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Scaling Hibernate
Emmanuel Bernard and Max Ross talk about patterns and practices used to achieve high volume and scale with Hibernate. They also explains Hibernate Shards and Search to push the scalability limits.
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Merb: When Flexibility and Performance Matter
In this talk, Matt Aimonetti talks about the ideas and concepts behind Merb - and the reasons why it's appealing: speed, modularity and more.
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Measure for Measure
This session surveys emerging evidence that we can measure the effect of the technical practices of Agile development, and explores what we might be able to do about it to our benefit.
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What Happens When David Hasselhoff Meets the Cloud
Stefan presents a roadmap for moving to a cloud computing environment - specifically the AWS cloud platform - based on his experience at Soocial.
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Kent Beck: Just You Wait
Kent Beck takes a look at trends and how they affect us. Communication, simplification, unintended consequences, disappearing models, and new approaches of design and tests are examined.
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The Science of Computing and the Engineering of Software
Sir C.A.R. Hoare discusses the relationship between the science of computing and the engineering of software with science supplying theory and engineering, principles, practices, and results.
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Adopting Agile Practices
Amr Elssamadisy explains choosing the best practices for your organization depends on its context and it's highest priority business values and/or smells.
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Functions + Messages + Concurrency = Erlang
This highly technical presentation discusses Erlang and three models of concurrent programming along with challenges posed by concurrency and how Erlang resolves them.
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Responsive Design
Kent Beck shares the importance of a programmer's intention to design and a small set of strategies he uses when designing.
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AtomServer: The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution
Chris Berry & Bryon Jacob presented the Atom Syndication Format, the Atom Publishing Protocol, the Atom Stores, the AtomServer and how they can be used by giving a concrete example.
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Eclipse, Mylyn and the TFI
This presentation provides an overview of Mylyn's task management features including offline editing, background synchronizations, change notifications, and extending Mylyn's frameworks.
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Democratic Political Technology Revolution
This presentation explores the radical evolution in political technology 2004-2008 and how political start-ups built innovative social applications that raised $1/2 billion and elected a President.