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JRuby: The Pain of Bringing an Off-Platform Dynamic Language to the JVM
Charles Nutter discusses bringing JRuby to the JVM, why Ruby is hard to implement, JIT compilation, precompilation, core Ruby implementation, Java library access, library challenges and future plans.
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Testing is Overrated
In this talk from RubyFringe, Luke Francl asks: is developer-driven testing really the best way to find software defects? Or is the emphasis on testing and test coverage barking up the wrong tree?
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Services & Workflows: SOAP and REST with WCF and WWF
Christian Weyer explains how to create distributed systems using SOAP or REST on top of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) or Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF).
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Second Life’s Architecture
Ian Wilkes describes the architecture used by the popular game named Second Life at its debut and how it evolved over years as users and features have been added.
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Ian Flint Explains Yahoo! Communities Architectures
Ian Flint tries to explain the infrastructure and architecture employed by Yahoo! to keep going a multitude of servers running of different platforms and offering different services.
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Ruby.rewrite(Ruby)
In this RubyFringe talk, Reginald Braithwaite writes Ruby code to read, write, and rewrite Ruby. Demos include extending Ruby with conditional expressions, call-by-name and more.
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Fast Bytecodes for Funny Languages
Cliff Click discusses how to optimize generated bytecode for running on the JVM. Click analyzes and reports on several JVM languages and shows several places where they could increase performance.
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How to Work With Business Leaders to Manage Architectural Change
Successful architectures evolve over time to meet changing business requirements. Luke Hohmann presents how to collaborate with key members of your business to manage architectural changes.
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Building your next service with the Atom Publishing Protocol
In his presentation, recorded at QCon San Francisco, MuleSource architect Dan Diephouse explores ways to use the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) when building services in a RESTful way.
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Principles and Practices of Lean-Agile Software Development
Alan Shalloway, CEO and founder of Net Objectives, presents the Lean software development principles and practices and how they can benefit to Agile practitioners.
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Biztalk Services in the Cloud
Cloud computing feels like a tomorrow technology. Simon Thurman shows how developers can use Biztalk to create an Internet Service Bus which can be deployed locally or in the cloud.
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Establishing Your Organization's Enterprise Security API
In this talk, Jeff discuss the process of establishing a security API for your enterprise, focusing on the most critical methods needed by web application and web service developers.