Shining the light on simple and effective methods to manage your Lasso server and instances. Learn the tips and tricks. When to use the startup directory, when and how to use LassoApps, customizing your configuration and differentiating between instances.

Waterfall and Agile are methodologies for programming delivery that have a common intent: to get the project done with the best possible outcome. Along the way, each method uses a different approach to continuous delivery and each has is merits and place, depending on your scope and the nature of the relationship with the client you are delivering for.

Fletcher's talk will discuss an overview of these approaches and some tips for how to structure you programming project for the best outcome (delivery)and to be paid along the way!

Technologies discussed will include LassoSoft's cloud licensing for Lasso, Amazon's EC2 virtual servers and load balancing, RDS database service, CloudFront content delivery network (CDN), and OpsWorks deployment system. Although Amazon's technology will be used for examples the principles discussed should apply to other cloud systems and to virtual systems used by familiar Lasso hosting services.

About: Fletcher Sandbeck has been working with Lasso since 1997. He was a partner in LassoSoft prior to it being acquired by TreeFrog and also worked at OmniPilot and Blue World on Lasso and Lasso Studio. He currently works at Cumuli, Inc. shepherding web sites originally developed in Lasso 3.5 to a modern serving platform using cloud servers and Lasso 9. Fletcher has a degree in Mathematics from M.I.T. and currently lives in Manchester, Washington.

Sphinx is a useful tool for realtime full text index searching on large datasets.

About: Jim Leavitt is one of the longest standing Lasso users at Treefrog™. He contributes programming prowess across a range of technologies and into network/server maintenance. Graduating in Web Programming from Georgian College, he is formally trained on Visual Basic, Cobol, IBM Assembly, C, PHP, Perl, JAVA, JSP, HTML and Lasso. Jim is experienced in enterprise level systems and exjoys challenging the boundaries of how things are done such as in projects to deeply integrate new custom data sources from national and international systems with local client systems.

In his non-work time Jim keeps himself on the ball on the golf course and keeping fit.

Tools, tips and techniques for getting to the bottom of your failing code or server.

About: Paul Higgins has been working with LassoSoft since 2007. He is a pivotal part of the LassoSoft support team and has extensive experience in debugging servers and systems both in Lasso 8 and Lasso 9. Paul has a degree in Computer Science from University of Florida and lives in Fort Lauderdale, Florida.

introduction to the concept of Test Driven Development and how to write tests for Lasso 9 code using lspec.

About: Brad Lindsay graduated from Wheaton College in 2003, majoring in both Computer Science and Theology. He began work with the North Carolina Hospital Association in 2006, and it was here that he was required to learn Lasso. He quickly discovered that not only is Lasso a great tool for creating websites, but it has a wonderful community willing to share their knowledge and experience. Brad is currently a Certified Lasso Developer, a Lasso Beta Tester, and has worked to help document Lasso 9. He is also the creator and maintainer of lspec and query.

Cloud computing is the name given to a set of technologies which make serving web sites more flexible by hosting virtual servers on shared hardware. Web hosting is increasingly moving from a model of dedicated hardware to cloud servers. In addition, services such as content delivery networks, shared storage, centralized databases, and workflow management services are increasingly offered through the cloud.

Fletcher's talk will discuss how he has used Amazon's AWS cloud computing resources in concert with both cloud-based hosting and dedicated hosting of Lasso Servers in order to migrate to a more stable, load balanced, and speedy web hosting platform. He will show how individual cloud technologies can be used with an existing site and also how a site can be served entirely using cloud resources.

Technologies discussed will include LassoSoft's cloud licensing for Lasso, Amazon's EC2 virtual servers and load balancing, RDS database service, CloudFront content delivery network (CDN), and OpsWorks deployment system. Although Amazon's technology will be used for examples the principles discussed should apply to other cloud systems and to virtual systems used by familiar Lasso hosting services.

About: Fletcher Sandbeck has been working with Lasso since 1997. He was a partner in LassoSoft prior to it being acquired by TreeFrog and also worked at OmniPilot and Blue World on Lasso and Lasso Studio. He currently works at Cumuli, Inc. shepherding web sites originally developed in Lasso 3.5 to a modern serving platform using cloud servers and Lasso 9. Fletcher has a degree in Mathematics from M.I.T. and currently lives in Manchester, Washington.

