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Testing C# and ASP.Net Applications Using Ruby
Ben Hall shows how Ruby testing tools can help with .NET and ASP.NET development and takes a look at RSpec, Webrat, Cucumber, Selenium and others. Also: a peek at using IronRuby for testing .NET apps.
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Cloud Computing and SOA
Dave Chappell introduces cloud computing to an SOA audience discussing how to make good use of grid computing and cloud computing to implement the next generation of SOA initiatives.
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Intentional Software at Work
Magnus Christerson shows how to develop an electronics domain language - its key concepts, how they are defined, the semantic model – and a building access permit example from concept to code.
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Patterns for Cloud Computing
Simon Guest presents 5 cloud computing patterns along with examples and Azure solutions for scaling, multi-tenancy, computing, storage and communication.
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Clojure in the Field
Stuart Halloway on Clojure development including BDD for functional code, wrapping Java APIs, third part libraries worth knowing, writing code without an objectual context, and the learning curve.
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Expressing Service Capabilities Uniformly
Benjamin Carlyle discusses reaching SOA integration maturity using reusable and uniform contracts translated into REST service definitions by splitting capabilities into centralized methods.
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A Pattern Language for Parallel Programming
Ralph Johnson on a pattern language for parallel programming based on the following patterns: Structural, Computational, Parallel Algorithm Strategy, Implementation Strategy, and Concurrent Execution.
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Sustainable Test-Driven Development
Steve Freeman offers advice on writing good tests that make development easier avoiding dead weight code that is hard to maintain. Topics: readability, complex data, diagnostics, and flexibility.
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Project Voldemort: Scaling Simple Storage
Jay Kreps discusses the architecture, algorithms, implementation and deployment of Voldemort, a distributed storage system. He also presents the problems solved using Voldemort at LinkedIn.
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From Agile Development to Agile Operations
Stuart Charlton talks about the opportunity brought by cloud computing to introduce agile methods and processes to the operational side of IT, helping to bridge the development and operations worlds.
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DoD Architecture Approach to Common Vocabulary Driven Service Implementation
Dennis Wisnosky presents the path from governance to deploying by illustrating how the Business Enterprise Common Core Metadata COI governs the Common Vocabulary used for the DoD Business Operations.
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Horizontal Scalability via Transient, Shardable, and Share-Nothing Resources
Adam Wiggins details how memcached, CouchDB, Hadoop, Redis, Varnish, RabbitMQ, Erlang apply the transient, shardable and share-nothing principles to achieve horizontal scalability.