The document provides career enhancement advice for graduates. It recommends that graduates create a strong digital footprint by using consistent professional branding across social media profiles, posting about accomplishments and projects, and cleaning up unprofessional content. It also suggests pursuing campus interviews, higher education, internships, civil service, skill development courses, starting a business, government jobs, online tutoring, teaching, blogging, freelancing, or digital marketing careers. Networking on LinkedIn and innovatively designing resumes are presented as ways for graduates to find opportunities.
Hacking Culture with Javascript - Ben Straub - Codemotion Amsterdam 2017Codemotion
Most every remote-enabled team uses real-time-communication software of one sort or another, but usually it's a chat room. Lately, even co-located teams are signing up for this. So now that a bunch of our togetherness is in a chat room, we can gently introduce robots to do some of our scut work for us. Let's take a look at what happens when the robot becomes not just a tool, but a part of the team.
Very short Pecha Kucha style presentation on the challenges of creating and adapting OER and how new models of facilitated adaptation will probably meet the needs of most people.
Nonprofit Technology #FAILS: How to “Fail Informatively” (11NTCfailinform)Miminten
This document summarizes a session on nonprofit technology failures from a conference. It includes introductions from the presenters, examples of failures from case studies, and encourages attendees to share their own failure stories. The goal is to discuss how failures can provide learning opportunities if approached informally, and to make the lessons from failures actionable for improving technology efforts at nonprofits. The document ends with instructions on how to submit a session evaluation for a chance to win a prize.
This document discusses the relationship between web accessibility, search engine optimization (SEO), and emerging technologies like AJAX and Flash. It notes that while new technologies can enhance the user experience, they often cause problems for search engines and accessibility for users with disabilities. The document provides some solutions like progressive enhancement and keeping content separate from presentation, as well as considering alternatives to technologies when accessibility or SEO could be issues.
The document provides career enhancement advice for graduates. It recommends that graduates create a strong digital footprint by using consistent professional branding across social media profiles, posting about accomplishments and projects, and cleaning up unprofessional content. It also suggests pursuing campus interviews, higher education, internships, civil service, skill development courses, starting a business, government jobs, online tutoring, teaching, blogging, freelancing, or digital marketing careers. Networking on LinkedIn and innovatively designing resumes are presented as ways for graduates to find opportunities.
Hacking Culture with Javascript - Ben Straub - Codemotion Amsterdam 2017Codemotion
Most every remote-enabled team uses real-time-communication software of one sort or another, but usually it's a chat room. Lately, even co-located teams are signing up for this. So now that a bunch of our togetherness is in a chat room, we can gently introduce robots to do some of our scut work for us. Let's take a look at what happens when the robot becomes not just a tool, but a part of the team.
Very short Pecha Kucha style presentation on the challenges of creating and adapting OER and how new models of facilitated adaptation will probably meet the needs of most people.
Nonprofit Technology #FAILS: How to “Fail Informatively” (11NTCfailinform)Miminten
This document summarizes a session on nonprofit technology failures from a conference. It includes introductions from the presenters, examples of failures from case studies, and encourages attendees to share their own failure stories. The goal is to discuss how failures can provide learning opportunities if approached informally, and to make the lessons from failures actionable for improving technology efforts at nonprofits. The document ends with instructions on how to submit a session evaluation for a chance to win a prize.
This document discusses the relationship between web accessibility, search engine optimization (SEO), and emerging technologies like AJAX and Flash. It notes that while new technologies can enhance the user experience, they often cause problems for search engines and accessibility for users with disabilities. The document provides some solutions like progressive enhancement and keeping content separate from presentation, as well as considering alternatives to technologies when accessibility or SEO could be issues.
Get a Seat at the Strategy Table - WebVisions 2011Samantha Starmer
To get a seat at the strategy table, one must understand the organization's strategic goals and objectives, know how decisions are made, and think about long term changes. It is important to build relationships with allies, know potential opponents, and have important conversations before proposing new ideas. One should pick their battles wisely, help others' goals, and offer solutions, preferably with proposed solutions or already implemented solutions. It is also important to learn how executives communicate, listen more than speaking, and become comfortable discussing strategy with executives.
