Tech talk highlights 2014

Immutable offline webapps - James Halliday

React’s Architecture - Christopher Chedeau

Turning the database inside out with Apache Samza - Martin Kleppmann

Scaling Redis at Twitter - Yao Yu

Creating a Custom Build Platform with Gradle - Luke Daley

UX How-To - Luke Wroblewski

Making Steaks from Sacred Cows - Kevlin Henney

Seven Ineffective Coding Habits of Many Java Programmers - Kevlin Henney

Contravariance is the Dual of Covariance Implies Iterable is the Dual of Observable - Erik Meijer

Seeing Spaces - Bret Victor

Build Systems: The Next Generation - Contra

Browserify: Using Node In Browsers – Max Ogden

Web Components: Drunk on the Panacea - Angelina Fabbro

Stewardship: The Sobering Parts - Brian Goetz

Testing the Hard Stuff and Staying Sane - John Hughes

Clojure: Programming with Hand Tools - Tim Ewald

Jepsen II: Linearizable Boogaloo - Kyle Kingsbury

The 7 Principles of rich web applications - Guillermo Rauch

RailsConf 2014 - Keynote: Writing Software - David Heinemeier Hansson