Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley is a talented developer, consultant and expert trainer specialising in cutting edge web technologies. He has a passion for open source software and open standards. He’s the technical writer and screencaster for Screencasts.org.
Talks I've Given
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Introduction to CoffeeScript
Featuring Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley will review the core functionality of what CoffeeScript has to offer. Even if you don't adopt CoffeeScript as part of your toolkit, it's worth a look to learn how the resulting JavaScript is compiled in order to help with performance and other JavaScript best practices.
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What I've Learned Developing for iOS
Featuring Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley talks about his experiences getting a product into the App Store and what he's been doing to try and improve sales and generating more income. If you're thinking of becoming an iOS developer come along and see what you're letting yourself in for! Please note: Andrew...
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Haml and Sass: Making HTML and CSS Tolerable
Featuring Andrew Chalkley
Haml and Sass are two languages that have been growing in popularity since I first introduced them in 2005. They both are ways to construct and conceptualize the HTML and CSS output of your web applications.
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Using the 'Constellation Pattern': Architecting Rails in the Cloud
Featuring Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley takes you through a case study of using the "Constellation Pattern" in deploying multiple Rails applications in the cloud. He'll discuss the migration from a traditional PHP environment on dedicated servers to a Rails architecture in the cloud.
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Building iPhone/Andriod apps for a Rails Backend
Featuring Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley will give a talk on Building iPhone/Andriod apps for a Rails Backend. If you have any questions or topics you would like to see covered in Andrew's talk or discussed at the ParkBench Panel discussion, tweet them using tag #rorexchange and we'll try to feature these! More...
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JQuery
Featuring Andrew Chalkley
Andrew Chalkley gives an overview in to the history of the evolution of web development and the importance of unobtrusive JavaScript.
