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McDonalds, Six Sigma, and Offshore Outsourcing: Unexpected Sources of Insight
Chad Fowler keynotes on his career, the passion, the mistakes and good choices he made, and how that can help others learn the craft of software engineering.
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Property-based Testing for Better Code
Jessica Kerr shows the charm of autogenerated test data, the beauty of expressing only what matters, and the challenge of stating what you need without repeating the code under test using ScalaCheck.
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Enterprise JavaScript Architectures–With Some Vanilla Topping
Adam Rocska discusses how to approach an enterprise web front-end architecture, including quality assurance, code documentation, deployment, architectural planning and task delegation.
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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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Using BladeRunnerJS
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by Caplin Systems, Phil Leggetter discusses concepts for writing structured and maintainable code for single-page web applications with HTML5 and BladeRunnerJS.
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When Your Only Hammer is a Keyboard, Everything Looks Like a Tool
Darren Hobbs shares lessons learned building polyglot systems, the technology choices made. mitigating risk and delivering value.
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Make It Great: Refactoring That’s Smart and Satisfying
Ann Robson discusses how to develop standards, approach refactoring in a safe and practical way, and track the evolution of a code with tools and metrics.
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Scala: The Good Parts
Jack Singleton discusses how to improve code readability and maintainability in Scala, and how to be productive with Options, Immutability, and the Collections library.
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Fighting Bit Rot with your Mind
Viktor Klang discusses approaches to writing software without building a complex, full of bugs and hard to maintain basecode.
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Applied API Design
Jon Skeet provides practical advice on designing APIs using immutability, separation of concerns and other principles, resulting in elegant and reusable code.
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How to Make the Most of Code Analysis?
Patrick Smacchia shares code analysis-related practices - structuring code, measuring code quality, automated tests, code contracts, reporting progress, trending- based on his experience with NDepend.
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The Tao, of the Joy, of Coding
Dick Wall makes connections between Lao-Tzu’ philosophical insights found within his writing, Tao Te Ching, and the art of software development.
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