Videos

ETE 2012 – Alex Hillman – Enterprise Makeover: Turning Cost Centers Into Profit Centers

From the abstract: As companies grow, the ability to undo decisions becomes more costly and more challenging. This talk is a reminder that technology decisions, unlike diamonds, aren’t forever. This talk will explore the legacy of a 40 year old company with 15 year old set of technology decisions that left them at a dead end for growth. We’ll discuss the unique (and sometimes difficult) set of tech and strategic decisions we made which have led this company to reduce…

ETE 2012 – Naeem Hussain & Brian Barr – Management Innovation to Achieve Continuous Business Value Delivery

From the abstract: Leadership is at the heart of sustainable and continuous agile product delivery. For instance, are your associates motivated by a shared reward system targeted at delivering outstanding customer outcomes? Leaders that create smart incentives make this happen. Has a developer been empowered to make a wholesale change to your solution delivery process? Leaders that create scorn-free environments make this happen. There have been numerous writings about agile tools and methodologies, but very little mentioned about the critical…

ETE 2012 – Sean Brown – From 0 to 5,000,000 Downloads and How We Built a Mobile-App Development Organization in Philadelphia

From the abstract: I’ll talk about how we created an Advanced Applications Engineering team at Comcast, in Philadelphia to develop the XFINITY TV app for iOS and Android and how we are using that team to drive innovation and keep up with mobile app development demands for Xfinity and beyond.

ETE 2012 – Anna Bloom and Jeff Friedman – What Happened When Philly Launched a Social Network to Improve Neighborhoods?

From the abstract: Online connections have inspired offline action when it comes to political campaigns. How can a city leverage the power of online organizing to inspire new city leaders and make neighborhoods better offline? What is its role? And what are some of the challenges and barriers to inspiring community leaders to work with the city? In this discussion, we will explore what happened when the City of Philadelphia launched Change by Us, an online marketplace for community projects…

ETE 2012 – Adrian Holovaty – Pjax and the next generation of server-side Web frameworks

From the abstract: Django co-creator Adrian Holovaty shares his ideas on the future of server-side Web frameworks. Are the current batch of frameworks getting long in the tooth? Should we really still be generating HTML from scratch on each page request? Can we automate some of the new best practices, such as Pjax? No Django knowledge is necessary to understand this talk; the thoughts apply equally to Ruby on Rails and other circa-2005 frameworks.

ETE 2012 – Chris Richardson – SQL? NoSQL? NewSQL?!? What’s a Java developer to do?

From the abstract: The database world is undergoing a major upheaval. NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Cassandra are emerging as a compelling choice for many applications. They can simplify the persistence of complex data models and offering significantly better scalability and performance. But these databases have a very different and unfamiliar data model and APIs as well as a limited transaction model. Moreover, the relational world is fighting back with so-called NewSQL databases such as VoltDB, which by using…

ETE 2012 – Dr. Benjamin Pierce – Types a la Milner

From the abstract: Robin Milner (1934-2010) was a gentle giant of computer science. Among many fundamental contributions, his insights on the role of types in the theory and practice of programming have been perhaps the farthest reaching. This talk combines a historical perspective on Milner’s early work with a look at how these ideas continue to unfold — in particular, the idea that types constrain not only structure but also behavior. Examples will include abstract and object types, types for…

ETE 2012 – Gordon Dickens – Java EE in the Cloud

Our own Gordon Dickens (@gdickens) has put together a survey of choices for deploying Java EE in various cloud platforms. Here is his ETE session: Developers are now being tasked with writing applications for the cloud. Although that is a simple buzzword, what does it mean to me, the developer? When developing Java Enterprise applications targeted for cloud deployment, what configuration or code changes do I need to be aware of? Will Java EE 7 make it easier? Whether you…

ETE 2012 – Jeff Brown – What’s New In Grails 2.0?

From the abstract: In this session, Grails core developer Jeff Brown will deliver an update on the latest and greats features of the Grails framework – a dynamic, web application framework based on the Groovy language and designed for Spring. Jeff will cover all the new features of Grails 2.0 including agent-based reloading, unit testing mixins, really powerful new ways to express GORM queries and more. Attendees will gain key knowledge of the latest techniques for building Grails applications on…

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