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Helen Walton and Pete Burden on Creating the Culture You Want
At QCon London Helen Walton and Pete Burden discussed what it takes to design a collaborative, agile supporting culture in an organisation, if it is possible for large organisations to actually change and what is needed to enable that change. The spoke about the Spark the Change conference and how it is a showcase of organisations that are actually working in new ways.
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Paul Fremantle on Security in Internet of Things
The Internet of Things is becoming a part of our lives right now - we are measuring health, we are connecting to our cars, we can open our front door while being half-way around the globe. And while we can benefit from all the sensors and actors around us, there is also a big risk of losing control and data. Paul Fremantle shares some knowledge on potential threads and what we can do about them.
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Interview with Doug Schaefer on the State of the CDT
Recorded at EclipseCon NA 2015, Doug Schaefer talks to Alex Blewitt about the state of the CDT, including recent advancements into multicore debugging and visualisation as well as programming the Arduino directly. Doug also describes the work done on Wascana to make CDT development on Windows easier as well as the launch bar in Eclipse Mars to help run applications quickly.
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Jenni Jepsen on the Neuroscience Behind Why Agile Works
Jenni explores the neuroscience which shows why agile works, how it links to the factors that motivate people (using the SCARF model) and how leadership at every level and shows how empowering people is necessary for organisational success.
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Ben Linders on Retrospectives and Helping Teams Improve
Ben talks about the value of retrospectives as a technique for teams to improve their processes and achieve better outcomes through continuous improvement and ongoing learning. He says that management support is needed to enable change to be effective. He emphasizes the importance of technical as well as social practices for delivery of valuable software.
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Interview with Eric Cloninger on the Eclipse Andmore Project
Recorded at EclipseCon NA 2015, Eric Cloninger talks to Alex Blewitt about the creation and current status of the Eclipse Andmore project to evolve the Android Development Tooling for Eclipse, based on the Google ADT project that was developed until 2013.
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Matthew Skelton on DevOps and Continuous Delivery Challenges
Matthew Skelton talks about the challenges to DevOps and Continuous Delivery adoption, what's the impact of microservices in this space, how to leverage ITIL, and DevOps team topologies.
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Caitie McCaffrey on Scaling Halo 4 Services, the Orleans Actor Framework, Distributed Programming
Caitie McCaffrey talks about scaling game backend services for Halo 4 and others, stress & performance testing, the Orleans actor framework, and the future of distributed programming.
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Jesper Richter-Reichhelm on the Game Development Process at Wooga
How do you create hits in mobile gaming? Jesper Richter-Reichhelm, Head of Engineering at Wooga, tells us about the challenges of mobile game development. How do you find the right story for a game, what technological base is the right one? And after all, what are the indications that a game might not be a hit which leads to stopping the project even right before global launch?
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Interview with Tom Schindl on the State of Java FX Within Eclipse
Recorded at EclipseCon NA 2015, Tom Schindl talks to Alex Blewitt about the state of Java FX within Eclipse, from being used to create performant GUI tools to rendering the E4 Eclipse IDE with JavaFX as a replacement for SWT.
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Shane Hastie on Distributed Agile Teams, Product Ownership and the Agile Manifesto Translation Program
An interview with Shane Hastie about working effectively in distributed agile teams and making remote working work, why product ownership should be a team sport and how product owners teams can work with development teams and the Agile Manifesto translation program.
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John Graham-Cumming on Polyglot Programming and Geek History
John Graham-Cumming talks about his work at CloudFlare, and being a polyglot programmer there. He also discusses reverse engineering GNU Make, and writing a book about it. The interview also touches on side projects with Arduino and Raspberry Pi, his successful campaign to get Turing pardoned, the project to build Babbage's analytical engine, and his Geek Atlas.