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  • Book Launch of “Commitment”, and an Interview with Olav Maassen, Chris Matts and Chris Geary

    Commitment is a graphical business novel about managing project risks with “Real Options”, a way of thinking to improve your decision making. InfoQ attended the book launch on May 14 in Amersfoort, The Netherlands and spoke with the authors about decision making, risks and technical debt.

    Ben Linders
    on Jul 02, 2013

  • Interview and Book Review: Effective JavaScript

    In his recent book Effective JavaScript, author David Herman takes an in-depth look at the JavaScript programming language and how to use it effectively to write more portable, robust and maintainable applications and libraries. InfoQ spoke with David about new trends in JavaScript and writing effective JavaScript libraries.

    Nilanjan Raychaudhuri
    on Jun 21, 2013

  • Graph Databases - Book Review and Interview

    "Graph Databases" book covers the Graph based NoSQL database technology and different options available for storing "Connected Data" in the real world applications. InfoQ spoke with co-authors Ian Robinson and Jim Webber about the book, role of Graph Databases in the NoSQL database space, and what’s coming up in the Graph Databases.

    Srini Penchikala
    on Jun 07, 2013

  • Book Review: Core Java Volume 1 - Fundamentals

    Core Java Volume I Ninth Edition by Cay Horstmann and Gary Cornell has been released, and it is as lucid and replete with basic non-trivial examples as ever. In this two-volume tome you will find everything you ever wanted to know about Java 7, the latest release of the Java Development Kit, including collections, generics, concurrency, etc.

    Victor Grazi
    on Jan 24, 2013

  • New Book: JQuery Mobile In 24 Hrs

    “Sams Teach Yourself jQuery Mobile In 24 Hrs” is a new book by Phil Dutson that introduces web developers to building mobile web apps with JQuery Mobile. The book is divided into 24 separate chapters meant to be consumed in an hour each. InfoQ got in touch with Phil to know more about the book and Mobile web app development in general.

    Roopesh Shenoy
    on Oct 15, 2012

  • Book on Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles by Leonid Grinshpan

    Performance is one of the most critical attributes for enterprise applications. Even though not mentioned explicitly, properties such as response time or throughput are key issues that decide about user acceptance.Leonid Grinshpan, PhD and Consulting Director at Oracle Corporation, has dedicated his book "Solving Enterprise Applications Performance Puzzles" to this topic.

    Michael Stal
    on Feb 29, 2012

  • Interview and Book Review: The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java

    "The CERT Oracle Secure Coding Standard for Java" book covers the rules for secure coding using Java programming language and its libraries with the goal to help Java developers eliminate insecure coding practices that can lead to vulnerable code. InfoQ spoke with book authors about how the security rules discussed in the book compare to other security coding frameworks.

    Srini Penchikala
    on Feb 15, 2012

  • Interview and Book Review: Programming Concurrency on the JVM

    In his latest book "Programming Concurrency on the JVM" author Venkat Subramaniam talks about the concurrency techniques using different JVM programming languages. He also discusses Software Transactional Memory (STM) and Actor-based Concurrency. InfoQ spoke with Venkat about his new book.

    Srini Penchikala
    on Jan 10, 2012

  • Book Review and Excerpt: Scalability Rules

    Martin Abbott and Michael Fisher's book, Scalability Rules, is a compilation of 50 rules for scaling applications based on experience garnered at eBay, Intuit, PayPal, Etsy, Folica and Salesforce. The book is a handy reference for experienced and novice architects, managers, developers and operations personnel through a mix of heuristics and a priority-benefit model to rank the rules.

    Jeevak Kasarkod
    on Aug 05, 2011

  • Book Review: DTrace: Dynamic Tracing in Oracle Solaris, Mac OS X and FreeBSD

    This book is written by Brendan Gregg and Jim Mauro, both expert users in DTrace and the Solaris Internals from Prentice Hall. It covers the key features of the DTrace environment, the D language that is used to write the scripts used to provide answers to questions regarding the performance of the system under question.

    Alex Blewitt
    on Aug 03, 2011

  • New book - Individuals and Interactions: An Agile Guide

    Ken Howard and Barry Rogers have written a book that focuses on the first value from the Agile Manifesto. They provide advice, tools and techniques to help teams and individuals improve their communications and interpersonal interactions. The book presents a set of tools that work together more effectively. They provide guidelines for a workshop to put the techniques into practice.

    Shane Hastie
    on Jul 18, 2011

  • Interview and Book Excerpt: CMMI for Services

    CMMI for Services(CMMI-SVC)is a process improvement framework developed by the SEI for service providers. InfoQ spoke to Eileen Forrester, co-author of CMMI for Services: Guidelines for Superior Service and manager of CMMI-SVC. In this interview we cover adoption practices for CMMI-SVC and its relationship with CMMI-DEV, ITIL and Agile accompanied by relevant excerpts from the book.

    Jeevak Kasarkod
    on Jul 14, 2011
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