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Practice Programming is a

simple concept that can help

any developer stay at the top

of their game, learning better

ways to do things. It can be

as simple as the old favourite

“Fizz-Buzz” program, to

writing games in downtime.

In this session, Lambert will

explore the idea of Practice

Programming, and how it

can help you and the people

around you in a relaxed,

and probably irreverent,

discussion. He will look at

the ideas behind Practice

Programming, why too much

practice can be a bad idea

(practice makes imperfect)

and why practicing “bad

programming ” can actually

be helpful too. There will also

be examples that you can

use for your own Practice

Programming ( both for good

and bad).

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PRACTICE

PROGRAMMING –

WHAT’S THE POINT?

Ben

Lambert

In this session, Webber will

explore powerful analytic

techniques for graph data,

beginning with some of the

innate properties of (social)

graphs from fields such as

anthropology and sociology.

By understanding the forces

and tensions within the

graph structure and applying

some graph theory, it is

possible to predict how the

graph will evolve over time.

To test just how powerful

and accurate graph theory

is, he’ll (retrospectively)

predict World War 1 based on

a social graph and a simple

algorithm. These powerful

techniques can also be applied

to modelling domains in

Neo4j (a graph database).

Don’t worry, there won’t be

much maths.

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A LITTLE GRAPH

FOR THE BUSY

DEVELOPER

Jim

Webber

SQL Server Bookmark

Lookups can be very powerful,

when used correctly. However,

there are a lot of side effects

that you should be aware of

when your indexing strategy

relies on them. In this session,

Aschenbrenner will dig into

the various problems that

Bookmark Lookups can

cause, how they occur and

how you can resolve them to

get better performance from

your SQL Server. Specific

topics will include the tipping

point, parameter sniffing

problems, bad statistics, auto/

forced parameterisation and

Bookmark Lookup deadlocks.

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THE DANGEROUS

BEAUTY OF

BOOKMARK LOOKUPS

Klaus

Aschenbrenner

Trying to implement

the same functionality

on different devices, OS

versions, manufacturers and

so on can be more trouble

than you’d expect. In this

session, Giannakakis will

show you how you can

get the job done without

compromising code quality

and readability. Specifically, he

will demonstrate how to use

dependency injection, model-

view-presenter pattern and

other techniques to achieve

the task at hand.

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DEVICE

FRAGMENTATION

VS. CLEAN CODE

Iordanis

Giannakakis

You’ve probably heard of

Backbone.js as a JavaScript

MVC (Model-View-

Controller) framework for

building web apps, but it’s

worth exploring other options

when you want to get more out

of your framework. AngularJS

is highly opinionated, which

makes it easier for beginners

to grasp core MVC concepts,

while veteran web developers

will enjoy its integration with

automated testing suites. And

for anyone who wants to write

less boilerplate code? You will

love Angular JS’s two-way

data binding abilities. Attend

this session and Angular

JS just might turn into your

favourite MVC framework.

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ANGULAR JS AIN’T

JUST ANOTHER

MVC FRAMEWORK

Pearl

Chen

When developing multi-

threaded applications that

share state, we need to

consider thread safety when

sharing state across multiple

threads. These techniques

require the developer to

understand the possible race

conditions and select the

cheapest synchronisation

technique to satisfy thread

safety. But, while essential,

they can often become tedious

and make the simplest of

algorithms seemingly overly

complicated and hard to

maintain. In this session,

Clymer will explore the

use of built-in concurrent

data structures shipped

with TPL that will simplify

multi-threaded code while

maximising concurrency

and efficiency.

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SIMPLIFYING

THREAD-SAFE CODE

WITH CONCURRENT

DATA STRUCTURES

Andrew

Clymer

With large data warehouses

(DW), it is essential to

have fast queries. Before

columnstore indexes and

batch processing it was

nearly impossible to achieve

reasonable performance

of DW queries on large

tables without investing

huge amounts of money

in parallelism, such as the

Parallel Data Warehouse.

With SQL Server 2012

and 2014, you can achieve

satisfactory performance even

with a traditional single-

box database server. In this

session, Sarka goes beyond

a simple introduction of the

columnstore indexes and

batch processing, to include

an in-depth explanation and

examples on how to get the

most out of these new features.

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COLUMNSTORE

INDEXES AND BATCH

PROCESSING IN

SQL SERVER 2012

AND 2014

Dejan

Sarka

Learn about the new features

in BizTalk Server 2013

including new adapters,

Windows Azure support,

improvements to runtime

and administrative features,

as well as ESB Toolkit

integration and what that

really means. BizTalk

Server 2013 is an evolution

of Microsoft’s popular

integration messaging product

that embraces the cloud and

the latest technologies such

as SFTP, REST and Service

Bus. In this session, Milner

will demonstrate how to use

the new REST adapter to

consume a public service,

connecting to a Service Bus

Queue using the adapter to

send messages and another to

receive messages, provisioning

a BizTalk 2013 server in

Windows Azure IaaS, and

much more.

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WHAT’S NEW IN

BIZTALK SERVER 2013

Matt

Milner

Learning the syntax of a new

language is easy, but learning

to think under a different

paradigm is hard. In this

session, Ford will help you

transition from a Java-writing

imperative programmer to

a functional programmer,

using Java, Clojure and

Scala as examples. He will

take common topics from

imperative and OOP languages

and look at alternative ways

of solving those problems

in functional languages.

Expect your mind to be bent,

but you’ll leave with a much

better understanding of both

the syntax and semantics of

functional languages.

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FUNCTIONAL

THINKING

Neal

Fo r d

The ASP.NET MVC

framework has been around

for quite a while now, and it

has been constantly gaining

popularity ever since it

appeared on the scene.

However, despite that fact,

a lot of MVC developers are

not aware of various hidden

gems that can make their

development experience

much easier and nicer. In this

session, Friedman will go

through some of those secrets,

helping to ease and quicken

your everyday work with the

ASP.NET MVC framework.

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ASP.NET MVC TIPS,

TRICKS AND

HIDDEN GEMS

Shay

Friedman

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