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David Nolen on Logic and Constraint Programming, Core.logic, Mozart/Oz
David Nolen explains the ideas behind logic and constraint programming, how they're used in his Clojure core.logic library, Prolog, the features in the Oz language and Mozart/Oz, and much more.
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Faruk Ates on Modernizr, Shims and Polyfills
Faruk talks about Modernizr and the challenges he faced trying to build it. He also talks about the release cycles of browsers, HTML5 APIs and the evolutions of JavaScript.
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Lean UX Explained
Learning from past projects, Jeff Gothelf helped synthesize Lean UX into a growing practice within software firms of all sizes, where teams focus on project outcomes and not output. When teams of varying competencies are brought together from the beginning of a project and given ownership, they are able to take responsibility for delivering a great client experience.
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Javascript Performance with Stoyan Stefanov
Stoyan talks about the tools and practises that help developers deal with the issues that affect performance of JavaScript applications. He also comments on the evolution of the language and the popularity of transpilers like CoffeeScript and TypeScript.
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The Culture of Comaking with Jeff Patton
Jeff Patton helps teams build better products by helping them understand their users in a more thoughtful manner. By using the principles of comaking, teams begin to take more responsibility for their projects and their outcomes, thereby creating a more streamlined process of meeting their users' needs and having fun while doing it.
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Duncan Coutts on Parallelism and Concurrency with Haskell, Distributed Programming with Cloud Haskell
Duncan Coutts explains the nature of Concurrency and Parallelism in Haskell, its threading and STM implementation, Erlang OTP's influence on CloudHaskell for distributed programming, Monads, and more.
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Sadek Drobi, the Play 2.0 Story and what's new in 2.1
Sadek talks about the origins of Playframework, motivations behind 2.0 rewrite and Scala integration. He explains how important is it to have appropriate architecture and programming model while dealing with Realtime. He then reveals some features of the newly released 2.1 version.
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George Dinwiddie on the Three Amigos (Business, Programmers, and Testers)
George Dinwiddie sits down with InfoQ at Agile 2012 to discuss the Three Amigos (Business, Programmers, and Testers) and how they need to interact and use examples in order to get a shared vision.
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Jeff Brown on Grails 2 and Groovy
Jeff talks about the powerful features that come with Grails 2 and how it can be used as a rapid application development framework. He also compares it with Rails and Django and explains how it can be combined with other components from the Spring portfolio.
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David Nolen on ClojureScript, Javascript, Source Maps
David Nolen explains the state of ClojureScript and how it integrates with browsers and the Javascript ecosystem. Also: Source Maps and how they will make Javascript a better compilation target.
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Emil Eifrem on NoSQL, Graph Databases, and Neo4j
Emil Eifrem looks back at the history of Neo4j, an open-source, NoSQL graph database supported by Neo Technology. He describes some real world applications of graphs, domain modelling with graphs, and compares the performance of graph and relational databases. He also examines how Neo4j differs from other NoSQL and graph databases in the market and describes various Neo4j licensing options.
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The Larger Purpose of Big Data with Pavlo Baron
Big Data means more than just the size of a dataset. Pavlo Baron explains different ways of applying Big Data concepts in various situations: from analytics, to delivering content, to medical applications. His larger vision for Big Data ranges from specialized Data Scientists, to learning Decision Support Systems, to helping mankind itself.
