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The Ride into Space
Kristian von Bengtson discusses the challenges met developing space crafts in a nonprofit environment, plus political and legal loopholes which help to keep an amateur space program on track.
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Dancing with Symmetry to Harness the Power of Complexity: Subjective Programming in Context
The authors introduce a new language paradigm meant to enhance OOP with multi-dimensional context, providing details on context-based dispatch, and showing a glimpse of their early prototype.
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Civilizing Web Programming with Dart
Gilad Bracha presents the motivation behind building Dart, the current state of the Dart platform and where it is heading to.
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Distribution, Scale and Flexibility with ZeroMQ
Pieter Hintjens explains the basic techniques for building very large distributed systems using fast asynchronous messaging in general, and ZeroMQ specifically.
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Architecture and Design Are So Important
Scott Ambler explains the pros/cons of daily just-in-time architectural modeling and a TDD approach to design level, advising through examples on integrating these techniques into development.
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Uncle Sam's Guide to Grails Security
Joe Rinehart discusses some of the essential security topics for Grails/Java Web applications, showing how Grails can make life easier and the pitfalls of attempting to secure highly dynamic code.
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Continuum: A JS (ES6) VM Written in JS (ES3)
Brandon Benvie introduces Continuum, what it does, how it works, and why it's useful. Continuum maintains compatibility with all popularly used JS engines in use today (IE8, modern browsers, Node.js).
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Axiomatic Language
Axiomatic language is based on the idea that the external behavior of a program can be defined by an infinite set of symbolic expressions that enumerate all possible inputs, along with the outputs.
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Everything I Learned About Scaling Online Games I Learned at Google and eBay: Scalability at KIXEYE
Randy Shoup shares war stories from eBay and Google about performance, consistency, iterative development, and autoscaling, connecting them with experiences building KIXEYE's gaming platform.
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Top 10 - Performance Folklore
Martin Thompson discusses Java, concurrency, operating systems, and functional programming in the context of designing and testing high-performance systems.
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Web Clustering, Integration with Terracotta, Quartz & Grails 2
Ryan Vanderwerf explains setting up Terracotta and clustering an applications using Ehcache, HTTP Session in Tomcat, and Quartz.
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Design Patterns in Groovy
Venkat Subramaniam shows how to implement several design patterns, including some GoF ones, using Groovy’s dynamic nature and closures.