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The Invisible Computer Lab
Fraser Speirs presents how computers are used at Cedars School, makes some suggestions on what educational software needs in order to be efficient, and how he sees the future of ICT in education.
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Making Apps That Don’t Suck
Mike Lee considers that a software engineer makes great applications not because he follows good rules but because he has a better way of looking at the world and he learns from experience.
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Using Design Thinking to Stop Building Worthless Software
Jeff Patton outlines the concepts behind design thinking: clear problem definition, ideation, iteration, and execution plans that emphasize continuous learning, accompanied by real-life examples.
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Building a RESTful Architecture on .NET with OpenRasta
Sebastien Lambla shows in this sessions how to build a RESTful application with OpenRasta 3, a resource-oriented framework for .NET.
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Letters From The Edge Of An Agile Transition
Chris O'Connor tells the successful story of a team’s transition to Agile in the middle of a major product release, mentioning the difficulties encountered and how they tackled them.
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Five Static Code Audits Every Developer Should Know and Use
Mike Rozlog discusses the need for software audits, proposing five code reviews that every developer should use: Numerical Literal, String Literal, god Method, Shotgun Surgery and Duplicate Code.
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Do's and Don'ts on Android
Lars Hesel Christensen shares lessons learned from implementing a mobile banking application for Android, presenting the architecture, the technology&tools used, what works and what should be avoided.
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Putting the "re" into Architecture
Kevlin Henney promotes live architecture through refactoring, recovery, re-envisioning, retrospection, re-engineering, repair, rewriting, reduction, reuse, reaction, re-evaluation and remembering.
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Functional Programming: A Pragmatic Introduction
Jim Duey explains functional programming through Java code samples, emphasizing the need for a mindset change in approaching coding and why the functional paradigm is useful.
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More Best Practices for Large-Scale Websites: Lessons from eBay
Randy Shoup: Partition Everything, Asynchrony Everywhere, Automate, Everything Fails, Embrace Inconsistency, Expect (R)evolution, Dependencies Matter, Respect Authority, Data, Custom Infrastructure.
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Why Don’t We Learn!?
Russ Miles discusses how to nurture the skill of learning by understanding it, valuing it and enhancing it in order to achieve an agile transformation within the organization.
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Software Evolution in Agile Development: A Case Study
Nanjangud C Narendra presents a case study of an enterprise Agile project in the light of Lehman’s laws of software evolution, along with observations on Agile practices used and their outcome.