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Multicore Programming in Erlang
Ulf Wiger shows typical Erlang programs, patterns that scale well on multicore and patterns that don't, profiling and debugging parallel applications and ensuring correct behaviour with QuickCheck.
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Three Years of Real-World Ruby
Martin Fowler talks about ThoughtWorks's experience with using Ruby on client projects for the past three years.
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Writing DSLs in Groovy
After a short introduction to DSLs, Scott Davis plays with the keyboard showing how to approach the creation of a DSL by typing working snippets of Groovy code that get executed.
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Concurrent Programming with Microsoft F#
Amanda Laucher presents a real life enterprise application written in F#. She shows actual code snippets, explaining design decisions and suggesting how to use some of the F# constructs.
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What Happens When David Hasselhoff Meets the Cloud
Stefan presents a roadmap for moving to a cloud computing environment - specifically the AWS cloud platform - based on his experience at Soocial.
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The Science of Computing and the Engineering of Software
Sir C.A.R. Hoare discusses the relationship between the science of computing and the engineering of software with science supplying theory and engineering, principles, practices, and results.
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Democratic Political Technology Revolution
This presentation explores the radical evolution in political technology 2004-2008 and how political start-ups built innovative social applications that raised $1/2 billion and elected a President.
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Transforming Software Architecture with Web as Platform
Software architecture has become heavily influenced in recent years by the largest software system in the world: The Web. This session will take a comprehensive look at how the "Web as Platform"