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8:30am Monday, 07/19/2010

Observing and Optimizing your Application with DTrace

Tools & Techniques
Location: Portland 251

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Angelo Rajadurai (Sun)

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(4.33, 28 ratings)

As application complexity increases, observing it in action becomes harder. Traditional tools are not very useful when going across programing languages. DTrace is a revolutionary tool that allows you to observe applications in AMP stack and those written in languages like PHP, Ruby, Python, Java, C, C++ and much more. This session will teach you DTrace and demonstrate techniques of using it. Read more.

1:30pm Monday, 07/19/2010

The Productive Programmer

Tools & Techniques
Location: Portland 256

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Neal Ford (ThoughtWorks)

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(3.57, 35 ratings)

My latest book The Productive Programmer shows developers how to supercharge their effectiveness. It consists of two parts: mechanics and practice. The mechanics section covers productivity principles like acceleration, canonicality, focus, and automation. The practice section shows how productive thinking and questioning assumptions makes you a better developer. Read more.

8:30am Tuesday, 07/20/2010

The Rails 3 Ropes Course

Ruby
Location: Portland 252

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Gregg Pollack (Envy Labs), Nathaniel Bibler (Envy Labs), Thomas Meeks (Envy Labs), Jacob Swanner (Envy Labs)

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(4.90, 10 ratings)

For this ropes course, members of the Envy Labs team will march you through the core concepts of Rails 3 while taking you through the development of a new Rails application. At the end of this course you will come away with a better understanding what’s new in Rails 3, and equally as important, what has changed since Rails 2. Read more.

1:30pm Tuesday, 07/20/2010

Cooking with jQuery

JavaScript
Location: Portland 251

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Mike Hostetler (appendTo, LLC), Jonathan Sharp (appendTo LLC.)

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(3.03, 30 ratings)

JavaScript is not a dirty word. The language itself is quite elegant. However, competing implementations by differing browsers has given it a bad rap. Yet, in this age of Ajax it is a must-have for any successful web application. Join this group of JavaScript gurus, who co-authored the O'Reilly jQuery Cookbook, for a tutorial session covering reliable techniques: intermediate to advanced. Read more.

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