Actions are driven by ideas, and ideas are driven by philosophy. For a deep understanding of our actions, we have to go the whole way back to the philosophy that motivates them. So what’s the philosophical basis for Object Oriented Programming? This talk discusses Plato’s theory of forms, its relationship …
Many people use Open Source but are intimidated by the idea of contributing to a project. “I’m not smart enough!” “I don’t know enough!” “What if people laugh at me?” In this talk I’ll teach you why and how to contribute to Open Source.
Issuu provides a distribution platform for print publications and viewers for a range of devices. Much like on YouTube, users can upload content and share links to a viewer that displays the content. Issuu has more than 11,500,000 publications, serves over four billion pages a month to 70 million unique …
Most of the code you write is not for yourself or for the computer, but for a other software developers. If you want that your colleagues understand your code, you have to consider certain aspects. Dino Esposito discusses these topics in this presentation.
One of the major points of disagreement about software relates to how much up front design to do, with people being very polarized as to when they should do design and how much they should do. “Just enough” sits somewhere in the chasm between big design up front and what …
This talk covers his top ten tips and tricks for squeezing maximum performance out of web applications (PHP or otherwise). Memcached, APC, database query performance, PHP settings you’ve never heard of… nothing will be off limits.
