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Basking in the Limelight
Micah Martin introduces Limelight, a JRuby GUI library that uses the theater metaphor for writing GUIs. The talk introduces basic concepts, how to style GUIs, and much more.
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Open Source at Unibet.com - 10x Scalability at Half the Cost
Stefan Norberg presents Unibet.com’s architecture which uses XHTML 1.0, CSS 2.1, YUI, caching, compression, image spriting, and CDN striping for front-end plus multiple replicas for scaling out.
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QCon SF Keynote: Techie VC's Talk About Trends & Opportunities
Kevin Efrusy and Salil Deshpande talk about what makes a business successful or not, presenting three actual cases they have been involved with: Hyperic, G2One, SpringSource.
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Security for the Services World
Chris Riley presents security issues threatening service based systems, examining security threats, presenting measures to reduce the risks, and mentioning available security frameworks.
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Navigating The Rapids:Real-World Lessons in Adopting Agile
This talk investigates technical issues encountered when moving to an Agile process.
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Codename "M": Language, Data, and Modeling, Oh My!
Don Box and Amanda Laucher present “M”, a declarative language for building data models, domain models or external DSLs. Don Box's demos show some of M’s features and latest changes of the language.
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7 Fundamentals of Mission-Critical Service Testing
Schneider on 7 service testing fundamentals: thoroughly testing, large amounts of realistic data, security testing, high productivity, tracking test results, realistic loads, and proper governing.
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Pragmatic F# in Action
Amanda Laucher and Josh Graham introduce the audience to F# basics showing some of its main features, emphasizing what makes it better than imperative languages, and also showing F# code samples.
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Rails 3
Yehuda Katz explains Rails 3: the performance improvements, the new architecture, the influence of Merb, and much more. Also: a look at the Bundler tool.
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LinkedIn: Network Updates Uncovered
Belkin and Dawson discuss LinkedIn’s requirements, then the internal architecture of the social network, presenting the service API, especially Network Updates, and the applications built on them.
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Facebook’s Petabyte Scale Data Warehouse using Hive and Hadoop
Ashish Thusoo and Namit Jain explain how Facebook manages to deal with analysis of 12 TB of compressed new data everyday with Hive’s help, an open source data warehousing framework built on Hadoop.
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The State and Future of JavaScript
Douglas Crockford talks on the history of JavaScript unveiling some of the struggles the Ecma Technical Committee has had in advancing the language over the years, concluding with lessons learned.
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