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JRuby: Apples and Oranges
Thomas Enebo explains the basics of JRuby, showing what’s different from Java, how Java and JRuby interact with each other, and some examples demonstrating the usefulness of a complementary language.
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From E to EcmaScript and Back Again
Mark Miller on how E and Caja influenced the EcmaScript 5 standard so it can be a secure language, enabling the creation of safe mashups, and how Dr. SES enables secure distributed computing.
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Agile Does Not Guarantee Value Creation
Leonardo Mattiazzi considers that Scrum and XP are not enough, and complementary Lean principles and practices are necessary to create an Agile culture across the entire enterprise in order to succeed
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Erjang - A JVM-based Erlang VM
Kresten Krab Thorup emphasizes existing problems with the Java concurrency model, explaining when to use Erjang, a JVM-based Erlang VM, built around the process and actor concepts.
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Introducing Apache Tomcat 7
Mark Thomas reviews some of the new features available in Apache Tomcat 7, including: Servlet 3.0, JSP 2.2, EL 2.2, asynchronous request processing, memory leak protection, and security improvements.
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Parallel Programming Patterns: Data Parallelism
Ralph Johnson presents several data parallelism patterns, including related libraries from Intel and Microsoft, comparing it with other forms of parallel programming such as actor programming.
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Runtime Changes Are the Weeds Killing Your Crops
Spike Morelli discusses best practices behind creating Programmatically Generated Images, a tool for building and deploying system images that remain unchanged through QA, staging and production.
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Webmail for Millions, Powered by Erlang
Scott Lystig Fritchie presents the architecture and lessons learned implementing a webmail system in Erlang, using UBF and Hibari, a distributed key-value store, to accommodate a large user base.
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Proving the Business Value of SOA
Anne Thomas Manes discusses SOA goals and objectives used to measure a system’s success, measuring the business value, SOA project metrics, and recommendations on proving the business value of SOA.
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Configuration Enhancements in Spring 3.1
Chris Beams discusses configuration enhancements coming in Spring 3.1: unified property management, bean definition profiles, nested
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JavaScript Functions: The Good Parts - Idioms for Encapsulation and Inheritance
Scott Bale explains how functions help to make use of encapsulation and inheritance in order to create modular applications in JavaScript employing modules, closures, and prototypes.
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Advanced GORM - Performance, Customization and Monitoring
Burt Beckwith discusses potential performance problems using mapped collections and Hibernate 2nd-level cache in GORM, along with strategies for avoiding such performance penalties.