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Using Hypermedia Services for Systems Integration
Tim Ewald explains why hypermedia is good for system integration through services –providing support for evolution, service request routing, and application recovery-, and how to build such services.
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Webmachine: a Practical Executable Model of HTTP
Justin Sheehy details Webmachine, a RESTful toolkit for writing well-behaved HTTP applications, helping developers to deal with the complexities of an HTTP-based application.
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Nokia: Lessons Learnt Migrating a Very Large and Highly Relational Database into a "Classic" NoSQL
Enda Farrell discusses how they ported Nokia’s places registry to NoSQL, the reasons, the complexity involved and the lessons learned along the way in terms of people, tools and data.
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Object Oriented JavaScript
Sara Chipps discusses using OOP with JavaScript, and polymorphism, encapsulation, inheritance, constructors, and helper functions with JQuery.
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Let It Crash ... Except When You Shouldn't
Steve Vinoski explains how to avoid some of the Erlang errors that can bring down a system starting from the premise that not all the crashes are welcome as the “Let It Crash” philosophy might suggest
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When the Pressure Is Really On: A “Rough and Ready” Application of Lean and Kanban at the BBC
Katherine Kirk presents a case study of a small team which decided to use Lean and Kanban to rapidly iterate over the development of the BBC iPlayer.
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Complexity vs. Lean: The Big Showdown
Jurgen Appelo talks about Lean principles and Kanban practices in the context of the influence complexity theory and systems thinking have had on Lean.
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Stop the Software Architecture Erosion
Bernhard Merkle advices on preventing architectural degradation of a project by using tools for constant monitoring of the code, exemplifying with an analysis of Ant, Findbugs and Eclipse.
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Factories-in-the-Small: Raytheon Experiences using the Software Factories Methodologies
John Slaby and Jezz Santos explain how Raytheon has created Factories-in-the-Small useful to rapidly build new tooling such as the Pattern Automation Toolkit developed in cooperation with Microsoft.
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More Than Just A Commodity
Joe Kuemerle introduces the developer to the business side of development starting from the premise that it is not enough to be technologically savvy to be successful in a software organization.
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Presentation Patterns: MVP – MVC – MVVM
Erik Lebel explains 3 presentation patterns used in Windows applications –MVP, MVC, MVVM-, demoing how the model, view, and control layers interact with each other.
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Membase NoSQL: Clustered by Erlang
Sean Lynch and Matt Ingenthron introduce Membase, detailing how they added clustering features in Erlang, what they built and what lessons they leaned along the way.