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DAY 2 AGENDA (CONTINUED): MAIN CONFERENCE STREAMED SESSIONS

Tuesday 1st April

For a .NET developer building

device apps on Windows and

Windows Phone, there’s a

simple dream – write code

once and run it on all Windows

devices. That day hasn’t

quite arrived, but there’s still

a lot you can do with design

patterns such as MVVM and

techniques such as Portable

Class Libraries to share code

across Windows/Phone.

In this session, Taulty will take

a look at these approaches by

taking an app from “no shared

code” through to “lots of

shared code”, and illustrating

the possibilities for sharing

along the way.

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WINDOWS 8 AND

WINDOWS PHONE 8:

BUILDING PORTABLE

.NET CODE FOR BOTH

PLATFORMS

Mike

Taulty

The Gerrit code review

system and the Jenkins

continuous integration server

form a powerful open-source

combination, supporting

rapid development while

maintaining high quality

through peer review and

automated testing. Gerrit’s

code reviews help ensure that

your quality standards are

maintained for all commits,

while Jenkins’ flexible

automation framework adds

testing to your commit cycle.

In this session, Bingham

will briefly cover installation

of the tools before quickly

moving on to explaining and

demonstrating the features

and workflows that make the

Gerrit & Jenkins combination

so attractive.

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GERRIT & JENKINS:

A DEV-OPS DUO FOR

PRODUCTIVITY,

EXPERIMENTATION &

BETTER SOFTWARE

Austin

Bingham

In 1968, CACM published a

letter from Edgar Dijkstra,

called “Go To statement

considered harmful”. In it, he

explained exactly why most

bugs in programs were caused

by Gotos, and he appealed

for Goto to be expunged from

programming languages.

But, Goto has a twin brother,

which is responsible for nearly

every bug that appears in our

programs today. That twin

is “If ”. In this session, May

will revisit Dijkstra’s original

explanation, and show why

If and Goto have the same

pathology. He will then go on

to explain how to avoid this

pathology altogether, and

construct programs that are

orders of magnitude more

reliable than what we have

come to expect.

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‘IF’ AND ‘GOTO’ – THE

EVIL TWINS: HOW TO

ERADICATE 95% OF

ALL YOUR BUGS IN

ONE SIMPLE STEP

Jules

May

So you’re ready to start that

new and ambitious ASP.NET

MVC project. Maybe you’re

kicking off a new start-up

or just finally moving that

old-and-crusty webforms

project into the modern

development world. Either

way, this session will give you

some easy things you can do

immediately after creating

your new MVC project

that you will thank yourself

for as your project grows

in complexity.

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18 WAYS YOUR

BRAND-NEW ASP.NET

MVC PROJECT CAN

BE BETTER

Michael

Kennedy

In this session, Beauchemin

will cover best practices for

SQL Server security from

an application perspective,

including how to most

effectively and easily set up

logins, users and group users.

Principal of least privilege

is the model used here,

with special attention

paid to auditing and

contained databases.

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HOW TO SET UP

SECURITY FOR

YOUR DATABASE

APPLICATION

Bob

Beauchemin

In this session, Smith will

demonstrate how to build

applications that target iOS,

Android and Windows Phone,

while reducing the coding

required to build native apps!

He will show you how to

leverage C# and the

Mono/Xamarin platform to

share code across the most

common mobile platforms

through case study and

real-world examples. Learn

how to save time and money

by writing the majority of the

application once and then

re-using that logic for each

of your target platforms.

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DEVELOPING CROSS-

PLATFORM MOBILE

APPLICATIONS WITH

C# AND XAMARIN

Mark

Smith

Learn how Team Foundation

Server now allows you

to choose between Team

Foundation Version Control

and Git, while retaining

integration into the agile

tools, work items, builds,

test case management and

more. In this session, Davies

will demonstrate setting up

and using Git within Team

Foundation Server and Visual

Studio, showing how you can

use the built-in Git integration

alongside your favourite

command line and other tools.

No prior knowledge of either

Team Foundation Server or

Git is required for this session.

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WELL, I LIKE TEAM

FOUNDATION SERVER

AND I LIKE GIT, BUT

WHICH IS BETTER?

Giles

Davies

Prototyping is often a

misunderstood subject,

especially when it comes

to mobile apps. It is often

mistaken for wire-framing or

detailed project specifications.

In this session, Ardeleanu

will explore the tools and

techniques available to create

an agile environment where

the client can participate

in the process. He will take

an app from the idea stage

and progress it through

the list of features, writing

the Application Definition

Statement (ADS), sketching,

paper prototyping and

eventually on to something

that can run on the actual

device. Clients love that!

And it could save your bacon.

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PROTOTYPING SAVES

YOUR BACON

Paul

Ardeleanu

Although it is a simple agile

value, the idea that individuals

and interactions are more

significant than processes

and tools is often overlooked.

Of course, processes and tools

make a difference – sometimes

a very big difference – but

what determines whether

a process or tool is effective

is related to the individuals

and interactions. To best

achieve agility you need to

start with the current context

and understand how people

actually behave in response

to their environment, their

beliefs and one another. Does

making “business value” the

centrepiece of what they do

motivate those who produce

it? Or is it more about the

individuals and interactions?

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INDIVIDUALS AND

INTERACTIONS

OVER PROCESSES

AND TOOLS

Kevlin

Henney

The OAuth 2.0 authentication

protocol is used by many

web services (eg Google

Apps) to allow third-party

access without exposing your

password. For example, OAuth

can permit a mobile phone app

to access your Google calendar

without giving your Google

password to that app. In this

session, Holub will look at how

the OAuth 2 protocol works,

at how it grants security,

and at its vulnerabilities.

He will look in depth at code

examples (in Java) that use

Google’s OAuth high-level

APIs, and also examine a

low-level implementation

of the protocol that uses the

underlying REST API

(and so can interface with

any vendor).

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OAUTH 2.0

Allen

Holub

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