We developers spend a lot of time talking about how to improve technically at our craft, how to write better code, how to be more productive when we'r...

John Resig of the Mozilla Corporation, and the creator of the popular jQuery library, talks about the challenges of DOM/JavaScript programming and his ...

Laurence Moroney provides an overview of the features of Silverlight and coming enhancements. He introduces the designer/developer continuum, the JavaS...

Glenn Vanderburg makes the case for Javascript, a language long overlooked. This presentation from JAOO 2007 shows how its OOP model and other language...

In this interview from QCon San Francisco 2007, Randy Shoup discusses the architecture of eBay. Topics discussed include eBay's architectural principle...

In this presentation from QCon, Erik Meijer discuss C# 3.0 and LINQ with Objects, XML, and relational data using O/R mapping with a focus on compositio...

Rich Kilmer explains Domain Specific Languages and how they help working with domain experts. The presentation includes an overview of styles of extern...

In this QCon presentation, Amazon.com CTO Werner Vogels explains how Amazon has become a platform provider, and how an increasing number of diverse bus...

Bob Martin of Object Mentor presents the first of his five principles of agile design. Beginning with an explanation of the real purpose of object-orie...

Whilst LINQ is almost here, there is still a place in the world for plain old ADO.NET programming. However, procedural ADO.NET code can often be cumber...

This mini-series of videos aims to get you up and running with Ruby as quickly as possible. It doesn't necessarily assume a computer science background...

A well-written API can be a great asset to the organization that wrote it and to all that use it. Given the importance of good API design, surprisingly...