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Lean & Mean Tokyo Cabinet Recipes
In this FutureRuby talk, Ilya Grigorik explores Tokyo Cabinet's features such as the key-value store, ordered traversal, attribute search, schemaless data structures,indexing, and scripting with Lua.
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Between the Battleship and the Failwhale
In this talk from FutureRuby, Paul Downman takes a look at scalability - what it is, how to achieve it and which tools and software to use.
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Domain Specific Languages - What, Why, How
Ola Bini makes an introduction to DSLs explaining what they are and aren’t, what they are useful for, how to implement an internal/external DSL in Java and why are DSLs and Ruby so related.
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Cucumbered
In this talk from FutureRuby, Joseph Wilk gives an introduction to the BDD framework Cucumber and gives valuable tips for getting it adopted and used by customers and developers.
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Failure Comes in Flavors - Stability Anti-patterns
Michael Nygard encourages us to have a failure oriented mindset. He presents many anti-patterns leading to systems instability and failure, accompanied by design patterns that should be used instead.
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Ruby Go Mobile Web
This talk from FutureRuby shows how to create device neutral mobile applications with PhoneGap using HTML5 and Javascript, while still getting access to device features like the camera.
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Buy a Feature: An Adventure in Immutability and Actor
This presentation discusses the functional programing paradigms used to build Buy a Feature, (a multi-user, web-based, real-time, serious game), including Actors, event streams, Scala and lift.
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Lift Web Framework
This presentation discusses Scala (a hybrid Object Oriented and Functional language) and Lift, and how many Lift features are based on Scala pattern matching and functional composition.
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Programming and Minimalism
In this talk from FutureRuby, Jonathan Dahl talks about minimalism and clarity in writing and how to use these principles in programming.
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Introduction to Cappuccino
Francisco Tomalsky introduces Objective-J, an Objective-C inspired language on top of Javascript, and the Cappuccino framework built with it, which were used to create http://280slides.com
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Flying Robots
In this talk from FutureRuby, Damen and Ron Evans' flying_robot project controls an Unmanned Aerial Vehicles (UAV, a blimp in this case) with Ruby and Arduino.
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Version Control: Blood, Brain & Bones
Usain Bolt revealed his nutrition sources: KFC, McDonald's & Chinese Food. If the world's fastest man doesn't eat healthy food, why should programmers? Because programmers know about Version Control!
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