InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Applying Design Thinking and Complexity Theory in Agile Organizations
Jean Tabaka discusses combining Design Thinking and Complexity Theory in order to balance exploration and execution in creating and sustaining Agile adoption in teams, groups, and organizations.
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Programming for the Expression of Ideas
Gerald Sussman explains how programming can help understand Analytical Mechanics, Differential Geometry, and General Relativity. While a work of art, a well-crafted program is an expression of an idea
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Shedding Light on the Cloud: Defining Clouds and Best Practices
Paul Weiss provides a step-by-step overview and comparison of on-premise, public, and hybrid clouds, explaining how to select the right cloud model.
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Code to Cloud: Continuous Delivery with Windows Azure
Justin Beckwith introduces several ways to deploy ASP.NET, Node, and PHP applications to Windows Azure, including git deployment, TFS deployment, continuous integration and custom scripts.
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Mary Had a Little Lambda
Stephen Chin explains how to use some of the new lambda-enabled Java 8 APIs: enhanced collections, functional interfaces, and simplified event handlers.
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Cut Your Cloud Bill - Techniques for Reducing the Cost of Cloud Computing
Richard Astbury provides practical steps and architecture decisions to optimize infrastructure for cost.
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Embedded Java and MQTT
Peter Niblett explains what MQTT is and how it compares with HTTP, showing how to program to it in Java and Eclipse Paho, and reporting on the current MQTT standardization status at OASIS.
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The Art of Reviewing Code
Arjan van Leeuwen overviews code reviews advantages and disadvantages, how much can be done in a code review, types of critiques, how to handle critiques and conflicts that might arise from them.
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Macros vs. Monads
Chris Houser and Jonathan Claggett compare macros with monads, suggesting when it is better to use each of them, and pondering what could be done to improve them.
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3 SHORT TALKS: What Do Techies Know about Recruitment?
The speakers tell stories on recruiting technical people: what they do, what drives their decisions, and why they feel it's important to leave recruitment completely in the hands of the HR department.
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NoHR Hiring
Martijn Verburg and Zoe Slattery explain how to make the best use of community resources to find the ideal employee as well as sharing some horror stories.
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Hire Education - Making Interviews Rock
Trisha Gee and Dan North explain how to effectively assess job candidates, treating them fairly and evenhandedly, gathering evidence to support a hiring, or passing, decision.