This document discusses managing your digital footprint and online reputation. It covers what a digital footprint is, how data brokers track online activities to build profiles, and the importance of having a positive online presence through searchable profiles and content on sites like blogs, social media, and About.me pages. It warns that prospective employers and colleges may search online for applicants and cautions that anything posted can affect opportunities. Tips are provided on building a professional digital footprint.
Growing and sustaining IBM Technical Communities with Web 2.0Andy Piper
This document discusses how IBM uses Web 2.0 tools to help connect its large and diverse workforce and encourage collaboration. It outlines challenges such as employees feeling disconnected despite diversity in culture, skills and interests. Web 2.0 applications like blogs, wikis and social networks allow participation and sharing to help address this by breaking down barriers and enabling recommendations and communication across the company. The document also describes IBM's internal social network "cattail" and how it has grown significantly since its launch, with many employees using it to share information, find expertise and reduce email loads.
The document discusses how to incorporate user experience (UX) design principles into agile development processes. It recommends conducting quick user interviews to understand user needs, creating low-fidelity prototypes to test early with users, and iterating the prototypes based on user feedback to refine the design. Conducting rapid and frequent user testing is important to iteratively improve the design and ensure it meets user needs. Adopting an agile mindset of frequent collaboration, iteration and user feedback is key for meaningful UX work.
This document summarizes the development of ebooks and ebook reading devices. It discusses the rise of devices like the Kindle, Nook, and tablets and how their increasing ubiquity and availability on multiple platforms is driving adoption of ebooks. It also examines issues around ebook formats, digital rights management, and how libraries can continue providing access to digital content in the future.
A talk about the broken communication between the accessibility world and the developer world and a few ideas how to break down the wall between the two.
Christian Heilmann found last year's Accessibility 2.0 conference inspiring and developed some new accessible tools and projects as a result. However, he notes that the accessibility movement still lacks force and impact because it is not united in pushing a clear message. He argues for embracing new technologies, integrating accessibility into products by design, focusing on flagship examples that demonstrate accessibility can be attractive, and educating others with passion and openness rather than just technical knowledge.
This document provides an introduction to pitching and discusses key components such as preparation, defining the problem and solution, explaining the value proposition, describing the business model and team, and ensuring effective execution and traction. It emphasizes that a pitch should clearly identify the target customer, their problem, how the solution solves it, and why the customer would provide funding. The document also provides additional resources on pitching, presentation skills, and technology tools.
This document provides an outline for a workshop on using LinkedIn for business purposes. It includes sections on building a company page, networking, using groups, company policy, and social media integration. Attendees will learn how to create a basic company profile, add content like products and services, connect with others, use search and groups to find contacts, and get an overview of available analytics. Troubleshooting tips are also provided to address common issues like email acceptance or access to profiles.
This document provides an introduction to social media platforms and how to get started using them. It lists common platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube and Blogger. It then focuses on describing how Twitter works, including having a username, posting tweets with hashtags and links, and using tweets to share updates and have private conversations. The document encourages beginners to choose a platform they feel comfortable with, have a topic in mind to focus on, search for credible sources on that topic to follow and engage with, and then start sharing content.
Mike Bradshaw from Community Shepard at Hammerkit introduces pitching and provides resources for preparing effective pitches. The document outlines preparing by understanding the problem and solution, market size, costs and competition. It emphasizes the importance of preparation and having a clear tagline, story, and ask. Resources are shared for developing pitches, including websites for presentation skills, TED talks, and Toastmasters clubs. The document concludes by thanking the audience and inviting questions.
This document discusses emerging technologies and trends in tablets, e-readers, and audio/video over the next 12 months. It predicts that tablets will continue their rise in popularity, led by the iPad, and assesses several new tablet models. E-readers like the Kindle may hold ground against tablets for dedicated reading. It also explores new audio/video technologies and concepts like "transliteracy." In closing, the author provides contact information and a link to further thoughts on gadgets and technology.
OESIS - Blended Programs for Alternative RevenueDave Ostroff
The document discusses blended programs for alternative revenue at All Saints' Episcopal School in Fort Worth, Texas. It contains links to various images without descriptions. The document ends by thanking the reader and providing contact information for Dave Ostroff to connect, engage, and share.
