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Java vs. C/C++ Performance Panel
Hosted by Erik Meijer, who runs the Cloud Programmability Team at Microsoft, the panelists answer questions on C/C++ and Java performance, contrasting the virtues of native vs. managed code.
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Scale Effects and other Stories
Crista Lopes discusses if scale affects the internal structure of projects and whether the popularity of libraries is correlated with internal software metrics such as bug density.
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C++: The Good Parts
Jordan DeLong overviews the past, current and near future "good parts" of C++'s functional side through the colored lens of his biases.
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zip Code: Unpacking Data Compression
Scott Vokes presents the algorithms at the heart of most compression tools, as well as how to design protocols and data formats to go with their flow.
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Concurrency and Parallel Computing in JavaScript
Stephan Herhut overviews concurrency and parallelism in JavaScript and the HTML5, discussing actors, futures and what throughput computing in the browser looks like.
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Excel Coding Errors Are Destroying World Economies and F# (with Tsunami) Is Here to Stop Them!
Matthew Moloney discusses using F# and .NET inside Excel, demonstrating doing big data, cloud computing, using GPGPU and compiling F# Excel UDFs.
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End-to-End Reactive Programming at Netflix
Jafar Husain, Matthew Podwysocki teach developers to think about events as collections, demonstrating some basic collection operations to express complex asynchronous programs as simple expressions.
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The Next 700 Asynchronous Programming Models
Philipp Haller explains how to make Rx programming more natural and intuitive by generalizing Scala's Async which, so far, has been used to program with non-blocking futures in a familiar direct style
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Onward! — Does Thought Crime Pay?
Gilad Bracha ponders how Lisp, Simula, Actors, Beta, Smalltalk and Self give us C++, Java, Javascript, Perl, Python and PHP, speculating what new wonders await programmers down the road.
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Event Store for Web Applications
Greg Young discusses unexpected use cases and possible usages of the Event Store.
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Troubleshooting Live Java Web Applications
Ashley Puls methods and tools that can be used to uncover and resolve performance problems arising in Java web applications that use the Spring Framework.
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Grails-Powered HTML RIAs
Brian Kotek advises on creating RIA applications in Grails using an array of technologies, including JavaScript, CoffeeScript, TypeScript, ExtJS, Dojo, REST, JSON, GSON, GORM, etc.