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Presented by Scott Davis on Jun 29, 2009
Unix, Linux Uptime & Reliability Increase While Patch Management Woes Plague Windows (Yankee Group)
The 5 Mandates of Software Development Teams - Presto Manifesto
Most of the talk is about conventional scripting that has always been around in some form. A bunch of interesting Groovy tricks (for newbies) are presented. Calling a console script that understands a few commands a DSL is a bit over the top in my opinion.
The last 10 minutes or so Scott quickly demonstrates how to extend the meta class of a closed (final) Java class (Integer) to do the ubiquitous "2.hours + 10.minutes" example. That's more like it.
class Movie(var title:String, var duration: Int) {
override def toString = title + " runs for " + duration + " minutes"
}
implicit def units(i: Int) = new {
def hours = i * 60
def minutes = i
def and(j: Int) = i + j
}
val starWars = new Movie("Star Wars", 2.hours and 30.minutes)
println(starWars)
it really made my fingures itch:)
Does anyone have similar problem?
Now it works again (don't know what happened in the meantime)
We recently deployed a fix for some video problems we were having. Thanks Dragan.
Thanks for your comment, Hermann. This is admittedly a basic presentation - it doesn't assume previous knowledge of Groovy or DSLs. You clearly preferred the internal DSL over the external. That's cool. If I could've been guaranteed an audience with deep experience in both Groovy and DSLs, I could've spent the entire hour covering just that.
The presenter gets an A for his knowledge of the topic.
The videographer was a bit clueless on the terminal screenshots when zooming in on the left side of directory listings. We were all wondering what the permissions were and not what he was talking about right?
As a presenter he gets a D. The first half is mostly about him. Count how many times he uses the word "I".
That is the problem with these conferences. The entire point is gratifying the ego of the presenter; the anti-pattern to Kathy Sierra's "you rock".
Brian Marick takes us through a quick tour of the most important values and challenges to adopting Agile successfully (they aren't the typical challenges and values we hear in the community).
The line between development and architecture is tricky. Does it exist at all? Is an ivory tower actually needed? There's a balance in the middle, but how do you move from developer to architect?
The word 'authority' sometimes produces an allergic response in hard-line agilists. Freedom and authority – both are bad if misused and both are good if used in right spirit for a noble cause.
"Getting Started with Grails" brings you up to speed on this modern web framework. Companies as varied as LinkedIn, Wired, and Taco Bell are all using Grails. Are you ready to get started as well?
Those familiar with only ITIL V2 often scoff at the thought that ITIL could serve as a governance framework for SOA. With ITIL V3, the focus of the framework shifted towards service-orientation.
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer discusses AspectJ, SpringSource's dm Server and tc Server products, OSGi and Scrum.
Heroku's Adam Wiggins talks about Rails, Background Jobs, Add-Ons, Ruby, and how Heroku manages to work around Ruby's inefficiencies using Erlang and other languages.
For Grady Booch the foundation of a good architecture is patterns, SOA being just one of many patterns. In this Second Life presentation, Booch attempts to bring more clarity on what architecture is.
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