FitNesse, TextTest & Robot Framework

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Gojko delivered a very informative talk about various agile-testing tools that are typically supportive of the development team and yet very business-oriented at the same time.

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How to run a successful Open Source Project

Featuring Martijn Verburg

Open Source has become an increasingly important methodology for developing software, it can deliver business, technical and social advantages to what is an incredibly difficult discipline. However, many developers and organisations . . .

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Android, An Introductory Workshop

Featuring Carl-Gustaf Harroch

The Android User Group continues this month with an exciting interactive workshop on how to create working Android applications!

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Cloud computing

CloudCamp is global movement comprising end users, IT professionals and vendors, all coming together to further Cloud Computing.

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Phil Trelford: F# Introduction

Featuring Phil Trelford

F# is a new .Net functional programming language that will ship with Visual Studio 2010, with a CTP available right now which integrates with Visual Studio 2008. Functional programming techniques like lambda expressions are increasing in popularity and are being seen in languages like C# and C++...

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How to make a search engine with Lucene.net

Featuring Scott Cowan

Learn how to go beyond Full Text Indexing and offer a scalable solution for searching your data. Using the popular index Lucene.Net Scott Cowan demonstrates various things you might want to use this technology for including document and web search.

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Implementing Scheme in Ruby

Featuring James Coglan

James Coglan is writing a Scheme interpreter in Ruby.

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Treetop

Featuring Roland Swingler

Roland Swingler has been looking at Treetop.

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Ruby FFI

Featuring Sean O'Halpin

Sean O'Halpin will be talking about Ruby FFI, probably using his FFI-ncurses gem to provide some examples.

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Introduction to Ioke

Featuring Ola Bini

To coincide with the release of Ioke E which brings Java integration to Ioke, Ioke's creator Ola Bini will be presenting an introduction to Ioke, the expressive folding language that is inspired by Smalltalk, Ruby and IO.

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A practical introduction to using GWT and Spring Dynamic Modules

Featuring Ben Corrie

OSGi and Web Applications are arguably THE hot topics in Java and Spring development. In this talk Ben Corrie, SpringSource consultant in the UK, will talk through his real world experiences in developing

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MEF - Microsoft's Managed Extensibility Framework

Featuring Hamilton Verissimo de Oliveira

Half day workshop on Microsoft's MEF - Microsoft's Managed Extensibility Framework, presented by Hammett, programme manager for MEF

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Defining and Improving Standard Teamwork

Featuring David Laribee

Working as a team can be a challenge. It's easy to fall into the trap of owning "your feature" or succumb to ego or deadline pressure and live as the specialist; that person that knows, inside and out, the esoteric dark matter of a codebase.

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Towards a New Architect

Featuring David Laribee

Manufacturing companies like Toyota have realized the key to a successful organization was in defining work, eliminating waste, and producing just what's needed, when it's needed...

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F# Tutorial

Featuring Robert Pickering

F# is succinct, efficient and an enormously productive foundational language. In this tutorial you'll learn the basic building blocks for using F# productively and to start having fun with it. We'll show you the language basics and look at how composing functions and immutable data types...

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Mike Bridgen - Application of RabbitMQ

In this talk Mike illustrates how RabbitMQ can be used within a real world application. Mike is working on an application to integrate the feeds that are used within the BBC website

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Alexis Richardson - Introduction to RabbitMQ

In this talk Alexis introduces RabbitMQ, “An open source message broker that just works.” Alexis explains the main reasons why you might need a message broker:

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Tony Garnock-Jones-RabbitMQ Internal Architecture

Following on from Alexis’ talk giving an introduction to RabbitMQ, Tony attempts to explain something of the internal architecture of RabbitMQ. Along with this he also tries to explain how RabbitMQ can be used in federation and in achieving redundancy for high availability

Magnus Henoch - TFL Jouney Angel

Following on from the talk by Tamas on using Erlang within your infrastructure, Magnus presents this introduction to the TFL Journey Angel project. Although the project didn’t get past the prototype stage it is a good illustration of what Erlang

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Tamas Nagy

In this talk, Tamas introduces Erlang and how it can be used within web applications. In order to illustrate this, Tamas explains the XMPP protocol that is extremely easy to use within erlang. One implementation of the XMPP protocol is Ejabberd which currently holds 40% market share among public...

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