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Is It A Car? Is It A Computer? No, It's a Raspberry Pi Java Carputer
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by Oracle, Simon Ritter looks at how Embedded Java and a Raspberry Pi were used for Audi S3, and how JavaFX has been used for an in-car information system.
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Enterprise Integration Using REST: A Case Study
Brandon Byars discusses the constraints and the flexibility of nonpublic APIs, and lessons learned from scaling RESTful integration across more than a dozen teams.
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Building a Trading Platform in 6 Weeks in an Organization That Would Really Rather We Didn't
Lance Walton shares the experience of a small team building a trading platform in 6 weeks in Scala and Lift while fighting against an opposing organizational culture.
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Coding in Style: How to Wield Scala in the Trenches
Josh Suereth discusses Scala: expressions, abstracting behaviors, FP & OOP, Futures & Promises, libraries with implicit classes and value classes, tracking lexical state with implicit values.
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JS Optimization Techniques
Guillaume Lathoud suggests expanding JavaScript with mutual tail-call optimization, map/filter/reduce and math computations to obtain faster code.
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Order Notation in Practice
Roger Orr solves a problem with different levels of complexity trying to answer what the complexity notation actually means and why it is important in practice.
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The Haxl Project at Facebook
Simon Marlow describes a concurrency-based system built with Haskell that allows front-end programmers to write business logic to access all the back-end services in a concise and consistent way.
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Applied API Design
Jon Skeet provides practical advice on designing APIs using immutability, separation of concerns and other principles, resulting in elegant and reusable code.
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JIT Compilation Techniques
Maxime Chevalier-Boisvert introduces adaptive compilation strategies aiming to fulfill the seemingly conflicting goals of producing more optimal machine code while reducing compilation time.
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Node.JS: The Good Parts? A Skeptic’s View
Chris Richardson discusses creating Node.JS polyglot applications starting from combining an event-driven programming model with a prototype-based, weakly typed, dynamic language.
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The Hype, Myth, and Promise of Gamification
Wesley Reisz explores the hype and reality around gamification and dives into code to see if he can realize some of the promises of gamification.
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How to Make the Most of Code Analysis?
Patrick Smacchia shares code analysis-related practices - structuring code, measuring code quality, automated tests, code contracts, reporting progress, trending- based on his experience with NDepend.