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Dean Wampler
(Think Big Analytics)
Average rating:
(3.90, 20 ratings)
Scala is a hybrid object-functional language for the JVM. Java programmers can easily migrate to Scala as an improved Java, then learn to exploit its powerful support for Functional Programming. Developers from other languages can exploit the JVM's power and rich libraries using a state-of-the-art language. Come learn why Scala is seductive; why it meets the needs of the modern developer.
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Location: F 151
Alex Payne
(BankSimple),
Dean Wampler
(Think Big Analytics)
Average rating:
(3.50, 2 ratings)
Welcome and introduction from the summit chairs Alex Payne and Dean Wampler, and an overview of what makes Scala unique and more productive to work with.
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Location: F 151
Eric Torreborre
(NICTA)
Average rating:
(4.80, 5 ratings)
After a short overview of the specs BDD library you'll learn how specs leverages the unique features of Scala to provide: a textual specification of the software to develop, flexible matchers for expectations, a concise api on top of the Mockito Java api, data tables which look like real tables in the code and much more!
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Location: F 151
David Pollak
(Lift)
Average rating:
(4.17, 6 ratings)
The Lift Web Framework provides an advanced set of tools for quickly and easily building real-time, multi-users, interactive web applications.
Lift is a hybrid web framework built on Scala. Lift derives its features and idioms from the best of existing web frameworks as well as the FP & OO features in Scala.
Join David as he builds a multi-user, browser-based chat app in Lift.
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Location: F 151
Nathan Hamblen
(Meetup)
Average rating:
(4.20, 5 ratings)
The Android platform and Scala language are home to some of the most exciting software progress in the greater Java ecosystem. Why not use them both together?
The Android development kit's command line tools make the platform easily adaptable to a programmable builder like Simple Build Tool, while Scala's deep interoperability with Java ensures that nothing is lost in the translation.
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Location: F 151
Alex Payne
(BankSimple),
Coda Hale
(Yammer, Inc.)
Average rating:
(3.40, 5 ratings)
Scala is in production today. Hear from developers at Twitter and Yammer of their real world experience deploying Scala.
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Location: F 151
Average rating:
(3.38, 8 ratings)
Scala is an intensely powerful language. One of the most obvious ways in which
this manifests is the syntax, which is wonderfully amenable to internal DSLs
and flexible APIs (not to mention endless reams of obfuscated sources and fanciful
operators). Despite the superficial flash of Scala's syntactic skin, its true power lies in the type system and in the language's deep semantic constructs.
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Howard Lewis Ship
(TWD Consulting)
Average rating:
(3.83, 18 ratings)
Even if you are successful using open source sofware, there's something special about hardware: It's physical. You can touch it. You build it (not compile it). This is a talk about the Arduino open source physical computing platform; a cheap, useful, fun micro-controller ... and it's loads of fun, even if you break into a cold sweat at the thought of picking up a soldering iron.
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Brian Fitzpatrick
(Google, Inc.),
Ben Collins-Sussman
(Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.67, 30 ratings)
Are you the 'point' person for your team? Do you have sweaty palms, headaches, and a calendar full of meetings? You may have an affliction called 'manager'. This condition is treatable through analysis and therapy. We'll examine how you may have arrived at this state and how you can once again regain your self-respect and that of your peers. Hear real-life stories of both good and bad leadership.
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Karsten Wade
(Red Hat/Fedora Project),
Mel Chua
(Red Hat)
Average rating:
(4.75, 4 ratings)
HFOSS, TOS (CMU/RIT), POSSE, UCOSP, and SoaS: what do these acronyms stand for, why is each a model for a type of open source in education interaction that could revolutionize the way the world learns, and what can you do to help?
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Dan Morrill
(Google)
Average rating:
(3.44, 25 ratings)
Android is an open-source OS and software stack for mobile devices. Come join the Android Open-Source Lead for a discussion of the Android open source philosophy, and insight into how the project is run.
