InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Building Connected Android Apps with Azure
Chris Risner demos an Android app built with Azure Mobile Services using structured data stored in the cloud, GCM push notifications with a single line of code, authentication, security and others.
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Clojure Core.Async
Timothy Baldridge introduces Clojure’s Core.Async library, presenting the motivation behind the library and examples in Clojure and ClojureScript helpful to decouple subsystems in an application.
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Using BladeRunnerJS
In this solutions track talk, sponsored by Caplin Systems, Phil Leggetter discusses concepts for writing structured and maintainable code for single-page web applications with HTML5 and BladeRunnerJS.
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Real-Time Systems at Twitter
Brian Degenhardt discusses lessons that Twitter learned managing a high rate of change and complexity, and how those can be applied anywhere.
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Mapping Etsy's Front-end
Daniel Espeset talks about how Etsy built an incremental compiler for the JavaScript modules, and used it to see how static assets are compiled, being deployed, and loaded.
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Queue It! What Job Queues Can Do for You!
Ole Michaelis discusses different job queues such as Gearman and beanstalkd, what are the differences and what are the perfect match use-cases.
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Lambdas and Streams in Java 8
Angelika Langer, Klaus Kreft discuss using Streams in Java 8: what they are, parallel or sequential execution, intermediate and terminal operations, stateless operations, and fluent programming.
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CoderDojo and Self Organization
Bill Liao keynotes on the scale-free self-organizing systems implemented by CoderDojo and how they can be used by other consumer software organizations that wants to achieve significant reach.
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Organizational Change Myths - Introduction and Sustainability
Linda Rising challenges organizational myths like "it's enough to have smart people" or "just have a transition plan and explain it" and it will work out, introducing and sustaining new ideas.
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Practicing at the Cutting Edge: Learning and Unlearning about Performance
Martin Thompson discusses the major steps in the evolution of Java and how it contrasts to alternative technologies, and the challenges of pushing the limits of performance.
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Testing Mobile with Appium
Filip Maj introduces UI testing for web, native and hybrid apps on simulators or real devices with Appium, an open source framework built on WebDriver.
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Why Superman Is Not a Good Agile Team Member
Karen Siers outlines the difficulties encountered by a developer switching from a waterfall or cowboy coding environment to a collaborative Agile style.