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Conceptual Algorithms
In this talk from RubyFringe, GitHub's Tom Preston-Werner talks about a methodical approach to solving problems and debugging, and the "Deathbed Filter".
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BayAPLN Agile Expert Panel
InfoQ and BayAPLN organized a panel comprised of the following Agile experts which answered questions from the audience: David Chilcott, Polyanna Pixton, David Hussman, Sue Mckinney, Pat Reed.
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WS-* vs. REST: Mashing up the Truth from Facts, Myths and Lies
In this presentation, recorded at QCon, WSO2's CEO and WSDL co-inventor Sanjiva Weerawarana tries to address some of the truths, myths and lies surrounding the REST-vs.-WS-* debate.
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Jazzers and Programmers
In this presentation from RubyFringe, Nick Sieger explains the history and nature of Jazz music and what it has in common with Programming.
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JRuby: The Pain of Bringing an Off-Platform Dynamic Language to the JVM
Charles Nutter discusses bringing JRuby to the JVM, why Ruby is hard to implement, JIT compilation, precompilation, core Ruby implementation, Java library access, library challenges and future plans.
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Testing is Overrated
In this talk from RubyFringe, Luke Francl asks: is developer-driven testing really the best way to find software defects? Or is the emphasis on testing and test coverage barking up the wrong tree?
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VM Optimizations for Language Designers
John Pampuch discusses the HotSpot compiler, the history of Java performance, HotSpot development philosophies and challenges, optimization, JVM library improvements, and tips for better performance.
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Services & Workflows: SOAP and REST with WCF and WWF
Christian Weyer explains how to create distributed systems using SOAP or REST on top of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) or Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF).
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Ian Flint Explains Yahoo! Communities Architectures
Ian Flint tries to explain the infrastructure and architecture employed by Yahoo! to keep going a multitude of servers running of different platforms and offering different services.
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Mike Taulty on Building Rich Internet Applications
Mike Taulty of Microsoft takes developers from XAML to JavaScript when building Silverlight 2 applications and includes demos in both Expression Studio and Visual Studio 2008.
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Ruby.rewrite(Ruby)
In this RubyFringe talk, Reginald Braithwaite writes Ruby code to read, write, and rewrite Ruby. Demos include extending Ruby with conditional expressions, call-by-name and more.
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Fast Bytecodes for Funny Languages
Cliff Click discusses how to optimize generated bytecode for running on the JVM. Click analyzes and reports on several JVM languages and shows several places where they could increase performance.
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