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La conferencia EuroLLVM 2014 que tuvo lugar en Edinburgo, Escocia el pasado 7-8 de abril ha liberado los vídeos y presentaciones de las charlas que se dieron. EuroLLVM es una conferencia enfocada alrededor de la arquitectura de compiladores.

La lista del material publicado es la siguiente:

Tobias Edler von Koch (University of Edinburgh)	Conference Opening & Welcome	[Slides] [Video]
Chandler Carruth (Google)	Keynote: Passes in LLVM, Part 1	[Slides] [Video]
Marshall Clow (Qualcomm)	Keynote: What's new in C++14, and how you can take advantage of it	[Slides] [Video]
Rafael Ávila de Espíndola (World Wide Studios/Sony Computer Entertainment)	LTO: History and work to be done	[Slides] [Video]
Reinoud Elhorst, Mark Batty, David Chisnall (University of Cambridge)	Efficient code generation for weakly ordered architectures	[Slides] [Report]
Andy Thomason (Goldsmiths)	How to build LLVM in under ten seconds	[Slides] [Web version]
Ulrich Weigand (IBM Linux Technology Center)	A new ABI for little-endian PowerPC64: design and implementation	[Slides] [Video]
JF Bastien (Google)	Portable Native Client. Fast, Secure, Simple: Pick Three.	[Slides] [Notes] [Video]
Marcello Maggioni (Codeplay Software)	Branching in Data-Parallel Languages using Predication with LLVM	[Slides] [Video]
Daniel Jasper (Google)	clang-tidy - Lint-like checks and beyond	[Slides]
Greg Bedwell (SN Systems Ltd/Sony Computer Entertainment)	PlayStation(R)4 CPU Toolchain: Launch Post-mortem	[Slides] [Video]
Andrew MacPherson (Fabric Software Inc.)	Fabric Engine and KL: LLVM for 3D Digital Content Creation	[Slides] [Video]
Frej Drejhammar (Swedish Institute of Computer Science)	BEAMJIT: An LLVM based just-in-time compiler for Erlang	[Slides] [Video]
Tom Spink (University of Edinburgh)	Custom Alias-analysis in an LLVM-backed region-based Dynamic Binary Translator	[Slides] [Video]
Hans Wennborg (Google)	clang-cl: what it is, how it works, and how to use it	[Slides] [Video]

Tutoriales

Ya en su día os hablamos de un fantástico libro para llegar a dominar el clásico Pac-Man, pues ahora os ofrecemos este enlace para que os descarguéis este otro para dominar el mítico Defender.

El libro se llama "The Video Master's Guide to Defender" (80 páginas), donde nos enseñarán gráficos, esquemas y maniobras para lograr las mejores puntuaciones. Cuando lo terminéis de leer, os daréis cuenta que el juego no es tan sencillo como parece a simple vista ...

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Las charlas de la NDC (Norwegian Developers Conference) que tuvieron lugar entre el 2 y 6 de junio en Oslo, Noruega de este mismo año, 2014, están disponibles públicamente, y si mis cuentas no me han fallado, son nada más y nada menos que 158 vídeos. La temática principal de esta conferencia es el desarrollo de software. Aquí tenéis la lista completa:

