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The Functional Database
Rich Hickey discusses how a functional database can impact the programming model, using Datomic as an example, but the principles apply to other systems using an immutable database.
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The Unavoidable Big Bang
Gareth Rushgrove provides reasons for avoiding a big bang release and what to do to make it work in case that’s the only option.
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Do Agile Methods Contain the Seeds of Their Own Destruction? (Safety and Our Ability to Learn from Failure)
Amr Elssamadisy explores the link between safety and success of agile methods, explaining what can be done to change the culture of an organization to create a base where agile methods can flourish.
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C++14 Early Thoughts
Bjarne Stroustrup discusses features that might appear in C++14: braces for copy initialization, return type deduction in functions, generic (polymorphic) lambdas, user-defined literals, etc.
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Culture Hacking: The Prospect of Magnificence
Jim McCarthy discusses culture hacking, expressing a particular hacker ethos originating in the world of software hacking, promoting freedom, openness, and embodying rationality and design elegance.
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Lessons Learned Implementing Activity-based Working alongside Agile at Bankwest
Ed Cortis shares lessons learned adopting ABW, covering the pilot program, noise/quiet spaces, tools, curtains, card walls, people, logistics, etc.
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Grails and the World of Tomorrow
Peter Ledbrook reviews how cloud computing, multiple data stores and multi-device client UI influence the creation of web applications in Grails.
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Rock-solid UI Modeling using Annotation Processing
Gilles Di Guglielmo and Julien Baudry present patterns for solving UI issues –large forms, linked form fields, conditional field display, dynamic list content, incremental validation-, using modeling.
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Custom Components for Android
Paul Lammertsma conducts a hands-on workshop on creating custom components for Android applications, providing best practices for accessibility, measuring and memory management.
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MySQL Usage of Web Applications with 1 User and 100 Million
Peter Boros discusses a MySQL architecture useful for the majority of projects, backup, online schema changes, reliability and scalability issues, and basics of sharding.
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Growing C++ Software Guided by Tests
Alan Griffiths shares the organizational process, the technological challenges and the solutions adopted by a team developing a C++ systems component.
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Application Architecture in Groovy
Daniel Woods focuses on leveraging the strengths and flexibility of Groovy to create a maintainable and simple application architecture.
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