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How Draw Something Scaled To 50 million New Users, in 50 Days, with Zero Downtime

Robin Johnson discusses using a data management model for games that can be scaled, and the bottlenecks and challenges met by OMGPOP scaling to millions of users.

Robin Johnson
on Sep 08, 2013

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How to Narrow Down What to Test

Zsolt Fabok presents several methods that can be used to find areas which are worth testing so that organizations do not have to spend more effort on testing than what is absolutely necessary.

Zsolt Fabok
on Sep 08, 2013

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Model-driven Development in the Context of Technical SOA

Michael Rauch and Christoph Gutmann explain how Eclipse Modeling technology is successfully applied to establish forward engineering in the domain of technical SOA.

Christoph Gutmann Michael Rauch
on Sep 08, 2013

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Racket: Metaprogramming Time!

Matthew Flatt introduces Racket, an extensible programming language useful to create new syntactic forms and construct entirely new programming languages.

Matthew Flatt
on Sep 07, 2013

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User Generated Art: the Artist as Manipulator

The authors explore engaging audiences through play, and how open source software, interactive video, and 3D projection mapping invites a dialogue with the participants in a multi-media environment.

Remko van Dokkum Ruud Lanfermeijer
on Sep 07, 2013

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Piplin – A DSL for Describing Silicon in Clojure

David Greenberg introduces Piplin, a DSL that allows a subset of Clojure to be automatically converted into a hardware description, which can then be placed onto an FPGA or made into a silicon chip.

David Greenberg
on Sep 04, 2013

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Programming for the Expression of Ideas

Gerald Sussman explains how programming can help understand Analytical Mechanics, Differential Geometry, and General Relativity. While a work of art, a well-crafted program is an expression of an idea

Gerald Sussman
on Sep 03, 2013

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Code to Cloud: Continuous Delivery with Windows Azure

Justin Beckwith introduces several ways to deploy ASP.NET, Node, and PHP applications to Windows Azure, including git deployment, TFS deployment, continuous integration and custom scripts.

Justin Beckwith
on Sep 01, 2013

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Mary Had a Little Lambda

Stephen Chin explains how to use some of the new lambda-enabled Java 8 APIs: enhanced collections, functional interfaces, and simplified event handlers.

Stephen Chin
on Aug 31, 2013

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Embedded Java and MQTT

Peter Niblett explains what MQTT is and how it compares with HTTP, showing how to program to it in Java and Eclipse Paho, and reporting on the current MQTT standardization status at OASIS.

Peter Niblett
on Aug 30, 2013

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Macros vs. Monads

Chris Houser and Jonathan Claggett compare macros with monads, suggesting when it is better to use each of them, and pondering what could be done to improve them.

Jonathan Claggett Chris Houser
on Aug 30, 2013

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Functional Infrastructures: It's All Fn until You Hit Production

Antoni Batchelli discusses building an automated infrastructure in Clojure.

Antoni Batchelli
on Aug 28, 2013

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