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Mobile Application Architecture with HTML5 and Javascript

David Pitt presents a guide to combining specific frameworks and structures for the basic functionality of HTML5-based mobile applications. He discusses the development considerations mobile devices require, difficulties necessary to overcome with HTML5 development, and a detailed example implementation of an HTML5-based mobile application with MVC architecture.

David Pitt
on Sep 18, 2012
Spring Data – One API To Rule Them All?

Tobias Trelle offers an introduction to the Spring Data project, a high level SpringSource project whose purpose is to unify and ease the access to different kinds of persistence stores, both relational database systems and NoSQL data stores.

Tobias Trelle
on Aug 16, 2012
Plastic SCM – DVCS at Enterprise Level

Building on his earlier article, “Distributed Version Control Systems in the Enterprise”, Pablo Santos discusses his company’s product: PlasticSCM. While other DVCS systems were designed for the needs of the Linux open source community, PlasticSCM addresses the problems facing enterprise software developers, especially those using .NET.

Pablo Santos
on Aug 13, 2012
Exterminating Heisenbugs

Victor Grazi presents ten tips to keep in mind when architecting or developing concurrent applications in Java.

Victor Grazi
on Jul 24, 2012
Tackling real-world unit testing problems

All the information, books and tools are out there, just pick up NUnit, and you’re good to go, right? Not exactly. Even before deciding to start unit testing, we need to sift through real experience of others; good and bad, horror stories and miracles (“This one test saved me a week of work!”). Then, we take the plunge, and realize: There’s so much to learn!

Gil Zilberfeld
on Jul 23, 2012
Introducing: Restful Objects

Restful Objects is a public specification of a hypermedia API for domain object models. Version 1.0.0 of the specification has just been released and there are already two open source frameworks that implement the specification - one for the Java platform and one for .NET.

Dan Haywood Richard Pawson
on Jul 19, 2012
Book Review: Java Application Architecture

Java Application Architecture: Modularity Patterns with Examples using OSGi is Kirk Knoernschild's seminal book on a pattern catalogue for modular systems design. Starting with an overview of the arguments for modularity, the main section in the book introduces eighteen categorised patterns for module development, and concludes with an OSGi example. InfoQ spoke to Kirk to find out more about it.

Alex Blewitt
on Jul 18, 2012
Cut off wrong dependencies in your .NET code

Patrick Smacchia advises developers to treat each namespace in an application as a component, and make sure there are no dependency cycles between your components. He claims that by abiding by this simple tenet, the structure of a large application can’t diverge to the monolithic block of spaghetti code base that seems to be the rule more than the exception in enterprise professional development.

Patrick Smacchia
on Jul 16, 2012
Java 8 vs Scala: a Feature Comparison

This article explores some of Java 8’s new features, using both Java’s proposed syntax and Scala. We cover lambda expressions, higher-order functions, parallel collections and virtual extension methods aka traits. Besides this, we will provide insights into the new paradigms integrated in Java 8, such as functional programming.

Urs Peter Sander van den Berg
on Jun 29, 2012
What’s new in Groovy 2.0?

The newly released Groovy 2.0 brings key static features to the language with static type checking and static compilation, adopts JDK 7 related improvements with Project Coin syntax enhancements and the support of the new “invoke dynamic” JVM instruction, and becomes more modular than before. In this article, we’re going to look into those new features in more detail.

Guillaume LaForge
on Jun 28, 2012
Lessons From A DevOps Journey

Matt Callanan has been pushing the boundaries of Agile software development for over six years and most recently he extended that journey to DevOps. He recently shared his experiences in a talk at the Agile Development Practices West conference entitled "Lessons From A DevOps Journey". InfoQ caught up with Matt prior to the conference to find out more about his experiences in DevOps.

Craig Smith
on Jun 27, 2012
Interview with Alessandro Del Sole, Author of LightSwitch Unleashed

Visual Studio LightSwitch is Microsoft’s attempt to offer a tool that people with little or no programming experience to create simple and effective line-of-business applications. We spoke with Alessandro Del Sole, author of Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed, to get some more insights into the product.

Jonathan Allen
on Jun 15, 2012

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