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Concurrency in Clojure
Stuart Halloway discusses concurrency features in Clojure: atoms, agents, futures, delays, promises, STM, and dynamic vars.
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Confessions of an Agile Addict
Ole Friis Østergaard discusses software development addictions: becoming aware of them, controlling them, getting rid of bad habits by admitting them and changing through practice.
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Web Development: You're Doing It Wrong
Stefan Tilkov challenges many commonly-held assumptions about how to best develop web applications, emphasizing the strengths and ideal roles for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, HTTP and URIs.
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Programming The Feynman Way
Ben Evans explores the idea that many of the characteristics of Feynman’s approach to physics are applicable to programmers, fueling the dream of a world where developers are free to be themselves.
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The Ubiquitous Digital Map (Abridged)
Gary Gale revisits some of the important milestones in map development over time up to the digital maps of the present time, noting some of the current developments.
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The Java EE 7 Platform: Higher Productivity & Embracing HTML 5
Arun Gupta demoes some of the new features introduced or enhanced in Java EE 7: HTML5, JAX-RS 2, JMS 2, Batch Processing and Caching API, WebSocket, etc.
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Rocking the Gradle
Peter Walker discusses and demoes some of Gradle’s features: declarative build, convention over configuration, plugins, multi–project support, partial builds and increments, Ant and Maven integration.
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Tackling Complex Data with Neo4j
Ian Robinson discusses the complexity of highly connected data and how graph databases can help, illustrating the talk with practical examples implemented using Neo4j.
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Groovy for Fun and Profit
Ken Kousen presents a variety of small but non-trivial examples of Groovy in action, using techniques ranging from closures to parsers and slurpers to metaprogramming and AST transformations.
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Grails Goodness
Ken Kousen teaches the fundamentals of Grails through examples: domain classes, controllers, transactional services, producing XML and JSON data, Ajax, unit and integration testing, plugins.
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Keynote: The Power of Abstraction
Abstraction is at the center of much work in Computer Science. It encompasses finding the right interface for a system as well as finding an effective design for a system implementation.
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JVM Mechanics – A Peek Under the Hood
Gil Tene discusses JVM observation-based runtime optimizations, ordering and memory model rules, basics GC functions, memory management, and JVM mechanics.