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HTTP Status Report
In this QCon presentation, HTTPbis WG chair Mark Nottingham gives an update on the current status of the HTTP protocol in the wild, and the ongoing work to clarify the HTTP specification.
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10 Ways to Improve Your Code
Neal Ford, an architect at ThoughtWorks, shows 10 ways to write better code. This is practical advice for developers, but application architects can benefit from it too.
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Google Data API (GData)
The Google Data API (GData) provides a query language and Atom to provide search, read, and update capabilities to Google assets, including Calendar, Blogger, Picasa, CodeSearch, and Google Base.
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Application Services on the Web: SalesForce.com
Dave Carroll describes Force.com as a platform for creating enterprise applications in the Cloud using web service APIs, server side logic, service oriented application support and ALM services.
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DSLs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
In this panel recorded during OOPSLA 2008, the panelists talk about the benefits and drawbacks of using DSLs.
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Making Roles Explicit
Udi Dahan, The Software Simplist as he calls himself, explains why sometimes it is not enough to apply good OOP and patterns lessons. He introduces a new principle: make roles explicit.
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REST, Reuse, and Serendipity
In this talk, recorded at QCon London 2008, Steve Vinoski explains how a RESTful architecture can further reuse in unforeseen circumstances.
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Executable User Stories with RSpec and BDD
An introduction to BDD and how to make plain text User Stories executable with RSpec's Story Framework, which is written in Ruby, but runs against production code written in any programming language.
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Amazon Web Services: Building Blocks for True Internet Applications
Jeff Barr discusses Amazons Web development services including: Simple Queue, Simple Storage, Simple DB, and Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2), explaining how they address development issues.
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GWT-Gears: The Browser is the Platform
This presentation covers the use of GWT and Gears to create Web applications that can also be used when Web connection is not possible. Together these technologies make your browser your "platform."
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A Kanban System for Software Engineering
David Anderson presents a brief history of the kanban system through case study reports from teams at Microsoft and Corbis.
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Facebook: Science and the Social Graph
Aditya Agarwal discusses Facebook’s architecture, more exactly the software stack used, presenting the advantages and disadvantages of its major components: PHP, MySQL, Memcache, Thrift, Scribe.