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Concurrency in Android

G. Blake Meike discusses concurrency in Android, focusing on AsyncTask – what can be done with it, what problems using it and how to circumvent them.

G. Blake Meike
on Oct 26, 2012

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39:07
Not Your Father’s Transaction Processing

Michael Stonebraker compares how RDBMS, NoSQL and NewSQL support today’s big data transaction processing needs. He also introduces VoltDB, an in-memory NewSQL database.

Michael Stonebraker
on Oct 26, 2012

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51:19
The Racket Way

Matthew Flatt explains the Racket – a Lisp dialect – way through examples: everything is a program, concepts are language constructs, the language is extensible, and everything composes.

Matthew Flatt
on Oct 26, 2012

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50:50
Package Management for Windows Azure

Richard Astbury demoes an Azure package management system useful for porting applications to Microsoft’s PaaS.

Richard Astbury
on Oct 25, 2012

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34:32
Runaway Complexity in Big Data, and a Plan to Stop It

Nathan Marz outlines several sources of complexity introduced in data systems - Lack of human fault-tolerance, Conﬂation of data and queries, Schemas done wrong - and what can be done to avoid them.

Nathan Marz
on Oct 25, 2012

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48:54
The Ideal Programmer - Why They Don't Exist and How to Manage Without Them?

Mike Williams outlines some of the main characteristics that make developers and teams perform better than the average.

Mike Williams
on Oct 24, 2012

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49:55
Developing Advanced IDE Functionality for Your DSLs

Alex Shatalin and Václav Pech discuss several language workbenches features - type system, dataflow, VCS, refactoring, debugging, and others – with examples based on JetBrains MPS.

Václav Pech Alex Shatalin
on Oct 24, 2012

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55:01
Knockout.js

Steve Sanderson demoes creating a web application with a dynamic UI using Knockout.js - a MVVM JavaScript library.

Steve Sanderson
on Oct 24, 2012

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58:52
Going Native: Decisions for Mobile

Elan Lennard discusses porting a desktop app to a mobile device: choosing the functionality that makes sense, make it look great, and deciding between native and HTML5.

Elan Lennard
on Oct 23, 2012

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01:05:11
The State of JavaScript

Brendan Eich reviews the history of JavaScript, then introduces and demonstrates some of the new features coming in ES6.

Brendan Eich
on Oct 19, 2012

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49:40
Advanced iOS Development

Pete Goodliffe presents advanced techniques for creating iOS apps based on real life examples that show how to make the most of Objective-C, how to create Retina apps, and others.

Pete Goodliffe
on Oct 19, 2012

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01:08:15
Computing Like the Brain

Jeff Hawkins discusses 3 operating principles of the neocortex and introduces Grok, a predictive modeling product based on those principles.

Jeff Hawkins
on Oct 19, 2012

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55:29