Forward Leaning Software Consultant
Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a mentor and a trainer. His experience has spanned defense, finance and commercial domains with security consulting, network matrix switch controls, 3D simulation/visualization, Grid Computing, P2P and Semantic Web-based systems. He has a B.S. in Computer Science from the College of William and Mary and currently lives in Fairfax, VA. He is a partner in Zepheira, LLC, a new services company focused on using semantic-oriented technologies to solve architectural and data integration problems not handled by conventional tools and techniques.Presentations by Brian Sletten
Data Integration Part II : The Future, Today
Following on the overview of part I, we will introduce a slew of emerging technologies that are starting to make tomorrow's integration strategies available today. Come explore technologies that allow real mashups to function on both the web and the Enterprise. We can use a variety of languages and tools to link legacy data and modern content sources. We will explore resource-oriented computing as a new way of building systems that manage information spaces, not code.Data Integration Part I : Beyond Cutesy Mashups
Ever since we started doing relational joins, we've looked for ways to tie data together. When all we had were databases, our integration strategies were simple. The web has given us no end of new data sources to integrate but the strategies to do so are less clear. Where we can glue data together, it seems like the best we can come up with is locating Starbucks stores on Google Maps.We want control of our data and our mashup results. We want ever more ways to view, explore and requery them in multi-faceted ways. We want data processing to be as simple as word processing has become. We want our data integration strategies to be less Vanilla Ice "Ice-Ice Baby" and more Nine Inch Nails "The Hand that Feeds" with the fluidity of a Phish tease (trust me, it makes sense).