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Declarative Programming: Towards a Language that Fundamentally Abstracts away from Time
Wim Bast introduces Declare, a new declarative, functional OO language, demoing some of its main features.
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Keynote: The Value of Values
Rich Hickey compares value-oriented programming with place-oriented programming concluding that the time of imperative languages has passed and it is the time of functional programming.
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Stratos: Open Source Platform-as-a-Service
Paul Fremantle discusses the benefits of using an open PaaS, detailing in this context the services provided by Stratos and StratosLive.
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NYTimes: World Class Journalism Accessible on Every Device
Brian Murphy on NY Times mobile: the architecture, cloud computing influences on design, native, HTML5 and hybrid apps, tools and frameworks employed and how the apps evolved over time.
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The Evolution of Integration
Paul Fremantle discusses the evolution of EAI, comparing the latest approaches, suggesting using Async Messaging, EDA, APIs, and doing high volumes, and underlining that evolution is not monotonic.
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Panel: Talking Teams and Fielding Your Questions
David Hussman, David Laribee, Jeff Patton, Richard Sheridan and Susan Standiford discuss forming and building successful teams: hiring new people, pairing, combining people of different levels, etc.
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Building Rich User Experiences without JavaScript Spaghetti
Jared Faris provides 3 principles –decouple everything, make it testable, push events not state – and some patterns which help avoiding creating JavaScript spaghetti code over time.
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Java EE 7 and HTML5: Developing for the Cloud
Arun Gupta presents the current developments on Java EE7 as a PaaS in the cloud and current work on Project Avatar which simplifies HTML5, Websockets and JSON programming for Java developers.
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SOLID Clojure
Colin Jones discusses applying the SOLID OOP principles to Clojure programming in order to create systems that are easy to change.
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Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages
Philip Wadler discusses second-order quantification, from its inception in the symbolic logic of Frege through to the generic features introduced in Java 5, touching on aspects of faith and evolution.
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Distilling Java Libraries
Zach Tellman provides advice on calling Java libraries from Clojure, exemplifying with Clojure code drawing graphics on the screen using the Java2D library.
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Extreme Performance with Java
Charlie Hunt explains what can be done to lower the latency introduced by the Java GC and JIT, including coding tips, and introducing tools for tuning the performance of Java applications.