Network Enabled Research - The role of open source and open thinkingCameron Neylon
Keynote talk given at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference at the ISMB in Berlin on 19 July 2013. Discussed from the perspective of Open Source and open definitions how to think about networks and the potential for discontinuities and phase transitions as places where the expansion of networks can lead to significant changes in scientific capacity.
This document provides tips for getting posts to the top 10 on Hacker News. It recommends using English, raising interesting topics for discussion like critiquing PHP's design, and posting about cool visual effects or demo projects to ride trends. Posting hacks or examples of interesting UX, and focusing on fun projects can improve page rank and SEO while practicing English and stimulating creativity.
The document discusses designing social media strategies. It recommends (1) checking your online reputation and understanding how information about you spreads on networks, (2) being a useful source of information on social media, and (3) choosing carefully what to share and when to be open versus closed online. It also suggests designing your social media workflows and days to take advantage of serendipity online while balancing openness and privacy.
Your library website visitors are having a user experience (UX) on your website right now. Do you know if it’s a good experience? Have you ever asked? And how can you improve it? This presentation will help make your website UX rock by providing easy-to-implement tips and tools to improve the experience your customers have while using your library’s website.
This presentation discusses strategies for developing an online presence for student media. It outlines reasons to go online like engaging mobile students and developing new content. Common myths about online media are debunked. Tips are provided on staffing, structure, promoting content across multiple platforms, and overcoming technical challenges. Examples of successful student media websites are shared.
Presented by Jeff Cram, ISITE Design & CMS Myth at Confab 2011
Overview:
Content management systems won’t win many popularity contests among content folks. They can be clunky, obtuse and plain old frustrating to use. Yet, they are responsible for managing and delivering almost all of your content across websites and mobile devices. As a content strategist, you can’t afford to leave CMS just to the tech folks. It’s simply too important to your job and to your organization. We’ll drop the geek speak in this session and explore what a content strategist really needs to know about CMS.
This document discusses using Python in the animation industry. It describes how one person learned Python while working in animation. It also discusses using Python in Maya for animation work. The document then talks about building an animation pipeline using Python and ideas like version control, asset management databases, and behavior logging to analyze user interactions. It considers options like CouchDB and MongoDB for managing asset data and user behavior logs. Finally, it emphasizes that version control, databases, and cloud techniques can benefit many creative roles beyond just programmers.
Christian Heilmann gives advice on how to succeed on the open web. He recommends focusing on building for the web using existing web technologies and APIs rather than proprietary systems. Specifically, he suggests starting with Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) to build and test APIs by accessing and combining data from various web services and sites. By making APIs and data openly available, it can help developers and others build on your work, which in turn helps gain recognition and an audience on the web. Overall, the key is leveraging existing web technologies and standards through open collaboration rather than trying to do everything alone or reinventing the wheel.
Get a Seat at the Strategy Table - WebVisions 2011Samantha Starmer
To get a seat at the strategy table, one must understand the organization's strategic goals and objectives, know how decisions are made, and think about long term changes. It is important to build relationships with allies, know potential opponents, and have important conversations before proposing new ideas. One should pick their battles wisely, help others' goals, and offer solutions, preferably with proposed solutions or already implemented solutions. It is also important to learn how executives communicate, listen more than speaking, and become comfortable discussing strategy with executives.
This document discusses managing your digital footprint and online reputation. It covers what a digital footprint is, how data brokers track online activities to build profiles, and the importance of having a positive online presence through searchable profiles and content on sites like blogs, social media, and About.me pages. It warns that prospective employers and colleges may search online for applicants and cautions that anything posted can affect opportunities. Tips are provided on building a professional digital footprint.
Growing and sustaining IBM Technical Communities with Web 2.0Andy Piper
This document discusses how IBM uses Web 2.0 tools to help connect its large and diverse workforce and encourage collaboration. It outlines challenges such as employees feeling disconnected despite diversity in culture, skills and interests. Web 2.0 applications like blogs, wikis and social networks allow participation and sharing to help address this by breaking down barriers and enabling recommendations and communication across the company. The document also describes IBM's internal social network "cattail" and how it has grown significantly since its launch, with many employees using it to share information, find expertise and reduce email loads.
