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Understanding Indexing Without Needing to Understand Data Structures
Zardosht Kasheff suggest using 3 rules for indexing SQL databases: Retrieve less data, Avoid point queries, and Avoid sorting.
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Expressing Abstraction - Abstracting Expression
Ola Bini attempts to answer a few questions: Why are new languages still being created, Is it worth choosing languages strategically, and Does language actually matter?
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Relational Programming in miniKanren
Daniel P. Friedman and William E. Byrd demonstrate miniKanren, a simplified version of KANREN - a declarative logic programming system with relations embedded in a pure functional subset of Scheme.
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Asynchronous User Interfaces - How to Lie, Cheat and Steal
Alex MacCaw discusses the importance of asynchronous UIs, suggesting using Spine, an MVC JavaScript framework, to avoid blocking the UI, storing state + rendering on the client, and preloading data.
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Concurrency in Android
G. Blake Meike discusses concurrency in Android, focusing on AsyncTask – what can be done with it, what problems using it and how to circumvent them.
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The Racket Way
Matthew Flatt explains the Racket – a Lisp dialect – way through examples: everything is a program, concepts are language constructs, the language is extensible, and everything composes.
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Developing Advanced IDE Functionality for Your DSLs
Alex Shatalin and Václav Pech discuss several language workbenches features - type system, dataflow, VCS, refactoring, debugging, and others – with examples based on JetBrains MPS.
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Seventeen Secrets of the Great Legacy Makeover Masters
Brian Foote shares 17 tips that help dealing with muddy legacy code: Testing, Divide & Conquer, Neoteny, Gentrification, Demolition, Quarantine, Refactoring, Craft, etc.
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Knockout.js
Steve Sanderson demoes creating a web application with a dynamic UI using Knockout.js - a MVVM JavaScript library.
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Going Native: Decisions for Mobile
Elan Lennard discusses porting a desktop app to a mobile device: choosing the functionality that makes sense, make it look great, and deciding between native and HTML5.
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Firefox Developer Tools
Joe Walker covers present and future Firefox development tools for editing, inspection, history and control.
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The State of JavaScript
Brendan Eich reviews the history of JavaScript, then introduces and demonstrates some of the new features coming in ES6.
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