From the abstract: We’ll explore the evolution of CSS’s layout capabilities from CSS 1 to CSS 3 and beyond. Along the way we’ll talk about why equal-height columns were such big a problem, what the CSS Working Group is currently working on, and what challenges are presented by taking print design capabilities and translating them for the Web.
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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…
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…
From Jonas Boner’s abstract: “We believe that one should never have to choose between productivity and scalability, which has been the case with traditional approaches to concurrency and distribution. The cause of that has been the wrong tools and the wrong layer of abstraction – and Akka is here to change that. Akka is using the Actors together with Software Transactional Memory (STM) to create a unified runtime and programming model for scaling both UP (utilizing multi-core processors) and OUT…
