Wildcard Conference 2013
2013-09-13
Riga, Latvia
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Meet Firefox OS | Raivis Dejus | 49m |
Live demo shows an HTML/CSS/JS open web app with a JSON manifest file, installs from Firefox to desktop, a Firefox OS phone and an Android phone, and exercises… | ||
| Shared Database Concurrency | Aivars Kalvāns | 30m |
A payment system built in C++ with an Oracle database and Tuxedo application server handles customers with 31 million cards and >1 billion yearly transactions… | ||
| Sherlock Holmes and Pairing | Adrian Bolboaca | 33m |
Argues pairing beyond coding with concrete practices and outcomes: driver/navigator roles where the navigator asks targeted questions and supports decisions… | ||
| Kinect — the Eyes and Ears of Windows | Andras Velvart | 44m |
Kinect for Windows demos concrete capabilities: a four‑mic array does directional speech, the depth camera plus RGB yields 40 cm to 3 m near‑mode tracking… | ||
| Serendipity and Perseverance — Injecting Testing in a Test-Resistant Team | Maaret Pyhäjärvi | 45m |
One tester joins a team with 1 tester to 10 developers, finds logging shows 10% of logged-in customers see program errors (reduced to ~1%), throws away bloated… | ||
| Clouds of Cocaine | Andrey Sibirev | 41m |
Yandex describes a cloud OS called Cocaine that treats everything as a service, with a service locator, storage called analytics storage (open source) and… | ||
| Test Data Management Principles | Jan Musil | 34m |
Shows a concrete pipeline that reads two production databases on different platforms, extracts a constrained subset (example: first 10 customers, data before… | ||
| Your worth as a developer: not what you do, but why | Laurent Bossavit | 51m |
Argues that value comes from how problems are reasoned about given predictable human errors, not from job titles or buzzwords; demonstrates with empirical… | ||
| Unicode in JavaScript | Mathias Bynens | 26m |
JavaScript represents astral Unicode as surrogate pairs, so many symbols (emoji, math alphas, pile of poo) consume two code units and string.length counts… | ||
| Worst. ADF. Project. Ever. | Sten Vesterli | 30m |
A cautionary project postmortem: using Oracle Application Development Framework under a fixed-price subcontract with a full team up front produces a growing… | ||
| Return of the Knife and the Locomotive: Working with Web Graphics | Vadym Makeev | 43m |
Talk explains handling web graphics using modern techniques: vector SVG and canvas, raster formats and responsive images, plus tools and workflow for… | ||
| The Oracle License Police and Beer | Mogens Norgaard | 29m |
Advice about beating aggressive Oracle licensing audits with concrete moves not slogans: insist on get written legally binding confirmation that any monitoring… | ||
| Source ‒ Front-end documentation engine | Robert Haritonov | 31m |
Source is a front-end documentation engine that claims to make UI code the source of truth by writing examples and docs alongside code it serves open source on… | ||
| State of Web Integration Testing | Matti Schneider | 29m |
Five months of research (two months research, three months building) produce a working integration test framework that runs 11 months in production for a… | ||
| Exploring PL/SQL New Features and Best Practices for Better Performance | Ami Aharonovich | 52m |
Live demos use SQL Plus and SQL Developer and include runnable scripts; a loop inserting 1,000,000 rows drops from ~42s to ~2.5s with for all bulk DML… | ||
| Connecting clients with Windows Azure Service Bus | Aigars Mačiņš, Valdis Iljuconoks | 33m |
Slides and demos show how Windows Azure Service Bus actually behaves: queues with FIFO guaranteed delivery, topics for pub/sub and filters, relays for… | ||
| Agile at scale at Spotify | Joakim Sunden | 48m |
Spotify describes concrete practices for keeping velocity while scaling: autonomous squads (5–7 engineers) that deploy independently, grouped into ~70 tribes… | ||
| Beyond Software Craftsmanship | Jussi Mononen | 37m |
Craftsmanship is described as external recognition not a self-title so credibility comes from consistent results and say no when requirements are impossible… | ||
| Responsive cross-platform web apps: deliver the best UX across all the platforms | Ilya Pukhalski | 26m |
Claims a working Backbone-based framework that targets phones tablets desktops and smart TVs and will be open sourced as x framework gs next week. Uses… | ||
| Lean QA: Much more cost-effective Quality Assurance methods, than testing | Tom Gilb | 41m |
Claim: quality assurance is much broader and cheaper than relying on testing alone Evidence: regression testing historically finds 10–30% of bugs and… | ||
| Wildcard Conference 2013 At a Glance | 01m | |
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| Data Vault in Business Intelligence | Ilja Dmitrijev | 35m |
Claims a practical Data Vault deployment that splits sources into hubs links satellites so identification never updates, relationships are many‑to‑many links… | ||
| Agile on Board or How We Do It at Intel | Artem Fedko | 29m |
Embedded firmware for a server power-management board moves from waterfall to Scrum and delivers working increments each sprint using prototyping on… | ||
| What's Hot and What's Not - An Overview of Oracle Development Tools | Sten Vesterli | 28m |
Summary claims tools and tradeoffs by name and gives concrete facts: Oracle forms stays supported until October 2016 with extended support to October 2017, ADF… | ||
| The missing link between business need and software development: product design | Ari Tanninen | 51m |
Argues that participatory product and service design closes the gap between buyer requirements and working software by creating executable prototypes, not… | ||
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