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Turning on a sixpence - No excuses: Concept To Cash Every Week
This session shows the technical aspects of what's required to iteratively build a product that always performs, and the skill and discipline needed to deliver software to production every week.
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Persistent Data Structures and Managed References
Rich Hickey talks on identity, state and values. He explains how to represent composite objects as values and how to deal with change and state, as it is implemented in Clojure.
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Three SOA Case Studies - Understanding What to Use and Where
Paul Fremantle presents 3 case studies of organizations which decided to implement SOA. He details on design, architecture, technologies used, and lessons learned during the process.
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Scaling Agile into the Enterprise
We have found a stark and forbidding truth: an Agile team in a non-Agile enterprise will not long survive. What does it take to align an organization to Agile and Lean principles and practices?
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TDD in a DbC World
After presenting some basics of Design by Contract using Microsoft’s SpecSharp framework, Greg Young explains how we can keep the Test First mentality in a Contract First world.
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Parleys.com, a RIA Case Study
Stephan Janssen’s talks about Parleys.com and the technology used: Flex/AIR. He also talks about two technologies that could be used instead, GWT and JavaFX, presenting their pros/cons.
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Transforming the Reconciliation Process
Brian Oliver explains what the Reconciliation Process is, why the current approach to reconciliation based on client-server is no longer suitable and how data grids and events might help.
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RESTful Approaches To Financial Systems Integration
Kirk will present the advantages of a RESTful architecture to develop integrated systems in the financial services arena; leveraging infrastructure, skills, and systems already in place.
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A perception index and its square peg adapter
This presentation addresses aligning and understanding development priorities in terms of business value. Replacing traditional ROI measurements with a "Perception Index" and "Square Peg Adapter."
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Flex and Air in the Trenches
Scott Delap shares his experience creating an application using Flex&Air, speaking on technologies used, tooling and frameworks choices, remoting, testing and integration with the client system.
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Failure Comes in Flavors - Stability Anti-patterns
Michael Nygard encourages us to have a failure oriented mindset. He presents many anti-patterns leading to systems instability and failure, accompanied by design patterns that should be used instead.
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Radical Simplification Through Polyglot and Poly-paradigm Programming
This presentation attacks the problem of software complexity and how various modularity paradigms (e.g., object, functions, aspects) simplify complexity and help separate concerns.