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Engineering the Resolution Center to Drive Success at Airbnb
Alvin Sng discusses the important engineering aspects of the Resolution Center’s development.
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Programming Should Be More than Coding
Leslie Lamport makes the case for separating the design details of what a program should do and how it should work from the business of writing code, and discusses how the design process should work.
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Software Development & Architecture @ LinkedIn
Sid Anand discusses the architectural and development practices adopted by LinkedIn as a continuous growing company.
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The Pivotal Way
Josh Knowles shares thoughts on the strong engineering culture which has made the Pivotal Labs team successful, taking a look at how things have evolved over the past 20 years.
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The Better Parts
Douglas Crockford discusses how to use programming languages more effectively; reviews the good parts in EcmaScript 6 and JSON.
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What Makes a Good Development Process?
Bruce Eckel reviews some of the ideas and practices of the development community, outlining patterns of the problems related to communication, organization, process, etc. it has been trying to resolve
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Jackstones: The Journey to Mastery
Dan North describes some of the many facets of craftsmanship using examples of mastery from various fields and tries to figure out exactly what is programmers’ craft.
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Debunking the Steve Rule
Corinna Brock discusses the place of women in software development, how to be a minority, how to increase their number and how to keep the current ones.
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Biological Realms in Computer Science
Didier Verna keynotes on the bonds between biology and computer science, how these bonds developed over the years, and how software could behave like living organisms.
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Cool and Ripe for Exploitation: Search-Based Software Engineering (SBSE)
Christopher Simons suggests using SBSE to iterated through multiple possible solutions and select the one that performs the best, offering insight into some available tools and techniques.
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Impossible Programs
Tom Stuart uses code to tell a maths-free story about the source of a computer's power, the inevitable drawbacks of that power, and the impossible programs which lie at the heart of uncomputability.
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Ease at Work
Kent Beck addresses several questions: Why are programmers so often ill at ease with themselves? What can we do to become comfortable in our own skins? What might happen as a consequence?