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PRE-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

DEVWEEK

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FROM ZERO

TO APP

WITH NOSQL,

MONGODB

AND .NET

EFFECTIVE

USER STORIES

HOW DO THE

COOL KIDS

CREATE CHATS

TO DAY?

ANDROID

FOR .NET

DEVELOPERS

BUILDING

DOMAIN-

DRIVEN

APPS WITH

APACHE ISIS

DAY 5 AGENDA: ALL-DAY POST-CONFERENCE WORKSHOPS

Do you

want

leave this

conference

ready to

build the next generation

of maintainable and high

performance applications

in .NET? Then this is the

workshop for you. We

assume you are a competent

.NET developer but are

otherwise basically new to

NoSQL. We will build out

and end-to-end data driven

web application in ASP.NET

MVC and MongoDB (the most

popular NoSQL database

around these days).

Here are just some of the

topics we’ll cover:

1. Why NoSQL and why

document databases

2. Installation quick start


3. Your first app in

MongoDB (.NET)

4. Understanding the

shell and native js query

language.

5. Designing entities and

models

6. High performance

techniques: Indexes,

profiling and plan

detection

7. Atomic operations,

concurrency, and

durability.

8. Management tools may

fold into 1 or 2.

9. Distributed file system:

Grid.FS

10. Performance / scaling

mongodb (deployment

techniquest: sharding,

replica sets, etc)

11. Map / Reduce

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WORKSHOP REF: F5 WORKSHOP REF: F6

This

practical

tutorial

addresses

a number

of challenges that agile teams

face when working with

user stories. The deceptively

simple style of stories makes

them initially appealing, but

potentially dangerous if not

handled well. Many teams

easily fall into bad habits and

story dysfunctions, from

having oversized epics that

live for multiple iterations,

to swarms of sticky post-it

notes that leave external

stakeholders baffled as to what

is actually going to be delivered

and when.

In this session,

Evans will explore a

range of practical tips and

techniques that will help

you regain control of your

backlog and allow you

to create stories that are

expressive, meaningful,

concise and valuable.

This tutorial will be

beneficial for anyone

responsible for creating,

implementing, accepting

and collaborating on the

development of stories.

Topics covered include:

stories as better requirements;

naming, structure and

writing style; acceptance

criteria, examples and

testing; backlog management:

cards and systems; splitting

and slicing large stories;

communicating priorities and

milestones: story maps; and

collaboration, conversation

and documentation. There

will also be a number of

practical exercises to support

this content.

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WORKSHOP REF: F7

In the last

couple of

years, the

world of web

development

has grown tremendously,

both in popularity and in

its maturity. HTML has

improved with HTML5 and

its client side APIs, JavaScript

has improved with end-to-end

frameworks such as Angular

JS, and CSS has improved

with frameworks such as

Twitter Bootstrap and LESS.

At the same time, server-side

technologies have improved

and been adjusted to better

fit the web, with frameworks

such as SignalR.

In this workshop,

Friedman will build a chat

web site from scratch,

using all the technologies

above, and see how web

applications are being

constructed today. Do you

want to get a glimpse of

what web development

looks like today? This is

the workshop for you!

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WORKSHOP REF: F8

Android is

the most

popular

smartphone

platform,

with hundreds of thousands

of apps and millions of new

devices activated every day.

In this workshop,

Goldshtein will explore

the fundamentals

of developing

Android applications,

including: setting up the

Eclipse development

environment, running

apps on emulators and

physical devices, building

UI and connecting it to

code, navigating across

multiple activities,

and storing data in files

and SQLite.

At the end of the day,

you will be equipped

to develop your own

Android applications.

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WORKSHOP REF: F9

Domain-

driven

design is

a great

approach

for building line-of-business

enterprise applications,

with the emphasis on the bit

that matters: the domain.

But maintaining all the

artefacts of a custom-coded

n-layer architecture (views,

controllers, commands,

bindings etc) can massively

impede your ability to learn,

explore and experiment

as you go looking for those

deeper domain insights.

What if you could build

the system just by writing

the core domain objects, and

leave concerns such as the

GUI (which as we know, often

accounts for a substantial

portion of the development

effort) until later? In any

case, GUIs follow fashions

and trends, so we ought to

consider the domain object

model independently of the

UI that sits in front of it.

There’s a pattern for

this type of approach:

naked objects. In this

workshop, Haywood will

show how you can use an

open-source framework

that implements this

pattern – Apache Isis – to

rapidly build domain-

driven applications. You

can use the framework

for prototyping, or take

your application through

to production.

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Do you want to get a

glimpse of what web

development looks

like today? This is the

workshop for you!

SHAY FRIEDMAN

HOW DO THE COOL KIDS CREATE CHATS TODAY?

David

Evans

Michael

Kennedy

Sasha

Goldshtein

Shay

Friedman

Dan

Haywood

®8 8.30 Coffee & registration^ | ®11.00 Coffee break | 13.00 Lunch break | ®15.30 Coffee break

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