In today’s mobile-first world almost every company has realized the need to connect with consumers on mobile devices. Now you, the developer, must figure out how to build it! Objective-C, Java, Xamarin, PhoneGap, Appcelerator, Icenium: there are so many ways to build a mobile app today, how do you choose? In this session I will cover the pros and cons of native app development and HTML5 hybrid app development to help you make the right choice based on the needs of YOUR app.
It doesn't really matter. We are not monkeys, we adapt and learn. What does matter however is the Why, a question that has been forgotten in the What and the How. In a society that is being driven by automation, information and interception, we are heading towards a society that not only Orwell might have predicted but also Huxley. Is this what we want? As developers, there is no doubt that we have and will play a very important role in the future direction of our society. The time has come to ask the uncomfortable questions, and how instead of just aiming to 'change the world', how can we help the world
Creating cross-platform, application-scale JavaScript code that runs in any browser or in any host is very hard. TypeScript is a programming language that changes that situation. In this session, you will get to know the TypeScript language. You will also see how to build an end-to-end web app using the language.
Pharo is the cool new kid on the object-oriented languages arena. It is Smalltalk-inspired. It is dynamic. It comes with a live programming environment in which objects are at the center. And, it is tiny.
But, most of all, it makes serious programming fun by challenging almost everything that got to be popular.For example, imagine an enviroment in which you can extend Object, modify the compiler, customize object the inspector, or even build your own the domain-specific debugger. And, you do not even have to stop the system while doing that.
In this talk, we show hands-on how live objects look like and we get to play with them in multiple scenarios. We leave it up to you to decide if it is serious enough.
More information about Pharo can be found at: pharo.org.
A ten year old system with a basic architecture from a distant past (.NET 1.0? VB6?). New functionality built throughout the years with the then state of the art technology. On top of that some cosmetics to make the web interface look modern, but in reality the application is rotten on the inside and about to fall apart any day. That’s a common work environment for many developers.
But there is a way to get out of it without funding for a complete rewrite. Anders shares his experiences on strangling, a method where a new architecture is built in and around the existing code based, gradually replacing the old rotten code with a shiny new architecture.