The document discusses how to incorporate user experience (UX) design principles into agile development processes. It recommends conducting quick user interviews to understand user needs, creating low-fidelity prototypes to test early with users, and iterating the prototypes based on user feedback to refine the design. Conducting rapid and frequent user testing is important to iteratively improve the design and ensure it meets user needs. Adopting an agile mindset of frequent collaboration, iteration and user feedback is key for meaningful UX work.
This document summarizes the development of ebooks and ebook reading devices. It discusses the rise of devices like the Kindle, Nook, and tablets and how their increasing ubiquity and availability on multiple platforms is driving adoption of ebooks. It also examines issues around ebook formats, digital rights management, and how libraries can continue providing access to digital content in the future.
A talk about the broken communication between the accessibility world and the developer world and a few ideas how to break down the wall between the two.
Christian Heilmann found last year's Accessibility 2.0 conference inspiring and developed some new accessible tools and projects as a result. However, he notes that the accessibility movement still lacks force and impact because it is not united in pushing a clear message. He argues for embracing new technologies, integrating accessibility into products by design, focusing on flagship examples that demonstrate accessibility can be attractive, and educating others with passion and openness rather than just technical knowledge.
This document provides an introduction to pitching and discusses key components such as preparation, defining the problem and solution, explaining the value proposition, describing the business model and team, and ensuring effective execution and traction. It emphasizes that a pitch should clearly identify the target customer, their problem, how the solution solves it, and why the customer would provide funding. The document also provides additional resources on pitching, presentation skills, and technology tools.
This document provides an outline for a workshop on using LinkedIn for business purposes. It includes sections on building a company page, networking, using groups, company policy, and social media integration. Attendees will learn how to create a basic company profile, add content like products and services, connect with others, use search and groups to find contacts, and get an overview of available analytics. Troubleshooting tips are also provided to address common issues like email acceptance or access to profiles.
This document provides an introduction to social media platforms and how to get started using them. It lists common platforms like Facebook, Twitter, Flickr, Instagram, Pinterest, LinkedIn, YouTube and Blogger. It then focuses on describing how Twitter works, including having a username, posting tweets with hashtags and links, and using tweets to share updates and have private conversations. The document encourages beginners to choose a platform they feel comfortable with, have a topic in mind to focus on, search for credible sources on that topic to follow and engage with, and then start sharing content.
Mike Bradshaw from Community Shepard at Hammerkit introduces pitching and provides resources for preparing effective pitches. The document outlines preparing by understanding the problem and solution, market size, costs and competition. It emphasizes the importance of preparation and having a clear tagline, story, and ask. Resources are shared for developing pitches, including websites for presentation skills, TED talks, and Toastmasters clubs. The document concludes by thanking the audience and inviting questions.
This document discusses emerging technologies and trends in tablets, e-readers, and audio/video over the next 12 months. It predicts that tablets will continue their rise in popularity, led by the iPad, and assesses several new tablet models. E-readers like the Kindle may hold ground against tablets for dedicated reading. It also explores new audio/video technologies and concepts like "transliteracy." In closing, the author provides contact information and a link to further thoughts on gadgets and technology.
OESIS - Blended Programs for Alternative RevenueDave Ostroff
The document discusses blended programs for alternative revenue at All Saints' Episcopal School in Fort Worth, Texas. It contains links to various images without descriptions. The document ends by thanking the reader and providing contact information for Dave Ostroff to connect, engage, and share.
Network Enabled Research - The role of open source and open thinkingCameron Neylon
Keynote talk given at the Bioinformatics Open Source Conference at the ISMB in Berlin on 19 July 2013. Discussed from the perspective of Open Source and open definitions how to think about networks and the potential for discontinuities and phase transitions as places where the expansion of networks can lead to significant changes in scientific capacity.
This document provides tips for getting posts to the top 10 on Hacker News. It recommends using English, raising interesting topics for discussion like critiquing PHP's design, and posting about cool visual effects or demo projects to ride trends. Posting hacks or examples of interesting UX, and focusing on fun projects can improve page rank and SEO while practicing English and stimulating creativity.
