CoderCruise
16 - 23 Jul 2017 at Carnival Dream

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Security is an enormous topic, and it’s really complicated. If you’re not careful, you’ll find yourself vulnerable to any number of attacks which you don’t want to be on the receiving end of. This talk will give you a taste of the vast array of things there is to know about security in modern web applications. Whether you are writing anything beyond a basic website, or even a complex web application, this talk will give you insights to some of the things you need to be aware of.

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Are you writing the same login form over and over again? Web components offer a modular approach to creating reusable UI widgets. Ditch large, complex frameworks and drop these lightweight building blocks into your site. We will show you how to build custom elements and introduce you to the existing elements and tools available from Google’s Polymer Project.

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The Video is 51 minutes While this presentation touches on PHP a fair bit, it does make parallels to other ecosystems such as Java and C#/.Net, building toward an approach for building Web Applications in a Test-Driven way. Most concepts covered in this talk are applicable to just about all programming languages and platforms for building Web Applications. Here's the Abstract I had submitted to the conference: Have you ever jumped into a legacy PHP Software project and gotten to a point where it takes a near-infinite amount of time to deliver any new feature, for fear of breaking legacy functionality you’ve barely begun to understand? Software Engineering can be extremely difficult and maddening. But it doesn’t have to be. With a brief look at PHP’s evolution toward OOP, we will explore leveraging TDD and OOP principles to make Software Engineering fun again.

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React Native awesomeness! https://www.codercruise.com/sessions/rapid-react-native-mobile/ If you’re a web developer or interested mobile dev, you can use Facebook’s React Native to get up and running on mobile dev. No, you don’t need to learn the intricacies of Android or Objective-C, you can use good old-fashioned JavaScript to make native apps that work across multiple platforms. Join me as I give you the intro you need to get started building your dream application today.

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The Red Team, hackers, criminal organizations, and nation states, are a constant threat. The systems we build are the targets. We need to understand the human collateral that hangs in the balance. We embrace methodologies to write better code and make our lives better. They do nothing for the rest of humanity that is directly affected by security vulnerabilities we introduce. In this presentation, I will put a human face on the users of our software. I will challenge you to think in terms of flesh and blood rather than ones and zeros. We are all the Blue Team. We protect the rest of humanity. Join me in the fight. The Red Team is coming!

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Scalability != performance. In fact, having to scale your architecture significantly with growth may be a symptom of a poor application performance. Yet, with the rise of cloud and the abundance of automation and container tools that simplify scalability aspect of your system, performance considerations are often pushed to the back row. Building systems for high performance is not easy. It requires a lot of considerations - from technology selection to design decisions. And "the cloud" does not magically solve those problems for you. In this talk I'll discuss common performance pitfalls across the stack and talk about useful techniques and examples that every application could benefit from.

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As your application grows, you soon realize you need to break up your application into smaller chunks that communicate with each other. In this talk, we will take a look at the techniques you can use to vastly enhance inter-application communication, learn about the core concepts of RabbitMQ, cover how you can scale different parts of your application separately, and modernize your development using a message-oriented architecture.

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Learn from the author of TwitterOAuth how to quickly integrate your application with the Twitter API. We will show you how to speed up onboarding with “Sign in with Twitter” authentication, bootstrap profiles with Twitter identities, and increase reach with quick publishing to user timelines. We’ll go over some basic do’s and don’ts of the Twitter API and show how easy it is to integrate using the TwitterOAuth open source library.

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As applications get more complex, so does their interaction with the database. In this talk, we will walk through SQL’s Common Table Expressions and how these can improve application code. By using CTEs a developer can reduce transaction handling complexity while at the same time boosting performance, and readability which can reduce development time. For this talk we’ll use PostgreSQL, but most techniques work with any modern RDBMS.

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As developers, we want to create apps that engage users across multiple devices. But building native apps is costly and cumbersome. Progressive Web Apps (PWAs) combine the power of native apps with the ease of building and deploying web apps. Learn to craft PWA experiences using new web standards, including service workers, push notifications, and home screen access.

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There are a lot of great things about the cloud, but the "destroy and rebuild" philosophy which is really good for building a continuous delivery pipeline, really sucks when applied to troubleshooting production problems. When your application goes haywire, the most valuable engineering skill is not the the ability to bring up a copy of your system or even the knowledge of a your technology stack (although it doesn't hurt). It is the skill of understanding and solving problems. Finding the root cause of the issue and mitigating it with minimal disruption in production is a must-have skill for engineers responsible for managing and maintaining production systems, which nowadays includes ops, dbas and devs alike. In this talk I will discuss the skills required to troubleshoot complex systems, traits that prevent engineers from being successful at troubleshooting and discuss some techniques and tips and trick for troubleshooting complex systems in production.

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