Archive for April, 2008

Heads up: Early registration for Developer Day @ SMX Advanced

Posted by Stuart Maxwell on April 28, 2008 Closed

Wednesday, June 4 @ 7:30 am – 4:30 pm
Early registration ends May 2
Bell Harbor International Conference Center
Pier 66, Seattle

Web developers who build search-friendly code and infrastructure can thank us now. Registration for the Developer Day at Search Marketing Expo is the cheapest it’ll ever be from now until Friday, May 2. Procrastinators will pay $100 more for waiting until May 3rd to register, and the extremely disorganized (or rashly impulsive) will take an almost $200 hit for waiting until the day of the Expo to sign up.

Developer Day @ SMX Advanced is an in-depth exploration of strategies, best practices, and techniques for building search-friendly architecture. SEO expert Vanessa Fox is assembling a program that includes discussions on search-friendly development and platform considerations for the Microsoft stack and LAMP stack. There will even be an opportunity for expert technical review of your website. You can read more at Vanessa’s blog. And, for heaven’s sake, save some cash and sign up now!

The New Era of Cloud Computing

Posted by Justin Martenstein on April 22, 2008 Closed

Wednesday, April 30th @ 6:30pm
Google, Fremont Campus
501 N. 34th St.

As both Amazon and Google start opening up their infrastructure to outside parties, the phrase on everyone’s lips is cloud computing. Systems like EC2 (from Amazon) and Hadoop (open source implementation of Google’s tools) are making the construction of scalable, distributed architectures ever easier. Virtual hardware is becoming so much of a commodity that you can order up any chunk of processing power or storage, specifically catered to your needs. Now’s your chance to get up close and personal and learn all about this new wave of distributed computing.

Aaron Kimball is a PhD student at UW and a consultant on scalable Hadoop systems. He’ll be speaking at the Google campus in Fremont on cloud computing, and some of the search giant’s specific implementations. The event is unfortunately already at capacity… but you can email the WTIA directly to get on the mailing list.

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