The document discusses designing social media strategies. It recommends (1) checking your online reputation and understanding how information about you spreads on networks, (2) being a useful source of information on social media, and (3) choosing carefully what to share and when to be open versus closed online. It also suggests designing your social media workflows and days to take advantage of serendipity online while balancing openness and privacy.
Your library website visitors are having a user experience (UX) on your website right now. Do you know if it’s a good experience? Have you ever asked? And how can you improve it? This presentation will help make your website UX rock by providing easy-to-implement tips and tools to improve the experience your customers have while using your library’s website.
This presentation discusses strategies for developing an online presence for student media. It outlines reasons to go online like engaging mobile students and developing new content. Common myths about online media are debunked. Tips are provided on staffing, structure, promoting content across multiple platforms, and overcoming technical challenges. Examples of successful student media websites are shared.
Presented by Jeff Cram, ISITE Design & CMS Myth at Confab 2011
Overview:
Content management systems won’t win many popularity contests among content folks. They can be clunky, obtuse and plain old frustrating to use. Yet, they are responsible for managing and delivering almost all of your content across websites and mobile devices. As a content strategist, you can’t afford to leave CMS just to the tech folks. It’s simply too important to your job and to your organization. We’ll drop the geek speak in this session and explore what a content strategist really needs to know about CMS.
This document discusses using Python in the animation industry. It describes how one person learned Python while working in animation. It also discusses using Python in Maya for animation work. The document then talks about building an animation pipeline using Python and ideas like version control, asset management databases, and behavior logging to analyze user interactions. It considers options like CouchDB and MongoDB for managing asset data and user behavior logs. Finally, it emphasizes that version control, databases, and cloud techniques can benefit many creative roles beyond just programmers.
Christian Heilmann gives advice on how to succeed on the open web. He recommends focusing on building for the web using existing web technologies and APIs rather than proprietary systems. Specifically, he suggests starting with Yahoo! Query Language (YQL) to build and test APIs by accessing and combining data from various web services and sites. By making APIs and data openly available, it can help developers and others build on your work, which in turn helps gain recognition and an audience on the web. Overall, the key is leveraging existing web technologies and standards through open collaboration rather than trying to do everything alone or reinventing the wheel.
1. Christian Heilmann discusses key steps for building a successful web product: having a creative idea, finding people to build it, and getting discovered by people.
2. He argues that instead of focusing on these steps, one should "shift your focus" to using existing web technologies to build and promote your product.
3. Some strategies he recommends include using APIs to allow flexible development and access to data, leveraging Yahoo Query Language (YQL) as a way to test your product before fully developing infrastructure, and releasing free tools and content to promote discovery by developers.
Stefan Judis "Did we(b development) lose the right direction?"Fwdays
Keeping up with the state of web technology is one of the biggest challenges for us developers today. We invent new tools; we define new best practices, everything’s new, always... And we do all that for good user experience! We do all that to build the best possible web – it’s all about our users.
But is it, really? Or do developers like to play with technology secretly loving the new and shiny? Or do we only pretend that it’s about users, and behind closed doors, it’s developer experience that matters to us? Did we lose direction? Is it time for a critical look at the state of the web and the role JavaScript plays in it?
Trust at the Interface of Start-up and EnterpriseBenjamin Elias
As large organisations increasing embrace technological change and innovative endeavours, many are looking to start-ups and small business for new partnerships and inspiration. However, things are not always so rosy.
Trust remains an essential part of the working relationship between large organisations and small business providers.
The document discusses strategies for mobile game developers on the BlackBerry 10 platform. It recommends focusing on user discovery through the BlackBerry World storefront and Games app, retention through BBM and cross-platform leaderboards and achievements, and monetization through the BlackBerry payment ecosystem and marketing opportunities. Developers are encouraged to create exciting games rather than relying solely on tools and features to succeed on BlackBerry 10.
