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The Trouble With Types
Martin Odersky outlines the main categories of static type systems as well as some new developments, and discuss the tradeoffs they make.
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Using Forked/Unreleased Grails Plug-ins
Jeff Beck discusses 3 ways of dealing with a large number of Grails plug-ins: checked-in plugin directory, inline plugins, and custom repository
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Developing Cross Platform Apps using Xamarin and MvvmCross
Jason Steele, Jake Henning conduct a hands-on session building a cross-platform mobile C# application for Android, iOS and Windows Phone using Xamarin and MvvmCross.
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Building Java HTML5/WebSocket Applications with JSR 356
Reza Rahman examines the efforts under way with JSR 356 to support WebSocket from its base-level integration in the Java Servlet and Java EE containers to a new API and toolset included in Java.
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History of MonoGame
Dominique Louis covers the history of MonoGame from its roots in XNA and how the team ported it to 8 platforms. He demoes taking a simple 3D XNA sample from Windows to Android and Windows Phone 8.
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Purely Functional I/O
Runar Bjarnason explains how to approach I/O from a purely functional perspective, exploring the space of existing solutions, their benefits, and drawbacks.
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Keynote: Jeff Lawson on Software Development
Jeff Lawson shares some of the lessons learned in his career and discusses the current trends in software and challenges developers have to face.
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Scala Async: A New Way to Simplify Asynchronous Code (Make the Compiler Do It!)
Philipp Haller explains how to do asynchronous programming in Scala with Scala Async, Futures and Promises.
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RxJava in Clojure
Dave Ray explains using RxJava in Clojure for building non-blocking "Observable APIs" and efficiently compose asynchronous flows together using functional reactive operators.
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CLJ Mook: a Lightweight HTTP Testing Tool
Craig Brozefsky introduces clj-mook which provides a session abstraction for client interactions with a web application based on clj-http, a handful of threading macros, JSoup, and a couple of maps.
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How to Sneak Clojure Into Your Rails Shop
Joshua Ballanco introduces Immutant, Immutant Overlay, HornetQ and OpenShift to Ruby and Rails developers.