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Building Context Aware Services using Identity as Foundation
This presentation explores the issue of context automation, the forces driving it (e.g. clouds and extensible browsers) before focusing on the role of identity services as a key factor.
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Three Years of Real-World Ruby
Martin Fowler talks about ThoughtWorks's experience with using Ruby on client projects for the past three years.
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The Internal Design of Force.com’s Multi-Tenant Architecture
Craig Weissman, Chief Software Architect at Salesforce.com, presents their multi-tenant architecture, one shared database and one application stack, that has proven to scale well over the years.
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Hooking Stuff Together - Programming the Cloud
Gregor Hohpe of Google discusses software as connecting services and components, describes the constraints of connected systems design, and presents common design patterns to solve those constraints.
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Haskell and the Arts
This presentation explores the use of Haskell as an art mediumm, specifically the question of whether or note the elegance of functional programming is a good match for the aesthetics of art?
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Erlang Concurrency, What’s The Fuss?
Erlang is built on 3 components: language, OTP, and VM. Francesco Cesarini explains the role played by each component in order to ensure Erlang’s highly successful concurrency model.
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Bindings, Platforms, and Innovation
This presentation focuses on the Internet and separating myth from fact, history from the future, and the mundane from the imaginative. Bob Frankston presents a vision of what could and should be.
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Neo4j - The Benefits of Graph Databases
This presentation covers the use of graph databases as an optimal solution for data that is difficult to fit in static tables, rapidly evolving data or data that has a lot of optional attributes.
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Writing DSLs in Groovy
After a short introduction to DSLs, Scott Davis plays with the keyboard showing how to approach the creation of a DSL by typing working snippets of Groovy code that get executed.
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Concurrent Programming with Microsoft F#
Amanda Laucher presents a real life enterprise application written in F#. She shows actual code snippets, explaining design decisions and suggesting how to use some of the F# constructs.
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Strongly Typed Domain Specific Embedded Languages
Lennart Augustsson shows how to use Haskell's programmable type system to create strongly typed DSEL. The presentation introduces Haskell’s type system and illustrates several DSEL examples.
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Agilists and Architects: Allies not Adversaries Presentation
This talk describes ways that Agile methods can benefit architects, addresses concerns architects express about agile, and proposes ways that architects and agile development teams can become allies.