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Reinventing Rackspace: Agile-techture - Nimble Cloud Engineering
Wayne Walls discusses how Rackspace does cloud based on OpenStack, touching: open source, cloud on cloud, continuous delivery, and open API.
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Rust
Dave Herman talks about Mozilla Rust and some of the features that make it safe, concurrent, and fast.
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Culture-hacking the Open-source Movement
Eric Steven Raymond advices on building cultures within organizations drawing examples from the open source culture hacking he was part of.
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Anarchy, Cooperation and the Bazaar
Ola Bini discusses using open source in distributed teams from a sociological, political, and organizational point of view, providing some lessons useful in daily development.
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Stratos: Open Source Platform-as-a-Service
Paul Fremantle discusses the benefits of using an open PaaS, detailing in this context the services provided by Stratos and StratosLive.
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The Evolution of PaaS
Paul Fremantle presents the evolution of PaaS, the differences between implementations, and various features: language support, deployment model, multi-tenancy, openness, plug-ability, services, etc.
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Cloud Foundry: Design and Architecture
Derek Collison discusses the goals, the design premises and patterns employed in creating the architecture of Cloud Foundry, VMware’s open source PaaS, unveiling internal architectural details.
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Effective Use of FindBugs in Large Software Development Efforts
William Pugh explains how to use FindBugs, a Java static code analysis tool, to discover bugs. The talk covers general issues regarding code bugs with advice on how to make sure you get rid of them.
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Orion: Software Development in the Browser
Boris Bokowski introduces Orion, a web-based development tool, explaining its design principles: integrating several Internet technologies, such as HTTP, REST, JSON, OAuth, OpenID, and others.
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Q&A on Mono with Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman
Miguel de Icaza and Nat Friedman answer questions on Mono: Xamarin, the deal with Novell, packaging, iOS 5, Lion, Android, licenses, MVC3, WCF, Mono phone, MonoDevelop, and others.
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Visual Studio v. Eclipse: a Comparison of Automation Tooling
Ian Goodsell presents the methodology for creating Eclipse and Visual Studio-based toolkits, and introduce Visual Studio Pattern Automation Toolkit, a toolkit for toolkit developers.
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Heresy & Heretical Open Source: A Heretic's Perspective
Douglas Crockford presents a debate existing around XML and JSON, and the negative effect of the Intellectual Property laws on open source software.