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From How to Design to What to Design
Jean Louis Frechin discusses NeoObjects, a set of services, experiences, forms and practices which are meant to help evolve design and widen its scope of intervention.
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Translating Imperative Code to MapReduce
The authors present an approach for automatic translation of sequential, imperative code into a parallel MapReduce framework using Mold, translating Java code to run on Apache Spark.
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What Developers Need To Know About Visual Design and UX
Ben Hall explores the five key topics around design that can make or break an application and website: Layout and the golden ratio, Typography, Imaginary, Colors and User Feedback.
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Creative/designer/developer Relationships in a Device Agnostic Landscape
John Skinner debates the web designer-developer roles in today’s agile technology environment, arguing that it is time to redefine these roles.
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core.async: Concurrency Without Callbacks
Stuart Halloway discusses the design of core.async and some of its capabilities: channels, put and take, go blocks, alts! and alts!!, timeouts, showing their use through code.
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The Deep Learning Revolution: Rethinking Machine Learning Pipelines
Soumith Chintala introduces deep learning, what it is, why it has become popular, and how it can be fitted into existing machine learning solutions.
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Diagrams, Xtext and UX
Jan Koehnlein shows how to integrate Xtext and FXDiagram into an Eclipse-based IDE with a demo including graphics with smooth transitions, diagram-text navigation, animated undo/redo, and others.
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Beyond HTTP, Breaking Free of the Web
Mark Wolfe provides examples of protocols that can be used to build web applications, and reviews the pros and cons of doing so.
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Docker vs PaaS: May the Best Container Win
Colin Humphreys and Paula Kennedy compare and contrast the Platform-as-a-Service(PaaS) and the Docker containers approaches.
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Cheats & Liars: The Martial Art of Protocol Design
Pieter Hintjens presents strategies and tactics - lifecycles, versioning, modeling, code generation, implementations, community building- for creating successful protocols that stand the test of time.
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Physical Computing, or How Software Meets Christmas Trees
Tom Igoe overviews some of the tools of physical computing and discusses how and by whom they’re being used to create new connected devices.
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Cybertron: Pushing the Limit on I/O Reduction in Data-Parallel Programs
The authors introduce Cybertron, a new tool for reducing I/O operations in data-parallel programs through a constraint-based encoding.