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באולפן המחשמל, רן וליאור משוחחים על טיסות - איך מתמודדים עם ריבוי טיסות, בחברהף בבית וכו׳. ליאור חזר זה עתה מטיסה ואוטוטו הוא עולה על טיסה נוספת והעלה את נושא הסינכרון עם העמיתים במשרד בזמן שאתה שם בחוץ - על מטוס, או מבקר לקוח, או פשוט עובד באזור זמן אחר. יש הרבה דימיון בין טיסות מרובות לעבודה בחברה מבוזרת. התברר שהנושא חופף לצמיחה של חברה והיכולת של העובדים לתקשר זה עם זה. הקובץ נמצא כאן , האזנה...

איתנו באולפן רן לוי מהפודקסט… עושים היסטוריה והפעם על FPGA או - איך מתכנתים את החומרה בעצמה. בצד אחד עומד ASIC, השבב המתוכנן מראש והקבוע, מעליו התרגלנו לתכנת - בתכנה. אבל מצד שני עומד FPGA שבב דינמי הניתן לתיכנות חומרה! מהירות זה הכל והמוטיבציה העיקרית למכנות ב FPGA. כשצריך קצבים  של nano-sec לעומת micro-sec בתכנות הרגיל (1:1000). בדרך כלל אנשי חומרה הופכים למתכנתי FPGA. FPGA משמש לעיתים יחד עם מע...

You Gotta Love Frontend או YGLF זהו כנס ממוקד פרונטאנד ראשון מסוגו בישראל, המביא דוברים מהשורה הראשונה בעולם לכנס של יומיים בישראל. שוחחנו עם שניים ממארגני הכנס אדיר אמסלם  ו יוגב אהוביה  כדי לשמוע מה הולך להיות שם הרקע לארגון הכנס ועל הצוות המארגן למה הכנס נחוץ ולמה חברות צריכות לשלוח את המפתחים שלהם ליותר כנסים קצת על היום-יום של ארגון הכנס - איך מחליטים, מי עושה מה, באיזה כלים משתמשים וכו׳ הנוש...

Franklin D. Roosevelt said "There is nothing to fear but fear itself", but does this hold true for shame as well? Not during Reversim's Hall of Shame, where your shameful acts are to be celebrated! Let your past mistakes bring you fame and fortune as you get 3 minutes to impress our panel of judges. You will be graded based on: The magnitude of your your error (almost getting someone killed was ne...

So, you have an opensource project at github, now what? As an author of a successful open source project, I'll share tips and tricks on how to start and maintain an opensource community, best practices and common pitfalls. We'll also discuss how does one makes a living from opensource :-) and reflect on why open sources is right for you! MP3

JTLocalize is an open source internationalization & localization framework for iOS, developed by JoyTunes. When we wanted to localize our app Piano Maestro, we discovered that there are several issues that are very hard to deal with using the tools Apple gave us for localizing iOS apps. For instance: effectively internationalizing Interface Builder documents, and handling localization of diffs...

Most companies can't (or won't) open source their code, maybe for good reasons. In this talk I will show how you can open source some of your code, but leave your core business closed source. I will show how I did it in Kaltura with a closed source application and will demonstrate the advantages for this method - which include both technical and cultural advantages. MP3

Accord is a validation library written in and for Scala. Compared to JSR 303 and Scalaz validation it aims to provide the following: Composable: Because JSR 303 is annotation based, validation rules cannot be composed (annotations cannot receive other annotations as parameters). This is a real problem with some Scala features, for example Options or collections. Accord's validation rules are trivi...

There are many tools to massively stress-test your HTTP/HTTPS service without using hundreds of Amazon EC2 machines (JMeter is not one of them): ab, siege, weighttp, httperf, wrk All those tools are written with scalability in mind to support "unlimited" connections with just a few OS native threads. To support that scalabilty, those tools are written in an event model with callback hell in C/C++....

Present new Open Source project CloudSlang (previously Score) http://www.cloudslang.io/ Show how it eases the creation of process based orchestrations and automations. Although score orchestration technology can be used in various use-cases, it is designed with DevOps and Day-2 Operations use-cases in mind. score is coming with "out-of-the-box" Docker and OpenStack capabilities, an easy-to-use CLI...

גדי פז זכה בכוס ללא קפה אבל עם הסמל של הפודקסט - והא עושה זאת עם Xamarin. הפעם פרק מאוד מיוחד! רצינו להקליט פרק לקראת ה 1 באפריל, אבל פיספסנו את המועד, אז הנה פרק לכבוד ה 1 במאי, פועלי העולם התאחדו. 1976 - VI ברבות הימים (1991) VIM 1989 - Bash הבאג shell lock היה בכלל תכונה חיובית של השפה. 1991 - Modems: 14.4k - לפניו היה מודמים שהיו מתקשרים בטלפון לכל מיני שרתים. 1992 - CPUs: 486DX2 66Mhz - למה?...

