Android Accessibility
What is accessibility in the Android world and why is it important? This presentation by Twitter’s Sommer Panage discusses basic accessibility for Android, testing, and custom views.
Point, Click, Tap, Touch: Multi-Device Web Interfaces
PCs, laptops, tablets, smartphones, hybrids, televisions and more: touch-AND-mouse-enabled devices are coming. Come to this talk to learn how to make your site awesome on the growing number of touchscreen devices and to see what the future of the web holds for touch-based computing.
Prototype and Test Any Product in 5 Days
It is often said, “ship early, ship often,” and most product teams are familiar with this classic building process: ideate, build, launch, measure, iterate, repeat. While this system can work, and has, it may not be the most productive. What happens when the original idea flops? Then, you’ve lost precious …
Scalling Prezi from 25 to 25 million users
Prezi.com has been built on Python code from the start. That’s about the only thing that has remained constant in Prezi.com’s codebase as it grew. Along the way, we’ve had to solve all sorts of interesting problems. Partly technical, partly organization, all of them had an effect on how we …
Kohana: A Lightweight PHP Framework
Kohana is an elegant open source HMVC PHP5 framework that provides a rich set of components for building web applications. Web frameworks are absolutely essential for making websites: They organize your code so that it’s more maintainable, and they take care of common problems like user input sanitation and data …
Service Oriented Architecture in the Ruby World
As your application grows in complexity, breaking it up into independent components that communicate over a stable API contract can reduce that complexity into smaller maintainable concerns. Instead of deploying multiple Rails applications, there are leaner alternatives in the Ruby ecosystem such as Middleman and Grape.