At the DjangoConf 2008 edition, James Bennett presents a talk on how to build reusable applications. He proposes 4 simple principles to achieve this goal: * Do one thing, and do it well. * Don’t be afraid of multiple apps. * Write for flexibility. * Build to distribute. Slides of …
Closure Library is the open-source JavaScript library behind some of Google’s big web apps like Gmail and Google Docs. This session will tour the broad library, its object-oriented design, and its namespaced organization. We’ll explain how it works and how to integrate it in your setup, both for development and …
Retrospectives are the Agile team’s most powerful tool for facilitating continuous improvement. We’ve all encountered teams that make the same mistakes and suffer the same pain over and over again. The good news is that it’s possible for just about any team to break this cycle by investing as little …
Since then more Rails applications have gone into production, additional techniques have been developed for optimizing performance, and more open source libraries have been published. In this talk I will first give a quick introduction for those just getting their feet wet with optimizing Rails applications. However, the majority of …
The Go programming language was released as an open source project in late 2009. This session will illustrate how programming in Go differs from other languages through a set of examples demonstrating features particular to Go. These include concurrency, embedded types, methods on any type, and program construction using interfaces. …
Monty, the co-founder of MySQL and now project lead of MariaDB, discusses what MariaDB is all about. MariaDB is a database server that offers drop-in replacement functionality for MySQL1. He presents an overview of the future of this community developed branch of the MySQL database.