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Parallel Programming with Node.js
Ryan Dahl presents Node.js, what it is and how to program against it by exemplifying with code samples, and shows how to do highly scalable parallel programming with event-based processes.
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Introduction to Bespin - Mozilla's Web Based Code Editor
Joe Walker explains Bespin, Mozilla’s open source web-based code editor, its architecture and chosen implementation solution, detailing some of its features like collaboration and version control.
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Towards a Universal VM
Alex Buckley presents some of the challenges for JVM to become a universal VM, serving the needs of Java and non-Java languages, static and dynamic languages, and an ever growing number of features.
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Testing C# and ASP.Net Applications Using Ruby
Ben Hall shows how Ruby testing tools can help with .NET and ASP.NET development and takes a look at RSpec, Webrat, Cucumber, Selenium and others. Also: a peek at using IronRuby for testing .NET apps.
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Basking in the Limelight
Micah Martin introduces Limelight, a JRuby GUI library that uses the theater metaphor for writing GUIs. The talk introduces basic concepts, how to style GUIs, and much more.
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Rails in the Large: How Agility Allows Us to Build One Of the World's Biggest Rails Apps
Neal Ford shows what ThoughtWorks learned from scaling Rails development: infrastructure, testing, messaging, optimization, performance.
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Rails 3
Yehuda Katz explains Rails 3: the performance improvements, the new architecture, the influence of Merb, and much more. Also: a look at the Bundler tool.
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The State and Future of JavaScript
Douglas Crockford talks on the history of JavaScript unveiling some of the struggles the Ecma Technical Committee has had in advancing the language over the years, concluding with lessons learned.
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JRuby: You've Got Java in my Ruby
Tom Enebo explains reasons for choosing JRuby: Hotspot optimizations, JVM Garbage Collectors, tools like profilers. Also: how JRuby helps to write cleaner, more expressive code with Java libraries.
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Introduction to SproutCore
Mike Subelsky discusses the SproutCore JavaScript framework, desktop vs browser development, key/value observeration, data bindings, demos, SproutCore features and API, and example SproutCore apps.
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JavaScript: Measuring Performance, Games, and Distributed Testing
John Resig touches three JavaScript issues: performance measuring, creating games and performing distributed testing.
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Developing JavaScript Desktop Applications
Appcelerator's Titanium allows to build and deploy desktop applications which run seamlessly on Windows, OSX and Linux desktops using Javascript and HTML. Also: how Titanium compares with Adobe Air.