Sponsors
  • Intel
  • Microsoft
  • Google
  • Sun Microsystems
  • BT
  • IBM
  • Yahoo! Inc.
  • Zimbra
  • Atlassian Software Systems
  • Disney
  • EnterpriseDB
  • Etelos
  • Ingres
  • JasperSoft
  • Kablink
  • Linagora
  • MindTouch
  • Mozilla Corporation
  • Novell, Inc.
  • Open Invention Network
  • OpSource
  • RightScale
  • Silicon Mechanics
  • Tenth Planet
  • Ticketmaster
  • Voiceroute
  • White Oak Technologies, Inc.
  • XAware
  • ZDNet

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Heath Johns

CinematX Digital Inc.

Heath Johns is the CTO at CinematX Digital, a company exploring the combination of virtualization and distributed video. He likes to take a long view of technology and how it can shrink the distance between people; the concepts of secure computation and human-friendly languages like Python figure heavily in his thoughts about this. His other tech interests include network protocols (with two O’Reilly Network articles published on the topic), and Lisp.

Sessions

4:30pm Wednesday, 07/23/2008
Encapsulation & Its Discontents: Applying Normal Accident Theory to Software Design
Programming
 Location: D139/140
George Belotsky (CinematX Digital Inc.), Heath Johns (CinematX Digital Inc.) Moderated by: George Belotsky
Normal Accident Theory (NAT) describes the potential for failure in many diverse systems, from nuclear reactors to marine shipping. It also predicts many classical techniques that good programmers have come to rely on. A NAT-based approach provides a unifying view that helps you avoid the hidden dangers of otherwise useful constructs, and improves the reliability of the software you build. Read more.
OSCON 2008