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Cross-Platform Mobile Development
Peter Friese compares several cross-platform mobile development approaches: Native, Web, Client-side Web, Hybrid, Interpreted and Cross-Compiled, outlining their pros and cons.
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Combinatorrent - Writing Haskell Code for Fun and Profit
Jesper Louis Andersen presents a case study of a BitTorrent client written in Haskell, drawing conclusions on what is great and not so great in Haskell and comparing it with a similar Erlang client.
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Cross-Platform Mobile Apps with HTML, JavaScript and PhoneGap
Christophe Coenraets discusses strategies for creating large JavaScript MVC apps, and using PhoneGap for accessing native device capabilities and for packaging HTML apps.
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Going for Speed: Testing Against Performance Expectations
Jay Harris offers tips on using unit testing to improve the performance of applications.
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Erlang's Open Telecom Platform (OTP) Framework
Steve Vinoski introduces Erlang’s OTP Frmework, outlining some of its main features, including several behaviors – implementations of common patterns useful for concurrent fault-tolerant applications.
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Backbone.js
Jeremy Ashkenas introduces Backbone.js, a JavaScript data modeling framework intended to decouple data handling code from the DOM, being useful especially when the user interacts with the data.
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Scala: Simplifying Development at guardian.co.uk
Graham Tackley shares the lessons learned running The Guardian website on Java, and why they decided to switch to Scala and how it helps them.
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Future of Data Architecture: NoSQL, Big Data, Linked Data and the Cloud
In this panel, Siddharth Anand, Dwight Merriman, Ashish Thusoo, Damien Katz, Tom Wilkie and Akmal Chaudhri (moderator) answer questions on NoSQL from the audience.
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OAuth - Everything You Want to Know (Hopefully)
Pratap Chilukuri explains what OAuth is and how it works, exemplifying using the protocol with an example.
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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Clojure & JRuby)
Allen Rohner discusses the benefits and the problems of mixing Clojure and JRuby running them in the same process, making some recommendations at the end.
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Practical core.logic
Ryan Senior introduces core.logic, a logic programming library for Clojure, demonstrating how certain problems can be easier solved with it than relying on plain Clojure.
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Declarative Programming: Towards a Language that Fundamentally Abstracts away from Time
Wim Bast introduces Declare, a new declarative, functional OO language, demoing some of its main features.