InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Agile Project Metrics
The presentation shows how to project realistic completion dates based on empirical observations based on Velocity for iterative methods and on Cumulative Flow for non-iterative methods.
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Systems that Never Stop (and Erlang)
Joe Armstrong on 6 reliability laws, Isolation, Concurrency, Failure Detection, Fault Identification, Live Code Upgrade, Stable Storage, showing how they are respected in Erlang, plus some examples.
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Real-life SOA
Based on real-life cases, Michael Poulin shows how to use 7 service oriented principles to handle service behavior in the execution context and UI changes, and how to prepare for unexpected changes.
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Simplifying Java EE with Grails
Graeme Rocher introduces Groovy and its corresponding web framework, Grails, followed by a code writing demo intended to highlight the advantages of using Grails over Java EE for web applications.
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Agile Distributed Development Done Right Using Fully Distributed Scrum
This talk discusses a number of patterns common for setting up Agile Distributed Development and will show the results that can be achieved once you get into a good Fully Distributed Scrum.
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Functional Programming with a Mainstream Language
Sadek Drobi shows how he applied functional programming principles, like recursion, functions, monads, to a real-life project which needed to meet certain performance requirements.
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Controlling Your Architecture
Magnus Robertsson shows how to control the code architecture to avoid an architectural drift leading to a big-ball-of-mud: peer review, code analysis, and zero tolerance to warnings and errors.
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JavaScript in the Enterprise
Attila Szegedi discusses Javascript in the enterprise, scalability, architectural solutions, continuations, organizational benefits and challenges, code quality, modularity and threading.
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Metrics in an Agile World
Metrics at every level of the Agile organization receive scrutiny: Measuring value, team performance, progress, quality, and even code design attributes will be taken into consideration.
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Real World IronPython
Michael Foord discusses IronPython, the DLR, static vs. dynamic typing, VS.net integration, Resolver One, embedding IronPython, error handling, dynamic operations, and functions as delegates.
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Between the Battleship and the Failwhale
In this talk from FutureRuby, Paul Downman takes a look at scalability - what it is, how to achieve it and which tools and software to use.
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From Good to Great Developer
A good developer writes code quickly but hard to maintain. A great one keeps an eye on the future trying to make sure the code evolves cleanly. Hedgate advices on how to move from good to great.