Vast Rank is a College Ranking & Review website that makes use of several Google APIs to power its unique set of features. This session will dig into the code behind Vast Rank’s “Ranking Map” that provides contextual College Rankings based on what a user has in view on his …
This video shows why you want to write unit tests for the perspectives of specifications, feedback, regression & granularity. Then write a GUI in C# using Windows Forms & Approval Tests. ApprovalTests is an open source tool that supports C#, Java, Ruby for unit or acceptance tests.
JRuby is regarded as the most stable and efficient implementation of Ruby. Running JRuby on top of Google App Engine for Java gives access to many interesting possibilities, including running Rails on top of Google’s infrastructure. Exactly how to make this happen is not totally apparent, though, and there are …
The Play framework is a clean alternative to bloated Enterprise Java stacks. It focuses on developers productivity and targets RESTful architectures. Play is a perfect companion for agile software development.
The Real-time Specification for Java (RTSJ) standardizes a set of extensions to SUN’s Java programming language for real-time computing. The appeal of the RTSJ comes from its expressiveness and its integration in the Java development environment. In this talk, Jan Vitek reviews the status of the Specification and its implementation …
V8 is Google’s high-performance JavaScript engine used in Google Chrome. V8 is optimized for well-designed object-oriented applications that make heavy use of objects, function calls, and property access. This talk will provide an overview of the internals of V8 and dive into the advanced virtual-machine technology used. Specifically, details of …