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Fixing the ICT Crisis at School
Simon Peyton Jones discusses the need for a decent education system in IT and computer science, advocating for taking action now before it is too late.
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Designing Fault Tolerant Distributed Applications
Scott Andreas discussing creating fault tolerant distributed applications, and demoes Ordasity, a framework for building self-organizing systems with services.
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River Trail – Parallel Programming in JavaScript
Stephan Herhut introduces Intel's Parallel JavaScript (formerly known as "River Trail"), a new parallel programming API designed for JavaScript.
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Android App Anatomy
Eric Burke advises on creating mobile applications for Android: the lifecycle of an app, loaders, fragments, Otto, DI, and others.
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Project Lambda in Java SE 8
Daniel Smith details some of the new features prepared for Java 8 by Project Lambda: lambda expressions, default methods, and parallel collections.
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Cross-Browser Testing with BrowserStack
Scott González explains what BrowserStack offers for cross-browser testing, how debugging in BrowserStack works, and how to leverage its API.
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Expert Panel - The Relationship Between Big Data and the Semantic Web
Paul Buhler, Steve Hamby, Johan Kumps, Art Ligthart, Markus Zirn, and Clemens Utschig discuss the relationships between Big Data and established Semantic Web technologies.
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Virtualizing and Tuning Large Scale Java Applications
Emad Benjamin explains how to deploy and tune a JVM on a virtual infrastructure (vSphere), and how to tune the garbage collector in this environment.
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Eval Begone!: Semi-Automated Removal of Eval from JavaScript Programs
Gregor Richards introduces Evalorizer, a heuristics based tool which is meant to replace JavaScript eval constructs with safer JavaScript correspondents.
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From Darwin to Design
Stuart Church discusses applying the theories of species evolution, especially evolutionary and behavioral ecology, to software design.
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Springing Forward with Roo Add-ons
Ken Rimple shows how to write Spring Roo commands and features using the OSGi-based add-on API and how to extend the Roo shell using various Roo objects such as the FileManager and the ProjectManager.
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Scaling Pinterest
Yashwanth Nelapati and Marty Weiner share lessons learned growing Pinterest: sharding MySQL, caching, server management, all on Amazon EC2.