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Agile Operations – Optimizing the Business One Shell Script at a Time
Dan North and Chris Read discuss techniques for implementing Agile Operations, a combination of Lean thinking and Agile development meant to optimize the business processes in order to reduce waste.
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Introducing the Ceylon Project
Gavin King introduces Ceylon, a prototype language for the Java Virtual Machine which attempts to combine the strengths of Java with the power of higher order functions and declarative programming.
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Large Scale Integration in Financial Services
John Davies addresses some of the difficulties dealing with FIX, FpML, SWIFT and integration in financial services software industry, challenging some of the canonical models existing today.
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HTML5 Design/Development Tooling + HTML and Flash
Christophe Coenraets demoes some of Adobe’s technologies for producing HTML5 websites, such as Dreamweaver HTML 5 Pack, Browser Lab, Illustrator HTML 5 Pack, "Edge" Project, and Wallaby.
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1000 Year-old Design Patterns
Ulf Wiger advocates for a programming model change based on the actor model which more accurately reflects old human concurrency patterns that we have used in our daily lives for thousands of years.
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Scaling Lean & Agile: Large, Multisite or Offshore Delivery
Craig Larman presents practices and tips related to adoption, structure, requirements, contracts, architecture and design, offshore, multisite development, and coordination with large Scrum teams.
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Java SE: A Youthful Maturity
Danny Coward talks on how Oracle intends to maintain Java in the front line by investing in two features that are trendy today: support for multiple JVM languages and parallel programming.
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Perception and Action: An Introduction to Clojure's Time Model
Stuart Halloway discusses how we use a total control time model, proposing a different one that represents the world more accurately helping to solve some of the concurrency and parallelism problems.
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From Lessons Learned to Lessons Productized
Tim Wagner discusses how the Visual Studio team at Microsoft uses customer feedback to improve the development process, testing and productivity of a 50 MLOC product.
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Actor Thinking
Dale Schumacher explains the actor concept and how it helps us build a computational model resembling the reality around us more accurately than the object-oriented model.
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League of Legends: Scaling to Millions of Ninjas, Yordles, and Wizards
Scott Delap and Randy Stafford explain the architectural decisions made in order to scale, monitor and operate the game League of Legends, bringing insight on how they use Oracle Coherence for that.
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Everything I've Ever Learned, I Learned from Failure
Robert Myers talks about the role played by failure in Agile development, sharing a number of Lean and Agile practices helping to embrace failure and showing how to interpret the feedback received.
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