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Hypertable - An Open Source, High Performance, Scalable Database
This presentation discusses Hypertable, an open source, high performance, distributed database modeled after Google's Bigtable. Doug offers a comprehensive discussion of all aspects of Hypertable.
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Harnessing the Cloud
Mr. West provides a detailed view of cloud computing and how it can be harnessed for benefit. Issues covered include: agile economies, mobile knowledge workers, the cloud, and global organizations
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Version Control: Blood, Brain & Bones
Usain Bolt revealed his nutrition sources: KFC, McDonald's & Chinese Food. If the world's fastest man doesn't eat healthy food, why should programmers? Because programmers know about Version Control!
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Crimes Against Humanity, Writ Small
The Milgram experiments revealed a number of exploitable weaknesses in human psychology. Matt Knox talks about those weaknesses, their exploitation, consequences, and aftermath.
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Creating DSLs in Java
Venkat Subramaniam explains what DSLs are good for, then he demos the creation of a DSL in Java, starting with a grammar and a parser, with an emphasis on useful patterns to be used along the way.
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Rebuilding guardian.co.uk With DDD
This presentation explores how the platform driving the guardian.co.uk, (3 time winner of the 'Best Newspaper' Webby), site was almost completely rebuilt using the principles of DDD.
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Programming Life
Austin Che discusses DNA and reprogramming life to create a myriad of novel biological systems. Modularity, abstraction and standardization allow non-biologists design and build biological systems.
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Domain Specific Languages in Erlang
This presentation looks at several features of Erlang that make it particularly useful as a platform for creating DSL's. Those features include: message passing and dynamic code loading.
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GluCon: Post-it Notes (mini-Keynotes)
This presentation is a collection of four fifteen-minute mini-keynotes presented at the Glue conference in Denver, 2009. All presentations focused on aspects of "gluing together" web applications.
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How Capitalism Saves Ruby From Corporatism
Nathaniel Talbott explains: the revolution isn't free. If the Ruby community doesn't want to have the life sucked out by soulless corporations it has to learn to take value and turn it into cash.
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Fighting the Imperial Californian Ideology
In this talk from FutureRuby, Jesse Hirsh explains the history of Imperial California and the means by which its ideology infects everyone.
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Terrible Noises for Beautiful People
In this FutureRuby session, Misha Glouberman has the audience make terrible noises and behave like a giant cellular automaton - among other things.
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