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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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Advanced iOS Development
Pete Goodliffe presents advanced techniques for creating iOS apps based on real life examples that show how to make the most of Objective-C, how to create Retina apps, and others.
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Spring Data - NoSQL - No Problems...
Peter Bell introduces 4 NoSQL categories –Key-Value, Document, Column, Graph - and explains how one can use Spring Data to work with such data stores.
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Moving From Coding To Model-Driven Development: Hands-On with MetaEdit+, Part 2
Steven Kelly and Risto Pohjonen continue their hands-on session developing apps with MetaEdit+. (see: Moving From Coding To Model-Driven Development: Hands-On with MetaEdit+, Part 1)
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Understanding Java Garbage Collection and What You Can Do about It
Gil Tene explains how a garbage collector works, covering the fundamentals, mechanism, terminology and metrics. He classifies several GCs, and introduces Azul C4.
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Concurrent Programming Using The Disruptor
Trisha Gee introduces the Disruptor - a parallel messaging framework -, explains how to use it in code, and shows how it was used to solve an application’s messaging needs.