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YELLOWPAGES.COM: Behind the Curtain
A look at how YELLOWPAGES.COM, one of the highest-traffic websites in the U.S., was written using Ruby on Rails and scaled to handle the traffic. Also: the reasons for using Ruby on Rails.
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Rich Internet Applications with Flex and AIR
Christophe Coenraets presents Flex and AIR, two technologies from Adobe used to create, deploy and run Rich Internet Applications, and he demos some applications built with them.
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Taming Effects with Functional Programming
Simon Peyton-Jones advertises the need for programming purity achieved especially through use of functional languages and the increased attention given to functional programming.
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Community-Based Innovation: From Sports Equipment to Software
Sonali K. Shah talks about innovations produced by community users. Contrary to the general perception, most innovations are not created by firms but by individuals.
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Frameworks and DDD: Keeping the Model Clean
Tim McCarthy talks about preserving the purity of the domain model while using frameworks. The presentation is targeted at developers and demoes a .NET SharePoint real application.
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Pipes and Y! Query Language
Jonathan Trevor presents two Yahoo! technologies: Pipes and Y! Query Language (YQL). While Pipes is limited to Yahoo web services, YQL can process any structured data with an URL.
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Ruby VMs: A Comparison
A look at the different Ruby virtual machines (JRuby, MagLev, IronRuby, Rubinius, MacRuby) and how to choose what fits best within the enterprise.
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10 Tips for Successful Agile Transitions
Joshua Kerievsky boils down the key issues that will help you and your organization to transition to Agile methods successfully - and these aren't the same old pieces of advice you hear everyday.
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Using REST to aid WS-* - building a RESTful SOA Registry
In this presentation, WSO2 co-founder Paul Fremantle talks about the experience of creating a SOA governance solution for WS-* web services using RESTful HTTP and Atom/AtomPub.
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Open APIs: State of the Market
John Musser talks about Open APIs, their history, their current status and trends. He also talks about what makes an Open API successful, the business models and technological details.
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Social Programming A Pyramid
Mark Lehner, an Egyptologist, talks about ancient Egyptian cultures as seen through the discoveries made on the Giza Plateau and makes some connections with software engineering.
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Language Parity: Closures and the JVM
Neal Gafter discusses closures on the JVM, running other languages on the JVM, language-specific wrapper libraries, making the JVM more language-friendly, and whether lambda expressions are too hard.
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