Scala and Sbt
This video shows you how to install the Scala sdk and Simple Build Tool, sbt. You will also see how to create a mini sbt-project to demonstrate how you can get started with unit testing using Scalatest and JUnit.
Crankshaft: Turbocharging the Next Generation of Web Applications
Crankshaft is a new compilation infrastructure for V8, Google Chrome\’s JavaScript engine. By using aggressive optimizations, Crankshaft dramatically improves the performance of compute-intensive JavaScript applications — often by more than a factor of two! In this presentation, you will get an insight into how we decide which functions to optimize …
Extracting Gold from Legacy Code
This video describes the huge opportunity for innovation in Legacy systems! We argue there has never been a better time for creative legacy renovations which leverage new hot technologies – languages; data bases; web; cloud and Agile practices. Many talented developers turn up their noses or run away in fear …
Scaling SQL Server at StackOverflow
Learn how StackOverflow.com can serve 12-14 million web pages per day with Microsoft SQL Server 2008 R2. They’re passionate about performance, and we’ll share the scalability lessons they learned along the way. This session is aimed at production DBAs who manage SQL Servers that need to go faster and SQL …
Developing Mobile Apps with Rails
This video shows how to build a rocking’ mobile-ready site with Ruby on Rails. The presenter discusses his successes and failures, as well as how to get your site ready for every smart phone and tablet out there.
Applications Development with jQuery
jQuery is the most popular JavaScript library in use today because it allows to create web pages with rich user experiences. This tutorial shows you how to do things like add custom widgets and provide enhanced usability (like drag-and-drop) with very few lines of code.