InfoQ Homepage Strange Loop Content on InfoQ
-
Extreme Cleverness: Functional Data Structures in Scala
Daniel Spiewak shows how to create immutable data that supports structural sharing, such as: Singly-linked List, Banker’s Queue, 2-3 Finger Tree, Red-Black Tree, Patricia Trie, Bitmapped Vector Trie.
/presentations/Functional-Data-Structures-in-Scala/en/smallimage/Daniel.JPG)
-
Distributed Systems: What Nobody Told You
Shaneal Manek tells the story of how things can go wrong with a distributed system which turned into a success after incorporating appropriate tools for monitoring, analytics, logging, security.
/presentations/Distributed-Systems-What-Nobody-Told-You/en/smallimage/Manek.JPG)
-
Bringing Riak to the Mobile Platform
Kresten Krab Thorup discusses data models for Riak, a protocol for synchronizing key-values, and BucketDB, a mobile Riak client.
/presentations/Bringing-Riak-to-the-Mobile-Platform/en/smallimage/Krab.JPG)
-
Heresies and Dogmas in Software Development
Dean Wampler discusses the merits of several controversial issues: Goto, Design before Code, Design Patterns, Corba vs. REST, Object Middleware and ORMs, and Identifiers with Spaces.
/presentations/Heresies-and-Dogmas-in-Software-Development/en/smallimage/Dean.JPG)
-
DataMapper on Infinispan: Clustered NoSQL
Lance Ball presents DataMapper, a Ruby ORM library, along with Infinispan, Hibernate Search, Lucene, all running on JBoss AS7 and accessed through TorqueBox, a JRuby application server.
/presentations/DataMapper-on-Infinispan-Clustered-NoSQL/en/smallimage/Lance.JPG)
-
"Post-PC Computing" Is Not a Vision
Allen Wirfs-Brock discusses the various computing eras and the change we are currently going through, leaving the PC era and entering a new one characterized by mobility, clouds, HTML and content.
/presentations/Post-PC-Computing-Is-Not-a-Vision/en/smallimage/Brock.JPG)
-
Distributed STM - A New Programming Model for the Cloud
Cyprien Noel discusses distributed transactional memories along with ObjectFabric, a Java server based on eXtensible Software Transactional Memory, an OS library for concurrent and distributed apps.
/presentations/Distributed-STM/en/smallimage/Noel.JPG)
-
The Kotlin Programming Language
Andrey Breslav introduces the upcoming Kotlin language created by JetBrains, a general purpose JVM-based language, statically typed, object-oriented, and meant to be more concise than Java.
/presentations/The-Kotlin-Programming-Language/en/smallimage/Bresalv.JPG)
-
Language Panel
Gerald Sussman, Rich Hickey, Allen Wirfs-Brock, Joe Pamer, Andrei Alexandrescu, and Jeremy Ashkenas, moderated by Dean Wampler answer questions from the audience on programming languages.
/presentations/Language-Panel/en/smallimage/Panel.jpg)
-
Product Engineering
Mike Lee discusses the many facets of product engineering: planning, implementing, testing, team, funding, marketing, customers, platform, market, and shipping, all from a non-technical perspective.
/presentations/Product-Engineering/en/smallimage/Mike.JPG)
-
A Tale of Three Trees
Scott Chacon explains the internal mechanisms used by Git to do version control based on three trees –head, index, work–, and some of its commands, especially ‘reset’.
/presentations/A-Tale-of-Three-Trees/en/smallimage/Chacon.JPG)
-
Core HTML5 Canvas: Mind-blowing Apps in Your Browser
David Geary introduces the HTML5 Canvas element API and functionality through demoes showing how one can draw and manipulate images and how to create sprite-based animations.
/presentations/Core-HTML5-Canvas/en/smallimage/David.JPG)