InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Standards are Great, but Standardisation is a Really Bad Idea
Paul Downey covers the risks of premature standardisation, partial implementations and open extensions, cloud computing lock-in, and formal activities vs lightweight open processes like open source.
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Kanban Adoption at SEP
We will explore how Kanban teams at SEP matured through the lens of the Dreyfus Model for Skill Acquisition.
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Transc/Ending Encoding
In this talk recorded at FutureRuby, Collin Miller explains the problems of encoding programs as text and takes a look at promising solutions such as Intentional Programming.
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Hacking Selenium
Jason Huggins covers why Selenium exists, Selenium as a functional testing tool, problems with using Selenium, Selenium history, Selenium components, issues encountered and Selenium hacks/workarounds.
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JRuby, Duby, and Surinx: Building a Better Ruby
Charles Nutter discusses JRuby, invokedynamic, JRuby performance, Duby, Duby syntax, future Duby plans, Surinx, the motivation for making Duby and Surinx, and how Duby and Surinx are helping JRuby.
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The Tyranny of "The Plan"
Predictability in the face of variability comes from establishing a reliable workflow and coupling it with pull scheduling. It comes from creating an adaptive, learning system, not a planned system.
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Scaling Software Agility: Best Practices for Large Enterprises
Dean Leffingwell describes how agile methods are being successfully applied to enterprise-class development.
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Lessons Learned From Java EE’s Evolution
Rod Johnson talks about Java’s evolution, in particular J2EE, presenting the lessons to be learned from its failures, preparing to avoid such mistakes in the future.
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Five Considerations for Software Architects
Kevlin Henney does not make recommendations for architecting software but rather brings into discussion 5 considerations useful to be reflected upon: economy, visibility, spacing, symmetry, emergence.
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BDD & DDD
Dan North gives an overview of Domain Driven Design and Behavior Driven Development then ties them together for a powerful mix.
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Failure: An Illustrated Guide
Avi Bryant explains the iterative process that led to the concept, implementation, and UI of Trendly (http://trendly.com/ ), using Smalltalk, Javascript, Ruby and Java in the process.
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Real Time Web with XMPP
After an introduction to XMPP, Jack Moffitt presents Strophe, a library for writing XMPP clients, and he demonstrates sample code showing how to program against it.