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Agilists and Architects: Allies not Adversaries Presentation
This talk describes ways that Agile methods can benefit architects, addresses concerns architects express about agile, and proposes ways that architects and agile development teams can become allies.
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Unshackle Your Domain
Our application runs over 10,000 sustained transactions per second with a rich model. The key? Modeling state transitions explicitly.
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Google App Engine and the Google Data APIs
This presentation introduces the Google App Engine and an overview of its features while building a simple application. Integration with the Google Data APIs is demonstrated.
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From Concurrent to Parallel
This presentation looks at how Java SE 7 will address the challenges of multi-processor systems and parallelism with extensions to the java.util.concurrent package.
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Scaling Hibernate
Emmanuel Bernard and Max Ross talk about patterns and practices used to achieve high volume and scale with Hibernate. They also explains Hibernate Shards and Search to push the scalability limits.
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Merb: When Flexibility and Performance Matter
In this talk, Matt Aimonetti talks about the ideas and concepts behind Merb - and the reasons why it's appealing: speed, modularity and more.
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Kent Beck: Just You Wait
Kent Beck takes a look at trends and how they affect us. Communication, simplification, unintended consequences, disappearing models, and new approaches of design and tests are examined.
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Adopting Agile Practices
Amr Elssamadisy explains choosing the best practices for your organization depends on its context and it's highest priority business values and/or smells.
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Responsive Design
Kent Beck shares the importance of a programmer's intention to design and a small set of strategies he uses when designing.
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AtomServer: The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution
Chris Berry & Bryon Jacob presented the Atom Syndication Format, the Atom Publishing Protocol, the Atom Stores, the AtomServer and how they can be used by giving a concrete example.
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Eclipse, Mylyn and the TFI
This presentation provides an overview of Mylyn's task management features including offline editing, background synchronizations, change notifications, and extending Mylyn's frameworks.
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Designing Enterprise IT Systems with REST
In this presentation, Stuart Charlton explains how hypermedia and dynamic interfaces change the way architects and developers look at enterprise systems and their interactions.