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Domain Specific Languages in Erlang
This presentation looks at several features of Erlang that make it particularly useful as a platform for creating DSL's. Those features include: message passing and dynamic code loading.
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F# - Succinct, Expressive, Efficient Functional Programming for .NET
Don Syme presents F# basics, a typed functional language for .NET that combines the succinctness, expressivity, and compositionality of functional programming with the runtime support of .NET.
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Behaviour-Driven Development - a road to effective design and clean code
Dan describes a proven "outside-in" approach based on real life experience - engaging with and listening to our stakeholders. .
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Pragmatic Real-World Scala
Jonas Bonér talks about Scala showing the benefits of OO, the type system, closures, high-order functions, immutability, Actors, then using ORM, AOP, DI and Testing with Scala.
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Multicore Programming in Erlang
Ulf Wiger shows typical Erlang programs, patterns that scale well on multicore and patterns that don't, profiling and debugging parallel applications and ensuring correct behaviour with QuickCheck.
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Transcendence and Passing Through the Gate
This presentation will show how agile values, ideas, and practices lead the practitioner to the threshold of transcendence (agile phase three, according to Kent Beck) and then how to "Be Agile."
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Three Years of Real-World Ruby
Martin Fowler talks about ThoughtWorks's experience with using Ruby on client projects for the past three years.
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The Internal Design of Force.com’s Multi-Tenant Architecture
Craig Weissman, Chief Software Architect at Salesforce.com, presents their multi-tenant architecture, one shared database and one application stack, that has proven to scale well over the years.
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Hooking Stuff Together - Programming the Cloud
Gregor Hohpe of Google discusses software as connecting services and components, describes the constraints of connected systems design, and presents common design patterns to solve those constraints.
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Hard Rock: Behind the Music with Silverlight 2
Scott Stanfield presents the Hard Rock Memorabilia web site demoing Silverlight’s Deep Zoom. He also shows other projects to underline some of the Silverlight’s capabilities.
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Haskell and the Arts
This presentation explores the use of Haskell as an art mediumm, specifically the question of whether or note the elegance of functional programming is a good match for the aesthetics of art?
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Erlang Concurrency, What’s The Fuss?
Erlang is built on 3 components: language, OTP, and VM. Francesco Cesarini explains the role played by each component in order to ensure Erlang’s highly successful concurrency model.