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The Case for Evolvable Software
Stephanie Forrest believes in the possibility to create evolvable software through automated bug repair, optimizing or improving code and creating new combinations of existing functionality.
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Agile Development: Overcoming a Short-term Focus in Implementing Best Practices
Karthik Dinakar presents a case study showing that trying to reach short-term goals by ignoring some practices can lead to long-term failures, how they recovered and recommends some best practices.
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Using RESTful Web Services and Cloud Computing for Next-Generation Mobile Applications
Jason H Christensen presents the evolution of mobile devices, how to integrate mobile systems with the cloud and use RESTful services, what is a basic mobile architecture and how it can be implemented
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Making SOA Work in a Healthcare Company
Brian Nicks tells the lessons learned by a healthcare company which inherited many technologies from Java to .Net to RPG to CICS to COBOL, deciding that the integration solution was to implement SOA.
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Scrub & Spin: Stealth Use of Formal Methods in Software Development
Gerard Holzmann discusses Spin, a design analyzer tool, and Scrub, a code review tool, used by Jet Propulsion Laboratory to analyze and fix the software used for solar system exploration missions.
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Facebook: Moving Fast at Scale
Robert Johnson talks about: the need to prepare for horizontal scalability, very short release cycles associated with a streamlined deploying process, and making the entire process faster every day.
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OOPSLA Keynote: The Power Of Abstraction
In a reprise of her ACM Turing Award lecture, Barbara Liskov discusses the invention of abstract data types, the CLU programming language, the Liskov Substitution Principle, and future challenges.
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Community Performance Optimization: Making Your People Run as Smoothly as Your Site
Brion Vibber discusses the challenges of working with user communities, social bottlenecks, scalability of software vs communities, new approaches to scaling communities, and remaining challenges.
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Practice-based Design: Some Object Lessons
In this OOPSLA 2008 session, Lucy Suchman teaches 8 lessons about objects showing how they can influence project design.
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DSLs: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly
In this panel recorded during OOPSLA 2008, the panelists talk about the benefits and drawbacks of using DSLs.
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The Evolution of Lisp
Guy L. Steele Jr. and Richard P. Gabriel reenact their presentation called “The Evolution of Lisp” which took place during ACM History of Languages Conference in 1993.
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Community-Based Innovation: From Sports Equipment to Software
Sonali K. Shah talks about innovations produced by community users. Contrary to the general perception, most innovations are not created by firms but by individuals.
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