jQuery is an open-source Javascript client framework that "simplifies HTML document traversing, event handling, animating, and Ajax interactions for rapid web development". With Microsoft announcing that jQuery will ship with future releases of ASP.NET MVC and Visual Studio, jQuery may well become th...

In this session, Gojko Adzic talks about strategies, challenges and common pitfalls of using Domain-Driven Design for multi-tier distributed applications.

The talk is based on recent discussions on the domaindriven mailing lists and ideas formed during several recent DDD courses organised...

Java and .NET represent the lion's share of enterprise development. In this In-the-Brain session we learned how the two environments can interoperate with one another, not only over web services, but also via in-process channels and other methods. The session also convered leveraging the strengths of...

Selenium is a test tool that allows you to write automated web application tests in many programming languages. The test uses any mainstream browser with JavaScript support and can target arbitrary websites. Erik Doernenburg from ThoughtWorks started his talk with a quick demo of creating automated t...

Platform Computing's Dr. Songnian Zhou (Co-founder and CEO) and Martin Harris (Financial Services Market Director) discussed the evolution and future of Grid in Financial Services.

Dr. Zhou provided an overview of Grid adoption in FS, particularly related to the business cases served and ...

Java developers have widely adopted test first software development strategies. Unit test frameworks for Java, Web services, Ajax, REST, Service Oriented Architecture, and Flash/Action Script show the diversity of adoption among Java developers. In this session, Frank will take Java developers throug...

There are a number of publications talking about the benefits of a Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) and an equal number of papers and articles suggesting that the aims of a SOA are a little too theoretical. SOA cannot be implemented, they claim, so they suggest a few workarounds. This session will...

Dave explored the boundary between what is classified as a batch and what is not and shows that it can be blurred for business or technical reasons.

Offline processing is a feature of almost all IT projects of any size. Often there is a natural business reason to group items for processin...

Rob Purcell and Manoj Bajaj of UBS will give a talk on, reliable database/messaging transactions without 2PC

Kirk Pepperdine will give a talk on Performancing Tuning, Kirk Pepperdine is a principle consultant for Kodewerk where he has focused on performance tuning. He has been involved with object technologies and performance for almost 20 years

Selenium is a testing tool for web applications that automates browser actions, simulating user interactions with the web page. The Remote Control extension allows Selenium tests to be scripted and executed from common programming environments like Java and .NET.

This session introduces Se...

Agile methods are often told to be the best way to implement a SOA within an organization. However, in real life scenarios there are a lot of diverging and conflicting forces in place. Alberto Brandolini will explain why a pragmatic no-nonsense approach is often the way to get the best from what you ...