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Design, Composition and Performance
Rich Hickey explores the nature of design and composition and how it impacts the software development practice and tools.
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Functional Composition
Chris Ford shows how to make music starting with the basic building block of sound, the sine wave, and gradually accumulating abstractions culminating in a canon by Johann Sebastian Bach.
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Macros: Why, When, and How
Gary Fredericks discusses macros, what they are, how to write good ones, when to use them and when to avoid using them.
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Physical Pi
Romilly Cocking explains how to make Pi interact with the outside world, from flashing LEDs to autonomous robots, with examples of how to connect to lights, motors, and sensors.
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Robust Software - Dotting the I's and Crossing the T's
Chris Oldwood discusses what it takes to create robust software: correct error detection and recovery, testing systemic effects, app monitoring and configuration.
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Code Execution as Data
Zach Tellman discusses instrumenting and analyzing running systems using real world examples from Factual's production systems.
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Here Comes Wearable Technology!
Rain Ashford discusses how wearable technology has emerged from its early roots in cybernetics and sci-fi and how projects are developing outside the current bubble of media hyperbole.
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Approximate Methods for Scalable Data Mining
Andrew Clegg overviews methods and provides use cases for performing data sets operations like membership testing, distinct counts, and nearest-neighbour finding more efficiently.
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Functional Async Without the Pain
Jim Powers presents ways to use functional programming techniques and the new Async framework for Scala to regain compositionality while retaining the power of the model.
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The Code that Isn't There
Scott Vokes presents some lesser-known data structures and shows how probability distributions and content-addressable storage can become tools to shape global system behavior.
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Similarity in Software Artifacts and Its Relation to Code Generation
Rainer Koschke discusses software cloning – reusing code through copy and paste.
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A Bright Future Full of Promise: Asynchronous Pipelines in Scala and Java
Heather Miller shows how to perform asynchronous programming in Scala and Java with composable pipelines using the Futures and Promises API.
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