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Agility: Possibilities at a Personal Level
Is it time for a truly agile approach to how we work and live our lives? What would that mean? What are the real penalties we are paying for force fitting Industrial Age living into agile development?
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Gallio, a .NET Testing Automation Platform
Jeff Brown presents Gallio, a test automation platform, and MbUnit, a test automation framework for .NET. He shows how DbUnit works on Gallio and talks about the challenges to create such a platform.
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Investment Banking: Technology Space and Integration Issues
John Davies discusses investment banking technology, integration, complex data models, distributed architectures and SWIFT MT to MX migration.
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Teamwork Is An Individual Skill: How to Build Any Team Any Time
You can learn to build any team any time with this foundational framework for leading yourself and others to high levels of ownership behavior, learning, collaboration, and engagement.
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Evolving the Java Language
At QCon London 2008, Neal Gafter discusses language changes being developed for the JDK7; their interactions, how they are conditioned upon pre-existing language design choices, and API design.
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Under The Hood
David Chelimsky takes a look at the Ruby Gems system - and a few very useful Gems: hpricot, builder, mocha, hoe, bones, and more.
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HTTP Status Report
In this QCon presentation, HTTPbis WG chair Mark Nottingham gives an update on the current status of the HTTP protocol in the wild, and the ongoing work to clarify the HTTP specification.
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JRuby: Power on the JVM
In this presentation from QCon London, Ola Bini shows how JRuby is implemented, how it's optimized and what it can be and what it is used for.
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Transparency: A Great Leap Forward or Exposed Artery?
Agile propagandists make great claims about the advantages of being transparent about the state of their projects. But is this true? Surely Transparency is just not pragmatic?
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10 Ways to Improve Your Code
Neal Ford, an architect at ThoughtWorks, shows 10 ways to write better code. This is practical advice for developers, but application architects can benefit from it too.
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Google Data API (GData)
The Google Data API (GData) provides a query language and Atom to provide search, read, and update capabilities to Google assets, including Calendar, Blogger, Picasa, CodeSearch, and Google Base.
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Application Services on the Web: SalesForce.com
Dave Carroll describes Force.com as a platform for creating enterprise applications in the Cloud using web service APIs, server side logic, service oriented application support and ALM services.
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