As part of this year's User Conference, the MarkLogic Developer Community is sponsoring the Developer Labs and Lounge, a space dedicated to those who think working code is nine tenths of the law.  The labs and lounge activities include:

Self-paced, hands-on labs

• Drink some coffee, experiment, & learn a few things
• You'll need to
  • Bring your own laptop
  • Be prepared to fire up your IDE or text-editor
• Take home some working code you can use

Lightning talks given by hands-on developers

• Learn through the hardwork of others
• Rate them on their whiteboard and preso skillz

Community-based, open-source projects

• Meet project leaders and committers
• Learn how to get involved

"Ask-the-Experts" Table

• You got questions?  We got answers.  'Cuz we wrote the code.

Schedule of Talks

WEDNESDAY, April 27
	Talk	Speaker	Slides
10:00AM- 11:00AM	Query Performance: Tips from the Trenches	Paul Rooney, MarkLogic
11:00AM- 11:30AM	Optimization: Instrumentation & Query Avoidance	Dave Steiner, LDS
2:00PM- 2:20PM	Want to Know How We Test MarkLogic Server?	Raghu Polasani and Larry Ratcliff, MarkLogic
2:20PM- 2:40PM	Easy Page Composition with XML Style Tags: Work in Progress	Erik Hennum, MarkLogic
2:40PM- 3:00PM	Lightweight Binding of HTML Forms to XML	Nuno Job, MarkLogic
3:00PM- 3:20PM	Mary's Crazy Hour: SQL	Mary Holstege, MarkLogic
3:20PM- 3:40PM	Mary's Crazy Hour: XCC	Sam Neth, MarkLogic
3:40PM- 4:00PM	Mary's Crazy Hour: Server Plugins	Micah Dubinko, MarkLogic
4:20PM- 4:45PM	Tips for Diagnosing Server Behavior	Ronnen Miller, MarkLogic
THURSDAY, April 28
	Talk	Speaker	Slides
10:20AM- 10:40AM	MarkLogic in a Nut-shell	Nuno Job, MarkLogic
10:40AM- 11:00AM	Build an App in 15 minutes with App Builder	Nuno Job, MarkLogic
11:00AM- 11:30AM	XQuery Web Applications for Java Developers	Ryan Semerau, LDS
11:30AM- 12:00PM	Object-oriented vs. Functional Programming	Ryan Semerau, LDS
12:00PM- 12:30PM	Tips for Diagnosing Server Behavior	Ronnen Miller, MarkLogic
1:45PM- 2:05PM	MarkLogic in a Nut-shell	Nuno Job, MarkLogic
2:05PM- 2:25PM	Build an App in 15 minutes with App Builder	Nuno Job, MarkLogic
2:25PM- 2:45PM	Open Source Hour: mluc11 app and mljson	Ryan Grimm and Eric Bloch, MarkLogic
2:45PM- 3:05PM	Open Source Hour: URL rewrite library	Nuno Job, MarkLogic
3:05PM- 3:25PM	Open Source Hour: Marker CMS Toolkit	Eric Bloch, MarkLogic and Chad Chatfield, Avalon Consulting
3:45PM- 4:15PM	Ask the Chief Architect	Christopher Lindblad, MarkLogic
FRIDAY, April 29
	Talk	Speaker	Slides
10:00AM- 10:20AM	Monitoring MarkLogic with Nagios	Wolfgang Krause, MarkLogic
10:20AM- 10:40AM	A Peek at Searchable Documentation	Danny Sokolsky, MarkLogic
10:40AM- 11:00AM	Building XSLT-based Web sites on MarkLogic Server	Evan Lenz, MarkLogic
11:00AM- 11:20AM	Templating with Mustache	Nuno Job, MarkLogic
11:20AM- 12:00PM	Semantic Q&A	Professor Jim Hendler and Li Ding, RPI

Self-paced lab materials

Here are the electronic copies of the self-paced tutorials provided in the Developer Lounge:

• Office and MarkLogic
• MarkLogic and Ruby with ActiveDocument
• Query Tuning Basics
• REST URI rewriter
• MarkLogic and Ruby with ActiveDocument
• Adding maps and histograms to Application Builder Applications
• Getting Set Up: Eclipse and Amazon EC2
• Contributing via Github