Eric Sowell

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Eric Sowell is an avid developer who gets into as many technologies as he can. He is development lead at Match.com on the international platform and enjoys writing code which serves up Html millions of times on a daily basis. Eric is the father of three children and the husband of one wife. He also has fish. When not being a geek or hanging with the family, he enjoys reading, writing and doing research primarily in the realms of ancient Greek, biblical studies and early Christianity.

Sessions

Css for Developers

Level: 100
Track: None
Time: 03:45 PM - 05:00 PM
Day: 1
Room: Windows Phone 7

Web developers often avoid digging into the topic of Css because they think that is what web designers are for and that you have be good at design to understand Css well. Neither of these is true. In this session we will jump into Css and semantic Html and see most of the skills needed to turn a design into a reality. Design is a very different skill from programming, but any programmer can learn how to take a design and turn it into a web page.

The What, Why and How of Client-Side MVC Frameworks

Level: 200
Track: None
Time: 02:15 PM - 03:30 PM
Day: 2
Room: Windows Phone 7

Client-side MVC frameworks like Spine, Backbone, JavascriptMVC and SproutCore are there to help you write richer client-side web experiences. Come learn why they can help, how these frameworks work and what some of the existing options are.