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Moving Back to Scrum and Scaling to Scrum of Scrums in Less than One Year
Rafael Maranzato tells the story of a team who initially failed to adopt Scrum, but they tried again, successfully adopting it and moving to Scrum of Scrums within one year.
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To Java SE 8, and Beyond!
Simon Ritter discusses the future of Java, taking a look at proposed features and roadmap for Java 8 through 12.
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Generic Programming Galore Using D
Andrei Alexandrescu discusses generic programming, showing how to solve generic tasks with D, tasks that are difficult or impossible to perform with other languages.
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Back to the Future: Sockets and Relational Data in Your (Windows) Pocket
Dragos Manolescu introduces some of the new features in Windows Phone Mango - TCP and UDP sockets, network preferences and local storage –, discussing their optimization for lower power consumption.
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CoffeeScript: JavaScript Evolved
Scott Davis introduces CoffeeScript through a demo, showing how to create a Hello World application and why it is an improvement over JavaScript.
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Vim: From Essentials to Mastery
Bill Odom presents the essentials of Vim and demoes advanced techniques, important settings, useful customizations, scripts, plug-ins, tips and tricks.
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Evolving Database Design and Architecture: Patterns and Practices
Pramod Sadalage discuses several patterns in database changes related to Architecture, Structure, Data Quality, Referential Integrity, Database Code, along with associated practices.
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A P2P Digital Self with TeleHash
Jeremie Miller presents how to create a fully distributed data network in which nodes communicate directly with each other using UDP, JSON and Kademlia, without relying on central servers.
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1,000,000 Daily Users and No Cache
Jesper Richter-Reichhelm shares the lessons learned while scaling their game platforms to handle millions of users, each game being built by small teams of two developers without dedicated ops.
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Java in the Cloud - PaaS Platform in Comparison
Eberhard Wolff introduces Cloud Computing, IaaS/PaaS, comparing the Java support provided by Google GAE, Amazon Beanstalk, VMware Cloud Foundry, and Cloud Bees.
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Seven Secrets Every Architect Should Know
Frank Buschmann’s secrets: User Tasks-based Design, Be Minimalist, Ensure Visibility of Domain Concepts, Use Uncertainty as a Driver, Design Between Things, Check Assumptions, Eat Your Own Dog Food.
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Testing, Testing, iOS
Heath Borders introduces several testing tools for iOS - OCUnit, Google Toolbox for Mac (GTM), GHUnit, UISpec, UIAutomation, OCMock – making some recommendations on which is better.