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Y Not? - Adventures in Functional Programming

Jim Weirich uses Y-Combinator as a tool to explain the nature of functional programming.

Jim Weirich
on Nov 01, 2012

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Expressing Abstraction - Abstracting Expression

Ola Bini attempts to answer a few questions: Why are new languages still being created, Is it worth choosing languages strategically, and Does language actually matter?

Ola Bini
on Nov 01, 2012

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Relational Programming in miniKanren

Daniel P. Friedman and William E. Byrd demonstrate miniKanren, a simplified version of KANREN - a declarative logic programming system with relations embedded in a pure functional subset of Scheme.

William E. Byrd Daniel P. Friedman
on Oct 31, 2012

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How to Follow Instructions

Leonard Richardson discusses REST and hypermedia links and forms – seen as instructions from the server to the client. Client using instructions can be reused and support complex behavior.

Leonard Richardson
on Oct 30, 2012

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Building Cloud Services with Riak

Andy Gross reports on how Basho used Riak and Erlang to build their cloud storage service.

Andy Gross
on Oct 29, 2012

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Asynchronous User Interfaces - How to Lie, Cheat and Steal

Alex MacCaw discusses the importance of asynchronous UIs, suggesting using Spine, an MVC JavaScript framework, to avoid blocking the UI, storing state + rendering on the client, and preloading data.

Alex MacCaw
on Oct 29, 2012

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Concurrency in Android

G. Blake Meike discusses concurrency in Android, focusing on AsyncTask – what can be done with it, what problems using it and how to circumvent them.

G. Blake Meike
on Oct 26, 2012

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The Racket Way

Matthew Flatt explains the Racket – a Lisp dialect – way through examples: everything is a program, concepts are language constructs, the language is extensible, and everything composes.

Matthew Flatt
on Oct 26, 2012

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Developing Advanced IDE Functionality for Your DSLs

Alex Shatalin and Václav Pech discuss several language workbenches features - type system, dataflow, VCS, refactoring, debugging, and others – with examples based on JetBrains MPS.

Václav Pech Alex Shatalin
on Oct 24, 2012

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Seventeen Secrets of the Great Legacy Makeover Masters

Brian Foote shares 17 tips that help dealing with muddy legacy code: Testing, Divide & Conquer, Neoteny, Gentrification, Demolition, Quarantine, Refactoring, Craft, etc.

Brian Foote
on Oct 24, 2012

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Knockout.js

Steve Sanderson demoes creating a web application with a dynamic UI using Knockout.js - a MVVM JavaScript library.

Steve Sanderson
on Oct 24, 2012

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Real-Time Delivery Architecture at Twitter

Raffi Krikorian details Twitter’s timeline architecture, its “write path” and “read path”, making it possible to deliver 300k tweets/sec.

Raffi Krikorian
on Oct 23, 2012

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