Learn how to make your Zend Framework 2 application fly using ESI (Edge Side Includes) and Varnish web application accelerator. In today’s web applications, personalized sections and data that is frequently updated mean full-page caching is rarely an option. Using ESI and Varnish, we will cache a generic site layout …
Writing code is hard. Especially when you have to work in a team and everyone writes his or her code differently. As if it wouldn’t be hard enough to understand and implement the functionality of an app. To work against barriers of understanding code define how your team writes code. …
Software application development, especially for social, challenges us to evaluate how to code for the complexity of modern life. Examples include the growing range of labels people ascribe to their important relationships, sexual orientation, and gender. Users are giving push-back to questions that carry ill-fitted assumptions or constrain their responses.
With over 2 million and a half repositories, GitHub is the world’s largest source code host. Since day one, we’ve faced an unique engineering problem: making terabytes of Git data always available, either directly or through our website. This talk offers a hopefully insightful view into the internals of Git, …
PhoneGap is a free and open source framework that allows you to create mobile apps using standardized web APIs for the platforms you care about. This video takes a look at new APIs in HTML5 that make the most of mobile device features, how to test and debug content, and …
Some programmers are simply more effective than others. Kent Beck famously described himself as “not a great programmer, but a good programmer with great habits.” Over the last year or so Dan North has been working with, and observing, some very good programmers with quite exceptional and rather surprising habits.Is …
