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Functional Thinking
Neal Ford emphasizes the fact that functional programming uses a different way of solving a problem, thinking about the results rather than the steps to make.
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UI in an Agile Process - The Quick 'n' Dirty Approach in the Real World
Janne Jul Jensen presents the development process of a mobile banking application from prototyping to the actual product including SCRUM sessions, sprint evaluations, UI designing, and user feedback.
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TDD as if You Meant It
Keith Braithwaite conducts a tutorial class on TDD based on the following technique: Add a test, See it fail, Make all tests pass, Refactor, and Repeat until done.
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fog or: How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love Cloud
Wesley Beary introduces fog, a Ruby library for accessing cloud resources from multiple vendors, including a mocking framework for testing purposes.
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The Mobile Browser as a Platform
Maximiliano Firtman offers tips for creating applications for mobile browsers, showing how HTML5 can help, and explaining the need for web performance optimization for mobile devices.
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TDD/BDD as Architectural Tools
James Kovacs explains how to use TDD and BDD to focus the architectural efforts on the high-value areas of the code in order to obtain just-in-time software architecture.
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Spring Tooling Update, New & Noteworthy
Andy Clement and Martin Lippert discuss the latest developments in Spring Tool Suite related to Java 7, Spring 3.1, Groovy, Grails, Gradle, and Cloud Foundry.
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Enterprise Integration–The Seriously Nasty Stuff
John Davies discusses enterprise scenarios where Spring Integration fits and some where it needs additional help from solutions such as SWIFT from C24 Integration Objects.
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Running Spring Java and Scala Apps on Heroku
James Ward demoes building a Spring Roo application and a Grails one, deploying them on Heroku.
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Why CouchDB?
Benjamin Young introduces CouchDB, it’s schema-less data store, REST API, HTTP-based replication, plugins such as R-tree and GeoCouch, ways to scale it out and then scaling down with mobile solutions.
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Panel: NoSQL Applications
Andy Gross, Frank Weigel, Matt Pfeil, Jared Rosoff, and Michael Stack, moderated by Alexandru Popescu, discuss various NoSQL solutions, what they are good for, what they offer, how they compare, etc.
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CoffeeScript, the Rise of "Build Your Own JavaScript"
Jeremy Ashkenas discusses CoffeeScript, making an introduction to the language and demoing some of its features.