IndicThreads : Software Developer Station

Sessions At IndicThreads Software Development Conference, Delhi India

Content Team — Tue, 24 Apr 2012 09:18:25 +0000

Since 2006, IndicThreads’ Conferences have been delivering world class content on technologies like Java, Cloud Computing, Mobile & Software Quality. IndicThreads is excited to bring the same world class, vendor-neutral technology learning to India’s capital city, Delhi. IndicThreads Delhi will be held on 13 – 14 July. Delhi 2012 sessions cover a vast array of [...]

Scala For Building DSLs (domain-specific languages)

Content Team — Wed, 07 Mar 2012 20:22:34 +0000

Scala is a very powerful OO + FP language which is well suited for building DSL’s and for writing highly concurrent programs – we will explore these areas. Some very powerful, expressive and type safe DSL’s have been written using Scala for e.g. Foursquare uses a type safe expressive DSL called Rogue, the integration open [...]

Simplifying Build Scripts with Gradle

Content Team — Wed, 29 Feb 2012 08:05:35 +0000

Build orchestration and automation has always been a tricky problem, especially once we start crossing application boundaries. Several tools in he Java ecosystem, such as ant and maven, have taken a stab at this problem. A relatively new entrant to this space is Gradle. Built using Groovy it offers an extremely flexible means of describing [...]

Scalable Applications with Akka

Content Team — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 09:00:35 +0000

Historically writing correct concurrent, scalable and fault-tolerant applications has been very hard. Akka is an attempt to simplify writing concurrent, scalable and highly available software for the JVM. Akka has an API both for Scala and Java. Akka uses the Actor Model together with Software Transactional Memory (STM) to raise the abstraction level. For fault-tolerance [...]

Share IndicThreads Delhi: Win a Copy Of Beginning Java 7

Content Team — Thu, 23 Feb 2012 05:13:38 +0000

IndicThreads Conference On Software Development will be held on 13 – 14 July in Delhi. Do have a look at sessions and speakers at the conference. If you think the content is good quality, we encourage you to share & tell your developer friends about it. We are sure your friends would appreciate the share [...]

Call For Speakers – IndicThreads Delhi

Content Team — Tue, 24 Jan 2012 09:47:41 +0000

Since 2006, the IndicThreads’ Conferences have been delivering world class content in Pune, India on technologies like Java, Cloud Computing, Mobile & Software Quality. We are excited to bring some of India’s finest vendor-neutral technology learning to the capital city, good old Delhi ! IndicThreads Delhi 12 is a multi-track learning extravaganza of software development [...]

Testing Concurrent Java Programs

Content Team — Mon, 23 Jan 2012 10:13:15 +0000

Testing Concurrent Java Programs looks at: 1. What makes it hard to test and write Multithreaded code. 2. Improving design and structure of Multithreaded code to enhance the testability. 3. Writing Effective Unit tests for concurrent programs. 4. Demo – build a small example application using concurrency and putting test safety net around it. 5. [...]

REST Style Web Services with Binary Content (Google Protocol Buffers)

Content Team — Thu, 19 Jan 2012 09:24:58 +0000

Representational State Transfer (REST) style web services are very popular. They offer simplicity and flexibility of choosing the content in which they can be consumed. This session focuses on the pros and cons of using binary format as a content for the RESTful web services. In this talk, Google Protocol Buffers will be used as [...]

The Java Report

Content Team — Wed, 18 Jan 2012 09:39:30 +0000

This talk looks at the key Java technologies, what’s changing with each and where they are headed. It will also look at buzzing new technologies in Java, their adoption & impact. The talk will look at developments with JavaEE, Java on the Cloud, Java on Mobile devices, JavaFX, OpenJDK & JVM languages. The Java Report [...]

Scala Collections: Expressivity and Brevity upgrade from Java

Content Team — Mon, 16 Jan 2012 21:05:39 +0000

Dealing with collections is one of the most frequent activities in programming. The talk will focus on the rich collections API offered by Scala and on the myriad capabilities that are built into Scala Collections. The talk will refer briefly to the underlying design of the collections API. Given the API features and scala syntactic [...]