from: johnbuckman 4 weeks ago

Sure-fire ways to move toward self-employment, quit your job and live happily ever after. Video of most of this presentation: http://www.ustream.tv/recorded/961379

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from: gozali 4 weeks ago

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from: dhaun 4 weeks ago

Why you shouldn't rewrite an existing application from the ground up (English version).

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from: ronaldbradford 2 months ago

There are many poorly designed database application in use today. There are several reasons including lack of expertise, or lack of experience in MySQL specifically. This presentation will aim to educate an attendee for the top 20 things every database design should have. As a consultant I see these common mistakes regularly, some of which can easily be corrected without any code changes. Some topics include: Why is normalization important? When do you optimize your normalized schema? Why NOT NULL is important? Why VARCHAR is bad? Disk = Memory = Performance? MySQL has 9 different Numeric data types, Oracle has 1. Why? Think transactions, think strict data integrity. Leverage the power of covering indexes. Query Cache, friend or enemy.

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from: misteroo 1 month ago

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from: wizkids 1 month ago

10 ways to make money-Warren Buffet

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from: Cloud 1 month ago

IET Ireland Network and NUI Galway CompSoc Talk / DERI, NUI Galway / 27th November 2008

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from: cheilmann 1 month ago

An introduction to YUI and some examples of how to use it to solve daily problems in web design. A talk given at the University in Bucharest and partly re-hashed on the flight from my Ajax Experience talk.

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from: davidcchou 1 month ago

Deck delivered at Architect Council events in November and December of 2008

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from: stoyan 1 month ago

This talk is about easy ways to reduce image sizes without compromising quality using open-source command-line tools you can easily automate. About 50% of the average web page is images, so by focusing on images, you have an excellent opportunity to improve page performance and user experience. You can save 20-30% of your bandwidth bill and improve response time with little or no code changes and your site will still look just as good. Topics discussed: * GIF vs PNG * PNG8 * Truecolor PNG * IE6 and transparency * AlphaImageLoader and performance * Optimizing PHP/GD-generated images, favicons, CSS sprites

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from: interactionpatterns.org 1 month ago

Bill Scott, Director from the UI Engineering team at Netflix shows ways to use RIA to enhance the User Experience. If you take more interest in the field of design patterns than drop by at www.interaction-patterns.org.

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from: littleidea 2 months ago

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from: krivitsky 2 months ago

Agile Estimating Planning With Scrum

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from: askrom 3 months ago

Interaction designers need to seduce their users with the very design of their products, not by relying on the efforts of external "marketing people". I discuss seduction techniques and merchandising traditions in a context of the interaction designs of Web 2.0 products and services.

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from: dburka 3 months ago

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from: nataliedowne 3 months ago

http://natbat.net/2008/Sep/28/css-systems/ - A CSS System is a reusable set of content-oriented markup patterns and associated CSS created to express a site's individual design. It is the end result of a process that emphasizes up-front planning, loose coupling between CSS and markup, pre-empting browser bugs and overall robustness. It also incorporates a shared vocabulary for developers to communicate the intent of the code. This talk elaborates on this concept, and also describes a number of tricks I use to pre-empt maintainability issues. Originally presented at BarCamp London 5 in Richmond on the 28th of September 2008.

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from: whatidiscover 3 months ago

Leading Geeks Paul Glen http://www.nd.gov/ea/forums/presentations/leading-geeks.ppt

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from: thanhhuynh 3 months ago

West and East differences

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from: brynary 2 years ago

An overview of the major new features and changes in Rails 2.0. Originally presented on December 11th, 2007 at NYC.rb.

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from: alexchaffee 2 years ago

Want to test your entire Web 2.0 app, from AJAX and DHTML through browser-rendered HTML into a live instance of your application and database? Most web testing frameworks have gaps in their coverage: JUnit and Test::Unit miss the client frontend; JSUnit misses the server backend; web testing frameworks miss some or all of the JavaScript. With Selenium we have a framework that can test the whole application, from browser-executed JavaScript, through a live application backend, then back to assertions on browser-rendered DOM code. Selenium RC takes this further: since you write your tests in your application language, your tests can do data setup and assertions based directly on server-side domain objects that may be inaccessible or only partially accessible from the client side. On our teams we have used and developed a series of helper methods and assertions that allow testing of AJAX and DHTML functions as well. In this tutorial we outline the architecture of Selenium RC and walk through code and examples illustrating how to do full-stack testing against a Ruby on Rails application.

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from: vivek_prahlad 2 years ago

This presentation covers an introduction to Selenium, the Open Source, cross browser, cross platform functional testing tool. The talk emphasized the importance of applying the same principles to testing (abstraction, refactoring, DRY) that development teams apply to developing software. (This presentation was used for a talk at the Asian Testing Conference)

Tags: refactoring testing selenium rubyonrails