Brian Sletten
Rocky Mountain Software Symposium
Denver · November 21 - 23, 2014
Forward Leaning Software Engineer @ Bosatsu Consulting
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. His experience has spanned many industries including retail, banking, online games, defense, finance, hospitality and health care. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and lives in Auburn, CA. He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, AI/ML, data science, 3D graphics, visualization, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries. He is also a rabid reader, devoted foodie and has excellent taste in music. If pressed, he might tell you about his International Pop Recording career.
Presentations
Data Integration : You're Doing it Wrong
The cost of integrating information isn't cheap. Well, at least it isn't if you do it wrong. Chances are, you're doing it wrong.
Rapelcgvba: Jul Vg Znggref
Encryption is a powerful tool for privacy. At least that is what we're meant to think.
Polymer: Shadow DOMS, Custom Components and the Future of Web
Enough with the darn JavaScript frameworks already! There's nothing wrong with a judicious use of this ubiquitous programming language, but it's gotten a little out of hand. What if there were an evolvable future state of declarative and encapsulated user interface elements that was available today in most modern browsers?
There is! The Polymer Project is a young but impressive glimpse into where things should go.
It's goals are:
- Use the platform
- Everything is an element
- Eliminate boilerplate