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JRuby, Duby, and Surinx: Building a Better Ruby
Charles Nutter discusses JRuby, invokedynamic, JRuby performance, Duby, Duby syntax, future Duby plans, Surinx, the motivation for making Duby and Surinx, and how Duby and Surinx are helping JRuby.
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Lessons Learned From Java EE’s Evolution
Rod Johnson talks about Java’s evolution, in particular J2EE, presenting the lessons to be learned from its failures, preparing to avoid such mistakes in the future.
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Failure: An Illustrated Guide
Avi Bryant explains the iterative process that led to the concept, implementation, and UI of Trendly (http://trendly.com/ ), using Smalltalk, Javascript, Ruby and Java in the process.
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Real Time Web with XMPP
After an introduction to XMPP, Jack Moffitt presents Strophe, a library for writing XMPP clients, and he demonstrates sample code showing how to program against it.
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Living with 1000 Open Source Projects
In this talk recorded at FutureRuby, Dr Nic explains how to how to go from 1 to 1000 open source projects and still enjoy yourself.
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Scala Basics - Byte-code Fancypants
David Pollak makes an introduction to Scala showing how basic language constructs like boxing, generics, structural types, tail calls, and others, are used and how they are translated into byte code.
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Polyglots Unite!
In this talk from FutureRuby, Foy Savas explains how to approach the concept of polyglot programming. Hint: an open mind helps.
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Are We There Yet?
Rich Hickey advocates the reexamination of basic principles used today like state, identity, value, time, to create new constructs to deal with the massive parallelism and concurrency of the future.
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ORM, EDM, ESQL, Entity Framework, LINQ to SQL, LINQ to Entities - Confused?
Eric Nelson explains what are ORM, EDM, and ESQL, what is the difference between LINQ to SQL and LINQ to Entities, which one should be used, accompanied by hands on demos showing how to use them.
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SpringSource and VMWare: Making Sense Of It All
Adrian Colyer and Karl Rumelhart discuss the VMWare acquisition of SpringSource, Cloud Foundry, public vs private cloud, virtualization, vSphere, Infrastructure as a Service and vSphere performance.
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Pouring Data on Troubled Markets - Quantitative Portfolio Management Technology at BGI
Eoin Woods explains how Barclays Global Investors (BGI) designed Apex to meet the challenges it faces and the Java technologies which were chosen for an architecture with variations on standard J2EE.
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Thoughts on the Generic vs. Specific Tradeoff
Stefan Tilkov offers guidelines for the architect looking for a solution to his problem. Should it be a generic or a specific one? He compares several such solutions outlining the pros and cons.
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