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Mike Cottmeyer on the Agile PMP
Mike tackles the assumptions behind traditional project management and explore a more agile approach to managing time, cost, and scope.
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A Crash Course in Modern Hardware
Cliff Click discusses the Von Neumann architecture, CISC vs RISC, Instruction-Level Parallelism, pipelining, out-of-order dispatch, cache misses, memory performance, and tips to improve performance.
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Case Study: RESTful Web Services at Orbitz
Alex Antonov explains why Orbitz needed to ditch Jini in favor of REST and Protocol Buffers. Most of the presentation contains a demo of a sample application using these technologies.
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Introducing Spring Roo - Extreme Productivity in 10 Minutes
Ben Alex, the Roo’s founder, explains what Roo is, how to get started, what it is useful for and creates a project from scratch demonstrating some of Roo’s features as a RAD tool.
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Introduction to SproutCore
Mike Subelsky discusses the SproutCore JavaScript framework, desktop vs browser development, key/value observeration, data bindings, demos, SproutCore features and API, and example SproutCore apps.
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What's New in SpringSource Tool Suite
Christian Dupuis discusses the SpringSource Tool Suite (STS), STS features, demos of STS, Groovy/Grails, Spring 3.0, REST, Spring Roo, Cloud Foundry, tc Server, dm Server, VMWare, and the STS roadmap.
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Statically Dynamic Typing
Neal Gafter explains why Microsoft has introduced dynamic typing in C# 4.0, what it is useful for, what is DLR, and why they have chosen the dynamic type instead of other possible solutions.
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Pragmatic Personas: Putting the User back in User Stories
Jeff briefly reviews the different ways that software is currently built and then describes how to create and use user personas to design and build software that has a better user experience.
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OOPSLA Keynote: The Power Of Abstraction
In a reprise of her ACM Turing Award lecture, Barbara Liskov discusses the invention of abstract data types, the CLU programming language, the Liskov Substitution Principle, and future challenges.
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Community Performance Optimization: Making Your People Run as Smoothly as Your Site
Brion Vibber discusses the challenges of working with user communities, social bottlenecks, scalability of software vs communities, new approaches to scaling communities, and remaining challenges.
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JavaScript: Measuring Performance, Games, and Distributed Testing
John Resig touches three JavaScript issues: performance measuring, creating games and performing distributed testing.
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Developing JavaScript Desktop Applications
Appcelerator's Titanium allows to build and deploy desktop applications which run seamlessly on Windows, OSX and Linux desktops using Javascript and HTML. Also: how Titanium compares with Adobe Air.
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