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The Design and Architecture of InfoQ
InfoQ.com is a web app/portal implemented with the latest in portal technology and web development. This session shows the good, the bad, and the ugly of building InfoQ.com in all layers.
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Steve Freeman On TDD: How Do We Know When We’re Done?
In this presentation filmed during QCon 2007, Steve Freeman, an independent consultant, talks about TDD, why is it helpful and gives an example on doing it.
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Is the Web "Good Enough" for Web Services?
In this presentation, recorded at QCon London, Paul Downey talks about the Web, its architecture and its suitability for creating systems as opposed to the world of SOAP/WSDL-based Web services.
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Agile Project Lifecycle: User Stories and Release Planning
In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2007, Rachel Davies, director of Agile Alliance, talks about the Agile development cycle starting with user stories and planning the releases.
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Voca, UK's largest payment processing engine running Spring
William Soo and Meeraj Kunnumpurath discuss the Voca transaction processing system, architectural challenges and requirements, Voca's Spring/J2EE architecture, and the future SEPA architecture.
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Patterns for securing architectures
Security is about trade-offs. Only a few have the expertise to design good security. This talk focuses on Security Patterns, such as Role-based Access Control, Single Access Point, and Front Door.
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SOA Driving IT from the business
In this presentation, recorded at QCon London, Steve Jones explains his ideas on why IT is fundamentally broken, and how business-driven SOA might be a cure.
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Ajax and design patterns : Do we need a client tier?
In this talk, Dave Crane explores ways to apply design patterns to the client tier, how the use of patterns compares with the server-side and examines server-control vs client-control.
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Ruby and the Art of Domain Specific Languages
Rich Kilmer explains Domain Specific Languages - the difference between internal and external DSLs, implicit vs. explicit styles and the declarative vs. imperative style of Ruby DSLs.
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The Business Value of SOA
In this presentation Burton Group research director Anne Thomas Manes talks about how to convince a skeptical audience to approve the necessary investment by making the business case for SOA.
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Erik Meijer on C# 3.0 and LINQ
In this presentation from QCon, Erik Meijer discuss C# 3.0 and LINQ with Objects, XML, and relational data. This is a more in depth discussion building on his "Democratizing the Cloud" presentation.
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Mongrel, 2500 Lines, and Economics
Zed Shaw talks about Mongrel and its impact. For companies, the talk contains valuable information about Dos/Don'ts when interacting with open source teams.