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Talks at DevNation Atlanta 2010
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Why People Hate Developers
Sanjay Parekh 4 Recommendations
April 3, 2010 5:00 AMOpening keynote for DevNation Atlanta
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Browser MVC with YQL and YUI
Stephen Owens 2 Recommendations
April 3, 2010 5:50 AMYQL is a highly rich and dynamic utility for capturing data from any place on the web. When we couple this functionality with YUI we have wonderful functionality for designing apps and sites easily and that scale around MVC design patterns.
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Real Software Engineering
Glenn Vanderburg 82 Recommendations
April 3, 2010 6:45 AMSoftware engineering as it’s taught in universities simply doesn’t work. It doesn’t produce software systems of high quality, and it doesn’t produce them for low cost. Sometimes, even when practiced rigorously, it doesn’t produce systems at all. That’s odd, because in every other field, the…
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NoSQL, CouchDB, and the Cloud
Brad Anderson 1 Recommendation
April 3, 2010 7:35 AMApache CouchdDB is a schema-free document database with unique characteristics that make it an excellent fit for a new wave of applications. It is a rapidly maturing product and one of the leaders of the NoSQL movement. We will take a look at some of these unique features, and also delve int…
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Making Websites Fast
Billy Hoffman 3 Recommendations
April 3, 2010 9:50 AMSpeed is essential when it comes to websites. Study after study has shown that faster websites lead to more traffic, more ad impressions, more engaged users, higher conversation rates, lower abandonment rates, and more revenue. And yet despite internet connections 100 times faster than a dec…
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The Effective Developer
Jeremy McAnally 14 Recommendations
April 3, 2010 10:40 AMOften times developers will look at their more prolific brethren (or sistren) and ask, "How do they do it?" How do they hack out so much open source code? Or crank out 5,000 LOC in a week on our latest project? How do they write 10 books a year? How are they so effective at what they do? Is…
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Mind Control: Psychology for the Web
Ben Scofield 150 Recommendations
April 3, 2010 11:40 AMWeb design and user experience are about much more than making things look pretty. There's hard data underlying many design decisions, and we as developers benefit when we understand the principles at work. In this session, I'll provide an overview of some of the psychological principles tha…
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Why the Language Renaissance Matters to the Enterprise
April 3, 2010 12:30 PMNo one has failed to notice the language renaissance happening in the development world right now, but most enterprises ignore it. This keynote explains why the enterprise not only shouldn’t ignore this phenomenon, but must embrace it. Explaining this requires context, though, so this keynot…