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Agile Methods and User Centered Design
Dave Robertson and John Johnston explain what the Agile and User Centered Design’s (UCD) common denominators are, common values being the most important one in their opinion.
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Stopping Attacks in a Web 2.0 World
Jeff Williams explains two major security holes threatening the world of Web 2.0 applications: Cross Site Request Forgery (CSRF) and Advanced Cross Site Scripting ((XSS).
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REST: A Pragmatic Introduction to the Web's Architecture
In this presentation, recorded at QCon London, Stefan Tilkov introduces the key principles of REST, explaining the differences to other distributed systems architectures and highlighting its benefits.
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Perfection Is An Unrealistic Goal
Linda Rising approaches agility from a different perspective, that we are not supposed to do agile, but to rather be agile.
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What Drives Design?
Rebecca Wirfs-Brock reviews various forms of driven development in order to understand the principles and values of several design practices used today.
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Project Fortress: Run your whiteboard, in parallel, on the JVM
David Chase discusses Fortress, a Fortran-based HPC programming language. Topics include Fortress origins, running on the JVM, work stealing, transactions, continuations and the type system
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Textual DSLs Made Simple
In this presentation filmed during QCon London 2008, Markus Voelter tried to convince the audience that writing a textual external DSL is fairly straightforward and simple.
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Kent Beck: Trends in Agile Development
Kent Beck shows the synergies between business and Agile development. The reason Agile is becoming more popular every day is because it responds to the business needs as they evolve.
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Conceptual Algorithms
In this talk from RubyFringe, GitHub's Tom Preston-Werner talks about a methodical approach to solving problems and debugging, and the "Deathbed Filter".
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WS-* vs. REST: Mashing up the Truth from Facts, Myths and Lies
In this presentation, recorded at QCon, WSO2's CEO and WSDL co-inventor Sanjiva Weerawarana tries to address some of the truths, myths and lies surrounding the REST-vs.-WS-* debate.
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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.