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Get Satisfaction Uses Ruby on Rails and Cloud Computing Platform to Achieve Scalability and Reliability
Thor Muller presents how Get Satisfaction managed to reliably scale their Ruby on Rails-based customer community platform using Agile, TDD, BDD, and by deploying their framework in the cloud.
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Concurrent and Distributed Applications with Spring
David Syer and Mark Fisher on using Spring to develop concurrent and distributed apps, covering topics such as: asynchronous execution, intra-process, inter-process and inter-JVM communication.
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Textual Modeling Tools: Overview and Penalty Shoot-out
Bernhard Merkle discusses the various types of DSLs, and compares different language workbenches by using them with the same custom DSL in order to outline the differences between them.
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Groovy for Java Programmers
Jeff Brown introduces Groovy to Java developers, outlining the conciseness and expressivity of the language and covering various topics: GStrings, Closures, collections, builders, beans, etc.
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Using Spring with NoSQL Databases
Mark Pollack and Chris Richardson discuss NoSQL, exemplifying with Redis, Cassandra and MongoDB, and Spring Data, a project meant to provide a unified programming model for accessing NoSQL DBs.
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BPM with REST
Cesare Pautasso discusses the conceptual relationship between business processes and stateful RESTful services, showing how BPM can be used to design and implement hypermedia-based services.
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QCon Keynote: Innovation at Google
Patrick Copeland presents the first three principles of the eXtreme innovation approach based on the Pretotyping Manifesto: Innovators Beat Ideas, Pretotypes Beat Productypes, and Data Beats Opinion.
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The Evolution of the Erlang VM
Joe Armstrong and Robert Virding recall the events leading to Erlang and its later evolution. They mention the Prolog interpreter, JAM, VEE, Strand88, OTP, TEAM, BEAM, and other technologies.
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Mastering Spring MVC 3
Keith Donald presents the Spring MVC3 programming model, detailing with examples: mapping HTTP requests, binding requests/responses, rendering views, using data, handling exceptions and testing.
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Heresy & Heretical Open Source: A Heretic's Perspective
Douglas Crockford presents a debate existing around XML and JSON, and the negative effect of the Intellectual Property laws on open source software.
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F#: History, Today, Tomorrow
Don Syme discusses the history of F#, how it came about, the current status of the language, especially its simple model supporting parallel and asynchronous programming, and a preview of F# 3.0.
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DSL Evolution for Groovy Developers
Peter Bell explains DSLs, how to approach writing one, and especially how to evolve one over time using "fixing the API", "backwards compatibility", "versioning" and "automated evolution/checking”.
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