The Crystal 3-step model consists of practices, principles, and personalization. The practices are what you know or learn how to do. The principles are the laws of design that inform you as to what works better and when. Personalization is adapting yourself to your situation, and your practices to your …
People are often dumb, so how can crowds be wise? James Surowiecki laid the groundwork in his book, “The Wisdom of Crowds.” In this solo presentation, Derek Powazek will apply those ideas to the web, concentrating on how to design websites that empower people to work together to create something …
As anyone who’s been developing in Rails for a while knows, Ruby and Rails are particularly good tools for modeling complexity. However, very little emphasis has been placed on how to *manage* this complexity. “Domain-Driven Design†is a set of principles, patterns, and practices that help developers manage the complexity …
The brand new Rails 3 release has an impressive array of improvements and new features, including full compatibility with JRuby from the onset. So what does running Rails 3 on the JVM with JRuby look like? A super-charged, caffeine-powered locomotive! We’ll explore all the ways JRuby makes sense for Rails …
Explore the underlying object-relational mapping (ORM) framework in ColdFusion 9. Tap into the power of Hibernate to build scalable and high-performing applications. This is a very technical session requiring advanced skills with ColdFusion.
Google is expanding our storage products by introducing Google Storage for Developers. It offers a RESTful API for storing and accessing data at Google. Developers can take advantage of the performance and reliability of Google’s storage infrastructure, as well as the advanced security and sharing capabilities. We will demonstrate key …