Venkat Subramaniam
RWX / CDX
Fort Lauderdale · November 27 - 30, 2012
Founder @ Agile Developer, Inc.
Dr. Venkat Subramaniam is an award-winning author, founder of Agile Developer, Inc., creator of agilelearner.com, and an instructional professor at the University of Houston.
He has trained and mentored thousands of software developers in the US, Canada, Europe, and Asia, and is a regularly-invited speaker at several international conferences. Venkat helps his clients effectively apply and succeed with sustainable agile practices on their software projects.
Venkat is a (co)author of multiple technical books, including the 2007 Jolt Productivity award winning book Practices of an Agile Developer. You can find a list of his books at agiledeveloper.com. You can reach him by email at venkats@agiledeveloper.com or on twitter at @venkat_s.
Presentations
Taming JavaScript—A Hands on Workshop
JavaScript is a powerful language with great amount of flexibility that has often intimidated programmers and left them confused. To succeed with the language we have to move past these intimidations and confusing constructs. Once we learn what to avoid and the right constructs to use, we can enjoy the power and reap the full benefit of this highly powerful language.
Programming with HTML 5
Developing a rich user interface for web applications is both exciting and challenging. HTML 5 has closed the gaps and once again brought new vibe into programming the web tier. Come to this session to learn how you can make use of HTML 5 to create stellar applications.
Mastering JavaScript
JavaScript is one of those very powerful languages that is often misunderstood and underutilized.
It's quite popular, yet there's so much more we can do with it.
Automated testing tools and techniques for JavaScript
Programmers often complain that it is hard to automate unit and acceptance tests for JavaScript. Testability is a design issue and with some discipline and careful design we can realize good
automated tests.
CoffeeScript for recovering JavaScript programmers
Saying JavaScript is powerful is an understatement. The problem is it is way too powerful and dangerously flexible. Programmers often have trouble reaping its benefits due to its uncontrolled flexibility and, to a certain extent, lack of structure. One approach is to learn to tame the beast, like the authors of complex JavaScript libraries have done. Fortunately there is an alternative. CoffeeScript is JavaScript created in a humane way. In this session we will learn how, using CoffeeScript, we can reap all the benefits of JavaScript, but without losing our sanity in the process.
HTML 5 Animations - building true richness on the web
User experience and rich interaction is top in the list of things that influence the success and adoption of applications. Such richness and interactions were owned by desktop and native applications in the past. Over the recent years the web has become increasingly interactive, but the true richness was still lacking. But all that has changed with HTML 5 canvas and animation techniques.