develop practical, and valuable, web development skills in the process. You will be exposed to all sides of the business and learn knowledge from the whole spectrum. Most exciting of all, you will experience the opportunity to grow your personal and professional network through our deep relationships with the NYC and San Francisco Bay tech startup communities. The internship is paid, depending on level of experience. There is also the potential for the best candidates to secure full-time opportunities with the company in the future.

Responsibilities

  • Develop and maintain our flagship website, g33ktalk.com
  • Work with other g33ktalk staff on web publishing projects for our site network
  • Use open-source technologies to help g33ktalk push the boundaries of digital publishing with A/B testing, hyper-focused email and social marketing as well as user profiling & analytics.

Requirements

  • Self-motivated individuals with a strong inclination towards building next-generation online content platforms and user experiences
  • Our engineers are typically full-stack & you’ll work from the front-end to the back-end
  • If you happen to know PHP, that’s great since that’s how we started – however, we’re always open to using the best technology for a specific task
  • Hours are flexible and we’re open to working with your schedule

Yes, I'm Interested in this Gig!

  • Why bother with resumes, right?
  • Helps us evaluate your skills faster

g33ktalk Weekly, Mar 20

Mar 202013
 

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How to Improve Rails Performance on Heroku 

Stafford Brooke describes the steps you can take to get more performance out of Heroku when using it for Rails application hosting. 5 mins

Clojure: All Grown Up

In this article, David Jacobs argues why we should adopt Clojure. He says it will simplify our coding life, speed up product development, clarify how we think about structure and complexity and help us avoid unnecessary coding frustration. Sounds good to me! 15 mins

Support requests: How software gets better

Luke Francl, developer at Swiftype, discusses the importance of having developers on the front lines of support, and the benefits of investing heavily in support infrastructure. 5 mins

Ever wanted to learn how to build common touch gestures into your app’s custom UI components? Learn about the correct way to implement scaling, dragging, scroll animation and more in Roman Nurik’s latest update to the Using Touch Gestures training class. online tutorial

Accelerating Big Data with Hadoop and Memcached

In this video from the HPC Advisory Council Switzerland Conference, D.K. Panda from Ohio State University discusses ways to get more perf out of your Hadoop cluster via integration w/ memcached. 48 min video

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g33ktalk Weekly, Mar 15

Mar 152013
 

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How We Went from 30 Servers to 2: Go

Travis Reeder, Co-founder and CTO of Iron.io, talks about the great results they got in switching from Ruby on Rails to Go due to heavy load. 5 mins

My First 5 Minutes On A Server

If you use your first 5 minutes on a server wisely, you can keep administration efficient enough that you won’t develop “security cruft.” In this article, Bryan Kennedy explains his approach. 15 mins

Learning from Big Data: 40 Million Entities in Context

This article in the Google Research Blog introduces Wikilinks Corpus. Essentially they’ve gathered 40 million total disambiguated mentions within over 10 million web pages using Wikipedia and published it as an open dataset. What might you do with this data? Let us know your ideas! 5 mins

Abba – JavaScript a/b testing

Alex Macaw, a JavaScript programmer and O’Reilly author who is working at Stripe, talks about opensourcing Abba, a tool they built for internal use at Stripes. Abba is a self-hosted a/b testing framework built to help improve conversion rates on your site. 5 mins

Ruby 2.0.0 has now been officially released, so here’s a thorough and detailed run-down of all the tweaks, changes and additions that have made it in to the release. 30 mins

Web Scraping 101 with Python

Learn basic web scraping with Python 2.7, BeautifulSoup, and lxml. 15 mins

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First SF Hack and Tell Recap

Mar 142013
 

First SF Hack and Tell
(article by g33ktalk contributor Ishi von Meier)

I had the pleasure of attending my first ever Hack and Tell Meetup last week and I must say, it pleasantly surprised me! It was about as cool as show and tell in elementary would be if everyone was allowed to bring samurai swords and ninja stars.

Hack and Tell started in the offices of Meetup (NYC) in 2010 and then blew up internationally. (You can scope the video of the first ever meeting .) As the Meetup page says, the group is essentially show and tell for hackers. There are strict 5 minute presentations followed by 5 mins of Q/A from the group. No commercial projects and everyone is strongly encouraged to participate.

Being the newbie that I am to the tech scene in general, I was expecting to be in over my head in tech jargon and coding syntax of languages I’m not familiar with. While I can’t say there wasn’t any of this, it was presented in a hands-on way that was very accessible even to a n00b like myself. The lineup was as follows:

• Max Weisel –
• Takashi Mizohata –
• Mark Reeder –
• Yosun – motion gesture interface hacks (from the recent Intel Perceptual Challenge)
• Randall Leeds – Chromify extension
• Michael Fuery & Angelo Hizon – Edu In-Motion (from LAUNCH Hackathon)

As soon as Max Wiesel started blasting dubstep over StumbleUpon’s speakers, I knew that I had come to the right place. Max’s hack was this that mixes looped clips of songs on Youtube. He DJ’ed with four iPads at at once, 4 videos each and filled the room with some filthy wobbles. I’ll definitely grab that one when it hits the App store.

