Ruby and Ajax Expert Glenn Vanderburg, Relevance

Glenn Vanderburg is a consultant at Relevance focused on cutting-edge software development technologies and techniques, including Ruby, JavaScript, Ajax, and state-of-the-art development practices.

Check out his blog at www.vanderburg.org/Blog

Presentation: "Introduction to Objective-C"

Time: Monday 10:15 - 11:00

Location: To be announced

Abstract: Objective-C is a very thin layer on top of C. Objective-C is a strict superset of C. That is, it is possible to compile any C program with an Objective-C compiler. Objective-C derives its syntax from both C and Smalltalk. Most of the syntax (including preprocessing, expressions, function declarations, and function calls) is inherited from C, while the syntax for object-oriented features was created to enable Smalltalk-style messaging. Today it is used primarily on Mac OS X, iPhone OS, and GNUstep, which makes this presentation a good intro to the next presentation in the program; "How to build an iPhone app in 45 mins".

Presentation: "Fuzz-Testing Rails Apps with Tarantula"

Time: Monday 15:15 - 16:00

Location: To be announced

Abstract: Tarantula is a Rails plugin for doing easy, repeatable fuzz testing of Rails applications. Tarantula crawls your application, supplying random inputs at every turn and looking for signs of trouble. It can be used to regularly check for many kinds of error handling issues, cross-site scripting and SQL injection vulnerabilities, and more mundane things like invalid HTML. This talk will discuss how Tarantula works, how to use it, and how to make it a regular part of your testing strategy.