Our toolsets provide us with plenty of support for encrypting, decrypting, and digitally signing messages. It's amazing how much cryptographic technology is baked right in to the Java and .NET frameworks. Yet, if we don't understand how that technology works, we are in real danger of misusing it.
Are you looking for better performance from your JavaScript? Don’t sacrifice features or functionality! You can cut a page’s load time significantly, simply by writing smarter code. In this session, we will explore the infamous DOM and discuss how JavaScript code is executed behind the curtains.
UPDATE: Slide deck and code are located here: https://github.com/trayburn/Presentation-BlackBeltMVC
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With the popularization of the cloud and smart devices, software applications are becoming much more distributed. Relying on web services to provide access to your company information allows both internal and external applications to be built for a variety of platforms in a standardized fashion.
StackExchange has done a great deal for the .NET community in the area of performance. In this session, we will be looking at their high performance client access library for Redis called Booksleeve using async/await.
So you want to develop iOS applications but how do you leverage your existing C# skills and not bother with Objective C? In this session Venkat will teach you the fundamental concepts of iOS development and show you how to leverage your existing skills with Xamarin Studio to build iPhone apps.
In this session, I will introduce the concept of an event as a data storage structure. We will construct an event store for an application and demonstrate how to load, analyze, and project different data structures from the event store.
We live in a universe whose natural processes are analog; yet we choose to model those processes on digital computers.
250 Billion. That's roughly the average minimum number of HTTP requests sent through the internet each day. We're going to completely dissect every tiny event that happens when you navigate to a web site.
Mobile web development is becoming more important and even though most of what works in "normal" web development works on mobile, there are unique challenges and constraints to it that we need to be aware of.
Responsive single page web applications are becoming the norm instead of the exception. Given this shift in web app development, quite a few client side frameworks written in JavaScript have emerged.
Scrum is the most popular Agile framework in the world for effective team collaboration on complex projects. Scrum provides a small set of rules that create just enough structure for teams to be able to focus their innovation. Scrum is optimized for teams for teams of 5 to 9 people.
If you think the HTML, CSS and JavaScript editor experiences in Visual Studio 2012 are awesome, then wait till you see what’s coming next.
As the internet involves, the speed of delivering content from servers to clients finds more importance day after day.
In this half-technical, half-philosophical talk, Udi will debunk many of the best practices in software, explain why Agile methodologies are failing in so many organizations, and describe some pretty important problems that many developers are totally oblivious of.
In this talk Shawn will share how he built the UserGroup.tv app for the Windows Store. He will walk through the basics of putting this type of an application together with C# and XAML.
The Html5 canvas element used to be something that sounded cool but we couldn't reliably use because of browser capabilities. Now it is available in Chrome, Firefox and the two latest versions of Internet Explorer. It also has fantastic support on mobile.
Unless you've been developing under a rock for the last year, you've no doubt heard people talking about the "cloud.
Visual Studio 2012 and .NET 4.5 just came out and there is a lot of new and interesting stuff.