Brian Sletten

Presentations

HTML 5 ... and the Kitchen Sink

HTML 5 is an adventurous and confusing prospect that will help change the Web as we know it. It is being finalized as a standard but won't be fully supported by most browsers for quite some time. Companies like Apple and Google have already committed to it as the future of Web application development, however. There are a huge number of new features, updates and gotchas coming at us (including the proverbial kitchen sink!) so it is time to get prepared. This talk will walk you through the new bits and try to put it all into perspective.

Attendees will learn about HTML 5 and related specs including:

• New and deprecated elements
• Immediate mode 2D drawing w/ the canvas element
• Timed media playback
• Local storage and offline mode
• Bi-directional communication sockets to servers
• Messaging between documents
• Drag and drop support
• And much more!

There will be a lot covered but this should be accessible to anyone interested in Web development.

HTML 5

People are confused about the status of HTML 5. Is it ready? Is it not? What is part of the spec and what isn't? We'll talk about the situation in the "HTML 5 and the Kitchen Sink" discussion, but as always, the proof is in the pudding. We will introduce the most exciting new features of HTML 5 and its related technologies and build examples that use them. Bring your notebook computers and a text editor and we will go from there.

We will work with real code covering:

• The new input elements
• Editable content
• Canvas Element and its related 2D APIs for drawing and animation
• Audio and Video elements and how to use fallbacks for codec coverage
• Browser native drag and drop
• Local storage
• Web Workers
• Websockets
• The Geolocation API
• Web DB (SQL in the browser!)

This workshop will assume no special knowledge of HTML 5 and should be accessible to any web developers.

Semantic Web Workshop

The Web is changing faster than you can imagine and it is going to continue to do so. Webs of Documents are giving way to machine-processable Webs of Information. We no longer care about data containers, we only care about data and how it connects to what we already know.

Perhaps the concepts of the Semantic Web initiative are new to you. Or perhaps you have been hearing for years how great technologies like RDF, SPARQL, SKOS and OWL are and have yet to see anything real come out of it.

Whether you are jazzed or jaded, this workshop will provide you with the understanding of a technological tidal wave that is heading in your direction.

In this workshop, we will:

• Explain the Web and Web architecture at a deeper level
• Apply Web and Semantic Web technologies in the Enterprise and make them work together
• Integrate structured and unstructured information
• Create good, long-lived logical names (URIs) for information and services
• Use the Resource Description Framework (RDF) to integrate documents, services and databases
• Use popular RDF vocabularies such as Dublin Core, FOAF, DOAP
• Query RDF and non-RDF datastores with the SPARQL query language
• Use the Simple Knowledge Organization System (SKOS) to represent taxonomies in RDF
• Model and Do Inference with the Web Ontology Language (OWL)