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Craft and Software Engineering
Glenn Vanderburg believes that software engineering and craftsmanship are not mutually exclusive, and there is synergy between them, explaining how to combine them in the software development process.
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Reverse Engineering Applications
Joe Kuemerle explains why someone would use reverse engineering, outlining some of the tools for managed .NET and Java code, along with demoing techniques.
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Panel: Who Says You Have to Be a Guy to Be a Geek?
Susan Potter and JP Chance address the issue of being few women in software development teams, explaining why it matters, and what can be done to improve the situation.
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The Kiev Experiment: Evolving Agile Partnerships
Simon Ogle, Alexander Kikhtenko, and Peter Thomas present a case study of a development team transitioning from a waterfall approach to 15 offshore Agile teams over a period of 5 years.
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Secure Distributed Programming on ECMAScript 5 + HTML5 Platforms
Mark S. Miller explains how to create secure applications in ECMAScript 5 and HTML5 by turning JavaScript into a distributed secure programming language.
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Complex Event Processing: DSL for High Frequency Trading
Richard Tibbetts discusses Complex Event Processing in the context of High Frequency Trading and the advantages of using high level DSLs, followed by the case study of a system built with StreamBase.
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Compile-time Verification, It's Not Just for Type Safety Any More
Greg Young talks about .NET’s Contracts library, showing how to use it, what it is good for, and how it improves code quality.
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CouchDB and Erlang: Mobile and Flexible
Damien Katz and Volker Mische introduce CouchDB and explain why it is fit for mobile devices especially due to its replication capability that can handle network connectivity problems.
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Innovation at Google
Patrick Copeland on pretotyping: innovators beat ideas, pretotypes beat productypes, data beats opinions, doing beats talking, simple beats complex, now beats later, commitment beats committees.
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Learning and Perverse Incentives: The Evil Hat
Liz Keogh talks about perverse incentives that hinder the ability to reach the purpose for which they were created for, outlining the need to focus on the system built not its solutions.
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Innovations and Integrations: Applying Trendy Technologies to NASA Mission Operations Planning
Mark Powell presents examples of how NASA uses innovative technologies in missions such as Mars Exploration Rovers, as well as new technology projects including the JPL Aerobot and the ATHLETE.
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OData Internals & Implementing Custom Providers
Azret Botash talks about OData’s internals, especially URI conventions, and demoes the creation of a custom provider.