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DSL Design - A Conceptual Framework for Building Good DSLs
Markus Völter discusses the abstractions that should be considered when creating a DSL, insisting on expressivity, semantics, modularity, and concrete syntax.
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Backbone.js
Jeremy Ashkenas introduces Backbone.js, a JavaScript data modeling framework intended to decouple data handling code from the DOM, being useful especially when the user interacts with the data.
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Scala: Simplifying Development at guardian.co.uk
Graham Tackley shares the lessons learned running The Guardian website on Java, and why they decided to switch to Scala and how it helps them.
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The Good, The Bad & The Ugly (Clojure & JRuby)
Allen Rohner discusses the benefits and the problems of mixing Clojure and JRuby running them in the same process, making some recommendations at the end.
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Practical core.logic
Ryan Senior introduces core.logic, a logic programming library for Clojure, demonstrating how certain problems can be easier solved with it than relying on plain Clojure.
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Non Blocking, Composable Reactive Web Programming with Iteratees in Play 2
Sadek Drobi presents the architecture of the Play2 framework, a framework helping developers creating web applications in Java and Scala.
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Declarative Programming: Towards a Language that Fundamentally Abstracts away from Time
Wim Bast introduces Declare, a new declarative, functional OO language, demoing some of its main features.
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The Evolution of Integration
Paul Fremantle discusses the evolution of EAI, comparing the latest approaches, suggesting using Async Messaging, EDA, APIs, and doing high volumes, and underlining that evolution is not monotonic.
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Building Rich User Experiences without JavaScript Spaghetti
Jared Faris provides 3 principles –decouple everything, make it testable, push events not state – and some patterns which help avoiding creating JavaScript spaghetti code over time.
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Java EE 7 and HTML5: Developing for the Cloud
Arun Gupta presents the current developments on Java EE7 as a PaaS in the cloud and current work on Project Avatar which simplifies HTML5, Websockets and JSON programming for Java developers.
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SOLID Clojure
Colin Jones discusses applying the SOLID OOP principles to Clojure programming in order to create systems that are easy to change.
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Faith, Evolution, and Programming Languages
Philip Wadler discusses second-order quantification, from its inception in the symbolic logic of Frege through to the generic features introduced in Java 5, touching on aspects of faith and evolution.
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