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Behind the Mirror
Chris Granger discusses the need for enhancing the learning tools starting from his own experience watching through a mirror people trying to solve problems at Microsoft.
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Building Healthy Distributed Systems
Mark Phillips discusses 3 types of distributed systems and how they run them at Basho: Computer Systems, Communities, and Companies.
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Julia: A Fast Dynamic Language For Technical Computing
Stefan Karpinski and Jeff Bezanson introduce Julia, a Mathlab-like dynamic language with a sophisticated parametric type system supporting multiple dispatch.
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Agile Tribes
Dave Logan discusses why only 7% of organizational tribes are successfully doing Agile and what can be done about it.
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Assessing and Improving Model Quality
Darius Silingas emphasized the need for quality models in MDD, presenting a number of anti-patterns along with best practices for creating them.
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A Gentle Introduction to Ember
Tom Dale demoes creating an RSS reader in Ember.js, a JavaScript framework for creating complex web applications.
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Software for Your Head
Jim McCarthy makes a passionate call for developers to rise up to their call and make their software great, sharing their light with the entire world.
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Is It Really Possible to TDD iOS Apps?
Phil Nash discusses the challenges and practical consideration regarding doing TDD on mobile devices, providing advice for such development on iOS.
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Introduction to Stratos
Paul Fremantle introduces Stratos/Stratos Live, explaining some of the design decision made for it, the tenancy model used, and some of its capabilities.
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Understanding Indexing Without Needing to Understand Data Structures
Zardosht Kasheff suggest using 3 rules for indexing SQL databases: Retrieve less data, Avoid point queries, and Avoid sorting.
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Y Not? - Adventures in Functional Programming
Jim Weirich uses Y-Combinator as a tool to explain the nature of functional programming.
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Expressing Abstraction - Abstracting Expression
Ola Bini attempts to answer a few questions: Why are new languages still being created, Is it worth choosing languages strategically, and Does language actually matter?