Monthly Talk

May 14, 2012 Talk – Search Consulting

Yes, search is important and a big part of user experience. Given the informational diversity and the particular situational context, we as developers need to provide the best possible experience to the consumer. Whereas the UI code is an important part of it, the algorithms behind the scenes are even more important. Come and have [...]

April 9, 2012 Talk – Bottles

Bottles, developed by the same team that brought you FubuMVC and HtmlTags, is a new way to bring extensiblity into your application. The team built Bottles to reduce the burden of building large extensible applications. Using Bottles, teams now have a vocabulary for discussing composition at the application layer. In the sharing session, Dru Sellers will go over the [...]

March 12, 2012 Talk – State Management in Windows 8 Metro Applications (PLEASE NOTE THE NEW LOCATION!)

Metro introduces a new application lifecyle in which your application could be terminated at anytime. This example driven session will explore how to write applications that sucessfully manage persisted, session and view state in the Metro environment allowing you to provide a good user experience for your end users. We will also look learn about the [...]

February 13, 2012 talk – Polyepmodnopinizr 5 And You

There are lots of buzzwords these days. Let’s pull apart some of these popular libraries and technologies and figure out what problems they solve and what problems we’re left to solve on our own. Let’s also look into out how to make this all work the way that we want… in all the browsers that [...]

January 9, 2012 talk – Application Development with HTML5

Our first talk of the year will feature Brandon Satrom on HTML5.  HTML5 is the biggest and most powerful HTML specification to ever come out of the W3C. Its roots come from a proposal to extend HTML4 to make it easier for web developers to create web applications. With more and more browsers supporting HTML5, [...]