Christian Wenz is an author, consultant and trainer focussing on web technologies and web application security. He wrote or co-wrote over 100 books, is a fixture at international developer conferences since 2001, and is one of the subject matter experts (SME) of the Zend PHP 5.3 certification. His day job at Arrabiata Solutions includes conducting security audits, migrating old code bases, implementing complex web applications and helping companies choose the right mix of web technologies.
Germany
Germany 2012 sessions
Performance 101: More Responsive Web Sites View session page
English session - Introduction
The performance of a web site is one of the criteria used by Google and other search engines to determine the site's ranking. This should be reason enough to make performance optimization a mandatory step in your development process. We will cover several aspects of optimizing a site from a performance perspective: we try to minimize markup and client-site code, intelligently distribute HTTP requests, reduce bandwith and connections overall, and will also have a look at server-side code. Talking about code: as usual, the session will also feature code and demos.
Web Application Security Trends View session page
English session - Intermediate
According to a study, nine out of ten web applications have security vulnerabilities. Recent events proved that not only old legacy sites were successfully attacked, but also new and recent applications, built with the best intentions and also with security in mind. We will have a look at common attacks, new attacks, and new twists to old attacks that demonstrate why so many websites may be compromised. We will have a look at recent attacks that made mainstream media, analyze some aspects of them, and will provide guidelines and best practices to become website ten out of ten. This session, as usual, comes with code and demos.
Previous sessions
RIA Best Practices (2010)
High-Speed JavaScript (2011)
