Scalable Reasoning on RDF Documents with Hadoop and HBase

Featuring Michele Catasta

Michele Catasta gave a talk on Scalable Reasoning on RDF Documents with Hadoop and HBase.

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Introducing Apache Mahout

Featuring Isabel Drost

Mahout's goal is to build scalable, Apache licensed machine learning libraries. Initially, the interest is on building out the ten machine learning libraries...

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Groovy for Java Developers

Featuring Russel Winder

In this session, Russel Winder provides a great introduction to Groovy. His aim is to convince you that if you want a language other than Java, all you need is Groovy. After a brief introduction to the origins of Groovy and its main purpose . . .

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Practical MapReduce

Featuring Tom White

MapReduce is a programming model and an associated implementation for processing and generating large data sets. Users specify a map function that processes a key/value pair to generate a set of intermediate key/value pairs, and a reduce function...

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So Now You're an Agilist... What's Next?

Featuring Jurgen Appelo

Doing projects better doesn't stop at agile. In this session I attempt to distil new advances in software development from the field of complexity science.

Front-End Automated Testing

Featuring Neil Crosby

Neil Crosby introduces the method that he has utilized in order to automate testing of frontend code.

Neil explains how frontend code can be tested automatically. His main idea is to incorporate the use of validators that are already available to test the frontend code...

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When Spring Projects met Grails - Bringing Killer New Features to Grails with Grails Plugins

Featuring Russ Miles

This talk by Russ Miles, Senior Consultant at SpringSource, takes a deep dive through how to bring the Spring projects that you already know into the Grails plugin ecosystem, developing killer productivity enhancing

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Slim - the future of FitNesse

Featuring Gojko Adzic

SliM (Simple List Invocation Method) is a new test runner that does not have dependency on FIT. It promises to bring more compatibility and easier platform porting. Instead of running all the HTML processing, comparisons, and colorizing in the System Under Test (SUT), SliM keeps all that...

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Using Expression Trees for internal DSLs in C# 3.5

Featuring Ian Cooper

Ian Cooper continues his series of 3 talks on domain specific languages DSL.

He talks about fluent interfaces and how they can be created using extension methods. Fluent interfaces provide a ‘discoverable’ API which is easier to read...

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Games in the Cloud

Featuring Gojko Adzic

Gojko Adzic talks about a multi-player casino project that started about 6 months ago. The system is deployed in the cloud and uses a processing grid. The talk is mainly about the architectural challenges faced until

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Techniques for dealing with difficult conversations and negotiations in software development

Featuring Mark Stringer

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Coding Dojo

Featuring Ivan Sanchez

A Coding Dojo is a meeting where a bunch of coders get together to work on a programming challenge. They are there to have fun and to engage in DeliberatePractice in order to improve their skills...

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Introduction to Moq

Featuring Abid Quereshi

Abid Quereshi introduces Moq, which is the only mocking library for .NET developed from scratch. Moq takes full advantage of .NET 3.5 and ...

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