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Thomas Lockney
(PDXScala, DorkbotPDX, Triactive),
Trenton Lipscomb
(Amazon Web Services, LLC)
Average rating:
(3.12, 8 ratings)
We provide you an introduction to the Scala programming language through its powerful capabilities to integrating with Java. We will demonstrate how Scala can be an effective means of exploring Java libraries such as JAXB, HttpClient and Hibernate. We will show why Scala is our preferred harness, with capabilities beyond Java, Beanshell or Groovy.
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Mary Jane Kelly
(Casaba Security)
Average rating:
(4.00, 12 ratings)
What do you get when you mix fractals, 3D printers, robotics, open source, high-powered lasers, and non-orientable surfaces with wood, plastic, textiles, steel, cloth... and lots of coffee? A completely new range of geek fabricated items and appliances. It’s hacking in real life.
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Ola Bini
(ThoughtWorks)
Average rating:
(3.00, 5 ratings)
Ioke is a dynamically typed language - a language experiment with a focus on expressivity. It's prototype based, object oriented, homoiconic and have powerful macro facilities - and runs both on the JVM and the CLR.
Seph is a language currently being developed, based on Ioke. It's a functional object oriented hybrid with explicit concrrency features inspired by Erlang and Clojure.
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Howard Lewis Ship
(TWD Consulting)
Average rating:
(3.00, 12 ratings)
Aside from learning Clojure's syntax and approach to functional programming and concurrency, there's also the more mundane issues: What editor do I use? How to I build large projects? How do I share my work with others? This session will discuss IDEs and plugins, command line build tools, and web sites.
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Rob Pike
(Google, Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.64, 28 ratings)
A while back, it seemed that type-driven object-oriented languages such as C++ and Java had taken over. They still dominate education. Yet the last few years have seen a number of different languages reach prominence, often of very different styles: Python, Ruby, Scala, Erlang, Haskell, Lua, and many more. Surely there are enough languages. Yet new ones keep appearing. Why? And why now?
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Rich Hickey
(Datomic)
Average rating:
(4.75, 8 ratings)
This talk will provide a brief experience report on Clojure, a dynamic, functional language targeting the JVM. It will detail the challenges faced in providing a practical and approachable programming language featuring pervasive immutability on top of the commodity infrastructure of the JVM.
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Christopher Bertels
(Fancy)
Average rating:
(2.67, 3 ratings)
Fancy is a dynamic, class based, pure object-oriented programming language heavily inspired by Smalltalk, Ruby and Erlang. In development since the beginning of this year, not all features have yet been implemented but the overall progress is coming along nicely.
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Steven Parkes
(smparkes.net llc)
Average rating:
(2.42, 12 ratings)
Testing is JavaScript's Achilles' heel: the language is powerful with
good library support, but testing practices are cumbersome to
non-existent. This talk demonstrates a set of tools that make
test/behavior driven development in JavaScript as quick and effective
as Java, Ruby, or Python, including aspects unique to
JavaScript such as the browser environment and asynchronous
programming.
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Heidi Ellis
(Western New England College),
Gregory Hislop
(Drexel University),
Luis Ibanez
(KITWARE Inc.)
Average rating:
(4.50, 2 ratings)
Student contributions to OSS projects have great potential to benefit both projects and students. While student involvement in OSS projects can take effort on the part of the OSS community, student contributions are well worth the effort required. This talk covers the variety of ways that students can become involved in an OSS project as well as the benefits and roadblocks to student involvement.
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Mel Chua
(Red Hat),
Asheesh Laroia
(OpenHatch)
Average rating:
(3.75, 4 ratings)
"Turn someone else's problems into your learning material." How do you expose your project's bugs and tasks to enthusiastic new contributors? We'll be talking about how OpenHatch's software tools and process-creating guidance make it possible to reveal a FOSS project's bug and task needs to budding contributors, students, and educators creating and running FOSS courses.
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Trotter Cashion
(Mashion, LLC)
Average rating:
(3.58, 12 ratings)
Your QA cycle is broken and unit tests aren't enough to fix it. QA takes too long, is too error prone, and never covers as much as we need. To really do QA right, you need automated integration and acceptance testing tools like Cucumber. In this talk, we'll discuss why automated integration testing is a necessity, how you can do it, and why your coworkers and boss will thank you for it.
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