CSS is a powerful technology, allowing developers to define the look of a website with great precision. As the web has matured our clients, customers, and users have grown to expect increasingly complex applications, placing more demands on developers and designers. In response, the CSS we are required to write can become unwieldy to the point of messiness. Dynamic stylesheet languages like LESS, combined with good developer tools, can help.

Chris's talk will give an overview of the LESS stylesheet language, will provide examples of what LESS is capable of, and will go into a workflow to build and deploy your CSS files using less, as well as how to debug your LESS files right in the browser. Some compare and contrast with SCSS will also be in store.

Software used in the talk, should you wish to be prepared to follow along:

• Mac OS X 10.8 Mountain Lion - Terminal.app
• Git
• Sublime Text
• Package Control for Sublime Text
• Homebrew
• Node.js
• Node OSX Notifier
• LESS
• Google Chrome 25 [sersiously, get Chrome 25]

About: Chris Corwin began working with Lasso in 1999, working for various small web design firms until 2009 when he sold out to the man and went to work for The Finish Line as an ecommerce developer. His current work focuses on front-end development deployed on an ATG Web Commerce stack.

It might come as a surprise, but Lasso 9 is not only a tool for web development. It is also a highly capable command line interpreter. In this seminar we will show different ways to call Lasso from the CLI. Topics covered include:

• Run an interactive interpreter for testing small bits of code
• Setting up the right environment
• Creating shell scripts for automating workflows
• Run code that accepts and processes user input

About: Jolle Carlestam is a highly experienced Lasso 9 developer working with Lasso 9 since it's Alpha stage. A significant contributor of many of the Lasso 9 specific types and methods on Tagswap, he has won the Lasso Values award at the 2012 LDC. Jolle has contributed substantially to the community via Lasso list and the Lasso documentation. And he has a very nice sense of humor that's not quirky at all.

About: Brad Lindsay graduated from Wheaton College in 2003, majoring in both Computer Science and Theology. He began work with the North Carolina Hospital Association in 2006, and it was here that he was required to learn Lasso. He quickly discovered that not only is Lasso a great tool for creating websites, but it has a wonderful community willing to share their knowledge and experience. Brad is currently a Certified Lasso Developer, a Lasso Beta Tester, and has worked to help document Lasso 9. He is also the creator and maintainer of lspec and query.

Simple ideas for creating sites with optimized usability by employing clean, structured jQuery, Javascript, and Ajax working with CSS and HTML5 regardless of language.

About: Jesse Skinner is a Software developer working on projects like KRED, Hot Banana CMS and has lectured in Javascript and jQuery. Jesse is the author of "Unobtrusive Ajax" available as an e-book from O'Reilly Media (2007).

Options, tips and troubleshooting across mobile platforms.

About: Tim Taplin has been a user of Lasso since its initial public release, and is a Certified Lasso Developer. A vocal proponent of Lasso9 migration, he presented at the 2010 conference in Berlin. He continues to provide consulting services to a wide range of Lasso developers as well as other web based application developers in both custom code and system setup and optimization. Tim is a contributor to Lasso Reference documentation, and active in the LassoTalk list.

Learn what the most critical web application security flaws are and how and where they affect system development and architecture thinking. This essential guide to todays security issues is a must for beginners to advanced developers and anyone involved in any online system or service from marketing managers, to sales people, to CSS and HTML coders to server and code gurus.

Making your code flexible with good OOP is a must for any advanced development. Get onboard with good techniques regardless of if you're a beginner or an old code dog.

About: Jonathan (Jono) Guthrie is a Certified Lasso Developer and Software development manager for LassoSoft and sister company Treefrog Interactive. Originally based in New Zealand, he has taken his Lasso development skills around the globe working in Ireland, South Africa, and Canada. Jono has spoken at several previous LDC's and readily shares Lasso knowledge. Jono has been using Lasso since version 3.6.

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Learn from a leading expert about how control flow integrity can be a key player in your system security. What you don't know but should, and how you can prevent attacks from approaches you've not previously considered.

Bil Corry is a noted champion of web security and currently works as an Information Security Engineer at PayPal. Bil is currently based in Luxembourg and has been a key part of the Lasso community for many years.

Learn how to use traits to give your application some intelligence and some serious weight loss too!

About: Jonathan (Jono) Guthrie is a Certified Lasso Developer and Software development manager for LassoSoft and sister company Treefrog Interactive. Originally based in New Zealand, he has taken his Lasso development skills around the globe working in Ireland, South Africa, and Canada. Jono has spoken at several previous LDC's and readily shares Lasso knowledge. Jono has been using Lasso since version 3.6.