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Paul Carvalho Discusses Pitfalls in Agile Testing and the Zero Page Test Plan
Paul Carvalho joins us to discuss his two sessions at Agile 2012: Pitfalls in Agile Testing and How to Avoid Them and The Zero Page Test Plan
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Michael Hunger on Spring Data Neo4j, Graph Databases, Cypher Query Language
In this interview, Michael Hunger talks about the evolution of persistence technologies over the last decade, the emergence of NoSQL databases, and looks at where graph databases fit in. He describes the goals behind the Spring Data Neo4j project, it's latest developments, and examines Cypher, a humane and declarative query language for graphs.
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Enda McGrath on Cross-Platform JavaScript Application Development with Enyo
Enda talks about the challenges his team faced while developing the Enyo framework. He also gives an overview of how it works and how it aims to help developers deliver apps across different devices.
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Stuart Williams on Vert.x
Stuart Williams explains vert.x: basic idea and architecture, how it uses Java's NIO and async APIs, how it allows using various JVM languages (Groovy, JRuby, Scala, etc), the EventBus and much more.
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Rich Hickey on Datomic, CAP and ACID
Rich Hickey explains the basics of Datomic, its approach to transactions and query, Datalog, CAP, ACID and BASE, and much more.
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The Rise of DevOps with Jesse Robbins
Jesse Robbins of Opscode discusses how the concept of deploying, maintaining, and updating a software solution has begun to evolve into the concept of DevOps. This new player in the development landscape blurs the lines betwee Development and Operations teams and creates a new practice of Infrastructure as Code.
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Bob Lee on Java's Future, Lambdas, DI with Guice vs Dagger, Java and Ruby at Square
Bob Lee explains the popularity of Java, future language features like Lambdas, DI with Guice vs. the Dagger framework, the role of Java vs. Ruby at Square, hiring at Square, security and much more.
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End-to-end JavaScript Development with Juergen Fesslmeier
Juergen talks about the benefits of using JavaScript as an end-to-end stack and the challenges that teams might face. He also talks about the Wakanda Studio and how it can be used to develop sophisticated application using only JavaScript.
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Erik Meijer on Big Data, Types of Data Stores and Reactive Programming
Erik Meijer explains the various aspects needed to categorise data stores, how reactive programming fits in with databases, the return to data transformation, denotational semantics, and much more.
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Damian Conway on the State of Perl, Perl 6, Writing Parsers and DSLs
Damian Conway explains where Perl 5.x is used today and why (hint: the CPAN library repository), and what Perl 6 offers: modern OOP, an optional type system, libraries for parallelism and concurrency, and very powerful built-in tools for parsing including extensible grammars.
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Erik Meijer discusses programming language design, effects and some web programming problems
Erik Meijer distinguishes between two kinds of programming languages, pure functional and all the others. He emphasizes some issues regarding mixing higher order programming with effects. Erik then talks about the nature of Javascript, and true problems we need to solve in web programming.
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Stefan Tilkov on REST and Hypermedia, ROCA, WebSockets vs. HTTP
Stefan Tilkov explains the importance of Hypermedia in REST and how to use it, ROCA (Resource oriented client architecture), WebSockets vs polling or server sent events, and much more.
