Sessions tagged with 'web'

Building Mobile Apps with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript

Jonathan Stark (Jonathan Stark Consulting)

Explore an alternative approach to native mobile app development that allows you to create smooth animation, operate in offline mode, and hook into advanced device features (accelerometer, camera, location, vibration, and sound) using HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Django Deployment Workshop

Jacob Kaplan-Moss (Revolution Systems, LLC), Frank Wiles (Revolution Systems, LLC)

So you've written a Django site... now what? Writing the application is just the beginning; now you've got to put it into production! In this hands-on workshop we'll walk through the creation of a full Django deployment environment running on a cluster of (virtual) machines.

Don't Fear the Closure

Lennon Day-Reynolds (Dark Horse Comics)

Presentation: external link

Javascript has become the universal language of the web. Usable on client or server, it can be fast, flexible, and reusable across many sites and applications. To really master JS you need more than a framework: you need to grok some heavy-duty functional and OO concepts it took from weird languages like Scheme and Self. Come see where these ideas came from, and how to use them in your JS code.

Driving Apache Traffic Server

Leif Hedstrom (Apple)

Presentations: Driving Apache Traffic Server Presentation [PPT],
external link

Apache Traffic Server is an Open Source project implementing a caching HTTP proxy server, donated to the Apache Foundation by Yahoo! We will examine the technical details behind TS, what it's good for, and how you can configure it to accelerate your web traffic.

Evolution of Web Security: Fundamentals, Emerging Trends, and Ideas for the Future

Chris Shiflett (Analog)

Presentation: Evolution of Web Security_ Fundamentals, Emerging Trends, and Ideas for the Future Presentation [PDF]

This tutorial explores new concepts in web security. After a solid grounding in well-known exploits, I'll demonstrate how traditional exploits are being combined together and with other technologies to launch sophisticated attacks that penetrate firewalls, target users, and spread like worms. I'll then discuss some ideas for the future to help you provide a better, more secure user experience.

Grails: Bringing Radical Productivity to the JVM

Dave Klein (Independent)

Presentation: Grails_ Bringing Radical Productivity to the JVM Presentation [PDF]

Developers around the world, from boutique web development shops to fortune 100 corporations, are discovering how they can get more done in less time with Grails. In this hands-on tutorial we'll see why. We'll work together to build and a deploy an Ajax enabled, database backed web application and have fun doing it!

Introduction to Catalyst 5.80

Matt Trout (Shadowcat Systems Limited)

Catalyst 5.80 is the first major release to use the Moose metamodel; this tutorial will provide an overview of Catalyst 5.8, a guide for forward porting, and advice on new features and updated best practices in a cleaner, more extensible new age of Catalyst.

Introduction to Google App Engine

Ikai Lan (Google, Inc.)

Google App Engine is an development & hosting platform that lets you build & deploy web applications on Google's high-traffic infrastructure. You only need to upload your code: no more worrying about machines, storage, scalability! This tutorial introduces attendees to its architecture & various service APIs. In the hands-on lab, you'll build+deploy a real app to the cloud using Python in minutes!

Pinax: A Platform for Rapidly Developing Web Sites

James Tauber (Eldarion)

Pinax is an open-source platform built on the Django Web Framework that dramatically reduces the time it takes to develop Web sites. By providing common components in a high-extensible framework, Pinax increases the speed at which websites can be developed and launched. Features include account management, integration with OpenID and OAuth, invitations, friendships, groups, tagging and more.

What is Google App Engine?

Ikai Lan (Google, Inc.)

Presentation: What is Google App Engine_ Presentation [PDF]

Google App Engine is an development & hosting platform that lets you build & deploy web applications on Google's high-traffic infrastructure. You only need to upload your code: no more worrying about machines, storage, scalability! This session introduces attendees to its architecture & various service APIs. Time-permitting we'll go through a simple example using Python.

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