ConFoo 2012 schedule

Thursday 1st March 2012

• Build more with LESS CSS

  At 2:45pm to 3:45pm, Thursday 1st March

• CMS 2.0: are we there yet?

  by Julian Egelstaff

  At 2:45pm to 3:45pm, Thursday 1st March

• Defining User Identity: True Identity VS Anonymity

  by Jonathan LeBlanc

  From Mozilla’s new BrowserID to OpenID and the Facebook Graph API, determining user identity has become a simple matter of leveraging a profile. The problem, and the source of many heated debates, arises when trying to determine whether to identify a user by their true, real life, identity and whether that should be forced on them when interacting online. Social powerhouses like Facebook and Google+ are throwing their weight behind forcing users to be directly tied to their real life identity, but what does this mean for privacy, anonymity, and online social interactions? In this talk we’ll explore the concepts behind identity models, how online and real life social graphs are used for defining identity and relationships, and how using real identity and social graph models have led to real life issues of security and privacy worldwide. Through these models, we’ll explore how services like BrowserID, OpenID and the Facebook Graph API are used to construct user identity online.

  • APIs
  • Identity
  • OpenID

  At 4:00pm to 5:00pm, Thursday 1st March

  Coverage slide deck

Friday 2nd March 2012

• Beware of the dark side, Luke!

  by Arne Blankerts

  At 8:30am to 9:30am, Friday 2nd March

• Care and Feeding of a MySQL database

  by Dave Stokes

  At 8:30am to 9:30am, Friday 2nd March

• Cryptographie 101 pour les programmeurs

  by Philippe Gamache

  At 8:30am to 9:30am, Friday 2nd March

• DIY Private Cloud w/ VirtualBox and Chef

  by Wil Moore

  At 9:40am to 10:40am, Friday 2nd March

• Doctrine 2

  by Juozas Kaziukėnas

  At 9:40am to 10:40am, Friday 2nd March

• Doing More With Less: Large-Scale Apps with Flask

  by Joël Perras

  At 9:40am to 10:40am, Friday 2nd March

• OpenSocial 2.0 - Viva La OpenAppRevolution!

  by Bastian Hofmann

  When OpenSocial was first introduced, the main goal was to create an open and distributed alternative to the closed off Facebook platform for social apps. Since then much has happened: The specification has majored and powerful new features have been introduced. More and more social networks are implementing OpenSocial containers, allowing developers to reach over 900 million users with one social app. Additionally education organizations and enterprise companies like IBM, SAP, SurfNET or Atlassian are seeing the benefits of an open standard to open them up to other developers. In this presentation I will introduce you to OpenSocial, and walk you through an example to show you how easy it is to connect an existing web application to enterprise products and social networks alike. I will especially highlight some of the new OpenSocial 2.0 features, such as Embedded Experiences or OpenSearch, that help you with a tight integration into your user's existing tools and workflows.

  • OpenSocial

  At 9:40am to 10:40am, Friday 2nd March

• Reprise sur incident

  by Jean-Marc Fontaine

  Que se soit suite à une attaque, une défaillance matérielle ou un bogue applicatif, et malgré toute les précautions prises en amont, aucune application en production n'est à l'abri d'une catastrophe.

  L'important est d'avoir un plan de reprise sur incident efficace pour limiter le plus possible l'impact d'un tel incident sur la qualité de service.

  Cela passe par une phase de préparation (mise en place de logs, sauvegardes régulière, etc) et par un plan d'action pour le jour J (Communication de crise, diagnostiques, priorisation des tâches, etc.)

  At 9:45am to 10:45am, Friday 2nd March

  Coverage link

• Automatiser les tests à tous les niveaux

  by Vincent Tencé

  At 10:50am to 11:50am, Friday 2nd March

• Designing HTTP Interfaces and RESTful Web Services

  by David Zuelke

  At 10:50am to 11:50am, Friday 2nd March

• Changing the Face of Open Identity in Ecommerce

  by Jonathan LeBlanc

  The case for online identity has been present for as long as there has been a need to customize a web experience for an individual person. From OpenID to BrowserID, there are open solutions for solving the issue of having different logins for all of the sites and services we use. The problem with open identity systems in the Ecommerce world is that the identifying characteristics of a user in current implementations is shallow, providing basically a “yes, this person has an account” answer to “who is this user?”.

  This is where new X.commerce identity is trying to change identity. By leveraging off of the massive user Ecommerce information of PayPal and eBay, open Ecommerce identity is now a valuable source of real user data. Using buying and selling history, user ratings, profile identifiers and a vast array of different user data, X.commerce identity is able to define “trust levels” for a user who signs in to your site and provide solutions for easy, secure identity and payment.

  • e-Commerce
  • Identity
  • OpenID
  • X.commerce

  At 1:40pm to 2:40pm, Friday 2nd March

  Coverage slide deck audio clip

• Acceptance testing in the land of the startup

  by Joseph Wilk

  At 2:50pm to 3:50pm, Friday 2nd March

• Advanced SOA architectures using Open Source

  by Heath Kesler

  At 2:50pm to 3:50pm, Friday 2nd March

• Debugging hard to reproduce Production Issues

  by Kamran Bilgrami

  At 2:50pm to 3:50pm, Friday 2nd March

Unscheduled

• Build more with LESS CSS

  by Jake Smith

  Ever thought how much better CSS would be if you only had variables or expressions or "x" or "y". Tired of remembering all of the browser prefixes for the new CSS3 features? Enter LESS CSS. LESS CSS is a CSS pre-processor that offers variables, mixins, expressions and much more. This is how everyone dreamed CSS would be ran. In this session, you will learn how to fully harness all the functionality of LESS while avoiding some of the pitfalls many new users face. CSS3 will never seem easier!

• DRYing CSS for brevity, unity and maintainability

  by jeremyclarke

• Du développement web au mobile

  by Martin Arvisais

• Easily Out Market & Out Sell The Competition

  by Michael Michalowicz

• Effective Collaboration in a Sprint

  by Steffan Surdek

• ElasticSearch [R]evolution: Welcome.

  by Andrei Zmievski

• Empowering IT with Real Users Analytics

  by Francis Piéraut

• Estimation or "How to Dig your own Grave"

  by Rowan Merewood

• Extending Vega to Secure your Web App and More

  by David Mirza

• Faîtes face à la demande

  by lpcarignan

• Getting Started With Web Accessibility

  by Sean Yo

• Git: a beginners guide for developers

  by Mike McQuaid

  • Git
  Coverage slide deck

• Graphs, Edges & Nodes: Untangling the Social We

  by Joël Perras