Fundamentals of iOS Apps Development (day long)

Come to this workshop for an in depth understanding of the fundamentals of developing applications on the iOS platform for iPhone and iPad devices.

The intent of this session is not to teach you the click and run techniques. The intent is to hone in the under the covers event handling mechanism, the organization of the application, and its deployment configuration. While you will learn how to develop Apps, you will
also leave with confidence to debug and to improve the performance of your Apps.

Android Training - Full Day

First there was iPod. Then iPhone. Then iPad. And with each new release, the mobile device market grew hotter and hotter. Now, as Google’s entry into this race, the Android system, begins to hit its stride as a competitor platform to the iOS, as a Java developer you’re intrigued—it’s Java (well, assuming you ask anybody except Oracle), and it’s a mobile device, and it’s open source, and…. What’s not to love?

In this all-day workshop, we’re going to turn you into a journeyman Android developer. This is a Java-based platform, so we’ll have a leg up on those other “Java-free” environments where you’ll have to spend half the day just learning how to count from 1 to 10 and print it to the console all over again. We’ll start by looking at the Android toolchain and how it integrates with your existing toolchain (Eclipse or otherwise). We’ll get your hands dirty writing some code to the Android emulator, then (for those of you who have Android devices handy) push it to a device. We’ll write some unit-tests for testing an Android application. We’ll look at how to store data to the device, both in a SQLite database as well as to a straight file. We’ll look at how to make Internet calls to remote services, and when all is said and done, we’ll have an application that Really Works ™. Bring a laptop, your Java skills, an Android device if you’ve got one, and buckle in, because it’s going to be a straight-from-the-firehose kind of workshop.

A Programmatic Introduction to Neo4j Workshop

Graph databases are an esoteric but powerful member of the NoSQL family. For highly connected data, graph databases can be thousands of times faster than relational databases, making Neo4j popular for managing complex data across many domains, from finance to social, telecoms to geospatial.

This tutorial covers the core functionality from the Neo4j graph database, providing a mixture of theory and accompanying practical sessions to demonstrate the capabilities of graph data and the Neo4j database. Specifically, you'll learn about:

• NoSQL and Graph Database overview
• Neo4j Fundamentals and Architecture
• The Neo4j Core API
• Neo4j Traverser API and declarative querying
• Graph algorithms
• Alternative Language Bindings [optional, depending on time]
• The Neo4j REST API and using the database from non-JVM platforms
• Solutions architecture: using Neo4j in large systems

Each session (apart from the fundamentals and architecture) will be a mixture of a small amount of theory combined with a set of practical exercises designed to reinforce how to achieve sophisticated goals with Neo4j. The practical parts of the tutorial consist of Koan-style lessons where a specific aspect of the Neo4j stack is presented as a set of failing unit tests which participants will work to fix, gradually becoming more challenging until the attendees are capable of implementing sophisticated graph operations against Neo4j.

Attendees won't need any previous experience with Neo4j or NoSQL databases, but will require some fluency in Java, a little familiarity with a modern IDE, and a basic understanding of JUnit to help complete the lab tasks.

Jenkins Continuous Integration in Action

The team dynamics and agile process revolution of the last several years has taught us that continuous integration (CI) is a necessary part of a healthy agile team. Jenkins (formerly Hudson) is the idea and footprint leader in the CI space. A recent survey stated that over 70% of all CI installations have Jenkins in their DNA. What's so awesome about this particular CI tool?

Get on board with a ground-up survey of how to install, apply, upgrade, and leverage the free an open source Jenkins Continuous Integration server for your build, whether it be Ant, Maven, Gradle, JavaScript, Rake, or just shell scripts.

In this presentation, you'll learn how to add plugins for additional build and analysis phases, how to cluster Jenkins on a subnet for a swarm of CI servers that automatically load balance and collate reports, and lastly, how to manage Jenkins on a disparate set of OSes to natively test your unit and integration tests on all your supporter platforms.