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Open Source at Unibet.com - 10x Scalability at Half the Cost
Stefan Norberg presents Unibet.com’s architecture which uses XHTML 1.0, CSS 2.1, YUI, caching, compression, image spriting, and CDN striping for front-end plus multiple replicas for scaling out.
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What’s New in dm Server 2.0?
New in dm Server 2.0: web bundles, SLF4J/LogBack, plan files, Integrated ConfigAdmin, remote repo for dynamic bundle download, improved admin console, SSH-enabled console, unified user/pass store.
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Working With Spring Web Flow
Keith Donald discusses controller modules, Ajax events, partial responses, security, data access, lazy-load exceptions, testing, flow design/implementation best practices, and deploying flows.
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The State and Future of JavaScript
Douglas Crockford talks on the history of JavaScript unveiling some of the struggles the Ecma Technical Committee has had in advancing the language over the years, concluding with lessons learned.
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Evolving the Key/Value Programming Model to a Higher Level
Billy Newport discusses the ways that developers interact with key/value stores, entity vs column-oriented approaches, sync vs async operations, large data sets, and collocating closures and data.
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Overview of the Spring 3.0 Web Stack
Keith Donald discusses the Spring 3.0 web stack, key features, demos of Spring MVC, REST support, automatic data conversion, data binding and validation, and the roadmap for the Spring web stack.
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Introduction to SproutCore
Mike Subelsky discusses the SproutCore JavaScript framework, desktop vs browser development, key/value observeration, data bindings, demos, SproutCore features and API, and example SproutCore apps.
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JavaScript: Measuring Performance, Games, and Distributed Testing
John Resig touches three JavaScript issues: performance measuring, creating games and performing distributed testing.
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Developing JavaScript Desktop Applications
Appcelerator's Titanium allows to build and deploy desktop applications which run seamlessly on Windows, OSX and Linux desktops using Javascript and HTML. Also: how Titanium compares with Adobe Air.
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Interoperable JavaScript-Based Client/Server Web Applications
Kris Zyp on protocols, standards, and tools for building web applications using a consistent end-to-end JavaScript model. He exemplifies with DOJO and Persevere. Key topics: JavaScript, JSON, REST.
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PhoneGap: Mobile Applications with HTML, CSS and JavaScript
Brian LeRoux presents PhoneGap, a mobile web framework for creating phone applications using just HTML and JavaScript without having to programm in phone’s native language, Objective C, Java or C++.
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Standards are Great, but Standardisation is a Really Bad Idea
Paul Downey covers the risks of premature standardisation, partial implementations and open extensions, cloud computing lock-in, and formal activities vs lightweight open processes like open source.