InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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The Lazy Learner
Chris Matts discusses ways of learning - Kolb’s Circle of Learning, Meme Wombling, Hangover – with a focus on the cycle starting from Unconscious Incompetence to Conscious Competence.
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Fast Mobile UIs - You’re an Edge Case
Horia Dragomir offers tips on creating responsive UIs on mobile platforms along with advice on several pitfalls that need to be avoided.
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Erlang Embedded - Concurrent Blinkenlights and More!
Omer Kilic discusses challenges in today’s embedded systems, how Erlang can help in that domain and the current state of Erlang and plans for it regarding embedded systems.
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Asynchronous Programming on the Server and the Client in F#
Tomas Petricek demoes server-side and client-side asynchronous programming with non-blocking code and without inversion of control in F#.
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Unlocking Your Inner Node.js with Windows Azure
Glenn Block demoes deploying Node.js apps with npm to Windows Azure, leveraging storage and service bus services.
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Namespaces, Vars, and Symbols (Oh, My!)
Craig Andera explains how some of the main Clojure constructs – namespaces, vars, symbols – are processed during the read and eval phases of the compilation.
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Testing Mobile Apps
Julian Harty covers various challenges and practices for testing applications for mobile devices.
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Technical Debt, Process and Culture
Michael Feathers advices on creating an organizational process and culture that can enhance software development in a way that reduces technical debt.
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Mission: Impossible–Purely Declarative User Interface Modeling
Achim Demelt discusses creating a UI using a completely declarative DSL called S4 without flow control, events or data binding.
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Hadoop: Scalable Infrastructure for Big Data
Parand Tony Darugar overviews Hadoop, its processing model, the associated ecosystem and tools, discussing some real-life uses of Hadoop for analyzing and processing large amounts of data.
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Keynote: The Vision of Windows Azure
Yossi Dahan introduces Windows Azure, the platform and its main capabilities, detailing on services, VMs, data management, CDN, caching, messaging and business analytics features provided.
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Caching, NoSQL & Grids - What the Banks Can Teach Us
John Davies shares insight into SQL, NoSQL, grid, virtualization and caching technologies from his personal experience using them in financial institutions.