InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Eval Begone!: Semi-Automated Removal of Eval from JavaScript Programs
Gregor Richards introduces Evalorizer, a heuristics based tool which is meant to replace JavaScript eval constructs with safer JavaScript correspondents.
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From Darwin to Design
Stuart Church discusses applying the theories of species evolution, especially evolutionary and behavioral ecology, to software design.
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Springing Forward with Roo Add-ons
Ken Rimple shows how to write Spring Roo commands and features using the OSGi-based add-on API and how to extend the Roo shell using various Roo objects such as the FileManager and the ProjectManager.
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Scaling Pinterest
Yashwanth Nelapati and Marty Weiner share lessons learned growing Pinterest: sharding MySQL, caching, server management, all on Amazon EC2.
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Service Infrastructure and Server Virtualization
Jian Zhong and Eric Cole present the infrastructure virtualization, SOA and Agile development methodology used by the US National Institutes of Health (NIH).
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User Experience Does Not Exist
Adrian Howard ponders on the future of UX, wondering if it will survive and if UX should be done by dedicated professionals or every developer should take the UX designer role.
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Spring for Dummies
Ed Callahan and Derek Henninger demo building a SpringSource application with WaveMaker including web services, DB access and generating a mobile version of the app.
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Web Framework Performance - Examples from Django and Rails
Gareth Rushgrove overviews Ruby on Rails and Django: object caches, fragment and HTTP caching, asset compilation, profiling, log file measurement and framework hooks for instrumentation.
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Dependent Types for JavaScript
Ravi Chugh introduces Dependent JavaScript (DJS), a statically-typed system for the imperative, object-oriented, dynamic language.
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Voice Navigated Apps. How Can You Start Using It?
Robert van Loghem shares the challenges, design considerations, frameworks used and lessons learned while building a mobile application including voice recognition.
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Dropwizard: Make Features, Not WAR
Ryan Kennedy introduces Dropwizard which is Yammer's framework for building RESTful web services on the JVM.
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Expert Panel - Being an IT Broker: Career Change Ahead
Axel Angeli, Matthew Johns, Scott Morrison, Matthias Ziegler, Anne Manes discuss: The future of IT career, How can you prepare for workforce changes in IT? Shifting from "Old School" to"New School".