Introduction to Java DB / Apache Derby
Rick Hillegas, Java DB Technical Team Lead at Sun Microsystems, talks about Java DB / Apache Derby at The San Francisco Java User Group’s September 8th event in San Francisco.
RubyPulse Episode 0.1 – FastRI
FastRI is an alternative to the ri command-line tool (used for browsing Ruby’s stdlib and third-party API docs). It is much faster, and also allows you to offer RI lookup services over DRb. FastRI is smarter than ri, and can find classes anywhere in the hierarchy without specifying the “full …
Presentation of Mono
A quick presentation of Mono to the Columbus Ohio .NET developers group. Slides of the presentation
Isolation Frameworks: Learning to use Partial Mocks
In this episode we are going to continue our series on learning how to use an isolation framework (Rhino Mocks) to help create simpler and more reliable unit tests. This time around we are going to be focusing how to use Partial Mocks to test abstract classes and methods within …
Kanban
The motivation and use of kanban in software engineering is often being misunderstood. It isn’t a prescriptive method or process template. Kanban offers us a set of guidelines and principles for implementing a pull system. When followed appropriately these principles will lead every kanban process implementation to different and uniquely …
Turbo-charge your UI: How to Make your Android UI Fast and Efficient
Learn practical tips, techniques and tricks for making your Android applications fast and responsive. This session will focus on optimizations recommended by the Android framework team to make the best use of the UI toolkit. Download session presentation PDF