Advanced Git
GitHub’s Matthew McCullough give an advanced tour of the Git source code management tool.
Chrome Developer Tools Evolution
If you know your way around the Dev Tools and would like to take your skills to a higher level, this session will kick your productivity into overdrive. Since last year’s installment, we’ve added a whole slew of features that empower developers to make rich web apps, so in this …
Embracing the Web with JSON and PLV8
The new JSON datatype in Postgres 9.2 is interesting enough on its own, however when combined with PLV8 Javascript it becomes very exciting. Never before has there been a datatype and a PL designed to work with together. Combining these two transforms PostgreSQL from a standard relational database into a …
Why Mud Still Rules in Software Architecture
The cause of programmatic pulchritude has been championed by many over the last forty years, from the Literate Programming boomlet of the seventies, the Architecture craze of the eighties, the Patterns Movement of the nineties, and even the burgeoning Software Crafts movement of the current decade, alas, to little apparent …
Let’s Teach Kids to Code
Mitch Resnick of MIT Media Lab explains that coding isn’t just for computer whizzes, it’s for everyone. In a fun, demo-filled talk Resnick outlines the benefits of teaching kids to code, so they can do more than just “read” new technologies, but also create them.
Using Web Development Skills to Build Desktop Apps
Do you want to convert your single-page web apps to a desktop environment? Learn how to apply your development skillset – including HTML5, JavaScript and CSS as well as media queries, templating and data binding – to desktop application development.