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The distributed version control system based on Subversion recently introduced branch management features. This talk will cover:

* Pitfalls of Subversion's branches
* Managing Branches with SVK
* Feature-branch based development model with SVK
* Release Management with SVK's branch management

In this presentation, Ingy will talk about using Perl
modules/hacks/techniques in JavaScript and also using JavaScript
stuff in Perl. Topics will include:

- pQuery - A Perl port of JavaScript's famous jQuery
- JS.pm - JavaScript libraries on CPAN
- HTML DOM creation and manipulation in Perl
- Porting JavaScript code to Perl
- OpenJSAN - A CPAN for JavaScript
- Writing/distributing JavaScript modules
- Test.Harness.js, Test.More.js, Test.Base.js
- Porting Perl code to JavaScript and vice versa
- Jemplate.js, YAML.js
- much more...

Ruby 1.9.0 was released at last cristmas. But it's not stable version, unlike the announce before release. I'll show you the history and current status of Ruby 1.9 and the changes between 1.8 and 1.9.

BerkeleyDB is a key-value based, high performance database engine.
After acquired by Oracle, replication functionality has been added. In this talk, we are going to show use BerkeleyDB as database backend and how to use its transaction and replication subsystems.

Mentioning the handling of natural languages does not necessarily involve grand schemes like speech recognition. A web developer, for example, may run into tasks like name validation, Romanizing page titles, or tokenizing sentences for indexing purposes.

There are two aspects in those daily tasks: method and knowledge. This talk first gives a brief introduction on basic techniques and tools ("method") for software developers. Systematic information of a particular language ("knowledge") is the other aspect, and many open data projects can provide us with such information.

This talk will also briefly cover Formosa, a library for the Taiwanese languages, written in Ruby and C++, and shares some thoughts on how open source and open data projects can be organized to help in this field.