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Node.js: Asynchronous I/O for Fun and Profit
Stefan Tilkov presents what asynchronous I/O means and how it can be performed on servers and web clients using Node.js and other JavaScript tools and libraries.
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Why Program by Hand in Five Days what You Can Spend Five Years of Your Life Automating?
Terence Parr discusses using automation tools including DSLs to automate the software creation process as much as possible in order to increase output, effectiveness, correctness and velocity.
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Infinitely Extensible
Alex Papadimoulis discusses avoiding over-engineering a program, presenting extensibility types used, extensibility design patterns, when to use them, and what happens when they are incorrectly used.
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Getting Things Done with REST
Ian Robinson discusses how to implement a hypermedia-driven web application and how to test its workflow giving as example a RESTful web service he built on top of Microsoft’s Web API.
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Testability and the Entity Framework
Scott Allen explains how to create unit tests for applications making use of the ADO.NET Entity Framework 4.1.
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Single Page Apps and the Future of History
Michael Mahemoff discusses how HTML5 can be used to create single page web apps offering advice to create a better user experience, built-in accessibility and better SEO results.
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Advanced Aspect Oriented Programming
Donald Belcham presents how to use AOP to avoid code repetition without following the decorator pattern along with frameworks supporting such aspects.
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Type Systems for DSLs
Markus Völter discusses what type systems are and some of the typing rules usually needed for DSLs, exemplifying the concepts with Xtext and MPS.
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Beam.js: Erlang Meets JavaScript
Yurii Rashkovskii presents Beam.js, a JavaScript platform built on erlv8 and providing bi-directional integration with Erlang.
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Why I Chose MongoDB for guardian.co.uk
Mat Wall makes a journey through Guardian’s online history, outlining technologies used – Perl/CGI, CMS, J2EE, Oracle-, and explaining why they chose a NoSQL solution – MongoDB - and its advantages.
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Deliberate Practice
Jon Jagger on achieving expertise through deliberate practice, a process of doing new things or old ones but with a new approach, leading to improved technical agility through increased self awareness
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Things Break, Riak Bends
Justin Sheehy talks about failure and the need to prepare for it, giving some real life examples along with techniques implemented in Riak to make it resilient to faults.
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