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Grace: An Open-source Educational OO Language
Michael Homer introduces Grace, an educational OO language used to teach programming to students.
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Internet Voting: An Idea whose Time has Not Come
Barbara Simons examines some of the threats of Internet voting in the hope of encouraging the technical community to oppose Internet voting unless and until these threats can be eliminated.
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Deconstructing P vs. NP (or why I hate Sudoku)
Daniel Spiewak discusses the question of whether or not the complexity class NP-time is fully defined by the complexity class P-time issue.
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Acknowledging CAP at the Root -- in the Domain Model
Eric Evans discusses three DDD patterns helping embedding CAP tradeoffs inside the domain model: Aggregates, Domain Events and Bounded Contexts.
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Keynote: Embracing Uncertainty
Dan North discusses the need to embrace uncertainty of scope, technology, effort and structure, expecting the unexpectable and anticipating ignorance.
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A Taxonomy of Scala
Jamie Allen explains some of the terminology encountered by Scala developers and not only: OO features, pattern matching, functional programming, actors, futures, tuples, implicits, type theory, etc.
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Legacy Code: Using Domain-Driven Design to Carve Out Areas of Sanity
Robert Reppel discusses applying DDD and SOLID techniques in order to improve legacy code, exemplifying with real code.
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Chasing the Golden GOOS
Alex Aitken and Nick Faulkner share lessons learned building a cross-platform HTML5 application based on GOOS principles (Growing Object-Oriented Software).
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How the Ancient Greeks Invented Programming
Matt Butcher explores the philosophical systems devised by Plato and Aristotle, showing how Plato laid the foundations for what is now OOP, while Aristotle’s dynamic model is at the core of FP.
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Recovering the Ability to Design when Surrounded by Messy Legacy Systems
Eric Evans shares 4 strategies for dealing with messy legacy systems: Bubble Context, ACL Synchronization, Exposing Legacy Assets, and Domain Events Channel.
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The “Waste”berg: Traditional Project Resourcing Methods
Stacia Viscardi outlines the weaknesses of traditional resourcing methods and their illusion of efficiency, presenting a way for transitioning to a leaner and more innovative approach.
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Expressing Abstraction - Abstracting Expression
Ola Bini attempts to answer a few questions: Why are new languages still being created, Is it worth choosing languages strategically, and Does language actually matter?