InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Culture Hacking: The Prospect of Magnificence
Jim McCarthy discusses culture hacking, expressing a particular hacker ethos originating in the world of software hacking, promoting freedom, openness, and embodying rationality and design elegance.
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Lessons Learned Implementing Activity-based Working alongside Agile at Bankwest
Ed Cortis shares lessons learned adopting ABW, covering the pilot program, noise/quiet spaces, tools, curtains, card walls, people, logistics, etc.
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Grails and the World of Tomorrow
Peter Ledbrook reviews how cloud computing, multiple data stores and multi-device client UI influence the creation of web applications in Grails.
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Rock-solid UI Modeling using Annotation Processing
Gilles Di Guglielmo and Julien Baudry present patterns for solving UI issues –large forms, linked form fields, conditional field display, dynamic list content, incremental validation-, using modeling.
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Custom Components for Android
Paul Lammertsma conducts a hands-on workshop on creating custom components for Android applications, providing best practices for accessibility, measuring and memory management.
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MySQL Usage of Web Applications with 1 User and 100 Million
Peter Boros discusses a MySQL architecture useful for the majority of projects, backup, online schema changes, reliability and scalability issues, and basics of sharding.
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Growing C++ Software Guided by Tests
Alan Griffiths shares the organizational process, the technological challenges and the solutions adopted by a team developing a C++ systems component.
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Application Architecture in Groovy
Daniel Woods focuses on leveraging the strengths and flexibility of Groovy to create a maintainable and simple application architecture.
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Open Source and You
Peter Ledbrook discusses the benefits and drawbacks of open source, advising that it should not be treated as a no-cost solution. He also offers ideas for making the community more active and engaged.
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A Little Graph Theory for the Busy Developer
Jim Webber explains how to understand the forces and tensions within a graph structure and to apply graph theory in order to predict how the graph will evolve over time.
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A Guide to Python Frameworks for Hadoop
Uri Laserson reviews the different available Python frameworks for Hadoop, including a comparison of performance, ease of use/installation, differences in implementation, and other features.
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Evolving Panorama of Data
Rebecca Parsons reviews some of the changes in how data is used and analyzed, looking at how data is used to track violence, and attempts to predict famine and other crises before they happen.