Interview with Eric Nelson who was speaking at DevWeek 2009 in London in March. He touches on which Microsoft ORM is strategic, runtime vs design time of V1, Entity Framework is the Marmite of ORMs, alternative design surfaces, what to expect from V2 and more.
With the three basic tools – pen, paper and a kitchen timer – The Pomodoro Technique will empower you with the agile abilities of Constant feedback about your working habits, Dedicated decision points to respond to change, Opportunities on a day to day basis to improve your personal process, A …
This in depth session will penetrate the advantage of using dynamically created code in your applications. Yesterday we coded the creation of object instances our selves in each location that we needed them with strong references between our code modules. Maintenance in this code base was a nightmare and modular …
Chris Petersen gives an introduction to working with Amazon EC2, and discusses the advantages and disadvantage to hosting your Ruby applications there. http://sdruby.com/podcast/49
We all like puzzles and that is what this talk is all about, puzzles, Java, and performance. In this highly interactive talk we will look at a number of small benchmarks with interesting performance characteristics. In working through the puzzle we will discover how and why we’ve gotten the results …
Groovy is the new dynamic language for the Java platform that any Java 
project can benefit from.
 Learn when and how you can use Groovy as a “Super Glue”, heat up your Java
 application with a “Melted Core”, alleviate pains with “Keyhole Surgery”,
 adapt it to local needs with “Smart …