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Actor-based Programming

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Summary

Jamie Ridgway explains what actors are, why we need them, what they are helpful for, the languages built around this programming paradigm, along with some demos showing actor-based apps.

Bio

Jamie Ridgway is currently employed by HP as a SOA architect and has over 16 years of software development experience. He holds BS and MS degrees in Computer Science from the University of Southern Mississippi. His computing interests cover a broad spectrum including SOA, cloud computing, highly concurrent systems, and mobile development.

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Jun 02, 2011

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  • Your message is awaiting moderation. Thank you for participating in the discussion.

    Hello people!

    The presenter was presenting himself ?
    I could not see the slides.
    Next time, be cautious, you have to focus on the slides too.

    Sincerelly.

  • Re: Hidden slides

    by Craig Harris,

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    If you do not maximize the video the slides are shown below the video on the web page.

    The slides change in sync with the video.

  • Re: Hidden slides

    by Qn Yoska,

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    use IE (e.g.), instead of Chrome....

  • Presentation skills?

    by Andrew Joyner,

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    Why are these senior and experienced people so bad at presentations? He's about as engaging as a wet towel. Bullet points and text everywhere, he's reading the slides, bad graphics, no passion, no audience interaction. This is a great example of how to send your audience to sleep. Just give out the slides and sit down, your presence is completely unnecessary until you learn how to present.

  • E language and AsyncScala

    by Constantine Plotnikov,

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    Nice presentation and gives a good overview of Actor-based frameworks.

    But it fails to mention one of most usable languages for asynchronous programming: E (www.erights.org). It uses more fine grained asynchronous components (Actor = Vat in E, asynchronous componets live in Vat) because of this, much there are much more scenarios where memory could be safely shared between components.

    There was a presentation on this language on infoq.com: www.infoq.com/presentations/From-E-to-EcmaScript

    I have also implemented concepts from E in Scala (asyncobjects.sf.net/asyncscala).

  • Re: Presentation skills?

    by Joern Dinkla,

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    This is not true. This is a technical presentation and no marketing bla bla. I like the style.

  • Can't download slides: Access Denied

    by Rajiv Abraham,

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    Hi,
    I can't download the slides,getting an Access Denied Message. I can download the video though. Is this a bug or feature? I am logged on.

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