A list of interesting Google tech-talks

By aidan

Created 2008-02-14 23:40

I’ve watched quite a few Google tech talks [1] in the last few months. There are lots available [2]. Here are some of the ones I found interesting (If you have recommendations for good talks that I haven’t listed below please leave a comment).

Snakes & Rubies

Snakes and Rubies - Adrian [3]
Snakes and Rubies - DHH [4]
Snakes and Rubies - Q&A [5]

Ruby

Ruby And Google Maps [6]
RUBY: Competitious On Rails [7]
Ruby Sig: How To Design A Domain Specific Language [8]

Python

django: Web Development for Perfectionists [9]
BayPIGgies: Developing A Product In Python [10]
Python 3000 [11]
Guido van Rossum [12]
Python for Programmers [13]
Advanced Python or Understanding Python [14]

Seaside

Web apps: why bother? - Seaside [15]
Seaside: Agile Web Application Development with Squeak [16]
The Heretic Web Framework - Seaside [17]

Other programming stuff

Practical Common Lisp [18]
Best Practices in Javascript Library Design [19]
Erlang [20]
Groovy things to do with Groovy [21]

Distributed Revision Control

Linus Torvalds on git [22]
Git - a Talk by Randal Schwartz [23]
Mercurial Talk [24]

Research topics

On-Demand Information Extraction [25]
Incremental Bayesian Networks for Natural Language Parsing [26]
Winning The DARPA Grand Challenge [27]
Scalability and Efficiency on Data Mining Applied to Internet Applications [28]

Unixy topics

Dtrace Review [29]
How the FreeBSD Project Works [30]
The State of the Linux Kernel [31]

Other web stuff

Implementing Drupal [32]
Flex, Flash and Apollo for Rich Internet Applications [33]
Gears and the Mashup Problem [34]
How To Break Web Software - A look at security vulnerabilities in web software [35]
High Performance Web Sites and YSlow [36]

Miscellanea

Salesforce.com AppExchange Overview [37]
Leveraging Unit Tests As Functional Tests, Load Tests, and Service Monitors [38]
What Every Engineer Needs to Know About Security and Where to Learn It [39]
How Open Source Projects Survive Poisonous People (And You Can Too) [40]
Scrum et al [41]
Wikipedia and MediaWiki [42]
Computers versus Common Sense [43]
Human Computation [44]
The Paradox of Choice - Why More Is Less [45]
Making Great Decisions [46]
7 Habits For Effective Text Editing 2.0 [47]
Lessons From Advogato [48]
The Implications of OpenID [49]
Scary Monsters: Does Social Software Have Fangs? [50]

Authors@Google

Steve Wozniak [51]
Steven Levy [52]
Neil Gaiman [53]
Seth Godin [54]
George Soros [55]
James McManus [56]
Cory Doctorow [57]
Randall Munroe (xkcd.com) [58]

Links:
[1] http://research.google.com/video.html
[2] http://video.google.com/videosearch?q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&num=10&so=1&start=1
[3] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3548805983075267875
[4] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1149552518153462279
[5] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=9043285771539514211
[6] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4602774572236770547
[7] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7834686396093251614
[8] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=4527649810105428849
[9] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-70449010942275062
[10] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4476053623491502416&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=10&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=6
[11] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6459339159268485356&q=engedu
[12] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7758421725489622662&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU+python
[13] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1135114630744003385&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=200&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=7
[14] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1439209108072332406
[15] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-9059529534041031582
[16] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7563205626116889002
[17] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1029369558328427746
[18] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=448441135356213813&q=engedu
[19] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-474821803269194441&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=30&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=9
[20] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=240707194662243675&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU+erlang&total=1&start=0&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=0
[21] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7928622601123523881&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=170&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=1
[22] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2199332044603874737
[23] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-3999952944619245780
[24] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7724296011317502612
[25] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=369551663815274895&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=30&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=4
[26] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2315339772444797266&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=40&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=9
[27] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=8594517128412883394&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU
[28] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2980110657131275963&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=40&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=2
[29] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8002801113289007228&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=40&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=5
[30] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4400856579609253323&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=130&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=0
[31] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1742374580386548257&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=180&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=8
[32] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4603504844034540440&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=0&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=3
[33] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-1156113143758326102&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=180&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=3
[34] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=452089494323007214&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=10&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=3
[35] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5159636580663884360
[36] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=374343798097710096
[37] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-2998297682069101846&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=40&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=3
[38] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4427578441647658650&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=40&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=7
[39] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2792231054679782968&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=90&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=6
[40] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4216011961522818645&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU
[41] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7230144396191025011&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU
[42] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=7747790812939045407&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU
[43] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-7704388615049492068&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU
[44] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-8246463980976635143&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU
[45] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6127548813950043200
[46] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4267021878143533179
[47] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2538831956647446078
[48] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-5092930485716426869&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=110&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=2
[49] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2288395847791059857&q=type%3Agoogle+engEDU&total=540&start=110&num=10&so=1&type=search&plindex=4
[50] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=5259885968345773781
[51] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=383231378223541436&q=authors+google
[52] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=2335294097491188730
[53] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6625142347349479127
[54] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-6909078385965257294&total=41&start=10&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=3
[55] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=6150320548187842685
[56] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=1299008645928325381&total=41&start=20&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=8
[57] http://video.google.com/videoplay?docid=-4177668537342877852&total=41&start=30&num=10&so=0&type=search&plindex=9
[58] http://youtube.com/watch?v=zJOS0sV2a24