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Cyber-dojo: Executing Your Code for Fun and Not-for Profit!, Part 2
Jon Jagger introduces cyber-dojo.org, an open source environment for practicing programming, demoing its features and discussing its history, design, underlying technology, difficulties and future.
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Cyber-dojo: Executing Your Code for Fun and Not-for Profit!, Part 1
Jon Jagger introduces cyber-dojo.org, an open source environment for practicing programming, demoing its features and discussing its history, design, underlying technology, difficulties and future.
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Creating a Rainstorm Using Infrared and C#
Lisa Taylor shares the story of programming trial and error. Using C#, JavaScript, pixels and bitmaps, loops and infrared light she created a digital rainstorm inside a shipping container.
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Comparing Hot JavaScript Frameworks: AngularJS, Ember.js and React.js
Matt Raible compares three JavaScript MVC frameworks: AngularJS, Ember.js and React.js, including client vs. server side templating and how they support isomorphic JavaScript.
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Prototyping for Optimal Learning
Diana Joseph shows how to practice concept prototyping to avoid building the wrong thing. Prototyping is about working lean, using the smallest investment to generate the greatest amount of learning.
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Bind to the Cloud with Falcor
Jafar Husain provides an inside look at the innovative Falcor, the open source JS data access framework that powers the Netflix UIs and the new UI design patterns it enables.
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Using React for the Mobile Web
Brian Holt talks about React, performance issues, some general web performance tips, lessons learned while helping write m.reddit.com using React.
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New in ECMAScript 2016 and Beyond
Brian Terlson discusses the changes in the ES2016 specification process and some of the likely candidates including async functions, SIMD, class property declarations, Typed Objects and more.
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Functional Programming Kata with Groovy
Scott Hickey works through a solution to the Bank OCR kata, using Groovy and functional programming techniques. The code uses recursion plus Groovy methods that support functional programming.
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Groovy AST Transformations
Paul King reviews some of the most useful of the Groovy built-in AST transformations. He talks about the internal workings of AST transformations and how to write your own.
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Full Stack Groovy Developer
Iván López presents the technological stack of Polaromatic, and demonstrates that it's possible to write the whole stack with Groovy: Backend, Javascript, HTML, Android, test, build tool.
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Working with Databases & Groovy
Paul King reviews the features in Groovy which make it easy to work with databases - Groovy SQL, datasets -, and working with NoSQL databases such as MongoDB and Neo4J.