The challenge facing developers today is to reduce the time between writing code and getting it into production, all while maintaining quality. What’s needed is a workflow built upon highly integrated and automated tools so that developers can focus on building new features. This session demonstrates plugging together an end-to-end …
There are many new challenges that developers face today to create the “perfect UI” that works seamlessly for everyone. An application must be compatible for multiple devices, multiple channels, for users in various places and coming from various contexts. With so many variables, how do we manage to get anything …
This presentation provides lessons learnt using web APIs and composable services to build a database server and its testing infrastructure. In the mid-2000s I was using the web as a platform for building and integrating enterprise apps. This led to my co-authoring ‘REST in Practice’, a guide to applying web …
This presentation about the future of configuration management provides a brief outline of what challenges the next few years are likely to be struggling with. What devices will be configuring, what methods shall we use? How shall we make the trade-offs? What technological changes will make a difference? These and …
Adopting Python across a company brings extra agility and productivity not provided by traditional mainstream tools like Excel. This is the story of programmers teaching non-programmers, from different departments, to embrace Python in their daily work.
Data Mappers (like Doctrine2) help us a lot to persist data. Yet many projects are still struggling with tough questions: Where to put business logic? How to protect our code from abuse? Where to put queries, and how test them?
