One Client That Rules Them All

Published May 15th, 2013 Under JavaFX | Leave a Comment

This session’s speakers are modernizing a legacy Windows-based thick-client application that has been serving the needs of their business customer for more than 20 years. Their IT strategy is to use thin-client architecture to centralize data, promote reuse, and reduce application maintenance, but the business has a continued need for thick-client architecture so its employees can perform their job responsibilities in a disconnected state. Read more

Custom JavaFX Controls

Published April 25th, 2013 Under JavaFX | Leave a Comment

Every front-end developer knows the problem: the project you are working on requires a control that is not part of the standard library, which raises the question “How do I do a custom control myself?” Read more

Navigation Patterns for Modern User Experience

Published April 3rd, 2013 Under User Interface | Leave a Comment

With modern UI stacks, it’s much more practical to implement new and useful interaction patterns, such as viewports, timelines, dashboards, queues, and configurators. Even traditional patterns such as master-detail drilldown, wizards, and trees gain new capabilities. Read more

HTML5 with Play-Scala, CoffeeScript and Jade

Published March 25th, 2013 Under HTML, JavaScript | Leave a Comment

This session shows you how to use some of the hottest technologies today to build a webapp, an API and a mobile application to track fitness workouts. Using HTML5 technologies (specifically geo and local storage), I’ll show you how you can track the time, distance and music you listened to while exercising. Play with Scala is used for the backend and services, while CoffeeScript and Jade are used for the front-end templating and Ajax communication. Read more

HTML5 and the Future of Web Development

Published March 19th, 2013 Under HTML | Leave a Comment

Christopher Schmitt explains why it’s a great time to be a web developer. The new HTML5 spec has brought back the conversation about the web. HTML5 is often thought of a collection of technologies released at the same time, even though they aren’t all technically “HTML5″. Despite all the focus on HTML5 and JavaScript, CSS is growing ever more powerful and important. Read more


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