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ETE 2012 – Brian Leroux – Just Beyond HTML5: Device APIs with PhoneGap

From the abstract: PhoneGap hacker Brian LeRoux will talk about new breed of cross platform capabilities from the W3C called Device APIs, their relationship to HTML5, web standards, WebKit and mobile development with the most popular platforms. If you are interested in mobile web dev for iOS, Android, BlackBerry and Windows Phone you’ll really enjoy this talk. You can expect live code, remote debugging and cloud compilation too.

ETE 2012 – Corey Latislaw – The Fragment Transition: Avoiding Obsoletion and Writing Better Android Apps

Corey Latislaw joined Chariot Solutions this year, and with her brought her Android expertise. She helps head up the Android Alliance in Philadelphia. This is also her first ETE presentation. From the abstract: [blockquote]Android is evolving. Gingerbread and Froyo won’t last forever. Bit rot sets in the moment you commit, but your code base can evolve by leveraging new APIs and best practices. Don’t wait until you’re left behind. Start using Fragments now so you won’t be relegated to the…

ETE 2012 – Dani Diaz – Developers, Meet Windows Phone

From the abstract: We will look at the innovative Windows Phone platform and explain the philosophy behind its user experience design Metro. In this session we will show you how to take advantage of the Windows Phone platform and design principles that allow developers of all skill levels to create engaging and intuitive apps. We will cover the new features and how developers can benefit from the worldwide market opportunity. By the end of this session, you would learn how…

ETE 2012 – Rick Nucci – Rein in the Cloud Chaos/Best Practices – Why Your Cloud Strategy Must Start with an Integration Strategy

From the abstract: CIOs today have the opportunity to become cloud champions in their organizations, building innovative new IT models that drive new business opportunities. Whether your business is purchasing a single cloud application or driving a company-wide cloud strategy, it is essential to centralize, secure and manage the flow of information in and out of your firewall and to and from the cloud. In this session, Rick Nucci, general manager of Dell Boomi, will outline why every successful cloud…

ETE 2012 – Scott Delap – Massively Scaling to Millions of Players: A League of Legends Story

From the abstract: In this talk, we will cover the challenges and lessons-learned of scaling and operating the PvP.net Platform that supports millions of League of Legends global players daily. In addition to covering software architecture and design choices in building PvP.net, we will cover the often-overlooked (in the race to market) aspects of monitoring, deployment, analytics, testing and automation.

ETE 2012 – Stacia Viscardi – Culture eats agile practices for breakfast

From the abstract: “Culture Eats Agile Practices for Breakfast” (quote adapted from Peter Drucker) Without the right mindset, Agile practices will stagnate, even hurt your agile transformation initiatives. Learn how to prepare for and implement sticking change in this one-hour lecture/workshop. Stacia will guide you through numerous tips and tricks resulting from real-life examples from the hard knocks of agile and management consulting. Stacia is a co-author of the book “The Software Project Manager’s Bridge to Agility” which is published…

ETE 2012 – Nathan Marz on Storm

From the abstract: Storm makes it easy to write and scale complex realtime computations on a cluster of computers, doing for realtime processing what Hadoop did for batch processing. Storm guarantees that every message will be processed. And it’s fast – you can process millions of messages per second with a small cluster. Best of all, you can write Storm topologies using any programming language. Storm was open-sourced by Twitter in September of 2011 and has since been adopted by…

ETE 2012 – Coda Hale – The Programming Ape

From the session abstract: “Humans, you may have noticed, are not exactly rational. And yet here we are, trying to get them to build software. It’s a bit of a mess. But there is some good news: by drawing on modern theories of human cognition we can begin to optimize our tools for how people think, not how computers work. I’ll talk about our experience at Yammer building human-centric tools for engineers, lay out the sociotechnical challenges facing organizations trying…

ETE 2012 Keynote – Chad Fowler – Self Engineering

How do you apply engineering discipline to the thing that matters most: yourself? We’re software engineers or systems engineers or network engineers. We have learned lessons the hard way. These lessons boil down to immutable laws; some things work and some things don’t. Successful engineers apply these hard-won lessons to their professions. We use the same techniques day in and day out to create systems to make other people’s lives better. But few of us apply the same kind of…

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