Ducas Francis (@ducas) - JQuery Mobile
Building web apps targeted at mobile platforms is becoming increasingly popular, but it can be quite difficult to get your site working on all devices. See how you can use jQuery Mobile to make your MVC apps come to life and easily build mobile experiences that work across all modern phone and tablet operating systems. That’s right… one version of your site CAN work on iPhone, iPad, Android and WP7!
Philip Laureano (@philiplaureano) - Blind Refactoring
Have you ever wondered if there was a better way to learn refactoring? Martin Fowler's Refactoring book was a great introductory book on how to clean up legacy code bases, but over the years, what I have found missing in that book is one a set of guidelines that links all the different types of refactoring techniques together into one continuous process. In this talk, I will show you how to take almost any code base, and refactor everything from the simplest nested' 'if' blocks all the way to extracting an actual domain/object model to using an IOC container framework. Using a set of repeatable steps, I will show you how easy it is to refactor almost any code base, even if you don't understand every part of the application.
We may also have a different MC than usual since Richard will be at TechEd and James may away as well. If that's the case you'll be in the hands of Brendan Forster - be kind!
As per usual, RSVP via the poll for catering and don't forget to bring a friend! It should be a great night with plenty to see.
