Devclub #045 May 31

Another cool “office DevClub” will take place on 31st of May. Playtech is hosting one at this time.

Event will take place @ Playtech Tallinn Office, Lõõtsa 5, 10th floor at 19:00 (for Office Tour be there @ 18:15).

AGENDA

1. Playtech Office Tour @ 18:15

2. Weaving Web Applications with Apache Tapestry.

Tõnis Pihlakas is ‎Software Developer and Architect @ ‎PlaytechI have been a software engineer for the last 12 years, always interested in empowering people, sometimes using technologies that are a bit odd or off the beaten path. Having started as a Visual FoxPro developer, moving (up?) the ranks to PHP and Java, I have settled into building tools and libraries to help fellow developers succeed in their daily work. What will Tõnis talk about? This year, Apache Tapestry celebrates its 10th year as a top-level project under the Apache Foundation’s umbrella. In this talk, I would like to share some of my personal and professional ups and downs taming this beast of a web application framework and how we made (or at least tried to make) it fit into the Playtech IMS. This includes a short introduction to Tapestry 5, some thoughts on what it can be useful for and where it falls flat on its face, examples of code and some trickery we have used to make Tapestry match our needs.    

3. Implementing an intelligent form engine.

Villu Vaimets is Head of Engineering @ ReSysI have worked on software development mainly targeted to insurance business, responsible of design and implementation service platform technologies. What will Villu talk about? Nobody likes to fill in forms! I will talk about features that are expected from modern form engines to make filling them as painless as possible and what is needed to get changes on-line on different platforms quickly. What kind of challenges we faced implementing it using open source technologies and how we solved them.