Harald Prokop (Akamai Technologies)–Since 1999, Akamai has built a large-scale distributed system with 30,000+ servers spread across 1000+ networks and 70+ countries. Akamai’s technology-at its core, applied mathematics and algorithms-manages the distribution of large content libraries and intelligently optimizes routes to accelerate dynamic sites and applications. This talk will focus …
The long-awaited second edition of Effective Java is here! It covers the latest in best practices for the Java platform. This presentation will concentrate on three areas where new material has been added to the book: enum types, generics, and concurrency. Do you want to know how to combine the …
Kunal Shah walks through how to install and use the Eclipse Plug-in for developers using the Java Client Library for Google Data APIs. Additional resource: gdata-java-client-eclipse-plugin
The era of the big, heavy, transactionally-oriented client/server topology, as best described by the J2EE Specification and Blueprints document, seems to be over. The era of the lightweight, transactionally-oriented client/server topology seems to be at its zenith. Is this really where we want to be when building enterprise systems? And …
The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in New York on August 23 and 24, 2007. Presentation on Functional Testing Swing Applications with Frankenstein, an Open Source testing tool that he co-authored. Vivek Prahlad is a Senior Developer at ThoughtWorks. He currently heads the Innovation and Open Source related …
The 2nd Annual Google Test Automation Conference (GTAC) in New York on August 23 and 24, 2007. In the world of developer-facing automated tests, IBT is arguably one of the most controversial topics. One side claims that “pure” unit testing is a way to ensure that code behaves as specified, …
