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JRuby: The Pain of Bringing an Off-Platform Dynamic Language to the JVM
Charles Nutter discusses bringing JRuby to the JVM, why Ruby is hard to implement, JIT compilation, precompilation, core Ruby implementation, Java library access, library challenges and future plans.
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Testing is Overrated
In this talk from RubyFringe, Luke Francl asks: is developer-driven testing really the best way to find software defects? Or is the emphasis on testing and test coverage barking up the wrong tree?
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VM Optimizations for Language Designers
John Pampuch discusses the HotSpot compiler, the history of Java performance, HotSpot development philosophies and challenges, optimization, JVM library improvements, and tips for better performance.
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Mike Taulty on Building Rich Internet Applications
Mike Taulty of Microsoft takes developers from XAML to JavaScript when building Silverlight 2 applications and includes demos in both Expression Studio and Visual Studio 2008.
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Ruby.rewrite(Ruby)
In this RubyFringe talk, Reginald Braithwaite writes Ruby code to read, write, and rewrite Ruby. Demos include extending Ruby with conditional expressions, call-by-name and more.
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Fast Bytecodes for Funny Languages
Cliff Click discusses how to optimize generated bytecode for running on the JVM. Click analyzes and reports on several JVM languages and shows several places where they could increase performance.
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THERE WILL BE PORN: 10 Dangerous Ideas Nobody Should Implement
In this presentation from RubyFringe, Zed Shaw bids farewell to Ruby, with a few project ideas as well as live music and a few songs about the Ruby community.
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Building your next service with the Atom Publishing Protocol
In his presentation, recorded at QCon San Francisco, MuleSource architect Dan Diephouse explores ways to use the Atom Publishing Protocol (AtomPub) when building services in a RESTful way.
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Clojure
Rich Hickey discusses Clojure features and syntax, example code, functional programming, concurrency semantics, transactions, software transactional memory, agents, implementation and pain points.
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The Maxine VM
Bernd Mathiske discusses Maxine VM, Java compatibility, swapping major VM components, research areas, Object handling, code examples, optimizing compiler, snippets, bytecode generation, JNI and JIT.
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Establishing Your Organization's Enterprise Security API
In this talk, Jeff discuss the process of establishing a security API for your enterprise, focusing on the most critical methods needed by web application and web service developers.
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Behind LINQ - And Beyond
Mads Torgersen discusses LINQ, metaprogramming in C#, LINQ examples, lambda expressions, LINQ-to-SQL, LINQ expressions and metaprogramming, how the DLR works, PLINQ, and the future of the DLR.
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