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Behaviour-Driven Development - a road to effective design and clean code

Dan describes a proven "outside-in" approach based on real life experience - engaging with and listening to our stakeholders. .

Dan North
on Jul 17, 2009

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01:04:21
Pragmatic Real-World Scala

Jonas Bonér talks about Scala showing the benefits of OO, the type system, closures, high-order functions, immutability, Actors, then using ORM, AOP, DI and Testing with Scala.

Jonas Bonér
on Jul 16, 2009

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Multicore Programming in Erlang

Ulf Wiger shows typical Erlang programs, patterns that scale well on multicore and patterns that don't, profiling and debugging parallel applications and ensuring correct behaviour with QuickCheck.

Ulf Wiger
on Jul 16, 2009

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Transcendence and Passing Through the Gate

This presentation will show how agile values, ideas, and practices lead the practitioner to the threshold of transcendence (agile phase three, according to Kent Beck) and then how to "Be Agile."

Dave West
on Jul 15, 2009

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59:24
Three Years of Real-World Ruby

Martin Fowler talks about ThoughtWorks's experience with using Ruby on client projects for the past three years.

Martin Fowler
on Jul 12, 2009

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Spring Framework 3.0, The Next Generation

Juergen Hoeller sees 3.0 as the completion of what was started with 2.5. Some topics covered are: more annotation-based configuration options, Unified EL++, REST, Portlet 2.0 and Java EE6 support.

Jüergen Hoeller
on Jul 10, 2009

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01:15:35
The Internal Design of Force.com’s Multi-Tenant Architecture

Craig Weissman, Chief Software Architect at Salesforce.com, presents their multi-tenant architecture, one shared database and one application stack, that has proven to scale well over the years.

Craig Weissman
on Jul 09, 2009

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Hooking Stuff Together - Programming the Cloud

Gregor Hohpe of Google discusses software as connecting services and components, describes the constraints of connected systems design, and presents common design patterns to solve those constraints.

Gregor Hohpe
on Jul 08, 2009

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Hard Rock: Behind the Music with Silverlight 2

Scott Stanfield presents the Hard Rock Memorabilia web site demoing Silverlight’s Deep Zoom. He also shows other projects to underline some of the Silverlight’s capabilities.

Scott Stanfield
on Jul 07, 2009

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Haskell and the Arts

This presentation explores the use of Haskell as an art mediumm, specifically the question of whether or note the elegance of functional programming is a good match for the aesthetics of art?

Paul Hudak
on Jul 06, 2009

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01:06:52
Erlang Concurrency, What’s The Fuss?

Erlang is built on 3 components: language, OTP, and VM. Francesco Cesarini explains the role played by each component in order to ensure Erlang’s highly successful concurrency model.

Francesco Cesarini
on Jul 04, 2009

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Neo4j - The Benefits of Graph Databases

This presentation covers the use of graph databases as an optimal solution for data that is difficult to fit in static tables, rapidly evolving data or data that has a lot of optional attributes.

Emil Eifrem
on Jul 01, 2009

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