GIDS Video Archive

Quality First - Building Quality Into Your Application Throughout the Lifecycle

Application quality is often considered as an afterthought and put off until late in the application lifecycle. To consistently deliver high quality products, quality should be considered throughout the development process. Agile development is helping the industry to improve the state of the art by making quality the responsibility of the whole team and making it a continuous process.>>read more

Stepping into the Near Future of the IDE

Ever wonder what it might be like to write code in the future? DevExpress’ Mark Miller will explore trends in tools & human interfaces and preview interesting & exciting possibilities from the “bleeding edge” that may be converging to a point in space and time that is your IDE in the not-too-distant future..>>read more

Design Patterns for .NET Programmers

Between lambda expressions in C# and functional programming in F#, we can now make use of patterns well beyond those popularized by the so called GOF. In this presentation we will learn the benefits of some useful patterns and how to implement them using C# and F#.>>read more

Caring about Code Quality

We all have seen our share of bad code. We certainly have come across some good code as well. What are the characteristics of good code? How can we identify those? What practices can promote us to write and maintain more of those good quality code. This presentation will focus on this topic that has a major impact on our ability to be agile and succeed.>>read more

.Net Collections Deep Dive

The .NET framework provides a rich set of collection classes, crafted to help you address a multitude of tasks. But, let’s face it, we rarely use this vast array to the scope that we potentially could. Instead we habitually fall back on old favorites like List. This session is devoted to introducing those of us, who don’t want to get out of our comfort zone, to some of the performance traps we might be silently slipping into when choosing inappropriate collections.>>read more

JavaScript for the C# Developer

With the proliferation of thin-client web applications, sooner or later every C# programmer will likely have to write some JavaScript. What could go wrong? After all, it's just another language based on the C syntax and every C# developer knows that without thinking. This session explores the very real mistakes C# developers make when writing JavaScript code and how to avoid them.>>read more

PlayBook - Change the Game!

Tablets are being billed to change the level of mobile communications. A new ground comes with its own challenges and oppurtunities. Andrew will talk about the BlackBerry PlayBook which is the world’s first dual core, multi-processing, multi-tasking, ultra-thin, enterprise-ready, professional tablet. >>read more

Building the Next Generation of Experiences

The world around us is improving experientially – whether it is better clothes, better restaurants or better digital experiences. People expect digital interactions that are not only meaningful, easy and engaging but also available in the best surface available , from tablets and phones to televisions.>>read more

Building Trust into Software

A trustworthy system does what people expect it to do (and not something else), despite environmental disruption, human user, operator errors and attacks by hostile parties. Design and implementation errors must be avoided, eliminated or somehow tolerated.>>read more

Tomorrow's Tech Today: HTML 5

As software engineers, we take comfort in the idea of concrete specifications. As web developers, our hearts are either broken (frequently!), or we recognize the W3C's role is a delicate balance of leading the browser developers in new and exciting directions while, in their own words, "paving over the cow paths" of existing, de facto standards.>>read more

Programming with HTML 5

Developing a rich user interface for web applications is both exciting and challenging. HTML 5 has closed the gaps and once again brought new vibe into programming the web tier. Come to this session to learn how you can make use of HTML 5 to create stellar applications>>read more