The document discusses the rise of social media and its implications for Cooperative Extension. It notes that social media adoption has moved past the experimental phase and is now becoming pervasive. It encourages Extension to go where people are online by using popular social networks like Facebook and Twitter as well as tools like RSS feeds. By learning new technologies, building online networks, and filtering information, Extension can stay current and continue its mission of education in the digital age.
5 key challenges for the cloud isv cto and how to beat them!David Terrar
The 5 key challenges facing an ISV CTO when moving from on from premise software to SaaS and the Cloud. Part of Ciklum's ISV and the Cloud event at Radisson Blu Portman, London, April 26, 2012
With Great Nerdery Comes Great Responsibility John Anderson
The document discusses the author's concerns about privacy and centralization on the internet and social media platforms. It then describes a project called "Klatsch" that the author has started to build as an alternative. Klatsch is being developed in Go and is intended to provide a decentralized way to archive, search, and share content across social networks. The author hopes others will also create their own tools to address these issues and that the tools could potentially work together.
This document provides an overview of the evolution of information and technology over time. It begins with ancient symbols and manuscripts, then discusses the development of the telegraph, telephone, radio, and early computers. It outlines the creation of the internet and the world wide web, and how they led to an explosion of information sharing. The document discusses challenges of information overload and different search technologies and services that have been developed to help users find relevant information. It promotes the use of the BOSS API and other tools to build custom search applications and solutions.
In the beginning, progressive enhancement was simple: HTML layered with CSS layered with JavaScript. That worked fine when there were two browsers, but in today's world of multiple devices and multiple browsers, it's time for a progressive enhancement reboot. At the core is the understanding that the web is not print - the same rules don't apply. As developers and consumers we've been fooled into thinking about print paradigms for too long. In this talk, you'll learn just how different the web is and how the evolution of progressive enhancement can lead to better user experiences as well as happier developers and users.
This deck is a conference-agnostic one, suitable to be shown anywhere without site-specific jokes!
Estudio34 Presents Will critchlow the future of linkbuilding in LinkLove2013William Renedo
Will, como manda la tradición cerró la sesión anunciando que este 5 aniversario sería el último de Linklove como conferencia y que podremos disfrutar de esta innovación en la siguiente secuencia de SearchLove 2014
Will Critchlow - The Future of Link BuildingDistilled
The future of link building will focus less on manipulating links and more on creating valuable content and building genuine relationships. Traditional link building tactics like unnatural links, spammy guest blogging, and exploiting directories have been disrupted and are no longer effective. Instead, link builders should aim to engage audiences, measure the influence of links based on engaged visitors rather than sheer volume, and find ways to contribute value through their expertise, networks, and content.
This document provides an overview of emerging technologies and trends from 2005-2010 as presented by Stephen P. Anderson and Jeremy Johnson from Bright Corner. Key points discussed include the future of the web, user experience design, visioning techniques, current and future technologies such as wireless power, augmented reality, mobile apps, touch interfaces, and more. Various concepts, products and emerging trends are illustrated through links to videos and articles.
Social Media Confusion? How to Choose the Right NetworkKyle Buyers
A webinar broadcast in the summer of 2012 (before I went back to school for Marketing), this presentation was the most highly-registered in our company during my time there and received very positive feedback from its attendees.
Today there are things I would edit and improve, including my overall strategic approach to social media - but that is the fun of working in an emerging field. Also, now that I have a solid educational background on the subject, I would use my new knowledge to bolster this presentation.
JsDay - It's not you, It's me (or how to avoid being coupled with a Javascrip...Marco Cedaro
General purpose Javascript frameworks are the ones that made the language popular in the past, but right now it is a risk to think about our application development and architecture just in relation to our favorite framework.
This talk highlights risks and suggest some techniques (from design patterns to snippet of code) to avoid being coupled to a specific framework
Crossing the Production Barrier: Development at Scalejgoulah
This document summarizes Etsy's approach to allowing development teams to use production data for testing purposes. It discusses setting up a separate "dev shard" for initial writes from development environments. It also describes logging and filtering queries through a proxy to prevent dangerous queries from running in production. Anomaly detection via query logging is used for security monitoring. Delayed replica slaves and backups provide sources for disaster recovery. The approach aims to make development safer while using real production data and workloads.