Takashi Mizohata took the floor next with his . This presentation was on the very border of my tech understanding, but it seems like it was basically pre-loading images in a certain way in order to enable smooth scrolling. As much of a newbie as I am, it seemed like it had some serious potential. If you can make an everyday process just a little more efficient, it adds up fast. Next up, Mark Reeder showed us an app called that uses GitHub and FitBit to give us productivity stats for songs we listen to. Another brilliant idea, definitely looking forward to taking this one for a spin. Yosun and Michael Fuery & Agelo Hizon showed us motion gesture interface type games; Yosun’s looked more like an RPG while Michael & Agelo’s was an educational game for the developmentally disabled. They were both innovational as all hell and each was awesome in its own rite. Randall Leeds showed us his Chromify extension which again tested the boundaries of my tech savvy, but as the website says, it “creates more native Webkit notifications on Linux Operating Systems which use the notify-osd notification framework.” Basically looks like a really useful tool for developers that use Linux.

Overall, it was a killer turn out, great presenters and some brilliant hacks. I’m proud to say I was a part of the first run of this brand-new SF chapter. Big shout out to all the presenters and to StumbleUpon for their hospitality, hooking us up with a space and keeping us well nourished with food and beer! If you couldn’t make it, you won’t want to miss next time: http://www.meetup.com/SF-Hack-and-Tell/

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g33ktalk Weekly, Mar 7

Mar 072013
 

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Building Stripe’s API

This article talks about Stripe’s API, particularly lessons learned and what kind of things they did to try to make the API as easy to use as possible. 10 min + slides

This guide shows how you can easily switch between the most recent stable release, a version of Rails patched for Ruby 2.0, and the newest version of Rails (Rails 4.0.0.beta1). With these versions on your machine, you’ll explore the new features of Rails 4.0 while continuing to develop projects with the most recent stable version. 25 min

WebKit for Developers

For many of us developers, WebKit is a black box. We throw HTML, CSS, JS and a bunch of assets at it, and WebKit, somehow.. magically, gives us a webpage that looks and works well. But in fact, WebKit isn’t a black box. It’s a white box. And not just that, but an open, white box. 25 min

How to Inherit Somebody Else’s Code

You’re faced with a daunting upgrade of someone else’s application. How do you get started quickly and with minimal pain? Here’s five guidelines to streamline the process. 15 min

Making Hadoop Real Time with Scala & GridGain

Nikita Ivanov shows adding real-time capabilities to Hadoop through a demo application streaming word counting on a 2-nodes cluster. 40 min video

How Fast is Your Web Site?

Web site performance data has never been more readily available. The overwhelming evidence indicates that a Web site’s performance (speed) correlates directly to its success, across industries and business metrics. With such a clear correlation (and even proven causation), it is important to monitor how your Web site performs. So, how fast is your Web site? 25 min

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Big Data and Human Fault Tolerance

Mar 062013
 

(This article is written by g33ktalk Big Data ambassador and originally appeared in his blog.)

The startup world at once fosters and excoriates the latest buzz phrases in tech: cloud computing, the pivot, nosql, crunches and bubbles, and big data.

“Big data” may currently be one of the most over-used terms but in practice it can refer to solid principles appropriate for building data systems that handle, well, a lot of data.

Nathan Marz describes these approaches in his book Big Data. Seriously consider buying this book.

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g33ktalk Weekly, Feb 28

Mar 012013
 

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Have you ever wanted to introduce new functionality to base classes in the iOS SDK? Or just make them work a little bit differently? In order to do so, you must enter the wild and dangerous world of monkey-patching. 10 mins

Stoyan Stefanov, an engineer at Facebook, explains how to approach and address performance issues in JavaScript applications. 50 min video


This one’s pretty cool – it’s a slideshow presentation, use your arrow keys to navigate. slides

Objects that can be iterated over in Python are called “iterables”, and a FOR loop isn’t the only thing that accepts iterables. Read more here. 20 mins

Deep dive into MapReduce programming covering some of the framework’s more advanced features. 30 mins

Matthew Dennis covers the most common mistakes made with Cassandra that he has noticed being made both in development & deployment. 24 min video

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g33ktalk Weekly, Feb 21

Feb 262013
 

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Why HN went down
Perhaps not entirely earth-shattering, but in reading pg’s explanation I was struck again by the developer’s challenge in properly figuring out exactly *what* we’re debugging. 5 mins

Actionable Metrics – Enabling Decision-Making in Netflix’s Decentralized Environment
Roy Rapoport discusses how Netflix uses metrics to monitor and manage their operating environment along with additional info on their event management system. 43 min video + slides

The Evolution of Web Development for Mobile Devices
Building websites that perform well on mobile devices remains a challenge. If you’re sticking with web here are some practical suggestions on eking out the best performance. 20 mins

Principles of Java App Performance Tuning
Part 5 in a series covering JVM tuning, better understanding GC, and other helpful steps. 15 mins

MongoDB: Architectural Best Practices
A look at the architectural best practices of running MongoDB through the phases of the roll-out process: Selecting a deployment strategy to prepare for your MongoDB installation, the installation itself, and the operational considerations of running it in production. 15 mins


The author takes us on a regex joyride through comprehensive HTML tag parsing. If you’ve ever run headlong into the surprising complexities of complete HTML parsing using regex you need to read this article. 30 mins

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