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Chris McMahon on Open Software Testing at Wikipedia
Chris McMahon discusses radically open source testing at Wikipedia and has put out a call for the testing community to participate, as well as discussing approaches to browser test automation.
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Felix Klock II on Parallel JavaScript
Felix Klock II explains Parallel JavaScript (née RiverTrail): how it brings parallelism to JavaScript, what data structures and types it supports, how it relates to ECMAScript 6 specs and much more.
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Software Engineer Panos Astithas of Mozilla on Debugging Tools and Open Source
JavaScript expert Panos Astithas discusses the latest trends in mobile app development. The tools that Panos employs in his work as Software Engineer at Mozilla help to keep their applications as bug-free and smooth running as possible. Effective debugging is all about having the best developer tools available.
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Netflix's Reactive Programming Model via Rx
Netflix leverages reactive system concepts to produce highly interactive and engaging User Interfaces. By using functional programming, Rx, and an intentional training method, they are able to ramp up their developers to produce reactive code quickly and with few bugs. Jafar explains how Netflix established this practice and gives a few pointers as to how your company can start its own.
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Tom Dale on Ember and JavaScript Frameworks
Tom Dale, co-creator of the Ember JavaScript MVC framework, discusses the past, present and future of the framework. He also addresses the proliferation of JavaScript frameworks and libraries and how he deals with critics in the JavaScript community.
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Keith Adams on PHP at Facebook, Efficient PHP with HHVM, Optional Typing with Hack
Keith Adams explains how/where/why Facebook uses PHP, PHP's benefits (lack of state/programmer workflow/concurrency), efficient PHP with HHVM, the Hack project for optional typing PHP and much more.
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Content Security Policy with Mike West
The Content Security Policy specification is a mechanism web applications can use to mitigate a broad class of content injection vulnerabilities, such as cross-site scripting (XSS). Content Security Policy is a declarative policy that lets web developers inform the client about the sources from which the application expects to load resources.
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Andrew Prentice and Jo Cranford on Testing and Development at Atlassian
Andrew Prentice and Jo Cranford talk about testing and development approaches at Atlassian, in particular the role of Quality Assistance and approaches to effectively testing JavaScript.
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Matt Debergalis on Meteor
Matt DeBergalis explains Meteor, a JavaScript application platform, how Meteor ties the client and the server together with WebSockets, the DB integration with MongoDB, reactivity, and more.
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Kevin Moore on Dart
Kevin Moore explains the motivations behind Dart, the status of the Dart language and VM, the Dart library ecosystem and much more.
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Interview with Sven Efftinge on Xtend and Xtext
Sven Efftinge talks with Alex Blewitt at EclipseCon 2013 in Boston about Xtend, a Java-compatible language which, and Xtext, a general DSL and IDE editor framework. Read on to find out more.
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Ben Christensen on Resilience at Netflix with Hystrix, Reactive Programming for the JVM with RxJava
Ben Christensen explains how Netflix manages to stay online even with millions of users, the Hystrix fault tolerance library, how Netflix discovered reactive programming and why it ported Rx to Java.