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Cloudy SOA
Mark Little introduces cloud computing showing that the middleware needs are similar to SOA’s, presenting benefits of running SOA in the cloud, and asking if the cloud and SOA should evolve.
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Making Your Open Source Project More Like Rails
Yehuda Katz presents the evolution of the Ruby on Rails project, the challenges it had to overcome and what are the lessons that could be helpful in making other open source projects successful.
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Machine Learning: A Love Story
Hilary Mason presents the history of machine learning covering the most significant developments in the area, and showing how bit.ly uses it to discover various statistical information about users.
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Android Squared
Bob Lee and Eric Burke present Square, a card reader used to receive payments through an Android device, presenting a point-of-sale API, and a library for persistence and REST communication.
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Fast Enough
Cliff Moon explains how to make Erlang programs faster by writing performance critical sections of the code in C using NIFs and by integrating libraries using the linked-in driver interface.
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Patterns for the People
Kevlin Henney proposes a new look at design patterns from the perspective of the habitability of code, communication, exploration, empiricism, reasoning, incremental development, and design sharing.
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The Counterintuitive Web
Ian Robinson: the web is counterintuitive because clients are interested only in URIs and they are responsible for requests’ sequence, and one should use protocol resources , not domain resources.
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Computation Abstraction: Going Beyond Programming Language Glue
Sadek Drobi talks about abstracting the control syntax (glue) in mainstream and FP languages: Null, propagating errors, events, lists, streams, channels, functors, monads, and custom abstractions.
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Functional Design Patterns
Aino Vonge Corry reviews a number of well known design patterns showing that their implementation is simpler in functional languages because such languages have pattern-based constructs.
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Parallel Programming with Node.js
Ryan Dahl presents Node.js, what it is and how to program against it by exemplifying with code samples, and shows how to do highly scalable parallel programming with event-based processes.
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Functional Approaches To Parallelism and Concurrency
Don Syme on functional languages features, showing why and when they are useful for parallel programming: simplicity, composability, immutability, lightweight reaction, translations, data parallelism.
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Agile Development: Overcoming a Short-term Focus in Implementing Best Practices
Karthik Dinakar presents a case study showing that trying to reach short-term goals by ignoring some practices can lead to long-term failures, how they recovered and recommends some best practices.