For the final tech talk of 2011, Dave King talks about Building Killer Web Apps. Enjoy!

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Our final tech talk for 2011 is quickly approaching. Dave King, a software engineer at Rackspace, will be speaking on Building Killer WebApps. He has been working most recently on building Rackspace’s next generation control panel as well as improving the existing cloud control panel. In this talk, he will be sharing some of his experiences as well as best practices in the industry.

Why is this an important topic? Web applications are omnipresent in how we interact with the world. In contrast to native applications (which run on one device), web applications run on multiple devices, allowing consumers to access their data from anywhere. For this presentation, will talk about the techniques that Rackspace uses to build web applications that support customers in managing 2.5 million paid mailboxes and over 110,000 Cloud customers.

• When: Dec 6th @ 6pm
• Where: Rackspace Blacksburg Office inside the University Mall next to Sushi Factory
• Will have pizza and drinks

Finally finished editing the Informed Design tech talk video from back in October.

I just posted the Udi Dahan tech talk video from this week. Enjoy!

Rackspace Tech Talk – Udi Dahan from Brian Hartsock on Vimeo.

I am really excited about this fall. Rackspace Tech Talks are back with some awesome speakers and topics. Come out and join us for some great presentations and geeky conversation. Here are all the talks slated for this fall:

• October 4th, 6pm – Informed Design with Rackspace Experience Design Team
• November 15th, 6pm – Large Scale Distributed Systems with Udi Dahan
• December 6th, 6pm – Building Killer Web Apps with Dave King, Sr. Developer at Rackspace

Our first talk is quickly approaching next week! The Rackspace Experience Design team, a group of awesome designers and usability experts, will be presenting on Informed Design. More specifically, using generative and evaluative research to create FANATICAL user experiences. UX research comes in many flavors: usability testing, user interviews, field studies, A/B testing, analytics, etc. The Rackspace Experience Design Team will share examples of how to use a mix of research techniques to inform design decisions

Here are some of the details:

• When: Tuesday October 4th, 6pm
• Where: Rackspace, 755 University City Blvd, Blacksburg (Look for flyers to lead you to the right room)
• Food will be provided
• Bring a friend or two, this is a public talk open to anyone.

Hope to see you all there.