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The Dark Cloud: Understanding and Defending against Botnets and Stealthy Malware

Botnets are the latest scourge to hit the Internet and this article defines a botnet (a collection of distributed computers or systems that has been taken over by rogue software), examines the botnet life cycle, and presents several promising anti-botnet defense strategies including canary detectors, white lists, and malware traces.

Steve Orrin Carl Livadas Eve Schooler Jaideep Chandrashekar
on Aug 04, 2009
FlexMonkey brings unit testing to Flex user interface developers

This article explores how Gorilla Logic's new, open source Flex user interface automation testing tool, FlexMonkey, can enhance the productivity of both developers and QA testers. FlexMonkey allows developers to incorporate user interface testing into unit test suites and continuous integration environments, and allows QA testers to expand those tests into comprehensive quality tests.

Stuart Stern
on Jul 15, 2009
Orchestrating Long Running Activities with JBoss / JBPM

Orchestrating activities that extend over very long periods (hours, days, weeks) is a common design issue. Although technically BPM engines are specifically design to ideal with this issue, they do so with standalone processes with corresponding issues arising from callback mechanisms. This article we will show one of the approaches to use JBoss jBPM for solving this problem.

Boris Lublinsky
on Jul 01, 2009
Communication Flexibility Using Bindings

In this article, we will look at an important feature of SCA - its support for a wide variety of communication protocols and how to use SCA bindings on services and references to decouple your business code from communication protocols. Finally we'll take a look at the SCA domain to see how bindings operate in and outside the domain.

Raymond Feng Simon Laws Haleh Mahbod Simon Nash Anthony Elder
on Jun 30, 2009
Scaling Agile with C/ALM (Collaborative Application Lifecycle Management)

IBM Rational and InfoQ published an eBook, Scaling Agile with C/ALM, "dedicated to all of the functional and dysfunctional organizations that are eager to break down the organizational and cultural silos, and become a finely tuned software delivery machine." The eBook explores the barriers to team integration and scaling and then shows, in detail, how to overcome these obstacles.

Carolyn Pampino John Wiegand Erich Gamma
on Jun 29, 2009
SQL Server Reporting Services and Working with Overlay Data

In this article, Grzegorz Gogolowicz and Trent Swanson tackle the problem of generating reports in SQL Server Reporting Services when the source is scanned images and other supplied formats yet a fixed layout report or pixel perfect report is the desired outcome.

Trent Swanson Grzegorz Gogolowicz
on Jun 11, 2009
Top 10 Changes in Flex 4

This week, Adobe released their first official beta of Flex 4, codenamed Gumbo. The release includes a number of major changes. This list gives a high level overview of the items that have changed in the latest version of the popular RIA framework.

Jon Rose
on May 31, 2009
Using JBoss ESB and JBPM for Implementing VMS Solutions

In a new article, Boris Lublinsky discusses how the JBoss middleware platform, specifically JBoss ESB and jBPM (JBoss Business Process Management) can be used to integrate both internal and third-party services to deliver composite services and content in customer-specific forms, including Web services, WAP, portals, and more.

Boris Lublinsky
on May 29, 2009
Grid Computing on the Azure Cloud Computing Platform, Part 3: Running a Grid Application

In Part 1 of this series we introduced a design pattern for grid computing on Azure, while in Part 2 we developed a grid application in C#. This time we'll run the application, first locally and then in the cloud. In order to do that, we'll need some help from a grid computing framework.

David Pallmann
on May 25, 2009
Talking RubyMine with JetBrains Developer Dmitry Jemerov

One of the more interesting announcements recently coming to the Ruby community was the release of JetBrains RubyMine IDE for Ruby and Ruby on Rails applications. The Ruby community is known for not typically using an integrated development environment (IDE) such as .NET or Java developers use. Ruby developers usually stick to plain text editors such as TextMate, Vim and Emacs.

Robert Bazinet
on May 19, 2009
Virtual Panel on Cloud Computing

In this virtual panel, InfoQ wants to find out from leading cloud experts what are the benefits brought by cloud computing as well as the constraints in using them, what is better to use, a public or a private cloud, is the cloud interoperability needed, what is the difference between providing infrastructure or a platform, and how can a client enforce regulatory compliance.

Abel Avram
on May 19, 2009
The Economics of Service Orientation

This article explores the structural economic changes brought up by service orientation. Most IT organizations today are under enormous financial pressure trying to keep rising costs and flat budgets in synch. The restructuring brought about by the concept of services and reuse at the service level promises long lasting relief from the cost treadmill.

Parviz Peiravi Enrique Castro-Leon Mark Chang Jackson He
on May 16, 2009

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