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YELLOWPAGES.COM: Behind the Curtain
A look at how YELLOWPAGES.COM, one of the highest-traffic websites in the U.S., was written using Ruby on Rails and scaled to handle the traffic. Also: the reasons for using Ruby on Rails.
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Rich Internet Applications with Flex and AIR
Christophe Coenraets presents Flex and AIR, two technologies from Adobe used to create, deploy and run Rich Internet Applications, and he demos some applications built with them.
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Taming Effects with Functional Programming
Simon Peyton-Jones advertises the need for programming purity achieved especially through use of functional languages and the increased attention given to functional programming.
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Ruby VMs: A Comparison
A look at the different Ruby virtual machines (JRuby, MagLev, IronRuby, Rubinius, MacRuby) and how to choose what fits best within the enterprise.
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Using REST to aid WS-* - building a RESTful SOA Registry
In this presentation, WSO2 co-founder Paul Fremantle talks about the experience of creating a SOA governance solution for WS-* web services using RESTful HTTP and Atom/AtomPub.
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Language Parity: Closures and the JVM
Neal Gafter discusses closures on the JVM, running other languages on the JVM, language-specific wrapper libraries, making the JVM more language-friendly, and whether lambda expressions are too hard.
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Being Dumb And Using It To Your Advantage
In this talk from RubyFringe, Matt Todd recommends to stop worrying and simple start implementing ideas, dumb or not.
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How (7 years of) Eclipse Changed my Views on Software Development
Erich Gamma shares the lessons learnt from being deeply involved in the development of the Eclipse platform over the years and incorporated into Jazz, IBM’s software development platform.
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Convergence: Model-Based Software, Systems And Control Engineering
Janos Sztipanovits attempts to tackle the complexity of large scale systems integration by approaching software, systems and control engineering convergence through model-based design.
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CouchDB and Me
In this talk from RubyFringe, Damien Katz explains what drove him to create CouchDB, why he chose Erlang and more.
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Project Fortress: Run your whiteboard, in parallel, on the JVM
David Chase discusses Fortress, a Fortran-based HPC programming language. Topics include Fortress origins, running on the JVM, work stealing, transactions, continuations and the type system
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Textual DSLs Made Simple
In this presentation filmed during QCon London 2008, Markus Voelter tried to convince the audience that writing a textual external DSL is fairly straightforward and simple.
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