• NDCOslo Trailer
• It’s a Write/Read (Mobile) Web
• Immutability, State and Scale - Functional, Distributed Applications in Azure
• C++14
• Front End Design Patterns: SOLID CSS + JS for Backend Developers
• Hybrid vs Native: Choosing a Mobile Strategy
• Developing in a Decade
• Building End-to-End Web Apps Using TypeScript
• Pharo: Playing with live objects
• Strangling the Legacy out of an Application
• Domain Specific Languages, the functional way
• Go: A Pragmatic Language
• Effective Modern C++
• Build a Better Bootstrap
• Temporal correlation and complex event processing in JavaScript
• Banish Your Inner Critic
• Windows Azure Mobile Services from the ground up
• The Agony of Lean Startup
• CQRS with Erlang
• Azure Web Sites Secrets, Exposed!
• Error Handling in C++
• Write massively-parallel GPU code for the browser with WebGL
• ReactiveUI - Turning MVVM up to 11
• Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Programmers
• Functional Programming the Long Road to Enlightenment: a Historical and Personal Narrative
• What is new: Windows Phone and Windows Store App
• Querying of Event Streams
• OWIN and Katana: What the Func?
• Functional Code Considered Beautiful
• Move, noexcept, and push_back() and how they relate to each other
• Bridging Node.js and .NET Using Edge.js
• People, Process, Tools – The Essence of DevOps
• CPU Caches and Why You care
• Understanding SignalR performance
• Our experience from building and running a SaaS in the cloud
• Async C# 5.0 - Patters For Real World Use
• Web API Authorization & Access Control – done right!
• Scaling Event Processing at all scales and all languages with the Reactive Extensions
• C++ Type Deduction and Why You Care
• Functional Reactive Programming and Bacon
• Railway Oriented Programming -- error handling in functional languages
• Finally! - True Cross-Platform Federation & Single Sign-On with OpenID Connect
• Leading without formal authority
• Patterns for the People
• Builders versus breakers – 10 online attacks we could have easily prevented
• scriptcs deep dive. Extending, customizing and embedding in your applications.
• Game and Simulator Physics for Developers, Gamers and Petrol Heads
• Generic and Generative Programming in C++
• Serialize All The Things with Json.NET
• Better Software--No Matter What: The Most Important Design Guideline
• How C# Saved my Marriage, Enhanced my Career and Made Me an Inch Taller
• The integrations we fear and how we can manage them
• TCP servers in .NET done right
• Managing Asynchronicity
• Single sign-on for mobile native applications
• Javascript Combinators
• Delightful WebGL in Elm
• Beyond NuGet: Front End Package Management with Bower
• Securing a modern JavaScript based single page web application
• Taking Design Patterns to the Next Level
• Snake Bitten: Danger and Misfortune in the Evolution of Programming Languages
• C++ - where are we headed?
• The mess we're in
• The mythical beast called the Internet of Things and how to tame it
• The Art of the Javascript Metaobject Protocol
• Becoming an Outlier: Career Reboot for the Developer Mind
• Docker is the future of shipping our code
• Cloud beyond scaling : realtime webapplications
• An Actor's Life for Me – An introduction to the TPL Dataflow Library and asynchronous programming blocks
• From Knockout to AngularJS
• Full Stack Web Performance
• How to scale apps and cloud services for Play Magnus
• Three Cool Things about D
• The journey from Powershell to Grunt for Build and Deploy
• Zone out, check in, move on
• Delivering Continuously to 10 Million Users
• Quick Tour to Front-End Unit Testing Using Jasmine
• An Introduction to Nancy
• .NET outside of Visual Studio
• The Better Parts
• Pipe dreams: Pipes |> Macros |> Beautiful Code
• The C++ memory model
• Angular TypeScript
• Agile Kaizen
• Wherefore art thou Erlang?
• Privacy for the Internet
• Designing Wonderful .NET APIs
• The Future of ASP.NET Part I
• C# is in my ears and in my eyes
• Node.JS Tools For Front-End Developers
• Brief tour of Clang
• Building Directives for AngularJS
• Agile Metrics - Velocity is NOT the Goal
• Discrete Math You Need to Know
• Ninja vs. Samurai - Let the scripting battle begin
• "It doesn't work like that in enterprise"
• Insecure coding in C and C++
• The Future of ASP.NET Part II
• Free is a Lie
• Why no code reviews?
• Facial Hair & the Road to Faster JavaScript
• From Code Monkey to Boss Man
• IDEs: The State of the Union
• 10 Things I've Learned From Doing OSS
• The Technical Debt Trap
• So you think you can int? (C++)"
• Coding against MongoDB in .NET
• Metamagical programming with expression trees
• F# and Machine Learning: a winning combination
• Some Time Later: What’s the state of HTML5 & hybrid apps?
• Build an extraordinary career by sharing your knowledge
• Getting Agile with Scrum
• Data Modeling Examples in the Real World with MongoDB
• The Future of Extreme Web Browsing
• 1) Write cross-platform apps with F# & Xamarin. 2) ??? 3) Profit!
• Accelerating Windows Store app development by using Prism for the Windows Runtime
• Functional UI programming with React.JS and ClojureScript
• Internet of Things - Controlling the world with Arduino and JavaScript?
• Advanced TDD: The Transformation Priority Premise
• Beautiful Builds
• User Stories for Agile Requirements
• Back to basics: Finalization and disposition in .NET
• Making 3D games with MonoGame
• Lessons Learned - Web Application Testing in .NET
• A lap around the Windows Phone 8.1 development platform
• Architecting large Single Page Applications with Knockout.js
• Agile Estimating
• From SQL to RavenDB: A .NET Team’s Journey
• Transforming your C# code to functional style
• Say Hello to your Google Android Wear Watch
• Hadoop Kickstarter for the Microsoft Platform
• How I hacked my way to Norway
• Porting Quake III to F#: A Journey to Functional Programming
• Building Universal Apps for Windows Phone and Windows 8.1
• .NET Rocks Panel: Why Do You Develop Software?
• The Internet Of Things and everything wireless
• Clean Architecture and Design
• Advanced Topics in Agile Planning
• HTML5 & JavaScript Communication APIs
• Understanding your website through the IE11 F12 tools
• Introducing Roslyn
• RELEASE Scalable Erlang
• Programming Pebble
• TDD in Tatters
• From text to full-text
• Towards an Evolutionary Architecture
• Leading a Self-Organizing Team
• A Heaping Stack of Scripts: Getting the most out of JavaScript Stacktraces.
• Using the Scrum Rules Against your Boss
• Web Audio: Can you hear me now?
• The Future of UX with Kinect for Windows v2
• Windows 8.1 Store Apps – Given to Fly
• A Peek into an Enterprise Development Operation Team
• Typed? Dynamic? Both! Cross-plat, form DSLs in C#
• Core Software Design Principles
• History of Programming: Part 1
• Case study: Making use of functional programming techniques in .NET
• A reality check on the Internet of Things - and how you can get started with your own project

