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Requirement: Code Quality – Gunta Strode
Nowadays it’s very popular to talk about code quality in software projects. It seems that every programmer can recognize bad code, but does they know how to create good one? This presentation will focus on good code quality, defining it, describing how to achieve, maintain and measure it and what happens if one fails to do that.
Functional programming – F# – Valdis Iļjučonoks
Functional programming gone mainstream by making this Microsoft Research language as first-class citizenship in Visual Studio. Developers can use functional approach to resolve specific problem domain issues. F# can also be used in mainstream development like Windows Phone applications. What is functional programming, why should I care about one and where can I make use of that? Those questions will be answered by this session.
PHP – life after fork() – Arvīds Godjuks
PHP and deamon – usually these two together provoke only one reaction from the audience – the speaker is trolling. I will make an effort to convince the audience that this is not the case anymore as of PHP 5.3. This will be a success story of using a daemons written in plain PHP to process some few million USD worth of transactions per month in production mode for 2 years.
Odnoklassniki. Surviving the High Load. Architecture – Oleg Anastasyev
Oleg started with history of project "Odnoklassniki", which born in 2002 and for now have 130m registred users. Project is written mainly in Java and database is working on MS SQL 2005. In general presentation was about technologies in differnet layers of project which helps keep all the 5m users online. Was discussed cons and pros of different parts of solutions which was used and some was replaced in past of project, caching (really lot of cahce), project monitoring solutions, deployment, statistics and others.
JavaScript unit tests with QUnit – Dace Zariņa
QUnit is a library which helps to write unit tests for JavaScript code. QUnit is used by the jQuery, jQuey UI and jQuery Mobile projects and is capable of testing any generic JavaScript code. In presentation will be shown main things which are needed to write JavaScript unit tests with QUnit as well as some JavaScript unit tests. During presentation also will be shown what good things QUnit can offer to developer.
Church of St.Agile – Andrei Solntsev
There is a lot of agile preachers arguing that it is time to abandon the "traditional approach" and work in new ways. Do they really want to make our lives better or just make the dough? Is it possible to produce software without bugs? Is it possible to write code without documentation? Is it possible to dispense with architects and analysts? Does Agile really work, or it's just another buzzword?
CoffeeScript – let’s add some sugar – Aleksandr Motsjonov
In this talk I will show roots of CoffeeScript awesomeness and explain why everyone who write JS should try it! Talk will be mostly in hands-on mode. So, expect lot of code mixed with HTML5 features and server-side JS.
Service oriented Architecture – Aldis Ērglis
SOA for long time is buzzword in Software development field. Technology leaders as Oracle, Microsoft and dozens of others deliver to market plenty of tools that support SOA. What is real usage and benefits of SOA for Latvian software developers remains question. Author will explain real benefits of SOA and what are common usage scenarios
Scaling (The technology behind draugiem.lv) – Ingus Rūķis
Draugiem.lv is the biggest social network in Latvia with around 500k daily active users. This talk will introduce you to technology behind draugiem.lv and some of the architecture design decisions made to scale the portal.