Processing the Future - War stories from using the Reactive Framework to build a production algorithmic trading platform with Chris Hewitt & Martin Granell

We will cover: 

– Why we used the reactive framework and for which problems we think it is a natural fit.

– What it is and the different way of thinking it requires.

– How we used it, where it worked and where it didn’t.

Highlights from our experience include: the ability to unit test time dependent behaviour; elegant composition of isolated reactive components; low latency complex event transformations

Lowlights will be detailed in the session…

Chris Hewitt and Martin Granell

Avoiding JavaScript Booby Traps - Alex Mackey

JavaScript has a number of traps which can trip up the most experienced developer. This combined with the fact that few developers take the time to learn JavaScript’s intricacies, can result in some truly horrible creations. However writing JavaScript doesn’t have to be this way. Come along to learn how to avoid these common traps and make your scripts run as quickly as possible. 

Alex Mackey
Alex Mackey, is author of the Apress book Introducing .net 4.0 with Visual Studio 2010 and is a Microsoft MVP (C#). He is very involved in the programming community, a regular speaker at technical and community events, organised the .net community conference dddmelbourne.com and runs a .net user group in Melbourne (www.deveve.net). Alex has lead development on a number of healthcare related projects and applications and works for Readify as a Senior Consultant.