InfoQ Homepage Presentations
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JRuby: The Pain of Bringing an Off-Platform Dynamic Language to the JVM
Charles Nutter discusses bringing JRuby to the JVM, why Ruby is hard to implement, JIT compilation, precompilation, core Ruby implementation, Java library access, library challenges and future plans.
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Testing is Overrated
In this talk from RubyFringe, Luke Francl asks: is developer-driven testing really the best way to find software defects? Or is the emphasis on testing and test coverage barking up the wrong tree?
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VM Optimizations for Language Designers
John Pampuch discusses the HotSpot compiler, the history of Java performance, HotSpot development philosophies and challenges, optimization, JVM library improvements, and tips for better performance.
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Embrace Uncertainty
Jeff Patton explains why one needs to embrace uncertainty in order to succeed with his/her Agile project and how to avoid some of the common mistakes leading to project failure.
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Services & Workflows: SOAP and REST with WCF and WWF
Christian Weyer explains how to create distributed systems using SOAP or REST on top of Windows Communication Foundation (WCF) or Windows Workflow Foundation (WWF).
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Second Life’s Architecture
Ian Wilkes describes the architecture used by the popular game named Second Life at its debut and how it evolved over years as users and features have been added.
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Ian Flint Explains Yahoo! Communities Architectures
Ian Flint tries to explain the infrastructure and architecture employed by Yahoo! to keep going a multitude of servers running of different platforms and offering different services.
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Mike Taulty on Building Rich Internet Applications
Mike Taulty of Microsoft takes developers from XAML to JavaScript when building Silverlight 2 applications and includes demos in both Expression Studio and Visual Studio 2008.
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Ruby.rewrite(Ruby)
In this RubyFringe talk, Reginald Braithwaite writes Ruby code to read, write, and rewrite Ruby. Demos include extending Ruby with conditional expressions, call-by-name and more.
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Fast Bytecodes for Funny Languages
Cliff Click discusses how to optimize generated bytecode for running on the JVM. Click analyzes and reports on several JVM languages and shows several places where they could increase performance.
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Manager's Introduction to Test-Driven Development
Dave Nicolette and Karl Scotland try to introduce non-technical managers to one of the most popular Agile development techniques: Test-Driven Development (TDD).
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How to Work With Business Leaders to Manage Architectural Change
Successful architectures evolve over time to meet changing business requirements. Luke Hohmann presents how to collaborate with key members of your business to manage architectural changes.
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