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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.
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QCon SF Keynote: Techie VC's Talk About Trends & Opportunities
Kevin Efrusy and Salil Deshpande talk about what makes a business successful or not, presenting three actual cases they have been involved with: Hyperic, G2One, SpringSource.
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Rails in the Large: How Agility Allows Us to Build One Of the World's Biggest Rails Apps
Neal Ford shows what ThoughtWorks learned from scaling Rails development: infrastructure, testing, messaging, optimization, performance.
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Rails 3
Yehuda Katz explains Rails 3: the performance improvements, the new architecture, the influence of Merb, and much more. Also: a look at the Bundler tool.
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The State and Future of JavaScript
Douglas Crockford talks on the history of JavaScript unveiling some of the struggles the Ecma Technical Committee has had in advancing the language over the years, concluding with lessons learned.
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