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Stop Using Native HTML5
Kyle Simpson advises on accessing HTML5 or JavaScript native APIs though a façade built with h5ive that would protect the application code from evolving API changes over the following years.
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Building an Impenetrable ZooKeeper
Kathleen Ting details 8 misconfigurations that can bring ZooKeeper down.
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Visual Interfaces in ClojureScript
Kevin Lynagh provides the rationale behind visual interfaces, and presents a sample example written in ClojureScript.
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Doppio: Java Meets Coffee in the Browser
Jez Ng, CJ Carey and Jonny Leahey introduce Doppio, a JVM written in CoffeeScript for the browser.
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Elixir: Modern Programming for the Erlang VM
José Valim introduces Elixir, a programming language for the Erlang VM – an attempt to provide better abstractions and productivity tools like protocols and macros usually required for web development
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Concurrency in iOS
Jeff Kelley introduces the Grand Central Dispatch framework for writing concurrent applications for iOS.
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Graph: Composable Production Systems in Clojure
Jason Wolfe discusses Graph, a declarative approach for system composition, used by Prismatic to put together various components: in-memory caches, pub/sub messaging, indices, HTTP handlers, etc.
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Symbiotic Languages: Transpiling into JavaScript
Jeremy Ashkenas discusses symbiotic languages and transpilers in general, then focuses on a particular case: CoffeeScript vs. JavaScript.
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Deconstructing P vs. NP (or why I hate Sudoku)
Daniel Spiewak discusses the question of whether or not the complexity class NP-time is fully defined by the complexity class P-time issue.
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Clever, Classless and Free
Håkan Råberg introduces Enumerable.java – an extension adding Lambdas to Java 5 – and shen.clj - used to compile Shen, a LISP variant, to Clojure.
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A Taxonomy of Scala
Jamie Allen explains some of the terminology encountered by Scala developers and not only: OO features, pattern matching, functional programming, actors, futures, tuples, implicits, type theory, etc.
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Lessons from Erlang: Principles of Building Reliable Systems
Garrett Smith discusses building reliable systems starting with lessons from Erlang, then outlining a set of principles and the practices for applying them in languages such as Ruby, Python, and Java.
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