Kings of Code

Joost de Valk

Due to family obligations Joost de Valk is not able to speak at the conference on Tuesday. Instead he will speak on Monday at the Fronteers side event. Nikolai Onken will replace him at the conference.

Joost de Valk is a developer and SEO specialist. He started out in the open source world by contributing to Apple's WebKit, where he became one of the first non-Apple employees with commit rights. This made him start the group of css3 tests that turned into the website css3.info. After that he moved on to the world of blogging & SEO. His blog Yoast.com is one of the most important references for people who want to optimize their WordPress blog.

At Kings of Code he will address the latest SEO tricks with his talk "SEO issues developers can solve".

SEO is a weird game, it's a mix of online marketing and development, and a good SEO is skilled in both. There's quite a few SEO issues that developers can solve or work around, if they know they exist. In his presentation, Joost will show you how search engines see your site, and how you can avoid so called spider traps, how to make AJAX indexable and more...

This session is part of the side-event Fronteers front-end seminar.

Marcel Beumer

Marcel Beumer is a freelance front end programmer located in the area of Amsterdam. Having started his career at Backbase as a front end engineer and consultant, he now does projects independently working with Open Source browser technology.

He will give a talk on the <canvas> element, sharing experiences and ideas on 2D graphics programming in the browser.

This session is part of the side-event Fronteers front-end seminar.

Edwin Martin

Edwin Martin develops websites since 1994. He programs in according to Edwin the both the most overestimated programming language (PHP) and the most underestimated language (JavaScript). Contrary to most webdevelopers, he prefers frontend development with JavaScript.

His talk is about jQuery. He shows why you should use a JavaScript library and what jQuery in particular has to offer. With small code examples he shows some of the most cool features of jQuery. He will also give a look at jQuery UI, the widget library build on top of jQuery.

This session is part of the side-event Fronteers seminar.

Jasper Hauser & Jonathan Dann

A brief introduction to using Subversion, in particular with Versions, Sofa's and Pico's Mac Subversion client. We will cover the main principles of version control and the benefits of using it in all areas of product development. We'll also demonstrate using SVN and show how Versions can fit into your project workflow.

Jasper Hauser - Graphic Designer and co-founder at Sofa.
Jasper is one of the founders of Sofa, an Apple Design Award-winning software and interaction design company. He is the graphic designer behind many of the Macs prettiest icons. He's allergic to ugly.

Jonathan Dann - Developer at Sofa
Jonathan is the newest addition to the Sofa development team. A self-taught developer and Objective-C whiz, he has degrees in particle- and medical physics. He's been exposed to far too much radiation.

This session is part of the side-event AfternoonTutorials.

Joris Verbogt

Joris Verbogt is Chief Developer at Rotterdam-based internet agency Mangrove. After years of programming the magic that drives their websites, he recently started doing iPhone development for their first app, TXXI. Oh, and he likes to play bass, too.

In his presentation, web-developer-turned-iphone-developer Joris Verbogt will give you a thorough introduction to iPhone development. By doing a walkthrough of a simple iPhone app, he will try to assure you that you should not be afraid of Objective-C. Of course there'll be plenty of room for discussing the alternatives.

This session is part of the side-event AfternoonTutorials.

Menno van der Sman & Justin Halsall

A live demonstration of building an webapplication using Ruby on Rails and the Sphinx search-engine. The tutorial will cover the following topics:

• Setting up a Rails project
• Database access through ActiveRecord
• Implementing Controllers and Views
• Using the ThinkingSphinx plugin to connect to the Sphinx search-engine.

Menno is Lead developer at Wakoopa, an Amsterdam-based software discovery service, where he uses Rails to make Wakoopa even more awesome.

This session is part of the side-event AfternoonTutorials.