rails

Hear Brent Shaffer (@bshaffer), a Symfony developer and contributer, duke it out with Travis Roberts (@travisroberts), a Ruby on Rails proponent, in the battle of two frameworks. The discussion will include an introduction to both frameworks and a comparison of the PHP and Ruby languages. At the end, Symfony and Rails will meet in a no-holds-barred battle to the death, and only you can decide the victor. Time for Q&A will also be allotted.

Behavior Driven Development (BDD) has emerged as one of the new buzz words in the software world, but many people are confused as to what it actually means. This session will cover what BDD is, how it was borne out of Test Driven Development, and how it can be leveraged to extract meaningful customer requirements to create better software. By nature, this talk will cover a lot of agile development best practices, and how BDD builds on TDD to create a more effective agile team.