That there is a “software crisis” has been asserted and repeated for half a century. Software is late and over-budget, software doesn’t work well, software is hard to change, software doesn’t meet user needs, etc. In other words: software sucks!
One of the best ways to move yourself forward as a developer is to have mentors who can forward your skills, or to be a mentor for a newer developer. Mentoring isn’t limited to just “hard” or technical skills, and a mentoring relationship can help in all aspects of any …
The world of web standards can be a daunting place, especially to the uninitiated. This talk explains the web standardization process. Starting with her own history with web standards, Divya Manian, Advanced Web and Interactivity Designer at Adobe, goes from the reasoning behind standards, to how a standard is developed, …
This video presents a short theoretical introduction to RabbitMQ and messaging in general to later dive into a live coding session to see how implement messaging into our applications. The live demo will go from starting the server and issuing basic administration commands up to creating several consumers and publishers. …
This tutorial presents the basics of the Dart language, libraries and tools. Learn how this new open source project can help you scale your web programs from small scripts to large structured and modern apps.
From JRuby to Clojure, Jython to Groovy, there are many different scripting languages that can now be embedded and integrated into a JVM. And there are almost as many different ways of doing it! This presentation compares and contrasts some of the different ways of embedding scripting languages in Java, …
