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Better Than BASH: Scripting Kotlin
Oliver Hughes takes a look at some examples of using Kotlin for real-world scripting and automation tasks.
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Scripting with Luerl
Barbara Chassoul introduces Luerl, emphasizing its trade-off as thin skin on top of the BEAM ecosystem.
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Nonconformist Resilience: DB-backed Job Queues
John Mileham presents how they use, deploy Delayed::Job (a database-backed job queue) at Betterment for its transactional enqueue semantics, safe retry with exponential backoff, and its storage model.
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The Netflix API Platform for Server-Side Scripting
Katharina Probst talks about the situations in which server-side scripting is a good solution for applications. She describes Netflix’s first approach, which uses Groovy scripts.
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Scripting Eclipse with Python
Tracy Miranda demonstrates Python with the Eclipse Advanced Scripting Environment (EASE) for collaboration, reproducible research, and exploratory computation and data analysis.
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Oomph: Eclipse the Way You Want It
Ed Merks, Eike Stepper introduce Oomph, its architecture, and how to author a fully automated script that always produces the desired Eclipse development environment.
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Understanding and Using Regular Expressions
Damian Conway discusses what regexes really are, how they actually work, and how programmers can make use of their existing software development skills to construct correct and efficient regexes.
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MythBashers: An Adventure in Overlooked Technologies
Avdi Grimm takes Bash to its limits and beyond.
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Programming in the Cloud - Groovy as an Extension Language for Oracle ADFm
Jim Driscoll discusses using ADFm to create and change Groovy scripts at runtime and debugging a live system with JWDP.
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F# Big Data Scripting
Matthew Moloney shares some of the F# tools built at Microsoft Research for dealing with Big Data.
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The Once And Future Script Loader
Kyle Simpson reviews the script loading history and discusses current script loading techniques and the browser and HTML support for them.
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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.