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Software Engineer Panos Astithas of Mozilla on Debugging Tools and Open Source
JavaScript expert Panos Astithas discusses the latest trends in mobile app development. The tools that Panos employs in his work as Software Engineer at Mozilla help to keep their applications as bug-free and smooth running as possible. Effective debugging is all about having the best developer tools available.
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Adobe System's Narciso Jaramillo on Brackets and Web Development
In this exclusive interview with "NJ", app designer and engineer from Adobe Systems, at the QCon 2013 in San Francisco, NJ talks about the open source code editor known as "Brackets". The challenges around front-end development; JavaScript, HTML, CSS development. the open source project and the actual branded Adobe product called Adobe Edge Code, part of Edge Tools and Services.
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Felix Klock II on Rust: Concurrency, GCs, Type System
Felix Klock II explains concepts of the Rust language: the concurrency model, the type system, allocation and ownership models, the macro system, its style of FP and OOP, and much more.
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Netflix's Reactive Programming Model via Rx
Netflix leverages reactive system concepts to produce highly interactive and engaging User Interfaces. By using functional programming, Rx, and an intentional training method, they are able to ramp up their developers to produce reactive code quickly and with few bugs. Jafar explains how Netflix established this practice and gives a few pointers as to how your company can start its own.
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Jessica Kerr on Scala, scalaz, scalaz-stream, Testing with ScalaCheck
Jessica Kerr explains the reasons to use Scala (best of FP and OOP worlds), scalaz, I/O and async programming with scalaz-stream, property-based testing with ScalaCheck, and much more.
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Jakub Nesetril, CEO of Apiary on Web APIs and Developer Experience
Developer experience(DX) was one of the prime motivators for Web APIs in response to SOA. Now companies such as Apiary are focused on enhancing this experience and improving developer productivity by taking a page from the SOA book around automation through tooling. Jakub Nesetril explains the nuances of what constitutes good DX and how Web APIs need to be designed and implemented in this context.
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Developer Evangelist Jon Gottfried on App Development with Twilio
Developer Evangelist Jon Gottfried of Twilio discusses the ins and outs of adding voice and SMS messages with Twilio's RESTful API. Learn about adding Twilio's telephony features like sending and receiving text messages to and from your mobile or web app.
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Francesco Cesarini and Viktor Klang on the Reactive Manifesto
Francesco Cesarini and Viktor Klang explain the motivation behind the Reactive Manifesto and what exactly it brings to the table. Also: what Erlang and Scala/Akka can learn from each other.
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Cliff Click on In-Memory Processing, 0xdata H20, Efficient Low Latency Java and GCs
Cliff Click explains 0xdata's H20, a clustering and in-memory math and statistics solution (available for Hadoop and standalone), writing H20's memory representation and compression in Java, low latency Java vs GCs, and much more.
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Andrew Betts on Developing for Mobile with HTML5
Andrew Betts, founder of FT labs, discusses emerging trends in mobile development using web technologies, the benefits of developing for the web over building native, the difficulties of dealing with browsers and tooling.
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Tom Dale on Ember and JavaScript Frameworks
Tom Dale, co-creator of the Ember JavaScript MVC framework, discusses the past, present and future of the framework. He also addresses the proliferation of JavaScript frameworks and libraries and how he deals with critics in the JavaScript community.
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Dean Wampler on Scalding, NoSQL, Scala, Functional Programming and Big Data
Dean Wampler explains Scalding and the other Hadoop support libraries, the return of SQL, how (big) data is the killer application for functional programming, Java 8 vs Scala, and much more.
