Ruby On Rails State of Practice: Frontend

Rails developers can draw from a huge pool of libraries to build their applications. The possibilities are endless, so we want to find out what our readers are using, or planning to use in the future.

API Management Platforms Capabilities

Every API program needs a set of capabilities to manage the technical and business aspects. The set of capabilities vary for each program based on the criteria for success.

Interview with Mike Milinkovich about the past, present and future of Eclipse

In this interview, recorded at EclipseCon 2013, InfoQ asks Mike Milinkovich about the history of the platform and foundation, recent changes, and where Eclipse is going in the future. (Interview)

Web Development: You're Doing It Wrong

Stefan Tilkov challenges many commonly-held assumptions about how to best develop web applications, emphasizing the strengths and ideal roles for HTML, CSS, JavaScript, HTTP and URIs. (Presentation)
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Interview with IBM's Alasdair Nottingham on the WebSphere Liberty Profile

Alasdair Nottingham discusses the WebSphere Liberty profile and how it and the full profile make use of the OSGI subsystem spec and Enterprise OSGi. (Interview)
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Concurrency in Clojure

Stuart Halloway discusses concurrency features in Clojure: atoms, agents, futures, delays, promises, STM, and dynamic vars. (Presentation)

Visual Studio 2012.3 Go Live and First Words on V.Next

Visual Studio 2012 Update 3 has reached go-live status, bringing with it a host of important bug fixes. But the big news is confirmation of Microsoft's shift to focus on V.Next, the successor to 2012. (News)

Dart-Compiled Dart Compiler Compiles Dart Code in Browser

Google has relaunched try.dartlang.org, the online playground that allows users try out Dart without having to download and install the Dart SDK. Unlike its predecessor, the new version compiles Dart code to JavaScript in the browser and, as a result, also works offline. It also supports dart:html, Dart's library for HTML DOM manipulation. (News)

Architecting for High Availability

Attila Narin discusses AWS concepts: Availability Zones, RDS Multi-AZ deployments, SQS and Auto Scaling, Elastic IP, load balancing, DNS, DynamoDB, Amazon S3, etc., and EC2 best practices. (Presentation)
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API Conf Panel: Mobile Back-end as a Service

The panelists discuss Mobile Backend as a Service (MBaaS), each one presenting his company approach to this segment of the market. (Presentation)

There is a Cowboy in my Domain! - Implementing Domain Driven Design Review and Interview

Implementing Domain Driven Design, has brought clarity to an important but little understood area of software design. As a measure of Software Design literature, Vaughn's work is educational and fun. With real world code samples and sage advice, IDDD guides the reader through the sometimes murky waters of DDD and helps them gain the insight required to start a DDD journey of their own. (Article)

Writing Usable APIs in Practice

Giovanni Asproni expands upon the idea that usable APIs help writing clean code. (Presentation)

Managing the Unmanageable: Author Q&A

Mickey Mantle and Ron Lichty have written a book about managing and employing programmers. The book examines the characteristics of programmers and programming teams and discusses how to manage them. They provide a variety of tools along with many rules of thumb they`ve collected through the years. (Article)

Confessions of an Agile Addict

Ole Friis Østergaard discusses software development addictions: becoming aware of them, controlling them, getting rid of bad habits by admitting them and changing through practice. (Presentation)
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Programming The Feynman Way

Ben Evans explores the idea that many of the characteristics of Feynman`s approach to physics are applicable to programmers, fueling the dream of a world where developers are free to be themselves. (Presentation)

IBM and Microsoft push Opscode Chef

IBM and Opscode are working together to help IBM customers leverage Chef. Additionally Microsoft and Opscode have joined forces to help automate Microsoft's cloud service Azure. (News)

API Conf Panel: The Future of Media API

Irakli Nadareishvili, Jon Moore, and Anthony Cuellar share insight in creating teams and building media APIs for distributing content. (Presentation)