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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.
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Service Infrastructure and Server Virtualization
Jian Zhong and Eric Cole present the infrastructure virtualization, SOA and Agile development methodology used by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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User Experience Does Not Exist
Adrian Howard ponders on the future of UX, wondering if it will survive and if UX should be done by dedicated professionals or every developer should take the UX designer role.
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Spring for Dummies
Ed Callahan and Derek Henninger demo building a SpringSource application with WaveMaker including web services, DB access and generating a mobile version of the app.
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Web Framework Performance - Examples from Django and Rails
Gareth Rushgrove overviews Ruby on Rails and Django: object caches, fragment and HTTP caching, asset compilation, profiling, log file measurement and framework hooks for instrumentation.