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Steve Freeman On TDD: How Do We Know When We’re Done?
In this presentation filmed during QCon 2007, Steve Freeman, an independent consultant, talks about TDD, why is it helpful and gives an example on doing it.
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Configuring the Spring Container
Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Framework, the Spring philosophy, configuring Spring, XML configuration, Annotation-based configuration, Spring JavaConfig, and mixing configuration types.
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Is the Web "Good Enough" for Web Services?
In this presentation, recorded at QCon London, Paul Downey talks about the Web, its architecture and its suitability for creating systems as opposed to the world of SOAP/WSDL-based Web services.
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Agile Project Lifecycle: User Stories and Release Planning
In this presentation recorded during QCon London 2007, Rachel Davies, director of Agile Alliance, talks about the Agile development cycle starting with user stories and planning the releases.
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Getting Started with Grails
Jason Rudolph discusses Java/Grails integration, Grails plugins, creating a Grails sample application, Grails app structure, data querying and persistence, validation, controllers and tag libraries.
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Business Natural Languages Development in Ruby
Jay Fields presents his concept of Business Natural Languages - a type of Domain Specific Languages geared towards being readable by domain experts.
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Voca, UK's largest payment processing engine running Spring
William Soo and Meeraj Kunnumpurath discuss the Voca transaction processing system, architectural challenges and requirements, Voca's Spring/J2EE architecture, and the future SEPA architecture.
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Patterns for securing architectures
Security is about trade-offs. Only a few have the expertise to design good security. This talk focuses on Security Patterns, such as Role-based Access Control, Single Access Point, and Front Door.
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Conquering XML with LINQ in Visual Basic 9.0
This session will cover LINQ and the XML API including abstractions presented in Visual Basic 9.0. It will cover tips, tricks, and gotchas when programming against XML with Visual Basic 9.0.
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JRuby: Not Just Another JVM Language
Charles Nutter discusses JRuby features, the JRuby compiler, calling between Java and JRuby, Swing and JRuby, JRuby web applications, JRuby on Rails, persistence, build automation, TDD and BDD.
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SOA Driving IT from the business
In this presentation, recorded at QCon London, Steve Jones explains his ideas on why IT is fundamentally broken, and how business-driven SOA might be a cure.
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Laurence Moroney on Silverlight
In this presentation Laurence Moroney discusses Silverlight, a subset of the WPF that runs in the major web browsers as a plugin. Laurence provides an overview and roadmap for Silverlight.
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