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Custom Components for Android (Workshop)
Paul Lammertsma conducts a hands-on workshop on building Android custom components. This session is closely related to the session www.infoq.com/presentations/Custom-Components-Android.
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Pushing a Rope: Implementing Innovation Programs
Ted Tencza shares lessons learned innovating at Atlassian and Bigcommerce, including programs that worked (FedEx/ShipIt/Hackathons, 20% time) and programs that failed (dedicated Innovation Team).
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The Evolution of Windows: WinRT
Raymond Chen tells the story of Windows’ API evolution from the beginning up to its latest version, WinRT.
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Scaling out with Akka Actors
Joshua Suereth designs a scalable distributed search service with Akka and Scala using actors, and covering practical aspects of how to scale out with Akka’s clustering API.
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Dare Mighty Things: How JPL Explores the Cosmos through the Clouds
Rob Witoff presents how JPL and the Curiosity rover mission use cloud computing, including EC2, CloudFormation, and Simple Workflow - to enable research, engineering and operations technologies.
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Lift-off with Groovy 2.1
Guillaume Laforge introduces some of the new features in Groovy 2.1: better Invoke Dynamic, DSL-related annotation, grouping annotations, compiler customization.
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The Trouble With Types
Martin Odersky outlines the main categories of static type systems as well as some new developments, and discuss the tradeoffs they make.
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Making Software Development Make Sense to Everyone
Jen Myers discusses the need to make software development attractive and accessible to a larger audience, improving the overall development and learning process in order to have better programmers.
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Using Forked/Unreleased Grails Plug-ins
Jeff Beck discusses 3 ways of dealing with a large number of Grails plug-ins: checked-in plugin directory, inline plugins, and custom repository
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"Big Data" Agile Analytics
Ken Collier discusses Agile Analytics, a combination of sophisticated analytics techniques, lean learning principles, agile delivery methods, and "big data" technologies.
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10 Lessons Learned In The Trenches
Gergely Timar shares lessons learned at Indextools, a web data analytics firm acquired by Yahoo!.
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Developing Cross Platform Apps using Xamarin and MvvmCross
Jason Steele, Jake Henning conduct a hands-on session building a cross-platform mobile C# application for Android, iOS and Windows Phone using Xamarin and MvvmCross.