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Designing for Language - And We Mean the Spoken Kind
Terena Bell underlines the importance of designing applications for multiple languages including right-to-left ones in an age of rapid globalization.
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Getting Up and Running with Selenium for Automated Web Testing
Emma Armstrong shows how to use Selenium and NUnit to automate web testing for C# applications. The sessions is useful to developers of other languages that Selenium supports – Java, Python, Ruby.
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Queue It! What Job Queues Can Do for You!
Ole Michaelis discusses different job queues such as Gearman and beanstalkd, what are the differences and what are the perfect match use-cases.
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Why Superman Is Not a Good Agile Team Member
Karen Siers outlines the difficulties encountered by a developer switching from a waterfall or cowboy coding environment to a collaborative Agile style.
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Debunking the Steve Rule
Corinna Brock discusses the place of women in software development, how to be a minority, how to increase their number and how to keep the current ones.
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Web & Database Load Testing with JMeter
Michael Dowden introduces JMeter and explains how to develop a data-driven methodology to determine some of the limits of a web application: max number of concurrent users, bottlenecks, etc.
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Getting Started with Glass
Jacob Rutledge introduces Google Glass, what can be done with it and how to get started programming against it with Android SDK, sharing his own experience with it as a consumer and developer.
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Application Security What You Don't Know Can Hurt You
Joe Kuemerle discusses some of the top threats that can break an app along with techniques to improve the design of an application to minimize vulnerabilities and mitigate what cannot be removed.
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Managing Developers
Jonathan Mills teaches the top attributes of a good manager, showing 10 techniques on how to improve the productivity and satisfaction of a team’s members.
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The Hype, Myth, and Promise of Gamification
Wesley Reisz explores the hype and reality around gamification and dives into code to see if he can realize some of the promises of gamification.
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Building Web Apps with Ember.js
Jesse Cravens demoes setting up client-side models with various persistence solutions using data bindings, and showing how Ember’s router manages application state.
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A Practical Implementation of Async
Mitchel Sellers uses multiple real-world applications to show practical implementations of Async within actual applications, covering various scenarios and implementations of the Async pattern.