It can be dispiriting to find that what seemed to be a well-designed system, that has been carefully implemented by a good agile team runs into problems as soon as it hits production, but such things do happen. Conversely how is it that gnarled old systems containing tangled code without …
Technology changes, it’s a fact of life. And while many developers are attracted to the challenge of change, many organizations do a particularly poor job of adapting. We’ve all worked on projects with, ahem, less than new technologies even though newer approaches would better serve the business. But how do …
Do you feel like you are “faking it” in your job? Are you wondering when, or if, you will jump to “making it”? This session will discuss ways that we can recognize where and how we may be limiting ourselves, and take the steps necessary to “stop faking it”.
Vagrant combined with Virtual box and a provisioning tool like chef or puppet fundamentally changes the way PHP software developers setup their development environments and develop their web applications. Once configured, vagrant allows developers to spin up a new environment in a couple of commands and allows each developer to …
Software development is not an easy profession. You have to constantly learn new things to improve your coding skills and make sure you produce better and cleaner code over time. It’s not difficult, but you have to be aware of a few basic principles.
Much like Spring burst onto the scene and became a de facto standard for Java, Sencha is vying for a similar role in the world of HTML5. From Ext JS for desktop development, Sencha Touch for mobile, and Sencha Architect as a design tool, it has become a pervasive technology …
