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John Lynch from Rigel Group gives an overview of Riak, the newest kid on the NoSQL block, and explains why it should power your next web-scale app. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast

Dan Simpson and Nick Zadrozny give an overview of cutting-edge, real-time programming for the web; and demonstrate an interactive, web-based sequencer. Watch this screencast

Machine learning and data mining have long been "black arts" because they require access to expensive computing clusters. Randall Thomas discusses machine learning and the problem spaces it can help solve. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast

Mark Ranallo will give an introduction to using JRuby in conjunction with the Android Scripting Environment. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast

Nic Benders will show you what's needed for building a hosting environment for production applications. The focus will be on selecting server hardware, picking a Linux Distro, and getting your Rails app running. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast

Guyren Howe gives a way-too-brief demonstration of OpenCyc, an AI technology based on the world's most comprehensive general-purpose ontology. Along the way, he reveals how to talk to OpenCyc using JRuby. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast

Blake Mizerany from Heroku shows off the company's cloud platform for Ruby applications. The talk covers Heroku basics, Sinatra, Ruby development, and scaling. Watch this screencast

Jarin Udom shows how to set up a full Rails stack and deploy your app on a bare Ubuntu server in 10 minutes. Is he drunk? Find out! Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast

Cappuccino is a framework for building desktop-caliber applications that run in a web browser. Brian Chapados reviews the design concepts of Cappuccino and the underlying Objective-J language, shows how to get started, and builds a simple app for searching scientific literature databases. This talk was part of the DjangoSD/SD Ruby mashup meeting. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast

Scott Motte introduces us to the document-oriented database MongoDB and shows how to use MongoDB as an alternative to MySQL and ActiveRecord using the MongoMapper gem. This talk was part of the DjangoSD/SD Ruby mashup meeting. Bonus content: download the slides from this talk. Watch this screencast