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Cucumbered
In this talk from FutureRuby, Joseph Wilk gives an introduction to the BDD framework Cucumber and gives valuable tips for getting it adopted and used by customers and developers.
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Closing the Gap Between Apps and Ops
Jake Sorofman talks on how to glue together the application development world and the business operations one in an automated, virtualized and cloud computing environment.
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DSLs in JavaScript
Though often dismissed as a toy, JavaScript is very powerful and includes many features. We'll take a look at a leading example of a JavaScript DSL, JSSpec and show how JavaScript can suit your needs.
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Persistent Data Structures and Managed References
Rich Hickey talks on identity, state and values. He explains how to represent composite objects as values and how to deal with change and state, as it is implemented in Clojure.
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Three SOA Case Studies - Understanding What to Use and Where
Paul Fremantle presents 3 case studies of organizations which decided to implement SOA. He details on design, architecture, technologies used, and lessons learned during the process.
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What's New and Exciting in JPA 2.0
JPA 2.0 adds in many things which were missing in JPA 1.0. This talk covers features like advanced locking, enhanced query language, expression/criteria API and more advanced O/R mapping support.
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TDD in a DbC World
After presenting some basics of Design by Contract using Microsoft’s SpecSharp framework, Greg Young explains how we can keep the Test First mentality in a Contract First world.
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Computing Strategy in the Cloud Era
Lew Moorman is an advocate of the cloud. For him the Cloud is a movement and a technology, the Cloud is for everyone but not for everything, and the Cloud should be part of a computing strategy.
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Transforming the Reconciliation Process
Brian Oliver explains what the Reconciliation Process is, why the current approach to reconciliation based on client-server is no longer suitable and how data grids and events might help.
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RESTful Approaches To Financial Systems Integration
Kirk will present the advantages of a RESTful architecture to develop integrated systems in the financial services arena; leveraging infrastructure, skills, and systems already in place.
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A perception index and its square peg adapter
This presentation addresses aligning and understanding development priorities in terms of business value. Replacing traditional ROI measurements with a "Perception Index" and "Square Peg Adapter."
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Failure Comes in Flavors - Stability Anti-patterns
Michael Nygard encourages us to have a failure oriented mindset. He presents many anti-patterns leading to systems instability and failure, accompanied by design patterns that should be used instead.
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