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Electron Apps, from Start to Production
Paul Betts discusses Electron, a platform for writing cross-platform Desktop apps, explaining how to start writing apps, how to integrate web UI libraries and languages, and others.
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The Business of Front-end Development
Rachel Andrews takes a look at how front-end development has changed over the last few years, and the issues those changes have created.
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AIR Matters
Kevin Korngut introduces Adobe AIR, a cross-platform runtime environment for desktop and mobile applications.
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The Best of Both Worlds, CANjs
Brian Moschel introduces CanJS, a lightweight JavaScript framework for writing rich client-side applications, comparing it with with Backbone.js, Ember, and Knockout.
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Test-Driven Development of Asynchronous Systems
Nat Pryce exemplifies how he dealt with flickering, false positives, slow, and messy tests appearing in asynchronous testing when trying to perform end-to-end testing.
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Basking in the Limelight
Micah Martin introduces Limelight, a JRuby GUI library that uses the theater metaphor for writing GUIs. The talk introduces basic concepts, how to style GUIs, and much more.
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Developing JavaScript Desktop Applications
Appcelerator's Titanium allows to build and deploy desktop applications which run seamlessly on Windows, OSX and Linux desktops using Javascript and HTML. Also: how Titanium compares with Adobe Air.
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Enterprise Java FX for the Web Platform
Peter Pilgrim makes an introduction to Java FX, presenting its scripting language, the standard deployment method of applications, client integration with the server and what’s planned for its future.
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Parleys.com, a RIA Case Study
Stephan Janssen’s talks about Parleys.com and the technology used: Flex/AIR. He also talks about two technologies that could be used instead, GWT and JavaFX, presenting their pros/cons.
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Flex and Air in the Trenches
Scott Delap shares his experience creating an application using Flex&Air, speaking on technologies used, tooling and frameworks choices, remoting, testing and integration with the client system.
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Ruby Go Mobile Web
This talk from FutureRuby shows how to create device neutral mobile applications with PhoneGap using HTML5 and Javascript, while still getting access to device features like the camera.
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Enterprise RIA – Deployment Examples
Jnan Dash introduces enterprise RIA and Curl, a RIA platform similar to Flash/Flex. He presents 4 examples of successful Curl implementations and the advantages of Curl over the other RIA solutions.
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