schedule

1st session 9.30 am - 1.00 pm

Introduction

by Simone Zinanni and Pietro Polsinelli

Defending web applications from attacks

Is my web application exposed? We will present a short guide for the "contemporary developer" of web apps: we will survey the critical points of our web apps, the database, session stealing, cookies. We will then review the most common attacks from DOS to XSS to CSRF and ways to defend and / or limit damages.

Roberto Bicchierai

Developer and partner at Open Lab - http://www.open-lab.com

Introducing HTML5

The HTTP protocol was created in 1990 and led to the establishment of the World Wide Web by English physicist Tim Berners-Lee. It led to what is now the world's most used language, HTML (Hyper Text Markup Language). HTML5 is being developed as the next major revision of HTML: what is it about? What will it change?

Matteo Bicocchi

Developer and partner at Open Lab - http://www.open-lab.com

coffee break

Server Push and Comet

Looking at the future of real-time client server communication through the use of the emergent ‘Push’ technology - Comet. We’ll put forward benefits and use cases, explore the state of play and examine the various implementations that are available to developers right now.

Mark Boas

Developer and co-founder of Happyworm - http://happyworm.com

2nd session 2.00 am - 6.00 pm

Some .NET features we are missing in Java 6

A brief journey into C# and its latest features, a mainstream language that tries to mix imperative and functional programming. We'll take a look at extensions methods, lambda expression, type inference, LINQ, etc

Massimo Iacolare

Developer and founder of Climbervoice - http://climbervoice.com

Introduction to BeRTOS real-time OS

BeRTOS is a high performance, low overhead, real-time operating system designed for tiny embedded systems. Its high modularity and vast driver selection make it the ideal system for real world embedded projects. This talk will present BeRTOS strengths through slides and a live session.

Luca Ottaviano

Developer at Develer - http://www.develer.com

coffee break

Developing cross-platform GUIs with Qt

Today many companies face a big challenge: how to develop highly dynamic GUIs for as many platforms as possible with reasonable costs. Qt offers a highly integrated and optimized solution to create graphical interfaces for both desktop and embedded platforms. This talk will show you the most interesting Qt capabilities.

Luca Ottaviano

Developer at Develer - http://www.develer.com

A developers' guide to writing blog posts

We'll see how successful developers's blog are structured, and the motivation behind that. We'll see also some basic creative writing rules, and from these we'll extract a checklist to be used on your blog posts before publishing them.

Pietro Polsinelli

Developer and partner at Open Lab - http://www.open-lab.com

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