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Spring Boot ... Tweeting Complete Spring Applications Since 2013
Rob Winch introduces Spring Boot, showing how to create the first app with it and explaining how it works under the hood.
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The Art of Building Tools–A Language Engineering Perspective
Markus Völter suggests and illustrates creating development environments based on language workbenches that provide a generic infrastructure and can be easily extended and composed.
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Getting Sassy with CSS
Julie Cameron introduces Syntactically Awesome Stylesheets, a CSS meta-language and precompiler, covering nesting, variables, mixins, inheritance, directives, gotchas, tools, extensions, and tips.
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Enhancing Notational Flexibility and Usability of Projectional Editors
Daniil Elovkov shows how to define a projectional editor that combines graphical, tabular, textual notations, lets one either mix or seamlessly switch between those, and is deployable to the web.
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ECMAScript 6: What's Next for JavaScript?
Axel Rauschmayer explains how to use some of ECMAScript 6' features today: block-scoped variables, arrow functions, better parameter handling, classes, modules and more.
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Have You Seen Spring Lately?
Josh Long introduces some of the latest Spring features supporting HATEOAS-compliant and OAuth-secured REST services, NoSQL and Big Data, Websockets, OAuth, open-web security and mobile.
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Do Not Block Threads! A Blessing in Disguise or a Curse?
Sadek Drobi discusses how to use Futures and Iteratees to deal with blocking threads in a system with many IO calls and heavy threads.
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Reactive Streams: Handling Data-Flows the Reactive Way
Roland Kuhn introduces the guiding principles behind Reactive Streams’ design and along with examples using its actor-based implementation in Akka.
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CoffeeScript: The Good Parts
Azat Mardan shares experiences using CoffeeScript in production, exploring its format, evaluating its design and showcasing some of the more useful and prominent projects that have adopted it.
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The Better Parts
Douglas Crockford discusses how to use programming languages more effectively; reviews the good parts in EcmaScript 6 and JSON.
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Understanding Objective-C Inside and Out
Jeff Kelley discusses Objective-C basics – properties, categories – and more advanced features – linking, ARC, creating classes at runtime, memory management and tagged pointers.
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Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying Sane
John Hughes discusses automated techniques that can improve testing, with war stories from Ericsson, Klarna and Volvo Cars, showing how to nail the hard stuff.