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Erik Osheim talks about intervals, explains how algebraic type classes support arithmetic over a wide range of types, and demos how intervals can be used in the place of Ranges, Sets, and Loops.

Josh Suereth's talk for NE Scala is about “Selfish UIs,” a concept that begins with making software for yourself, in order to improve your ability to make software for other people.

Today, according to Dean Wampler, Scala has successfully taken over the Big Data world. This is a talk about why.

If you're in the midst of forming your 2015 IT Training budget, you're likely wondering if your 2014 approach was as effective as you hoped it would be. If you haven't already adopted a comprehensive, department-wide training strategy, it might be time to look into how effective that could be for your organization and the productivity of the IT department.

Joey Hobbs is the Lead UI Developer at Quid. In this talk, he discusses the technological advancements his company has made within graph theory. It includes an overview of graphs and ends with a demo.

We get asked a lot about the proper way to integrate the AOSP sources into an integrated development environment (IDE). This tutorial shows you how to use the integrated IDEGen scripts to do the job.

Infogram was born in the newsroom. It's founders wanted to create a tool that average journalists could use to assemble infographics.

In this talk for NE Scala, Neville presents how Scala Macros can be used to improve data pipeline code levering Parquet, Avro, Scalding and Spark.

Marconi Lanna explains how to define and use F-bounded types in Scala, enlisting the compiler to enforce advanced trait semantics, while greatly reducing and simplifying unit tests.

Owein Reese wants you to be more comfortable with dependent types / path-dependent types, to understand them in more detail, and to spark ideas that generally help us gain insights into our every day code.

As companies strive to deliver software faster, “classic” software testing needs to be modernized. Melvin Laguren goes into some of these testing strategies in further detail.

Typically, when implementing numeric algorithms, common wisdom suggest that between speed, correctness, or simplicity, you can choose only 2. But, is it possible to have all 3?

With product design, there comes a whole new range of challenges that differ from those of web and graphic design. Jina Bolton demonstrates how her team addresses contemporary design challenges.