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What can e(fx)clipse do for you to Develop JavaFX Applications and IDE Plugins?
Thomas Schindl presents new tooling features in e(fx)clipse 1.0, runtime APIs and components such as the Code Editor and 3D Viewer, and tooling APIs that can be used in other IDE plug-ins.
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Why UI Testing is Sooo Hard
Ivan Inozemtsev discusses the automated testing difficulties of an Eclipse-based application’s UI, introducing the RCP Testing Tool, how it helps and how it is implemented underneath.
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What We Talk About When We Talk About Unit Testing
Kevlin Henney discusses unscalable tests, tricks and tips that make tests more specification-like and scalable to large codebases, and choosing between scenario-based and property-based test cases.
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Java 8 in Anger
Trisha Gee uses Java 8 streams and lambdas to build an app consuming a real-time feed of high velocity data, using services to make sense of the data, and presenting it in a JavaFX dashboard.
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Beating Hand Tuned Assembly in Compiled Languages
David Richardson presents the optimization techniques employed to set three world speed records using a combination of code generation and hardware specific optimizations.
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Extending Eclipse Flux
Martin Lippert and John Arthorne demo the creation of a cloud service with Flux, connecting it to a running Flux environment, and implement some basic features for a sample language.
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Large-scale Scientific C++ For Casual Coders: Why You (Should) Care
Axel Naumann introduces the use of C++ for storing and analyzing petabytes of C++ objects at CERN, and more generally in High Energy Physics.
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Java for Low Latency - You’ve Got to Be Joking!
John Davies walks through and demonstrates how to reduce latency while increasing throughput in applications, with demos using Java 8 and lambdas.
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Reactive Android
Benjamin Augustin takes the practical approach of a complex API to explain how RxJava and Functional Reactive Programming (FRP) can be used on every project to make one's life easier.
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Mini-talks: OS/App Inversion, Testing & Living Databases
Mini-talks on: OS/application inversion, testing, living databases, and rogue protocols.
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Scala.js: Safety and Sanity in the Wild West of Web Development
Haoyi Li introduces Scala.js and shows how to get started with it, building a number of small Scala.js applications to show its capabilities.
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JVM Optimization 101
Sebastian Zarnekow discusses JVM internal optimizations, presenting how the JVM sees through code to apply techniques like inlining, loop unrolling and escape analysis at runtime.