InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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Agile by the Numbers: What People Are Really Doing in Practice
This talk summarizes the results of 4 years of industry surveys around agile technique adoption and effectiveness. Reality can be very different from the rhetoric in mailing lists, articles and books.
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Integration Tests Are a Scam
Integration tests are a scam, they burden you with long-running, fragile, hard-to-understand test suites. Learn the two-pronged attack that solves the problem: collaboration tests and contract tests.
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Managing Mixed Java & .Net Development Projects
Giles Davies and Richard Erwin explain how to work in a mixed development environment, .NET and Java, by using TFS to manage the projects and using Visual Studio and Eclipse as IDEs.
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CouchDB in a Real-World Setting
Jan Lehnardt allures the audience to use CouchDB for their web projects by presenting some of its most helpful features that are appropriate for such a task.
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Cultures Where Agile Emerges
Agile practices emerge in a collaborative environment. Pollyanna presents the steps leaders for emerging agile methods.
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Web-Oriented Architecture
Dion Hinchcliffe presents the WOA technologies: RESTful services, linked data ecosystems, mashups, cloud computing, open APIs, and productivity-oriented software development models.
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Ruby Go Mobile Web
This talk from FutureRuby shows how to create device neutral mobile applications with PhoneGap using HTML5 and Javascript, while still getting access to device features like the camera.
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Strategic Design - Responsibility Traps
Eric discusses the need for strategic thinking and how early design decisions can affect project and organization trajectories and why they involve much more than mere architecture.
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Extreme Productivity in Application Development with Roo
Ben Alex demonstrates the creation of an enterprise Java application using Roo, a SpringSource open code generation tool, intended to help developers to be more productive without losing flexibility.
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Forging ahead - Scaling the BBC into Web/2.0
Dirk-Willem discusses the change program underway at the BBC - empowering the creative community in the use of dynamic technologies, web/2.0 and social networking in order to talk to their audience.
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The Power of Native Transactions
Juergen discusses transactions, the different types of transactions, the supposed universality of XA transactions and the alternative of using native transactions using the Spring framework.
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Creating DSLs in Oslo
Amanda Laucher talks about Oslo and its tools, Intellipad, M.exe – the M Compiler, MB.exe – MGrammar Compiler, and how they can be used to create a DSL. She demonstrates the creation of a demo DSL.