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Extreme Speedups and GPGPU: A Tale of Two Practical Uses of Reified Trees
Olivier Chafik discusses how to make a practical use of reified trees in Scala, with two applications: run-time (re)compilation for extreme speed, and conversion to another language (OpenCL).
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Playframework Scala: Democratizing Functional Programming for Web Developers
Sadek Drobi introduces the Play Framework for developers interested in doing web programming in a functional language.
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Release the Kraken
Jeff Harrell discusses how PayPal is using JavaScript and Node.js, the process of introducing them into a large Java shop, some pitfalls encountered along the way and the overall reaction.
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One Small Step for Consumers, One Giant Lead for Enterprise
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by AppDynamics, Tom Levey discusses how to monitor UX, identify bottlenecks, and measure the revenue impact by turning on the lights inside a mobile app.
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Using Invoke Dynamic to Teach the JVM a New Language
Jonathan Worthington explains how invokedynamic works, how he has been using it while porting the Rakudo Perl 6 compiler to the JVM, and its performance impact.
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Catastrophic Cancellation
Graham Markall covers some of the common problems that can occur from using the IEEE754 floating-point arithmetic, and what to do to avoid them in practice.
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The World after Cloud Computing & Big Data
Gunter Dueck wonders how are we preparing for the new society marked by cloud computing and big data in which jobs are automated and mediocre abilities are no longer accepted?
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Back to the Future
Emma Langman explores the usefulness of some of the Quality tools that have been around since the 50s for gathering requirements, tackling repeat problems, or innovating more efficiently as a team.
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Live Coding as Communication
Sam Aaron explores the idea of using programming languages, especially functional ones, to share ideas with other people, to have conversations, to support artistic practices, etc.
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HTML5/Angular.js/ Groovy/Java/ MongoDB, All Together - What Could Possibly Go Wrong?
Trisha Gee demoes building a web application using Java, HTML5, Angular.js, Mongo.DB, Groovy and microservices in one hour.
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Between Zero & Hero - Tips & Tricks for the Intermediate-Level Scala Developer
Age Mooij shares some tips&tricks for the Scala developer: type aliases, type and class tag, auto-lifted partial functions, nostacktrace, type classes, context bounds, low priority default implicits.
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