HTML and Semantic Markup, and WebGL

6:00 - 7:00: HTML and Semantic Markup by Brian Sletten
7:00 - 7:30: Food!
7:30 - 9:00: WebGL by Brian Sletten

HTML and Semantic Markup

by Brian Sletten

There are now several schemes for employing semantic markup in your documents depending on your needs and goals. How do you choose between Microformats, RDFa and Microdata? Why would you want to in the first place? This talk will introduce you to one of the most exciting things happening on the Web now and the foundation for its future. You'll hear about improved search results, treating your documents as data sources, multi-dimenstional metadata wormholes and more.

WebGL

by Brian Sletten

HTML 5 has introduced us to the Canvas API, 2D graphics and the pleasures of plugin-free video and audio playback. One of the next hurdles we will face is native support for 3D graphics for simulations, visualizations and games.

WebGL is an early look at supporting OpenGL ES 2.0 in the canvas in most modern browsers through JavaScript APIs.

About Brian Sletten:

Brian Sletten is a liberal arts-educated software engineer with a focus on using and evangelizing forward-leaning technologies. He has a background as a system architect, a developer, a security consultant, a mentor, a team lead, an author and a trainer and operates in all of those roles as needed. His experience has spanned the online game, defense, finance, academic, hospitality, retail and commercial domains. He has worked with a wide variety of technologies such as 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. He is President of Bosatsu Consulting, Inc. and lives in Los Angeles, CA.

He focuses on web architecture, resource-oriented computing, social networking, the Semantic Web, scalable systems, security consulting and other technologies of the late 20th and early 21st Centuries.