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Cyber-dojo: Executing Your Code for Fun and Not-for Profit!, Part 1
Jon Jagger introduces cyber-dojo.org, an open source environment for practicing programming, demoing its features and discussing its history, design, underlying technology, difficulties and future.
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Agile Apocrypha and an Ad-hoc Manifesto
Harrold and Redington present a survey of the cults, sects and heresies they’ve encountered while working with people "doing agile", culminating in their formulation of a new "ad-hoc" Agile manifesto.
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Rapid Product Design in the Wild
Michele Ide-Smith discusses the benefits and pitfalls of doing live design in front of potential customers and competitors, and challenges faced using Lean UX within a centuries-old institution.
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The Rationale for Continuous Delivery (or What Does ‘Good’ Look Like?)
Dave Farley looks at a history littered with inefficient processes resulting in poor quality and failed projects, wondering how we got here, what can be done and what does good really look like?
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Design: A Tricky Business
Hannah Tometzki shares advice from experience on going through the hurdles of project design - customers dragging their feet, rekindling waning enthusiasm and handling distractions.
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Creative/designer/developer Relationships in a Device Agnostic Landscape
John Skinner debates the web designer-developer roles in today’s agile technology environment, arguing that it is time to redefine these roles.
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C# 6 - The Future Is (nearly) Here!
Jon Skeet demonstrates C# 6’s new features, showing how they’ve made the Noda Time code base cleaner, and then takes a look at how he’s been using Roslyn to check his code more thoroughly.
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Web vs Native: Where Are We Now?
Ruth John discusses about the browser, it’s emerging technologies and how much mobile technology has changed the direction of the web, when to go “web” and when to stay “native”.
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Understanding Cloud, Big Data, Mobile and Security – Do They Play Nicely Together?
Colin Mower discusses the challenges met using together Cloud, Big Data, Mobile and Security and how these can work together to achieve business value.
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Developing Passion, in Many Senses
Jon Skeet keynotes on developers’ passion for their craft, how to find, nurture and enjoy it, how to balance work and life activities, when to step back, and if too much passion can be a problem.
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Applied API Design
Jon Skeet provides practical advice on designing APIs using immutability, separation of concerns and other principles, resulting in elegant and reusable code.
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The Microsoft Cloud OS Data Platform
Anthony Saxby introduces the new capabilities added to SQL Server, SQL Server PDW and HDInsight in the first half of 2014.