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Just Because It’s Ridiculous Doesn’t Mean It’s StoopidJohn Bristowe
This document discusses CSS3 features like box-shadows and gradients. It notes that while box-shadows are fun and simple to use, gradients are trickier due to browser compatibility issues. It provides code examples for adding box-shadows and gradients, and lists some online tools that can help with working with gradients. The document also briefly mentions CSS transitions and border-radius properties.
The document summarizes a presentation by John Bristowe on mastering web development with Kendo UI. The presentation introduces Kendo UI as a framework that provides UI widgets, data sources, templates and drag-and-drop capabilities for building rich HTML5 applications on desktop and mobile. It highlights features like auto-complete, charts, grids and its support for the latest standards and rapid evolution to help overcome issues with other frameworks.
Delivering High Quality Software Through AgileJohn Bristowe
Delivering high quality software is a risky undertaking. Development and Quality Assurance Managers are in a tight partnership over the war against software bugs. Software quality issues not only delay the time to market for a solution while increasing costs, but they also delay the subsequent benefits to the business. In a business world of increasing focus on compliance and control, Development and QA Managers must balance the need for agility against the reality of quality control. High quality software is the outcome of applying the combination of sound methodologies, best practices and supportive tooling.
This session will outline how to deliver high quality software through Agile and will demonstrate how to apply its practices to your projects and having them supported through tools like Visual Studio and Team Foundation Server.
HTML5 Canvas allows dynamic, scriptable rendering of 2D shapes and bitmaps in an immediate mode using a simple API with 45 methods and 21 attributes. It was introduced by Apple in Safari but met with mixed reactions initially before gaining support across browsers. Canvas competes with SVG for graphics needs along a spectrum, with each having advantages for different use cases.
Adding the Awesomesauce Flavor with IE9 Pinned SitesJohn Bristowe
By now, you’ve heard about pinned sites in Internet Explorer 9. And, you’ve probably even used them yourself. But, did you know that this feature can help increase site visits and engagements by as much as 50%? In this session, you’ll hear stories of Pinned Site implementations by some of the most popular websites on the web today. You’ll also discover how to support pinned sites with a few lines of markup. Finally, you’ll learn best practices that will help you deliver an awesome experience to your visitors.
Visual Studio 2010 focuses on creativity, simplicity, and quality code through new features like improved support for Windows development, Silverlight, web development, and Office/SharePoint development. It features an updated interface using WPF, enhanced debugging tools such as breakpoint grouping and labeling, and improved support for multi-core development and the cloud. The presentation concludes with a demonstration and links to additional resources.
This document discusses the evolution of cloud computing from mainframes in the 1970s to modern cloud platforms. It covers the core models of cloud computing (IaaS, PaaS, SaaS) and shows that cloud adoption among large enterprises has reached critical mass. Analyst reports from 2008-2009 find that early adopters are seeing benefits, and most enterprises will use cloud services over time. The document also discusses workload patterns well-suited to cloud services and reasons for considering a cloud-based approach.
Virtualization: What Does The Future Hold?John Bristowe
Virtualization technologies allow hardware and software resources to be shared and utilized more efficiently. Microsoft focuses on hardware, presentation, and application virtualization. The history of virtualization includes mainframe partitioning in the 1980s and x86 virtualization with VMWare in 1999. Virtualization provides benefits like server consolidation, business continuity, test and development, and dynamic datacenters. It reduces costs while improving utilization and service levels. Management tools like System Center Virtual Machine Manager aid in deployment and administration of virtualized workloads.
63. 77% of recruiters surveyed say thatthey use search enginesto check out job candidates ExecutNet
64. 1 in 4 hiring managers say thatthey use search enginesto research potential employees CareerBuilder.com
65. “Over time, the lack of a Web presence - particularly for IT professionals - may well turn from a neutral to a negative.”
66. “If someone came looking for a senior-level job and had left no mark on the Internet, I’d see that as a big negative.”- Tim Bray, Google
67. "Mere competence in a technical discipline is not enough. That's the minimum required to keep your head above water. To have a personal brand, you must do something remarkable." - Jeff Atwood, Co-Founder of StackOverflow.com
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