Behind the scenes of Soundslice
Title:
Behind the scenes of Soundslice
Speaker:
Adrian Holovaty
Date/Time:
Wednesday, December 12, 2012
5:45 pm (Social Hour with light refreshments)
6:30 pm Presentation
Place:
Beane Ballroom (13th Floor, Lewis Towers)
111 E. Pearson, Chicago, IL
Abstract:
Adrian Holovaty discusses his brand-new project Soundslice
(http://www.soundslice.com/), a rich HTML5 Web application for
annotating YouTube videos. He’ll discuss the motivation for the
project, its evolution over three years of changing technologies, and
provide details on the technology behind the scenes. Expect to hear
about: solutions to hairy user-interface projects, JavaScript
performance techniques, and “Lean Startup” principles (and when to
ignore them).
Bio Sketch:
Adrian Holovaty describes himself (http://www.holovaty.com/) as a
Chicago web developer and musician. He was the creator, in 2005, of
one of the original Google Maps mashups: chicagocrime.org. He has a
degree in journalism and has worked at a number of news Web sites,
including washingtonpost.com and LJWorld.com. In 2007 he founded
EveryBlock, a neighborhood news and discussion site, which was sold to
msnbc.com in 2009. He is also the co-creator and co-Benevolent
Dictator For Life of the open-source Django Web framework.
