InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Creating Apps with 6-Year Old Girls (and their Dads)
Hannah Dee describes the 'Android Programming Family Fun Day', a one day AppInventor workshop introducing kids and their parents to mobile phone programming.
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Leveraging Big Data for Payment Risk Management
John Canfield discusses the changing payment ecosystem, innovations in mining and organizing unstructured data from many sources, and approaches to deciding for loss minimization and user experience.
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Learnings from Building and Scaling Gilt
Michael Bryzek shares lessons learned from startup to a leading ecommerce companies, starting with behavioral psychology and reflecting on the decisions made and tradeoffs considered as they scaled.
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Our Experience with (And Without) PhoneGap Build
Burin Asavesna shares his team’s experience building applications with PhoneGap Build.
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Delivering Continuous Delivery Continuously
Simon Hildrew discusses the tools and processes used by The Guardian to create a continuous delivery pipeline.
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Data-Driven Software Engineering
Jevgeni Kabanov discusses the results of a research on a delivering software model, the tools involved and the model itself, concluding on what one can expect from using certain tools.
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Estimation for the Real World
Chris Trevarthen discusses how to reduce the amount of time spent estimating, providing more meaningful estimates, and building trust with the business.
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How to Make Agile and Continuous Delivery Work at Your Company: Lessons Learned in the Trenches
Jeff French shares from his experience how to convince organizations to implement Agile methodologies.
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Learning Rails for Fun and Nonprofit
Scott Smerchek presents the benefits of using a nonprofit web project to learn Rails and what he learned while building LoveKC.org, introducing various Rails topics.
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Threads, Needles, Stacks, Heaps
Ovidiu Dimulescu provides tips for working with local and remote JVMs, startup flags, analyzing and correlating thread dumps with CPU consumption, instrumentation, multi-tenant JVMs, memory games, etc
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GitHub Communications Culture and Tools
Matthew McCullough examines the last four years of communication culture at GitHub, starting their internal mobile and web apps, use of pull requests, and emoji.
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Finding the Needle in the Haystack - or - Troubleshooting Distributed Systems
Anthony Molinaro discusses the challenges of troubleshooting distributed systems and using Mondemand to track down issues with various services in a distributed system.