Programming Videos and Tutorials
Starting off where we left off last time, we continue exploring the possibilities of jQuery. We revisit some of the old functions and make them do some smarter things. We explore a simple variable and an IF/ELSE statement. Then we look at the AJAX-y .load() function, the CSS function, and …
Dave Hoover demonstrates how to use Watir with Cucumber. Actually, he uses his own library SafariWatir, but you could easily swap it with Watir, FireWatir, ChromeWatir or Celerity. Cucumber lets software development teams describe how software should behave in plain text. The text is written in a business-readable domain-specific language …
Ever notice that you seem to spend 80% of your time on 20% of your tasks? Or that 80% of the decisions in a meeting seem to occur in 20% of the meeting time? Welcome to the world of the 80:20 rule. When we design, build and test software, we …
This session covers the problems encountered and available solutions when trying to scale data persistence systems to global scale. Data storage is a fundamental building block of computing systems, and the architectural computing styles collectively known as “cloud computing” bring new challenges in data persistence to developers and IT managers …
No slides, just code: From nothing to a maintainable Java EE / RIA application, with hacks, best practices and workarounds.
Inspired by a DeveloperWorks article on generic DAO, Oliver implemented a low-ceremony, annotation-based framework. Don’t repeat the DAO! (article referenced by the presentation)