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The Algorithms Still Count
Shawn Wallace takes a look at several problems explaining how to evaluate possible solutions and to compare with each other.
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Build Trust in Your Build-to-Deployment Flow!
Baruch Sadogursky demonstrates automated building techniques using Maven/Gradle/Custom scripts and Binary Repository along with common pitfalls that are to be avoided.
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Modeling in a Cold Climate
Andrew Stewart investigates the causes for so many bad models, especially in the financial sector, created by various teams including Agile ones.
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Knockbox, an Eventual Consistency Toolkit
Reid Draper introduces Knockbox, an eventual consistency toolbox for Clojure inspired by Statebox, discussing some useful use cases, how to perform garbage collection and testing while using it.
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Stop Refactoring!
Nat Pryce considers that we cannot write the perfect code because it is never fully prepared for the coming change, so he suggests embracing impermanence & continual imperfection.
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Introducing Immutant
Jim Crossley introduces Immutant – an application server for Clojure, inspired by TorqueBox and powered by JBoss AS7 –, showing a demo application, how to use it, and exploring its API.
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Crazy Fast Build Times or When 10 Seconds Starts to Make You Nervous
Daniel Worthington-Bodart presents ways to reduce the built times by a factor of 10.
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Building Tools to Help Kids Win with ADHD
Alan Whitaker presents a Clojure application that is used in a pilot program meant to help children with ADHD to improve their condition.
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CoffeeScript: Good, Bold, and with Sugar
Daniel Mohl introduces CoffeeScript: what it is, what’s good for, how is different from other similar languages, what makes it more readable than JavaScript, some minuses, and code samples.
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The Taming of the Deftype
Baishampayan Ghose discusses creating custom data types in Clojure, covering: types vs. records, interfaces and corresponding protocol, mutable types, and example implementations.
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Language Workbench Challenge Roundup
Angelo Hulshout presents what problem the participants to this year’s Code Generation language workbench challenge had to tackle, their solutions, difficulties encountered, and lessons learned.
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The Future Is Layered
Alex Russell discusses the state of web technologies, the internal tensions between specifying new features for a platform and its adoption, and what could be done to achieve a layered architecture.