InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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TDD in a DbC World
After presenting some basics of Design by Contract using Microsoft’s SpecSharp framework, Greg Young explains how we can keep the Test First mentality in a Contract First world.
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Parleys.com, a RIA Case Study
Stephan Janssen’s talks about Parleys.com and the technology used: Flex/AIR. He also talks about two technologies that could be used instead, GWT and JavaFX, presenting their pros/cons.
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Computing Strategy in the Cloud Era
Lew Moorman is an advocate of the cloud. For him the Cloud is a movement and a technology, the Cloud is for everyone but not for everything, and the Cloud should be part of a computing strategy.
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Transforming the Reconciliation Process
Brian Oliver explains what the Reconciliation Process is, why the current approach to reconciliation based on client-server is no longer suitable and how data grids and events might help.
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RESTful Approaches To Financial Systems Integration
Kirk will present the advantages of a RESTful architecture to develop integrated systems in the financial services arena; leveraging infrastructure, skills, and systems already in place.
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A perception index and its square peg adapter
This presentation addresses aligning and understanding development priorities in terms of business value. Replacing traditional ROI measurements with a "Perception Index" and "Square Peg Adapter."
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Flex and Air in the Trenches
Scott Delap shares his experience creating an application using Flex&Air, speaking on technologies used, tooling and frameworks choices, remoting, testing and integration with the client system.
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Failure Comes in Flavors - Stability Anti-patterns
Michael Nygard encourages us to have a failure oriented mindset. He presents many anti-patterns leading to systems instability and failure, accompanied by design patterns that should be used instead.
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Radical Simplification Through Polyglot and Poly-paradigm Programming
This presentation attacks the problem of software complexity and how various modularity paradigms (e.g., object, functions, aspects) simplify complexity and help separate concerns.
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Implementing REST Web Application Architectures
This presentation addresses the support for REST in Spring MVC from the perspective of a web application developer, including: URI templates, content-negotiation, and other RESTFul concepts.
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Deliberate Practice in Software Development
This talk covers Deliberate Practice in Software Development, a.k.a. the theory behind craftsmanship. Areas covered include nature vs nurture, the value of practice, & elements of deliberate practice.
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I Come to Bury Agile, Not to Praise It
Agile came from small, colocated projects in the 1990s. Agile development now sits in a larger landscape and should be viewed accordingly. This talk discusses the new, larger agile development space.