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Case Study: It's Not Your Fault - Why Targets Don't Work

Francis Fish discusses applying systems thinking and the ideas of W Edwards Deming to organizations, and why targets don't work.

Francis Fish
on Apr 26, 2014

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The Unreasonable Effectiveness of Dynamic Typing for Practical Programs

Robert Smallshire explores the disconnect between the dire outcomes predicted by advocates of static typing versus the near absence of type errors in real world systems built with dynamic languages.

Robert Smallshire
on Apr 26, 2014

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Stop That! Questioning Dogmatic Programming

Doug Hiebert questions conventional wisdom that is taken for granted when writing code, and presents alternatives by way of before-and-after examples.

Doug Hiebert
on Apr 26, 2014

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52:51
MythBashers: An Adventure in Overlooked Technologies

Avdi Grimm takes Bash to its limits and beyond.

Avdi Grimm
on Apr 25, 2014

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« We Do Agile ». Why Is It Difficult for Solution Centers to Be Agile?

Ernst Perpignand presents some real world solution center initiatives along with their shortcomings, exposing the underlying patterns and some ideas on how to avoid the pitfalls.

Ernst Perpignand
on Apr 25, 2014

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The History of Women in Technology

Sarah Dutkiewicz takes a trip through the history of computing and presents some of the women that have been instrumental in advancing the computing industry.

Sarah Dutkiewicz
on Apr 24, 2014

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Continuations on the Web and in your OS

Jay McCarthy provides a basic introduction to delimited continuations, their traditional application on the Web, and then shows more advanced techniques using examples from Web interaction.

Jay McCarthy
on Apr 24, 2014

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A Call for Sanity in NoSQL

Nathan Marz discusses building NoSQL-based data systems that are scalable and easy to reason about.

Nathan Marz
on Apr 23, 2014

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Next Gen Hadoop

Akmal B. Chaudhri introduces Apache™ Hadoop® 2.0 and Yet Another Resource Negotiator (YARN).

Akmal B. Chaudhri
on Apr 22, 2014

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45:22
What Can Hadoop Do for You?

Eva Andreasson presents typical categories of problems that are commonly solved using Hadoop and also some concrete examples in each category.

Eva Andreasson
on Apr 22, 2014

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Continuous Deployment the Octopus Way

Jimmy Bogard introduces Octopus Deploy, a deployment system for continuous delivery.

Jimmy Bogard
on Apr 22, 2014

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Virtualize Your Stack with Vagrant and Puppet

Jacob Mather shows how to transition a development stack from a local machine to a virtual solution on a server that can be extended to a private cloud.

Jacob Mather
on Apr 20, 2014

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