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Simple Made Easy
Rich Hickey discusses simplicity, why it is important, how to achieve it in design and how to recognize its absence in the tools, language constructs and libraries.
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What Sucks about Clojure...and Why You'll Love It Anyway
Chas Emerick makes a critique of Clojure outlining its weak points related to namespaces, declare, dynamic scope, STM, JVM and others.
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Language-based Security as Extreme Modularity
Jonathan Shapiro, Dean Tribble, Marc Steigler, David Wagner and Mark S. Miller (moderator) present their view on achieving security while using modularity for building large systems.
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Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with HTML, JavaScript and PhoneGap
Christophe Coenraets presents how PhoneGap helps creating cross-platform HTML and JavaScript applications that access native device functionality.
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Erlang for C# Developers
Bryan Hunter introduces Erlang, comparing various language features with C#’s, emphasizing what it is good for and doing a demo.
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The Future of the Mobile Web Platform
Tobie Langel reviews the current state of the mobile web platform, covering especially existing specifications, how they are implemented in various mobile devices and what is to expect in the future.
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Erlang, The Road Movie
Kresten Krab Thorup discusses cloud, multi-core, integration, high availability, and imperfect software starting from discoveries made while learning Erlang.
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Introduction to Windows Azure Service Bus
Joe Feser discusses how to enhance a legacy application into a disconnected hybrid app using Pub/Sub capabilities of the Windows Azure Service Bus.
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What Can DevOps Learn from Formula 1?
Stephen Burton discusses how the people, processes, collaboration and tools employed in Formula 1 can be used to manage performance and reliability and ultimately achieve success by DevOps.
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Statistical Graphics, ClojureScript, &c.
Kevin Lynagh discusses information design and why he thinks programmers suck at that, and how one can implement great data visualizations with Clojure and ClujureScript.
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Cloud Broker-Dealers
James Mitchell presents how brokers and dealers can intermediate cloud services with a higher performance per price ratio, with advice on what to look for when searching for a SaaS cloud provider.
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Event Sourced Architectures for High Availability
Martin Thompson discusses achieving high availability by using an event sourced architecture in which changes of the system’s state is captured as a sequence of events.
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