YOW! 2011: Dave Thomas on YOW!, Technoculture, Modern Programming, and More
Dave Thomas is the godfather of YOW!, a platform-agnostic developer conference that spans three cities in Australia once a year (Melbourne, Brisbane and Sydney(workshops only)). Australia is home to a...
View ArticleYOW! 2011: Tony Morris - Functional Programming and Functional Thinking
Tony Morris is a developer who has deployed functional programming techniques in industry for over 10 years. He's also a teacher and key player in Australia's increasingly vibrant functional...
View ArticleYOW! 2011: Aslak Hellesøy - Web Sockets and Webbit
Aslak Hellesøy is a Senior Software Engineer at DRW Trading in London and the creator of Cucumber. Aslak is also a contributor to Webbit, a Java event based WebSocket and HTTP server (and the subject...
View ArticleYOW! 2011: Bjorn Freeman-Benson - Software Psychology
Bjorn Freeman-Benson is the Vice President of Engineering at New Relic - which produces cross-platform application and server performance monitoring software as a service (SaaS). He's been an engineer...
View ArticleYOW! 2011: Nigel Dalton - On Being Agile, Lonely Planet, and Lean Development
In early 2000, having survived Y2K in the role of Software Development Manager at AXA Australia, Nigel Dalton fled to the USA to be CTO and COO of an Australian dot com startup in San Francisco - which...
View ArticleC++ AMP: Daniel Moth - Overview
C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) is a small set of open specification language extensions (two of them) and a single library (amp.h) that makes general purpose GPU programming (aka GPGPU) a...
View ArticleC++ AMP: The Test Team - Hallway Office Tour
C++ AMP (Accelerated Massive Parallelism) is a small set of open specification language extensions (two of them) and a single library (amp.h) that makes general purpose GPU programming (aka GPGPU) a...
View ArticleEnergy Efficient Cloud Computing for Developers
Datacenter energy efficiency is a hot topic these days (how to keep thousands of machines cool without consuming too many electrons, etc.), but something that doesn't get quite as much attention in...
View ArticleMatthew Podwysocki and Bart J. F. De Smet: RxJS Today and Tomorrow
The JavaScript implementation of Reactive Extensions (Rx), RxJS, continues to evolve under the direction of Matthew Podwysocki. RxJS provides Rx operators in JavaScript and it does this in a download...
View ArticleMads Torgersen, Donna Malayeri and Erik Meijer: (Re)Introducing Lang.NEXT
Lang.NEXT is a programming languages conference, a geek festival for programming language designers and implementers from across the industry and academia. The goal is to share ideas and learn. The...
View ArticleC9 Lectures: Donna Malayeri - F# 3.0 - Information Rich Programming, 1 of 1
Modern programming thrives on rich spaces of data, information and services. F# 3.0 brings integrated support for Information Rich Programming to the .NET platform. F# Type Providers and F# Queries...
View Articleanode: An Experimental node.js Platform for Windows Azure
anode is an experimental platform for rapidly prototyping web apps on Windows Azure. anode is built by Microsoft entirely with node.js and uses many great open source modules written by the awesome...
View ArticleBehind the scenes: Designing Microsoft’s reinvented certifications
Join the Cert Doctors, Dr. Sneath and Dr. Munson, as they talk about how Microsoft designs its certification exams as well as some new and more interactive question types for IT Pros and Developers....
View ArticleAlexandrescu, Bright, Meijer, Moran: Pure versus Native (and much more)
Continuing with the series of conversations filmed in the "social room" at Lang.NEXT 2012, we present Andrei Alexandrescu, Walter Bright, Erik Meijer, and Andrew Adams-Moran discussing/debating various...
View ArticleMads Torgersen and Kim Bruce - Grace Programming Language
At Lang.NEXT 2012 several conversations took place in the "social room" and we captured some of them for C9. Here, computer scientist and C# PM Mads Torgersen discusses the Grace programming language...
View ArticleEmmanuel Stapf: Eiffel Programming Language
The Eiffel programming language is an object-oriented language that is based on a fixed set of powerful principles like Design by Contract and Command-Query Separation. It's a very powerful language...
View ArticleStefan Karpinski and Jeff Bezanson - Julia Programming Language
"Julia is a high-level, high-performance dynamic programming language for technical computing, with syntax that is familiar to users of other technical computing environments. It provides a...
View ArticleE2E: Erik Meijer and John Cook - R, Statistical Computing, Blogging and More
At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations,...
View ArticleE2E: Erik Meijer and Jeroen Frijters - IKVM.NET (Java VM implemented in .NET)
At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations,...
View ArticleE2E: Erik Meijer and Robert Griesemer - Going Go
At Lang.NEXT 2012, several conversations happened in the "social room", which was right next to the room where sessions took place. Our dear friend, Erik Meijer, led many interesting conversations,...
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