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Between the Battleship and the Failwhale
In this talk from FutureRuby, Paul Downman takes a look at scalability - what it is, how to achieve it and which tools and software to use.
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From Good to Great Developer
A good developer writes code quickly but hard to maintain. A great one keeps an eye on the future trying to make sure the code evolves cleanly. Hedgate advices on how to move from good to great.
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REST-based Integration Architecture for a Financial Business Service
Phillip Ghadir presents an application initially built using SOAP, WSDL, WS-*, and was later migrated to REST, Atom, and AtomPub, explaining the decisions made, the pitfalls and the lessons learned.
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Enterprise Java FX for the Web Platform
Peter Pilgrim makes an introduction to Java FX, presenting its scripting language, the standard deployment method of applications, client integration with the server and what’s planned for its future.
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Domain Specific Languages - What, Why, How
Ola Bini makes an introduction to DSLs explaining what they are and aren’t, what they are useful for, how to implement an internal/external DSL in Java and why are DSLs and Ruby so related.
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Is Domain-Driven Design More than Entities and Repositories?
Jimmy Nilsson explains why DDD is different: it builds on collaboration and feedback, incorporates deep domain knowledge, having as end result: reduced complexity, testability, and maintainability.
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Cucumbered
In this talk from FutureRuby, Joseph Wilk gives an introduction to the BDD framework Cucumber and gives valuable tips for getting it adopted and used by customers and developers.
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DSLs in JavaScript
Though often dismissed as a toy, JavaScript is very powerful and includes many features. We'll take a look at a leading example of a JavaScript DSL, JSSpec and show how JavaScript can suit your needs.
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Persistent Data Structures and Managed References
Rich Hickey talks on identity, state and values. He explains how to represent composite objects as values and how to deal with change and state, as it is implemented in Clojure.
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What's New and Exciting in JPA 2.0
JPA 2.0 adds in many things which were missing in JPA 1.0. This talk covers features like advanced locking, enhanced query language, expression/criteria API and more advanced O/R mapping support.
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TDD in a DbC World
After presenting some basics of Design by Contract using Microsoft’s SpecSharp framework, Greg Young explains how we can keep the Test First mentality in a Contract First world.
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Parleys.com, a RIA Case Study
Stephan Janssen’s talks about Parleys.com and the technology used: Flex/AIR. He also talks about two technologies that could be used instead, GWT and JavaFX, presenting their pros/cons.
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