InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Building ClojureScript Libraries: Google Closure and Challenges of a Young Language
Creighton Kirkendall introduces Google Closure Tools and the challenges writing a ClojureScript library.
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View Server: Delivering Real-Time Analytics for Customer Service
Richard Tibbetts presents a three-tier architecture for real-time data staging analysis, storing the results and delivering them to clients as a service accessible through a variety of interfaces.
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Being Followed: How Individuals Help Teams Become Excellent
Mike Hill advises individuals on becoming coaches for their teams using 5 techniques: Sorting, Releasing, Situating, Modeling, and Inviting, and learning what should be avoided when coaching.
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Is It Just Me Or Is Everything $#!t?
John Nolan rants about the computer-driven information society we live in and the compromises it forces us to make, pleading for a simpler and more humane approach to it.
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Software’s Hidden Clockwork: A General Theory of Software Defects
Les Hatton theorizes the possibility to predict the number of defects in software systems based on the observation that such systems have properties independent of why, how or who implemented them.
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Mobile Webdev: The Horror
John Bender presents the good, the bad, and the ridiculous aspects of doing cross-platform mobile web development, suggesting progressive enhancement as a way to address the existing issues.
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12 Factor App
Craig Kersteins discusses 12 principles underlying Heroku’s approach to deploying applications.
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Entirely Predictable Failures
Poul-Henning Kamp considers that if developers are not getting better, we are going to repeat many of the major IT project failures. He exemplifies with major Denmark project failures.
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Making Things Work Together
Subbu Allamaraju discusses interoperability between web applications using ql.io, an Node.js-based HTTP gateway.
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Innovation: What Every Developer Absolutely Needs to Know
Steve Vinoski discusses innovation and product life cycles, how they affects the market and someone’s products, and what one should know in order to succeed in a very competitive landscape.
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Transforming a 15 Year Old Model-driven Application from C++ to Java
Eric Jan Malotaux shares his experience converting a legacy C++ application to Java, the strategy used, the lessons learned along the way, and the unsolved issues remaining.
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Console Quality Lighting on Mobile Devices
Matt Wash introduces the Geomerics Enlighten framework used by several popular games for generating dynamic lightning scenes and the challenges met porting it to iOS and Android.