Alongside company (and data) growth at Fiverr we were having a hard time making sure everyone had access to data and insights from all of our databases (internal multiple and separate instances of MySQL, Postgres, Mongo, Redis, CouchBase, Impala, etc) and external data sources (e.g. Google Analytics, New Relic, etc). So we built an internal tool to enable creation, sharing, running and visualisati...

The local Israeli Open Source communities are very strong, and can be stronger and contribute more if we connect and cooperate with communities elsewhere. I have been working on integrating our local WordPress community with the extended communities for a number of years now, and in this talk I'll give some tips on making this happen for other groups. MP3

Considering migrating your app from Backbone / Angular / Other legacy? Building interactive dashboards requires state of the art front end application architecture. This talk unveils a new open source project https://github.com/shaialon/ember-admin-dashboards that will allow you to build your next dashboard rapidly and serve as a starting point for your new application. The project core uses Ember...

Content discovery services (CDS) serve content recommendations to users on publisher sites. Some of those recommendations showcase the publisher's own content, while other recommendations are sponsored by content promoters, who pay the service - and by proxy, the publisher - when users choose to consume their content. This business model puts the CDS at the center of the triangle consisting of end...

Are you a technical leader in your org, or aspire to be one? You're packed with great ideas but have no time or people to implement them? Everyone faces the same condition, yet good leaders manage to do it, I'll share my methodology in 5min or less. MP3

Developing your application in Java or in one of the other JVM languages such as Scala, Clojure, Groovy or JRuby? Basing your infrastructure on a JVM based third party service such as Spark,Cassandra,Storm, Kafka, Elastic Search, Finagle etc? If the answer to one of the questions is yes you should configure and monitor the JVM Garbage collection logs. Failing to do so may expose you to scalability...

How to promote helpful code reviews by gamifying the code review process, using the open-sourced github-comment-counter: https://github.com/tzachz/github-comment-counter . Research shows that you can drive people to act by awarding them with points, no matter how meaningless these points are. At Kenshoo, we rank our reviewers and present the leaderboard for all to see, which incurred a ~130% bump...

הכנס החמישי של המרכז להנדסת מחשבים בנושא Scalable Reliable Systems ייערך בטכניון, בתאריכים 1-2 ביוני מידע נוסף באתר הכנס להרשמה:  http://www.reg.co.il/tce2015/ עלות ההרשמה למקדימים 220 ש״ח ליומיים מלאים של הרצאות מרתקות, ולהנחה למאזינים אפשר לפנות לרות בונה. תגידו שרן שלח אתכם ;-)  tce@technion.ac.il אנחנו משוחחים עם פרופסור ערן יהב מהטכניון, אחד מראשי הכנס. ערן הרצה בכנס רברסים בחודש שעבר, שנערך...

From my experience (on both sides of the hiring process) a lot of people really don't know how to hire developers and I was happy to find out that it's not only my personal experience. It seems there is a shift in the industry which is backed by some articles and blog posts from leading people. In this talk I will share some of my personal experience and anecdotes but will also back it up with som...

In this 5 minutes lightning talk I will try to explain how I managed to transform my self from a good to a ninja developer using a system I developed called "The Captain's Log". Each and every one of us has amazing skills and qualities together with some serious pitfalls. Those downsides can make the difference between a mediocre and an outstanding developer. Recognizing what they are is the first...

You have a solid product, you have a team with a proven record to deliver products in high quality and on time - it did that in the alpha and beta phases. Now the big challenge is distribution - How to get millions of users? This is where we stand today at JoyTunes and we would like to share our "exploration era" guidelines that we established to crack distribution and some of our findings along t...

HTTP/2 just got approved and browser support is coming fast. Learn why HTTP/1.1 made the web slow and hacky, how HTTP/2 fixes it and what it means for web developers. MP3

Yes, there IS such a thing as the Israeli games industry! As a kid, I dreamt of developing computer games. This dream came true almost by incidence when I stumbled upon my current job, and realized there's a bustling community of Israeli game developers. I will share with my impressions of this flourishing local industry as a newcomer, and offer a few tips for anyone who wishes to make games for a...

Not all skills are created equal, while some are baseline (such as the ability to develop) there are other skills that act as force multipliers. Developers who master these skills can produce better software in a fraction of the time standard developers can. In this talk I'll go over some of these skills and present how mastering them can make you a developer with superpowers. MP3