InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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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.
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The evolving Guardian.co.uk architecture
This presentation covers how to rapidly evolve a web site that receives over 25 million unique users and 218 million page impressions a month using a "just in time" approach to architecture.
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Ning.com building a platform of social networks
Jay Parikh will discuss various aspects of the software and systems that make up the Ning platform. Ning powers over 500,000 social networks and is one of the fastest growing Internet sites.
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Situation Normal, Everything Must Change
Simon Wardley explains the commoditization of IT through cloud computing: why it is happening, the impact on IT, benefits and risks, managing risks, and he presents a canonical vision on the cloud.
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Null References: The Billion Dollar Mistake
Tony Hoare introduced Null references in ALGOL W back in 1965 "simply because it was so easy to implement", says Mr. Hoare. He talks about that decision considering it "my billion-dollar mistake".
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Document Based Services at British Airways
Mike Daley and Stewart Marshall present the ba.com architecture, the challenges faced to build it, and the tools used. They describe how they created an SOA comprising document-based services.