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Buy a Feature: An Adventure in Immutability and Actor
This presentation discusses the functional programing paradigms used to build Buy a Feature, (a multi-user, web-based, real-time, serious game), including Actors, event streams, Scala and lift.
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Enterprise RIA – Deployment Examples
Jnan Dash introduces enterprise RIA and Curl, a RIA platform similar to Flash/Flex. He presents 4 examples of successful Curl implementations and the advantages of Curl over the other RIA solutions.
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Lift Web Framework
This presentation discusses Scala (a hybrid Object Oriented and Functional language) and Lift, and how many Lift features are based on Scala pattern matching and functional composition.
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Programming and Minimalism
In this talk from FutureRuby, Jonathan Dahl talks about minimalism and clarity in writing and how to use these principles in programming.
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Performance Tuning for Apache Tomcat
Mark Thomas, a member of the Tomcat PMC, explains the tuning process for Tomcat, JVM and the applications running on them considering different usage patterns, hardware and network configurations.
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The Browser as a Platform
Ben Galbraith and Dion Almaer present the current status of the browser as a platform and what it takes to be successful: a fast JavaScript engine, using Canvas, thread support, great UI, and others.
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CouchDB From 10,000 Feet
This presentation takes a look at CouchDB from 10,000 ft. CouchDB is a document oriented database with a highly acclaimed REST API that makes integration into existing infrastructure a snap.
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Introduction to Cappuccino
Francisco Tomalsky introduces Objective-J, an Objective-C inspired language on top of Javascript, and the Cappuccino framework built with it, which were used to create http://280slides.com
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Securing A Cloud Infrastructure
George Reese discusses the number one challenge faced by cloud computing - security. He discusses transparency, credential management, and identity management among other topics.
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OSGi for Application Developers
Neil Bartlett presents OSGi to Java developers: an introduction to OSGi, infrastructure projects using OSGi, the partial failure of OOP, the benefits of using COP, plus a demo.
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Flying Robots
In this talk from FutureRuby, Damen and Ron Evans' flying_robot project controls an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV, a blimp in this case) with Ruby and Arduino.
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Introduction to the Azure Service Platform
Beat Schwegler talks about writing Windows Azure services using .NET and SQL Services. He also explains how to create or enhance existing applications in order to make use of the Azure platform.
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