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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.
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Pushing The Limits of Web Browsers … or Why Speed Matters
Lars Bak presents several language virtual machines (Self, Strongtalk, Hotspot), why they matter and how they influenced V8 and Dart. His talk is centered on performance.
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Batman.js
Nick Small introduces Batman.js, explaining what it is good for and why one should use it.
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What Can Be Done with Java but Should Better Be Done with Erlang
Pavlo Baron presents code samples when in his opinion Erlang is a better fit than Java.
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We Are No Engineers
Jim Benson develops the idea that software is not engineered, and it is better done collaboratively by a communicative team using Agile and Kanban methodology and tools.
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Distributed Apps: The Joys of Testing and Debugging
Chris Houser discusses stack traces in Clojure and introduces a library for investigating activity across multiple threads and servers, plus a technique for reproducing race conditions.