Speakers
- Matt Stine
- Brian Sletten
- Ken Sipe
- Nathaniel Schutta
- Pratik Patel
- Matthew McCullough
- Neal Ford
- Tim Berglund
- Peter Bell
- Craig Walls
- Venkat Subramaniam
- Kris Zyp
- Nicholas C. Zakas
- Andrew Wirick
- Chris Wilson
- James Williams
- Greg Wilkins
- Meghan Wilker
- Mike Wilcox
- Dustin Whittle
- Estelle Weyl
- Johnny Wey
- Eric Wendelin
- Rich Waters
- James Ward
- David Verba
- Tom Valletta
- Johannes Ullrich
- Tenni Theurer
- Etienne Studer
- Steve Souders
- Deryk Sinotte
- John Simone
- Scott Shattuck
- Bill Scott
- Matt Schmidt
- Dylan Schiemann
- Christian Schalk
- Brian Sam-Bodden
- Terry Ryan
- Alex Russell
- Rob Rusher
- Rick Ross
- Tom Robinson
- Torrey Rice
- Aza Raskin
- Nandini Ramani
- Matt Raible
- Jason Porter
- Vic Patterson
- Andy Painter
- Noah Paci
- Aaron Newton
- Mark Murphy
- Rebecca Murphey
- William Morris
- Eric Miraglia
- Eric Miller
- Steffen Meschkat
- Dustin Machi
- Nancy Lyons
- Kevin Lynch
- Andrew Lombardi
- Howard Lewis Ship
- Brian Leroux
- Brent Laster
- Seth Ladd
- Nik Krimm
- Kenneth Kousen
- Sean Kane
- Tim Kadlec
- Christopher Judd
- Bruce Johnson
- Denise Jacobs
- Bob Ippolito
- Kevin Hoyt
- Molly Holzschlag
- Josh Holmes
- Mike Heath
- Les Hazlewood
- Erik Hatcher
- James Harmon
- Patrick Haney
- Stuart Halloway
- Clint Hall
- Wesley Hales
- Kevin Hakman
- Aaron Gustafson
- Arun Gupta
- Nate Grover
- Mike Girouard
- Jesse James Garrett
- Raju Gandhi
- Thomas Fuchs
- Aaron Frost
- Judson Flamm
- Connie Finkelman
- Jon Ferraiolo
- Szczepan Faber
- Cal Evans
- Ben Ellingson
- Nicholas Eddy
- Scott Dietzen
- Gabriel Dayley
- Luke Daley
- Adrian Cole
- Roy Clarkson
- Patrick Chanezon
- David Chandler
- Ludovic Champenois
- Max Carlson
- Pete Campbell
- Bob Byron
- Thomas Burleson
- Michal Budzynski
- John Brinnand
- Ryan Breen
- Simone Bordet
- David Boloker
- David Bock
- Rey Bango
- Tom Ball
- Dan Allen
- Brad Abrams
Raju Gandhi
Java/Ruby Developer/Language Geek
Raju Gandhi is a Java/Ruby developer and a programming language geek. He has been writing software for the better part of a decade in several industries including education, finance, construction and the manufacturing sector. Raju has a graduate degree in Industrial Engineering from Ohio University. In his spare time you will find Raju reading, or watching movies, or playing with yet another programming language. He is affectionately known as looselytyped on Twitter.
Presentations
On Prototypal Inheritance
You are a JavaScript developer who has gotten past writing one-off scripts on pages and wants to leverage the true power of the language. You have tasted the power of objects, and inheritance in Java, and hope to put the same to work for you in JavaScript.
This talk will aim to explain how inheritance works in JavaScript, albeit in the prototypal world rather than the "class"ical world. We will see how to create your own inheritance trees, and create instances that are born with a predefined set of behaviors.
Web Application Design from a Developer's perspective
Poorly designed web applications fail to serve both the business and the users, leading to a unnecessary costs, and frustrated customers. By keeping the user in mind, and following a few simple guidelines, you can make huge leaps in the way your users interact with your applications.
In this session, we will focus on the enterprise - where the user-base is known and fairly consistent, but typically where user interface and interaction are not the top most priorities. We will discuss some rules for good design, look at a few simple design elements that can make your web apps shine, and your users rejoice.
Dive into D3.js
A picture is indeed a thousand words. Often, your users are better served if they are offered a visual representation of data than reams and reams of tables. Most JavaScript graphing libraries offer a DSL to create graphs, but can prove to be constricting if you are attempting to do something outside the original intent. D3.js, instead offers you an API to work with "data documents" - with powerful data manipulation capabilities, and visualization components. Furthermore, it leverages SVG rather than the Canvas element, allowing you to unleash the full power of CSS3 to style your latest creation.
In this session we will take a dive in D3. We will look into how D3 offers no new constructs for visualization, but rather lets you leverage well known web standard technologies such as HTML and CSS. We will see how to "think in joins", and use D3 along with SVG to create a animated bar chart.
Once you understand how D3 works, and how to use D3's APIs to create and manipulate the DOM, along with scales and axes you will be well on your way to creating your first visualization.