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Chloe and the Real Time Web
Trotter Cashion introduces and demoes Chloe, a web server that handles real time data streaming between browsers and web applications written in any language and using any framework.
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Akka: Reloaded
Josh Suereth presents the new features available in Akka 2.0: clustered actors, including stateless and stateful ones, replication and the Cluster API.
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Distributed Data Analysis with Hadoop and R
Jonathan Seidman and Ramesh Venkataramaiah present how they run R on Hadoop in order to perform distributed analysis on large data sets, including some alternatives to their solution.
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Getting Truth Out of the DOM
Yehuda Katz discusses techniques for keeping data out of the DOM based on the idea that retrieving such data from the DOM involves a performance penalty and may affect data integrity.
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Mojito: A Tale of Two Runtimes
Matthew Taylor introduces Yahoo! Mojito, a web development framework that can be used to deploy JavaScript components that can run either on the server or a plethora of clients.
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Actor Interaction Patterns
Dale Schumacher presents several patterns of actor interaction that can be used in collaborative programs written in any language.
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Scalaz: Functional Programming in Scala
Rúnar Bjarnason discusses Scalaz, a Scala library of pure data structures, type classes, highly generalized functions, and concurrency abstractions to perform functional programming in Scala.
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Taming Android
Eric Burke shares tips on creating visually appealing Android applications that scale to various screen sizes. The session focuses on custom views, scalable drawables, and ListView.
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New-age Transactional Systems - Not Your Grandpa's OLTP
John Hugg discusses high volume transaction processing applications with high and low frequency profiles, and how VoltDB can be used for that purpose.
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Transactions without Transactions
Richard Kreuter and Kyle Banker on how to avoid classical RDBMS transactional systems by using compensation mechanisms, transactional messaging or transactional procedures.
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Wrap Your SQL Head Around Riak MapReduce
Sean Cribbs explains what Map-Reduce and Riak are, why and how to use Map-Reduce with Riak, and how to convert SQL queries into their Map-Reduce equivalents.
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Mobile HTML5
Scott Davis explains how to prepare a website for mobile devices from small tweaks –smaller screen sizes, portrait/landscape- to using HTML5’s local storage, application cache, and remote data.