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What to Use on the Microsoft Stack

With Microsoft’s unwillingness to officially deprecate technologies such as Silverlight, figuring out which technologies on the .NET stack have a future and which should be avoided can be challenging. To help you out, we have summarized what we know of Microsoft’s intentions when it comes to business applications.

Jonathan Allen
on Nov 11, 2013
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Practical MQTT with Paho

MQTT is making the Internet of Things an interoperable and flexible world where the smallest devices can talk to the largest of servers. Obtaining valuable information from anything from a single temperature sensor to an industrial machine can be handled over an MQTT-based platform. What is MQTT and where do we find the libraries to talk with it? This article presents the Eclipse Paho project.

Dj Walker-Morgan
on Nov 08, 2013
API Business Models: 20 Models in 20 Minutes

How do you make money from APIs? In this keynote from the 2013 API Strategy Conference, John Musser, founder of ProgrammableWeb, reviews the different API business models that have been adopted by the worlds leading technology companies. John distills the variety of models down to four core categories and shows how API implementation aligns with different business strategies.

Saul Caganoff
on Nov 06, 2013
Interview with Joel Murach - Author of Murach's Android Programming

Murach Publishing continues to provide quality content for programmers by updating their titles regularly. Murach Android Programming by Joel Murach attempts to provide a comprehensive coverage of Android with plenty of screenshots and source codes to help developers to code in real world situations.

Anand Narayanaswamy
on Nov 04, 2013
Java 7 Features Which Enable Java 8

In this article, Ben Evans explores some features in Java 7 which lay the groundwork for the new features in Java 8.

Ben Evans
on Oct 31, 2013
Deploying it right with AppVeyor CI and PowerShell

Deploying real applications is hard. Questions arise when there are configuration settings in the Registry, custom folders structure, or you have to deploy to a web cluster. In this article we look at setting up continuous delivery for a solution consisting of ASP.NET web application and Windows service to a staging and production environments using PowerShell remoting and AppVeyor CI.

Feodor Fitsner
on Oct 30, 2013
Interview and Book Review: Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook

Matthias Marschall contributes powerful tactical information for all users of Opscode Chef, from the beginner up to expert, in his recently published book "Chef Infrastructure Automation Cookbook". Beginners will gain progressive knowledge using open source tools and free services. The expert will find a starting point automating the configuration of production applications in data centers.

Aslan Brooke
on Oct 28, 2013
Creating a sales dashboard for ASP.NET and MVC with ShieldUI Chart

In this article David Johnson demonstrates the differences between ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC by integrating the same charting control in each.

David Johnson
on Oct 23, 2013
JSIL: Challenges Met Compiling CIL into JavaScript

This article introduces JSIL, a .NET to JavaScript compiler, and contains details on the difficulties encountered while compiling CIL code into cross-browsers JavaScript.

Abel Avram
on Oct 21, 2013
JavaOne 2013 Roundup: Java 8 is Revolutionary, Java is back

JavaOne 2013 was recently held in San Francisco, from September 22 to September 26th. The festivities kicked off Sunday, with a Strategy Keynote by Peter Utzschneider, Nandini Ramani and Cameron Purdy.

Matt Raible
on Oct 20, 2013
Book Review: Building Applications with the Android SDK, 2nd Edition

The Android Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK, 2nd Edition is a collaborative effort by Ronan Schwarz, Phil Dutson, James Steele and Nelson To. The authors have succeeded in providing a solid reference book. A book for mobile app developers that can serve as an authoritative guide for newbies and intermediate to expert devs for creating awesome mobile apps.

Martin Monroe
on Oct 19, 2013
ATDD From the Trenches

A concrete example of how to get started with acceptance-test driven development on an existing code base. It is part of the solution to technical debt.

Henrik Kniberg
on Oct 17, 2013