Talks

Best practices on how to use MFA and enable it across your devices and accounts.

Learn the basics of personal digital security to keep your accounts and devices safe.

How FiveThirtyEight used open source software as the basis for a great live blogging tool.

Lots of important information is on your computer and in the cloud. Keeping it private and secure is really important.

Security doesn’t have to be overwhelming and scary!

In this hands-on session, you’ll learn about what’s important and what’s not, risk assessment (security folks call this “threat modeling”), and we’ll help you set up good password practices, two-factor authentication and use a security key.

There’s so many tools out there, but what are the best for managing development teams? Paul Schreiber, Developer at FiveThirtyEight, will walk through best practices and tools for workflow, automation and testing, along with good practices for managing development teams.

There’s so many tools out there, but what are the best for managing development teams? Paul Schreiber, Developer at FiveThirtyEight, will walk through best practices and tools for workflow, automation and testing, along with good practices for managing development teams.

Why two-factor authentication is so important, problems and limitations of some methods, and bonus features you can activate once you have a security key set up.

Security best practices, including disk and device encryption, two-factor authentication and password managers.

Demo of a slackbot that announces whenever a new WordPress post is published.

Panel Moderator. Panelists: John Oden, Principal Software Engineer- Delivery Engineering, The New York Times; Vinessa Wan, Program Manager, The New York Times; Josh West, Director, Product Engineering, The Atlantic.

SSL certificates are used to encrypt transmitted information from your website to your server.

Many websites — from Wikipedia to Reddit to the Washington Post — are encrypting all of their web traffic to protect their readers’ privacy by using SSL certificates are directing their traffic over HTTPS.

Besides the obvious security advantages, webmasters have another reason: Google is using HTTPS as a ranking signal.

In this video, we’ll talk about what this all means (benefits, downsides) and problems the NY Times encountered moving to HTTPS (and how they solved them).

What is HTTPS, why your website should be HTTPS; migrating sites to HTTPS.

Lots of websites — from Wikipedia to Reddit to the Washington Post — are moving towards encrypting all of their web traffic to protect their readers’ privacy. We’ll talk about what this all means (benefits, downsides) and problems we’ve encountered moving to HTTPS (and how we solved them).

How and why to move your website to HTTPS

How and why to move your website to HTTPS.

Hands-on class on web scraping using requests and BeautifulSoup.

Information security for organizers, take 2. (With Nick Catalano.)

Using Grunt with WordPress.

Information security for opengov activists.

CI with Jenkins and Selenium. Deployment with Capistrano.

Information security for organizers. (With Nick Catalano.)

Abbreviated version of SXSW talk + discussion.

In the United States, only 50% of people vote in presidential elections. That drops to 40% for midterm elections, and 10% for primary, local and special elections. Worldwide, we rank 138th in voter turnout. The Internet has made it easy to find your old friends from college; download any song you want; get shoes delivered the very next day, and help create social change by signing petitions, making donations and lobbying congress.So why hasn’t the Internet made voting awesome? Seth Flaxman and Paul Schreiber of Democracy Works will talk about why the voting system is so broken, and how the Internet can route around inefficiency and bureaucracy to increase voter turnout and make voting fit the way we live today. (With Seth Flaxman.)

Campaign volunteer training for the provincial election. Overview of MyGPO (voter file) and Campaign Zone (resources).

The United States’ voter turnout problem. How TurboVote can help. (With Seth Flaxman.)

Why and how we built TurboVote. Why voting at home is good for democracy. Strange voting rules and regulations across the United States. Technical challenges involved in building a national vote-by-mail registration system. TurboVote’s plans for the future. (With Seth Flaxman.)

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Why and how we built TurboVote. Why voting at home is good for democracy. Strange voting rules and regulations across the United States. Technical challenges involved in building a national vote-by-mail registration system.

Why junk mail is a huge problem and how to reduce the amount of junk mail you receive.

How what we learned volunteering on the Obama campaign can help the marriage equality movement. Capacity building. Talent recognition. The importance of design, details and analytics. (With Lindsay Eyink.)

Tips and software recommendations to improve Mac productivity.

Tools 2: the sequel. Will it live up to the original? Find out about handy Apple Internal tools that let you chase crashes like a superhero, manage labs and conduct surveys. Publish documentation that gets the design right, every time. Wake sleeping machines. All this, and more.

Bug reports that are complete and reproducible help to isolate known issues in system and application software, making a solution much more likely. Learn the bug reporting best practices that Apple has developed in partnership with our third-party developer community. Observe the key components of a great bug report, and how they could expedite your bugs through our processes. You’ll also learn to apply these practices to your own bug processes.

Radar is a tool we all know and love… In this session, learn how to leverage Radar’s command-line interface to integrate Radar into your web, command-line and GUI applications. We’ll show examples of what can be done, smooth over common bumps in the road and point you at handy libraries in Perl, Ruby, Python and PHP to make working with Radar just like other system framework.

Opportunities are as wide open as the world wide web. What do you need to know? What are the tools, how can they best be used, where can you get help? How can you best use MySpace and SonicBids? What about your web site. What pitfalls should you avoid?

Mike Brandvold; Mark Nubar, Hypnogajia; Brad Parker, Nashville Songwriters Association International (NSAI); Paul Schreiber

Cascading Stylesheets are a powerful tool for building high-quality web applications. Learn how to save bandwidth, increase accessibility for persons with disabilities, improve your search engine rank and look good doing it, too. CSS is so nice we can even make MySpace look presentable.

Complete, high-quality, reproducible bug reports from developers help to isolate and target known issues in system and application software. Learn the bug reporting best practices that Apple has developed in partnership with our third party developer community. Observe the key components of a great bug report, and how they could expedite your bugs through our processes. You’ll also learn to apply these practices to your own bug processes.

Learn about a collection of tools your colleagues have developed to make your job easier. Find out faster ways to install Mac OS X, find security holes, report hangs and panics, schedule tests, report team status, safely make API changes and more in this handy and helpful half-hour.

Learn how to expand the built-in capabilities and security of Mac OS X Mail Server. This session will demonstrate how to set up authenticated SMTP and IMAP with SSL (self-signed and otherwise), integrate with Real-Time Blackhole Lists (RBLs), add anti-virus functionality, and build a high-capacity mail server capable of handling tens of thousands of messages daily.

In the beginning, there was HTML. Then came CGI, ASP, PHP, CFM, SSI and your regular alphabet soup of web development platforms. Tired of this mess? Sick of rolling your own tools and reinventing the wheel? Want to build web three-tier apps without having to write a single line of SQL? Want to deploy in hours, not days? Then WebObjects, Apple’s Java-based web application server, is for you.Let Paul Schreiber show you how WebObjects enabled him to build a newspaper content management system in under four months. He’ll cover the process he went through, from technical design considerations (including newspaper-specific issues) to working on an extremely limited budget and finally deploying the app in time for students’ arrival for the fall semester.

What is it with computer languages that start with P? Sure you’ve all heard of Pascal, dabbled in Perl, tweaked some PHP. But have you wrangled with Python? In this session, Paul Schreiber explains what Python is, why you’d want to use it and shows off some stupid and not-so-stupid Python tricks. Learn how to write a port scanner in under a dozen lines, use regular expressions to write your own web client. Find out why you don’t need to write shell scripts any more. Wrap your Python scripts with a Cocoa GUI…and more.