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UI: The Functional Final Frontier
David Nolen introduces Om, a ClojureScript library providing a functional layer on top of Facebook React for building MVC UIs.
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TypeScript - Scaling up JavaScript
Jonathan Turner covers the challenges with growing and maintaining large JavaScript applications and how TypeScript addresses them.
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The State of Speech Recognition on Mobile
Simon MacDonald explains how to use speech recognition effectively on mobile platforms, covering the W3C Web Speech API specification and its current implementation status.
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The State of Hybrid Mobile Development
TJ VanToll takes a look at where the hybrid ecosystem is today, and where it's heading, trying to evaluate if the ecosystem is growing or shrinking.
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The Product Design Sprint and Test-Driven Design
Alex Baldwin explains the exercises used in the 5 phases of a Design Sprint: Build, Diverge, Converge, Prototype, and Test.
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The Pivotal Way
Josh Knowles shares thoughts on the strong engineering culture which has made the Pivotal Labs team successful, taking a look at how things have evolved over the past 20 years.
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Software is Dead; Long Live Software!
Peter Wang keynotes on the existential question of what software "is", in an age when hardware ranges from smartphones to bacterial DNA to data centers, and what developers can do today about it.
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The Idea Stack: Finding Your Product Vision
Josh Wexler takes participants through the Idea Stack exercises and use case studies, illustrating how to build a vision for a product before developing it.
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The Functional Programming Concepts in Facebook's Mobile Apps
Adam Ernst shows how his team at Facebook encountered spiraling complexities and declining reliability and decided to make the shift to functional, in the data model and the view layer of News Feed.
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TestOps: Continuous Integration when Infrastructure is the Product
Barry Jaspan describes how they test Acquia Cloud, a large PaaS and DevOps project, and what they have learned over several years of developing those tests.
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The Business Value of IT in Today's Digital World
Joe Weinman, the author of Cloudonomics, argues that IT is the weapon of choice in today's global marketplace and increasingly digital world.
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Spike Lean Visual Design Directly into Your Live Style Guide
Ward Penney discusses a few tools, benefits and war stories surrounding Live Style Guides.