Central Ohio Software Symposium
June 8 - 10, 2012 - Columbus, OH
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
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.
Creating Websites using Noir
Think Clojure is only for the back-end functional geeks? Think again. Noir is a web application framework written in Clojure.
In this talk we will see how we can create a simple site using Noir, and with Heroku's support for Clojure, deploy and run it in the cloud.
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.
