InfoQ Homepage Presentations
-
Messaging over the Web with WebSocket & JMS
Robin Zimmermann lays out the broad architectural details of server applications with a web-based client exchanging messages over WebSockets and JMS.
-
The Power of Play: Making Good Teams Great
Portia Tung believes that play at work can improve team relationship and can fire up creativity.
-
Building ClojureScript Libraries: Google Closure and Challenges of a Young Language
Creighton Kirkendall introduces Google Closure Tools and the challenges writing a ClojureScript library.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
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.
-
12 Factor App
Craig Kersteins discusses 12 principles underlying Heroku’s approach to deploying applications.
-
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.
-
Making Things Work Together
Subbu Allamaraju discusses interoperability between web applications using ql.io, an Node.js-based HTTP gateway.
-
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.