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Keynote: 8 Lines of Code
Greg Young discusses eight lines of very common code finding in them massive numbers of dependencies and difficulties, looking for ways to get rid of them.
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Dumb and Dumber: How smart is your monitoring data
Big Data is all the rage right now. Everyone from a social media company to your grandmother's online knitting store is suddenly a big data shop.
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The Future of Mobile Banking
Michael Nuciforo covers the recent history of mobile banking from SMS alerts to Java, then Web and Native apps. It highlights the major trends, key industry players, and consumer expectations.
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Put a UI Developer in a Bank; See What Happens
Horia Dragomir takes a look at how banks are improving their workflow for web based applications and how they have to support everything from the bleeding edge to the old IE browsers.
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How to Turn Startup Ideas into Reality by Taking Money from Strangers
Ian Brookes provides advice to startups on how to convince venture capitalists to invest in their business.
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Sprints, Scala, Scale & Serendipity: Blue Sky Thinking and Washing the Pots on the Road to Success at a Technology Startup
Ian Brookes and Rob Strange recount the journey and relationship of a Tech start-up and its software development partner, with the milestones and millstones along the way.
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Racing Thru the Last Mile: Cloud Delivery Web-Scale Deployment
Alex Papadimoulis discusses various deployment strategies, scalable delivery, with examples from real-world organizations such as AllRecipes.com, Twitter, and Google.
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Extending Cloud Foundry with New Services
Andrew Crump and Chris Hedley discuss extending Cloud Foundry with your own services, including customization at deployment time, and common concerns such as security and user quotas.
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Cooking on Gas: How to Use Chef to Get a Better Cloud Deal
Stephen Nelson-Smith discusses the idea of financial intermediation in cloud computing and explores how to use the Chef cloud automation framework to make it easy to move between cloud providers.
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Clouds in Government - Perils of Portability
Gareth Rushgrove emphasized the importance of cloud portability in a world of Infrastructure and Platform as a Service, offering examples taken from the development of GOV.UK.
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You Are Not a Software Developer! - Simplicity in Practice
Russ Miles shares the patterns and anti-patterns he's observed when teams attempt to really deliver valuable software, imparting principles and practices that guide him when helping teams deliver.
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Confessions of an Agile Addict
Ole Friis Østergaard discusses software development addictions: becoming aware of them, controlling them, getting rid of bad habits by admitting them and changing through practice.