Videos tagged with acts_as_conference 2009

Dan Benjamin is a software developer, user interface designer, and writer with over 15 years of industry experience in software development and interface design. Dan co-founded Cork'd, the web’s first social network and reviewing application for wine aficionados, which was later acquired by WLTV. He also developed a Ruby on Rails content management system for web design magazine,&nbs...

Will believes that CouchDB, and other document databases, are going to continue to grow in popularity in the future, and it’s important that we as developers are familiar with it so we’re able to use it when appropriate. CouchDB is easy to get running and use so there’s no excuse not to have it in your toolbox. The goal of this talk is to get you excited about CouchDB, and hel...

Everyone's had the problem of wanting to access and allow access to web services/APIs for extensions and plugins, but this usually means handling login credentials in plain text. Not many users like this, and those that do give their login and password out are compromising their account's security. OAuth is a solution to this. Designed by the people that created OpenID, you can let your users g...

You've heard it a million times, "TATFT". So, how do you go from being someone who wants to test, to someone who actually tests all the time? Do you need a spiritual guide who can show you the intricacies of testing, and how it can make your code better? If so, you need "TATFT, the laymen's guide to getting it right the first time." In this talk, I will go from evangelizing testing, to actually...

Author: Yehuda Katz

Since 1998, BrowserMedia has been developing award-winning solutions for more than 200 clients around the world. At the core of these solutions is the web-based content management system, BrowerCMS. For the upcoming release of BrowserCMS 3.0, BrowserMedia will be transitioning the product from a Proprietary J2EE application to an Open Source Ruby on Rails application. In this talk Patrick and P...

This talk will focus on the tricks to making a successful app. How to choose what to say yes or no to. How to market. How to design. How to pick a team/partners. How to split the money. How/when to launch, what's the bare minimum needed to launch. What is "good enough." How to do customer service. What are good problems to have. How to plan for scaling. How to have good UI and how important is ...

Author: Corey Haines

Author: Matt Williams

Author: Anthony Eden