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Introduction to Bespin - Mozilla's Web Based Code Editor
Joe Walker explains Bespin, Mozilla’s open source web-based code editor, its architecture and chosen implementation solution, detailing some of its features like collaboration and version control.
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Now What?
Dylan Schiemann presents the current status of web development engulfed in lots of frameworks, languages, and browsers, advising on choosing the right technologies to secure the future of a web app.
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Groovy: Best Practices Developed From Distributed Polyglot Programming
Jonathan Felch discusses Groovy, its major features, using it in a financial project, the benefit of using dynamic and meta-programming features together, ending with what is not so great in Groovy.
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The Present and Future of Web App Design
Torrey Rice presents relevant milestones in the evolution of the web from a UX perspective and tries to foresee the future of web development and what it will mean for developers and casual people.
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Mobile JavaScript Development
Nikolai Onken makes a case for HTML, JavaScript and CSS developing for mobile devices by presenting the status of mobile cross-device development, opportunities it brings and future prospects.
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Towards a Universal VM
Alex Buckley presents some of the challenges for JVM to become a universal VM, serving the needs of Java and non-Java languages, static and dynamic languages, and an ever growing number of features.
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Porting Desktop Applications to the Browser
Michael Carter explains how to build web applications using non-HTTP desktop protocols with Orbited, a scalable Comet server, and js.io, a JavaScript library for real-time web applications.
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Testing C# and ASP.Net Applications Using Ruby
Ben Hall shows how Ruby testing tools can help with .NET and ASP.NET development and takes a look at RSpec, Webrat, Cucumber, Selenium and others. Also: a peek at using IronRuby for testing .NET apps.
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Grails For Spring Developers
Beside doing an overview of the Grails framework, Jeff Brown shows how to write a Spring-integrated application in Grails with Beans, DI, Spring MVC, DB transaction management and remoting.
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Basking in the Limelight
Micah Martin introduces Limelight, a JRuby GUI library that uses the theater metaphor for writing GUIs. The talk introduces basic concepts, how to style GUIs, and much more.
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Design Your Own DSL with Groovy
Guillaume Laforge explains what makes Groovy to be better suited to create a DSL: closures, meta-programming, operator overloading, named arguments, demonstrating how to write a DSL in Groovy.
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Industrial Strength Groovy
Paul King presents some of the tools helping one programming in Groovy: Cobertura, CodeNarc, EasyB, GroovyDoc, GroovyMock/Spock, Hudson, Maven/Ant/Gant/Gradle, OSGi, and Spring/Guice.