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Moving a Large Swing-Based Geoscience Application to Eclipse
Mike Reyes and Mary Cole discuss the reasons for selecting Eclipse and RCP, how the move was made, challenges encountered during this move, and the benefits that have resulted from this change.
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Compositional I/O Stream in Scala
Runar Bjarnason presents how to get started with the Scalaz-Stream library, shows some examples, and how we can combine functional streams into large distributed systems.
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Types Working for You, Not against You
Richard Dallaway shows an example of what Scala looks like when using pattern matching over classes, how to encode an idea into types and use advanced features of Scala without complicating the code.
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A Browse Through ES6
Jez Higgins takes a look at some of the most significant features in ES6, the impact they have on writing JavaScript, and how one can start using them today.
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Modular Java Applications with OSGi
Alex Blewitt introduces modularity in general, and the choices that OSGi made in bringing modularization to the JVM. He also looks ahead and asks how OSGi and Jigsaw will evolve in the future.
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Understanding Core Clojure Functions
Jonathan Graham presents how to implement our own versions of the Clojure functions reduce, count, filter, map and pmap.
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Hunting Criminals with Hybrid Analytics
David Talby demos using Python libraries to build a ML model for fraud detection, scaling it up to billions of events using Spark, and what it took to make the system perform and ready for production.
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The State of the Art
Richard Astbury demonstrates three new programming languages and discusses how they will affect the future direction of computer programming.
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Project Jigsaw in JDK 9: Modularity Comes To Java
Simon Ritter looks at the fundamentals of how modularity in Java works, explaining the impact project Jigsaw has on writing apps, and how encapsulation will change in JDK 9.
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Culture and the Games People Play
Roy Rapoport discusses the power of alignment (or lack thereof) using real-world examples, his experience introducing Python in production, and the organizational structures and culture within Netflix
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RxJava and SWT: Out with Events, in with FRP
Ned Twigg discusses using RxJava to wrap SWT events, looking at a few simple SWT UI's, and coding them using raw SWT and then again using RxJava.
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Examining Low Pause Garbage Collection in Java
John Oliver takes a look at both G1 and Shenandoah, explaining how they work, what are their limitations, providing tuning advice. He also looks at recent and future changes to garbage collection.