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Geb in the Browser
Ken Kousen talks about Geb, which makes it easy to automate browser-based applications. Geb is based on the Spock testing framework, providing a straightforward syntax and easy execution model.
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Getting Started with Chrome Extensions: Tips and Tricks
Andrew Dunkman explains the basics of Chrome extension development, how to avoid an extension being automatically disabled when performing upgrades, and some unexpected Chrome hooks.
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Full Stack Web Performance
Nik Molnar discusses how to use client and server side profiling tools to improve the performance of a web application, providing solutions to the most common performance problems.
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Netty @Apple: Large Scale Deployment/Connectivity
Norman Maurer presents how Apple uses Netty for its Java based services and the challenges of doing so, including how they enhanced performance by participating in the Netty open source community.
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Carefully Composing Logic: Functional JavaScript
Brad Urani explores the basics of FP, higher-order functions, partial function application, lazy evaluation and persistent data structures, showing how FP style avoids certain classes of bugs.
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Grooscript in Action
Jorge Franco talks about Grooscript, a library that converts Groovy code to JavaScript. He presents it, with the good parts and their limitations.
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JavaScript in Detail
Joseph Andaverde discusses some of the most commonly misunderstood concepts in JavaScript - closures, variable hoisting, the this keyword, and prototypal inheritance.
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A How-to Guide to Security in the PAAS Cloud
John Field and Shawn McKinney examine the security of a typical Java web application and describe 5 common application security architecture patterns taken from real world customer problems.
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An Introduction to Ember.js
Ryan Doll introduces Ember.js, a framework that focuses on convention rather than configuration.
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Modern Front-end Engineering
Dustin Whittle discusses the pros and cons of modern UI toolkits like Zurb, Bootstrap, and SemanticUI and modern JavaScript frameworks like React, Angular, and Ember.
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Components as Microservices in the Front-end World
Matteo Figus discusses creating HTML components and rendering them on the server side by using services and RESTful API calls.
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Ratpack Web Framework
Dan Woods talks about Ratpack, a high-through, reactive, non-blocking web framework for Java 8. He showcases the framework's features and explains how to write applications with Ratpack.