Nygaard and Dahl invented Simula’s classes and objects to master complex problems. Alan Kay invented object orientation (OO) with its networks of communicating objects to facilitate simple and powerful mental models. His goal was to make computers and programming comprehensible to children of all ages. Mainstream programmers missed the importance …
Adobe® Shadow is a new inspection and preview tool that allows front-end web developers and designers to work faster and more efficiently by streamlining the preview process, making it easier to customize websites for mobile devices. Adobe Shadow helps resolve this by giving you the ability to easily control browsing …
Some software testers thrive on challenges, while others struggle with how to deal with them. Handled well, challenges can make us stronger in our passion, drive, and determination. This video describes some of the challenges we face today in software testing and how we can respond in a positive, constructive …
Google is moving to the new C++11 standard and this talk provides a view into how Google is involved in the standard committee and how a new standard is actually developed. It also gives a sneak peek at what to look out for in the next iteration of the standard. …
This video discusses how to use JavaScript frameworks, particularly Backbone.js, with Rails. Web apps have been getting more JavaScript-heavy and nested piles of callbacks are no fun. Backbone is a backend-agnostic library that helps you impose an MVC flavor on your JavaScript. This talk covers the basic components of Backbone …
SQL Injection is a vulnerability that is often missed by web application security scanners, and it’s a vulnerability that is often rated as NOT exploitable by security testers when it actually can be exploited. Advanced SQL Injection is a presentation geared toward showing security professionals advanced exploitation techniques for situations …
