Schedule: Development sessions

This half-day workshop is for those who have little or no experience with Flash, Flex, or Adobe AIR and want to learn how to program and build applications. This session is an intensive hands-on boot camp and attendees will leave with tons of code, knowledge, and resources to continue learning. Read more.

Web 2.0 completely redefined how we make and use web sites. Now with the iPhone and other modern mobile devices, this same revolution is coming to the mobile space, but on a far more massive scale as internet-enabled mobile devices overtake the number of desktop and laptop computers. We call this Mobile 2.0. Read more.

Widgets are the current big thing out there. They are small applications created to save your time, keep you up to date or just to tease your brain. In these sessions we will give you an overview and technical info related to S60 Web Runtime Widgets and the development process. Read more.

The internet industry is currently riding a new wave of investor and consumer excitement. This workshop is intended to introduce the advanced web developer to the most important security flaws currently plaguing the Web, demonstrate how these flaws can be used in real life, and teach the mitigation techniques developers can use to prevent security bugs. Read more.

Social networks are about people, their contacts and their social objects. Typically, people gravitate towards a number of preferred sites to put and publish (data on) their social objects, but also would like to communicate with the people they know, even on other sites. Read more.

MOO.com is a rare thing: a UK-based, Web 2.0, global personal printing startup that produces atoms as well as bits. CTO Stefan Magdalinski will talk about the tech, process, and mental changes that MOO had to deploy to apply Web 2.0 to massively personal and personalised physical products. Read more.

Scaling is a hard problem that often comes at high costs. Luckily others like Google or Amazon already had to solve this problem and offer their solutions to other developers. This talk will demonstrate how to lift your application into Amazon’s or Google’s computing clouds. Read more.

In the 2.0 world of componentized syndicatable content, client-side code is often reused in many different places. Using the creation and rollout of the new BBC global navigation as a case study, this talk discusses 10 key areas to watch to ensure your HTML, CSS, and JavaScript works as intended in this unknown terrain, and presents practical solutions to the issues encountered. Read more.

Comet is at the intersection of two Web 2.0 trends: as the Web gets more social, things change faster. With added Ajax, people stay on them longer. Clearly there is a growing need for a way to automatically update web pages as they are being viewed. This talk looks at the options and how you can add Comet functionality to a web site with minimum pain. Read more.

OAuth is a recent standard that has already received the support of major organizations. It solves in a simple way the problem of exchanging authorizations between web services to enable interactions on behalf of the users. We'll see the actors and interactions that are defined by the protocol and we'll have a critical look at the usability aspects and security implications of OAuth. Read more.

Browser extensions offer a way to augment web sites with no integration points. We will use Zemanta as a case-study to explore challenges developers face and approaches we can use to make building, maintaining, and distributing such applications as cheaply and reliably as possible. Read more.

Recent technical developments now allow search engines the ability to index Flash. While many imagine this is a silver bullet, there is a lot more depth to understanding how to make Flash content search engine friendly. Adobe's Sr. Technical Evangelist Duane Nickull will expose some new mechanisms and developer tips and tricks. A must attend for SEO experts. Read more.

Wikipedia runs one of the worlds largest websites on an extremely tight budget. While Wikia uses the same software as Wikipedia, MediaWiki, we have also closely followed their path to efficiently run a large website. The talk will be about examples and lessons learnt, as well as the changes and improvements that Wikia has done to work with a more dynamic service. Read more.