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DataMapper on Infinispan: Clustered NoSQL
Lance Ball presents DataMapper, a Ruby ORM library, along with Infinispan, Hibernate Search, Lucene, all running on JBoss AS7 and accessed through TorqueBox, a JRuby application server.
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Easy as Pie? - Teaching Code Literacy
Sarah Allen talks on how to introduce children to the basics of programming, presenting a new related language called “Pie” along with lessons learned from creating a DSL in Ruby.
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Object Oriented JavaScript
Sara Chipps discusses using OOP with JavaScript, and polymorphism, encapsulation, inheritance, constructors, and helper functions with JQuery.
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Node.js: Asynchronous I/O for Fun and Profit
Stefan Tilkov presents what asynchronous I/O means and how it can be performed on servers and web clients using Node.js and other JavaScript tools and libraries.
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Beam.js: Erlang Meets JavaScript
Yurii Rashkovskii presents Beam.js, a JavaScript platform built on erlv8 and providing bi-directional integration with Erlang.
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From .NET to Ruby: Adventure, Courage, and Joy
Jeff Cohen advises on how to switch from another language to Ruby and how to integrate it into the enterprise, presenting what are Ruby’s core elements and 5 myths about Ruby and Rails.
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Secure Distributed Programming on ECMAScript 5 + HTML5 Platforms
Mark S. Miller explains how to create secure applications in ECMAScript 5 and HTML5 by turning JavaScript into a distributed secure programming language.
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HTML5 and the Dawn of Rich Mobile Web Applications
James Pearce introduces cross-platform web apps development using HTML5 and web frameworks, such as jQTouch, jQuery Mobile, Sencha Touch, PhoneGap, outlining what makes a good framework.
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Introducing the Ceylon Project
Gavin King introduces Ceylon, a prototype language for the Java Virtual Machine which attempts to combine the strengths of Java with the power of higher order functions and declarative programming.
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Code Generation on the JVM: Writing Code that Writes Code
Hamlet D`Arcy demonstrates some of the Groovy tools useful to increase productivity by generating code at compile time: Project Lombok and AST Transforms.
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Get Satisfaction Uses Ruby on Rails and Cloud Computing Platform to Achieve Scalability and Reliability
Thor Muller presents how Get Satisfaction managed to reliably scale their Ruby on Rails-based customer community platform using Agile, TDD, BDD, and by deploying their framework in the cloud.
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Groovy for Java Programmers
Jeff Brown introduces Groovy to Java developers, outlining the conciseness and expressivity of the language and covering various topics: GStrings, Closures, collections, builders, beans, etc.
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