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Mary Had a Little Lambda
Stephen Chin explains how to use some of the new lambda-enabled Java 8 APIs: enhanced collections, functional interfaces, and simplified event handlers.
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Embedded Java and MQTT
Peter Niblett explains what MQTT is and how it compares with HTTP, showing how to program to it in Java and Eclipse Paho, and reporting on the current MQTT standardization status at OASIS.
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3 SHORT TALKS: What Do Techies Know about Recruitment?
The speakers tell stories on recruiting technical people: what they do, what drives their decisions, and why they feel it's important to leave recruitment completely in the hands of the HR department.
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NoHR Hiring
Martijn Verburg and Zoe Slattery explain how to make the best use of community resources to find the ideal employee as well as sharing some horror stories.
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Hire Education - Making Interviews Rock
Trisha Gee and Dan North explain how to effectively assess job candidates, treating them fairly and evenhandedly, gathering evidence to support a hiring, or passing, decision.
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Lean Engineering: Applying Lean Startup Principles at Paypal
Bill Scott details how they introduced Lean into their enterprise technology stack at Paypal.
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Lean'ing at Crowdtap
Kareem Kouddous presents using SOA, JavaScript MVC, continuous deployment and Kanban for the development of 12 applications.
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Building with Lean: A Cross-Functional Pairing Approach
Jono Mallanyk and Ben Burton discuss cross-functional pairing to design for building products quickly and effectively, advising when to use Lean, and tools and techniques they found useful.
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Physical Pi
Romilly Cocking explains how to make Pi interact with the outside world, from flashing LEDs to autonomous robots, with examples of how to connect to lights, motors, and sensors.
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Here Comes Wearable Technology!
Rain Ashford discusses how wearable technology has emerged from its early roots in cybernetics and sci-fi and how projects are developing outside the current bubble of media hyperbole.
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Approximate Methods for Scalable Data Mining
Andrew Clegg overviews methods and provides use cases for performing data sets operations like membership testing, distinct counts, and nearest-neighbour finding more efficiently.
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The Code that Isn't There
Scott Vokes presents some lesser-known data structures and shows how probability distributions and content-addressable storage can become tools to shape global system behavior.
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