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Real-Time Java for Latency Critical Banking Applications
Bertrand Delsart discusses real-time (RT) computing requirements in banking, RT Java history, priority semantics, RT APIs, RT Garbage Collection, soft vs. hard RT, and benefits of RT Java.
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The Lego Hypothesis
For decades, software engineering has "dreamed an impossible dream", to build software as easily as building Lego houses. In this talk, James Noble imagines a world where the dream has been realized.
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Diary of a Fence Sitting SOA Geek
In this presentation, Mark Little explains the history of SOAP/WSDL/WS-*-based web services and RESTful HTTP and highlights how the two approaches might converge into a single solution.
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Shaw and Fowler About Forging a New Alliance
Shaw and Fowler talk about the need for a new relationship between the business department and the IT department. Studies have shown that projects mostly fail due to miscommunication between the two.
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Archaeopteryx: A Ruby MIDI Generator
Eccentric artist turned overnight anti-celebrity, Giles Bowkett captures the heart and soul of RubyFringe as he demonstrates his revolutionary Archaeopteryx MIDI drum pattern generator.
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Eric Nelson on Windows as a Web Platform
Eric Nelson explores Windows as a web platform using IIS 7.0 providing an architecture deep dive and striving to reduce the lines of code in web applications.
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Introducing Spring Batch
Dave Syer discusses Spring Batch (SB), batch processing patterns, typical batch processing uses, SB concepts and capabilities, case studies, SB domain details and the SB roadmap.
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An Architecture's Response to Growth and Change
Brian Zimmer unveils Orbitz.com’s architecture and its evolution over the years as the site grew from a US domestic flights booking website to an international one offering multiple services.
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Deployment Monoculture
In this talk from RubyFringe, Dan Grigsby talks about trying out many different ideas before turning one into a startup.
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Building Smart Windows Applications
From QCon 2008, Daniel Moth presents on using Visual Studio 2008 and .NET 3.5 to create compelling rich Windows applications.
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Ruby Beyond Rails
John Lam talks about his path to dynamic languages, some of the problems of making IronRuby run fast, and how the DLR helps with implementing languages.
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Concurrency: Past and Present
Brian Goetz discusses the difficulties of creating multithreaded programs correctly, incorrect synchronization, race conditions, deadlock, STM, concurrency, alternatives to threads, Erlang, Scala.