Experience report: distributed teams meeting agile software delivery

Featuring Nader Talai

Nader Talai presents an experience report on his experiences working with a geographically spread team accross two location in UK and two sites in India.

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SocketStream: a new real time web framework

June meetup for readers of the amazing Hacker News, as well as assorted tech and startup junkies. This talk comes courtesy of AOL developers Owen Barnes and Alan Milford, who will be introducing a new open source real time web framework called SocketStream

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Effective advertising on social networks

Featuring Imran Ghory

June meetup for readers of the amazing Hacker News, as well as assorted tech and startup junkies. This talk comes courtesy of Imran Ghory.

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Eating our own dog food at Tribesports

Featuring Andrew McDonough

June meetup for readers of the amazing Hacker News, as well as assorted tech and startup junkies. This talk comes courtesy of Andrew McDonagh who will be presening on Eating our own dog food at Tribesports.

HTML5 Games

Featuring Andy Boot

June meetup for readers of the amazing Hacker News, as well as assorted tech and startup junkies. This talk will come from Andy Boot who will be demoing Frantic and talking about HTML5 games.

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Simple Social Bookmarks

Featuring Andy Kent

June meetup for readers of the amazing Hacker News, as well as assorted tech and startup junkies. The first talk comes courtesy of Andy Kent from Forward on Simple Social Bookmarks.

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OSGi Development Tooling Panel

Featuring Various Speakers

Development Tooling is often cited as one of the main areas where people encounter difficulties. This is your opportunity to meet with the people behind the tools. You will have the opportunity to share your development challenges and issues and get answers from the experts along with learning...

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Spring Roo

Featuring Jan Machacek

Jan Macháček's Spring Roo talk will introduce the ideas behind Roo and their technical implementation. The talk will show the main architectural choices of the Roo applications, explain the Spring configuration under the hood.

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Chetan Padia on Mocking and Testing

Featuring Chetan Padia

At TouchType, we've come up with a framework to write and run unit tests quickly on Android devices, making our code more rigorous and less buggy. Chetan Padia gives an example of how Guice and Borachio all fits together, and the advantages of this testing framework, and the challenges...

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Szczepan Faber's anti-zombie course for agile automation

Featuring Szczepan Faber

Szczepan Faber -- founder of Mockito -- will be delivering this remote talk on automated configuration and release management especially for the Groovy Grails UG.

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Less (css) is more. Slicker styling for the web.

Featuring Gus Power

In this first talk of the evening, Gus Power will take some existing stylesheets, tame them using less and integrate them with Grails.

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Lightning Talk: Our experience from Java to Scala

Featuring Paul Dale

Elemica has been using Scala for over a year. I will share our development approach, tooling experiences, and do a deep dive into an EDIFACT to xpath parser to demonstrate the power and flexibility of the parser library.

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Lightning Talk: Lift scaffolding from existing database

Featuring Thomas Alexandre

Thomas Alexandre introduces Scalafarm, a tool that helps Enterprise Scala users to boost productivity when they start with the Lift framework by reverse-engineering an existing database into a default CRUD Lift application.

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Lightning Talk: Scala STM

Featuring Dustin Whitney

I've been using Scala STM for about a year -- I'll show why it's useful, how to use it, when to use it, and what pitfalls to avoid when you are using it, and perhaps show it's usage compared to when you'd use actors

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Scala as an Agile Enabler

Featuring Kevin Wright

The topics Kevin will cover include:

-> agile, TDD/BDD, refactoring, continuous integration, iterations, stakeholder communication, developer communication, responsiveness to change, Scala (and how it relates to all of the above)

scala agile tdd bdd refactoring

Hidden NServiceBus Gems

Featuring Udi Dahan

Although NServiceBus has been around for a while, many developers are only familiar with the top-level public API. Join Udi Dahan for a look into some of the lesser known capabilities of NServiceBus that just might save you from having to reinvent the wheel.

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Reactors

Featuring Ingo Maier

Ingo Maier will describe a library-based reactive data-flow extension to Scala which allows a seamless transition from observer-based code to reactive data-flow programs.

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Parallel Collections

Featuring Alex Prokopec

Alex Prokopec will describe how the Parallel Collections were created, how the architecture works, an under-the-bonnet look at their use. Parallel collections provide a simple and intuitive way to utilize the power of multi-core systems for a broad range of problem types.

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ParkBench Panel Discussion at #scalax

Featuring Various Speakers

Experts and community come together for the Sacala eXchange ParkBench Panel Discussion

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Connecting Akka to the rest of the world with Apache Camel

Featuring Martin Krasser

Martin Krasser introduces the Apache Camel integration framework and demonstrates how it is used by Akka actors to exchange messages with other systems over a large number of protocols and APIs.

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