M Programming Language with Paul Vick

Published July 13th, 2010 Under Coding, Database | Leave a Comment

Paul Vick describes the purpose and concepts of the M Programming Language. The Microsoft code name “M” language is a declarative language for working with data and building domain models. “M” lets users write down how they want to structure and query their data using a textual syntax that is convenient to both author and reader. “M” does not mandate how data is stored or accessed, nor does it mandate a specific implementation technology. Rather, “M” is designed to allow users to write down what they want from their data without having to specify how those requirements are met by a specific technology or platform.

Spring Roo: An Introduction

Published July 13th, 2010 Under Coding, Open Source Tools | 1 Comment

Spring Roo is an exciting new rapid application development framework. It slices and dices and packs all the punches of frameworks like Rails and Grails but the end result is pure Java. In this presentation, we will be discussing what Spring Roo is and demonstrate it’s how it can be used to trim your development time and make your code more readable.

Video Producer: Oklahoma City Java Users Group

Testing techniques for Google App Engine

Published July 7th, 2010 Under Services, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Google App Engine is designed to help developers more easily create and manage scalable web applications. But what about testing? We typically write tests under the assumption that our development stack closely resembles our production stack, so what do we do when our target environment only lives in the cloud? In this talk, we will highlight the key differences between typical testing techniques and Google App Engine testing techniques. We will also present concrete strategies for testing against local and cloud-based implementations of App Engine services like the datastore and the task queue. Finally, we will explain how to use App Engine as a highly parallel test harness that runs existing test suites without modification.

Synchronizing AJAX and ASP.NET

Published July 7th, 2010 Under Architecture, Open Source Tools, User Interface | Leave a Comment

The ScriptManager is one of the most under advertised controls in the Visual Studio toolbox. This presentation goes beyond the common ScriptManager/UpdatePanel combo and provides an in-depth look at the ScriptManager control and how it can integrate with jQuery, a fast and lightweight JavaScript Library, and web services to quickly create dynamic, interactive AJAX web applications.

Sustainable Test-Driven Development

Published July 7th, 2010 Under Agile, Software Testing | Leave a Comment

Steve Freeman proposes advice to write good tests that make development easier avoiding adding code that is hard to maintain. This presentation covers: test readability, complex test data, test diagnostics and test flexibility.

http://www.infoq.com/presentations/Sustainable-Test-Driven-Development


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