Performance Analysis on the Android Platform

Featuring Akshay Dashrath

This talk briefly outlines performance analysis using the TraceView tool provided in the SDK as well as analysing heap dumps of the Dalvik VM.

android performance sdk

Flex and Spring Integration:Introducing Spring BlazeDS Integration

Featuring Rick Evans

In this tech talk, Rick Evans will introduce Spring BlazeDS Integration.

flex spring integration

Command Query Responsibility Segregation

Featuring Udi Dahan

More and more developers are starting to use messaging patterns and domain models in their N-Tier architectures. Many are surprised by the added complexity and beginning to wonder - was it worth it?

soa architecture scalability domain-model cqrs architectural-patterns ddd domain-driven-design event-sourcing distributed-computing

Acceptance-Test Driven Development - Bring Developers and Testers Together

Featuring John Smart

In this talk, we will look at how BDD techniques and tools, such as, easyb and FitNesse, can act as drivers for the overall development process, and also as communication tools, giving testers and end-users clear and unambiguous feedback on what is being developed and where it is at in terms of...

tdd bdd easyb fitnesse

Hydra and Hypermedia

Featuring Ian Robinson

In this dungeon delve I'll show how we can use hypermedia-driven Web applications to model rich workflows. We'll tackle the many-headed Hydra of HATEOAS, the “Hypermedia as the Engine of Application State” monster; level up through the Web services maturity heuristic; and meet the dwarves...

hydra hypermedia hateoas

Rack::Cache and associated things

Featuring Thomas Pomfret

ruby

Evolution of Data Models in Rails - Lessons Learned

Featuring Lars Jorgensen

In this podcast, Lars Jorgensen gives a talk on the lessons learned from developing a ruby on rails application for an evolving data model.

ruby-on-rails

Using Websockets with EventMachine

Featuring Ismael Celis

Decorating the Domain - Wrapping Polymorphic Presentation Logic Around the Model

Featuring Brent Snook

ruby bigdata model active record

Show Off, a Ruby-Based HTML Presentation Software

Featuring Joel Chippindale

Joel will talk about Show Off, a ruby-based HTML presentation software. This talk might get a bit meta.

ruby

Fibers in Ruby 1.9

Featuring Murray Steele

Fibers are primitives for implementing light weight cooperative concurrency in Ruby. Basically they are a means of creating code blocks that can be paused and resumed, much like threads.

fibers ruby concurrency

Architecture of Birdpie, a Twitter Application

Featuring Anup Narkhede

Birdpie is a simple Twitter application of storing and viewing the links that you tweet. Anup will introduce the site and the architecture behind it (Rails 3.0, Redis, and Resque).

redis resque ruby twitter client

Bowline: A Ruby GUI Framework

Featuring Alex MacCaw

Bowline is a Ruby GUI framework. You can design and build your applications in an agile way, deploying them cross platform.

ruby

Rails & iPhone Integration

Featuring Paul Ardeleanu

This talk shows you how easy it is to create a 2-way communication channel between a very basic Rails application and an iPhone app.

iphone objectiveresource ruby

Introduction

Featuring Murray Steele

Depending on how many lighning talks there are, we may have time at the start of the meeting for 10-15 minutes of free time for anyone to speak. You don't need to ask for permission or let us know in advance that you have something to say here, just turn up, stand up and say it!

Re-writing Java classes in Scala - and making your code lovely

Featuring Colin Howe

Colin is going to present several java examples and talk people through how you might re-write these in Scala and get a lot of benefits from doing so.

scala functional-programming

Unpanel Discussion

An Unpanel of five distinguished cloud computing practitioners, answer burning question about cloud computing from the auddience.

cloud amazon

Pragmatic Clouds

Featuring Joe Baguley

Joe Baguley discusses the pragmatic clouds.

cloud amazon

Using Cucumber for BDD and Agile Acceptance Testing

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Gojko Adzic, author of our popular Agile Acceptance Testing Workshop, will present Cucumber, a tool for behaviour-driven development and agile acceptance testing. Gojko will demonstrate how to use Cucumber for Java, .NET and Ruby applications, talk about new Cucumber features and best practices...

bdd cucumber agile

Erjang - A Java Hacker in Erlang Land

Featuring Krestan Krab Thorup

For the past few months I have been working passionately on Erjang, a JVM-based virtual machine for Erlang (see http://javalimit.com). In this talk, I will discuss (a) why I am doing this, and (b) how Erjang works.

java erlang jvm