Así de directa era la publicación en twitter de Brian Guarraci, un ingeniero de software que en su tiempo libre se dedica a construir clusters de ordenadores. Y el que aparece en la foto es su última creación, inspirado en el nuevo servidor de Apple  y el clásico Cry 1.

En concreto el que aparece en la foto es un conjunto de ordenadores en paralelo Intel NUC. Cada NUC tiene un Intel i3 con 16GB de RAM, 120GB el disco duro SSD y WiFi 802.11ac. Cad NUC ejecuta Ubuntu Server y el sistema tiene 8 placas NUC compartiendo un switch gigabit. Y ojo al dato, es capaz de llegar a una potencia de cálculo de 208 GFLOPs.

Como bien dice el título de esta entrada, Oracle se también se ha subido al carro de la educación online gratuita y está ofreciendo, creo que por segunda vez, un curso sobre programación de dispositivos embebidos usando Java ME Embedded. En el curso, además del material que deberás de aprender, vas haciendo un proyecto a medida que avanzas. El proyecto tendrás que realizarlo sobre un Raspberry Pi.

El curso dura 5 semanas y en cada una de ella tendrás que hacer un pequeño cuestionario. La planificación del mismo es la siguiente:

He leído y ojeado varias guías/tutoriales sobre Git, pero ésta, A hackers Guide to Git, me ha gustado más que ninguna otra, por un par de razones: escueta, clara y más basada en entender los conceptos que los comandos.

No sólo explica el uso de los comandos típicos, sino que empieza por explicar, sin entrar en detalles técnicos, la estructura básica de un repositorio .git.

Aunque luego sigue con ejemplos básicos de los comandos más comunes, no se para a explicar en detalle su funcionalidad o sus parámetros, si no más bien, nos explica que ocurre con el repositorio .git en sí, somo se reestructuran los datos. Creo que esto ayuda a entender esta herramienta mucho mejor y evitar ciertos mal entendidos. Como ejemplo trata el caso de la opción rebase, de la que hay bastante revuelo.