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Flexible and User-configurable Charts with Flash Builder Backed by a Java-based RESTful API
Daniel Morgan shows how to build a portal-style web application comprising a Java back-end to serve a RESTful API for creating, updating, deleting and retrieving dashboard-style, user-configurable charts assembled using Adobe Flash Builder.
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Fred Brooks on The Design of Design: Interview and Excerpt
A review of Frederick P. Brooks' latest book, The Design of Design. Few individuals have had as much influence on the 'practice' of software development and this book of loosely coupled essays on the essence of design, design process, and the development and nurturing of great designers extends and enhances previous contributions to the field. The review is enhanced with an interview and excerpt.
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Infinispan's GridFileSystem - An In-Memory Grid File System
Infinispan is an open source data grid platform that makes use of distributing state across nodes in a cluster. GridFileSystem is a new, experimental API that exposes an Infinispan-backed data grid as a file system. In this article, authors discuss distributed mode of Infinispan and how GridFS framework manages data caching by chunking up data using a new streaming API and storing them in a grid.
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Nobody Needs Reliable Messaging
Marc de Graauw challenges the notion that transport-level reliability mechanisms like WS-ReliableMessaging are needed, showing how business-specific logic for in-order and exactly-once processing do the job much better with examples from Dutch Healthcare's SOA.
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Virtual Panel: New JavaScript Frameworks Targeting HTML5
During the last year, HTML5 has gained general acceptance as one of the dominant development platforms for both the classic and the mobile Web. In that time new JavaScript frameworks have evolved that directly target this platform and attempt to set a new paradigm for Web development.
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Interview and Book Excerpt: Dave Klein's Grails A Quick-Start Guide
In this book review of Grails A Quick-Start Guide, InfoQ spoke with author Dave Klein about the best practices when using Grails for web application development, Meta Object Protocol (MOP) feature in Groovy, and tool support for developing web applications using Grails framework.
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Lambdas in Java: An In-Depth Analysis
Although languages like Python and Ruby have had lambdas for a long time, the recent popularity of JVM-based languages (notably Groovy and Scala) have rekindled demand for lambdas in Java as well. But what is a lambda and what is the proposed syntax for adding lambdas to the Java language? This article explores both of these questions in depth.
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5 Configuration Management Best Practices
There has been a lot of conversation going on around the configuration of applications, and how to manage it. This article explores things people can do from within their code to make their lives, and the lives of anyone else who has to administer or maintain their application, easier. These patterns have been used a number of times on ThoughtWorks projects, and they have proven their worth.
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The State of JRuby: 1.5, AOT, Java 7
InfoQ caught up with Charles Nutter to talk about the state of JRuby: the 1.5 release, Ahead of Time compilation, and what's coming up in 1.6 and with features in Java 7.
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Profiling java.util.concurrent locks
IBM’s Yao Qi, Raja Das, and Zhi Da Luo describe jucprofiler, an alphaWorks tool designed to profile multicore applications that make use of the java.util.concurrent classes introduced in Java 5.
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Building a WPF Application in IronRuby
Building upon the previous article introducing IronRuby, this article explores how to work with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) within IronRuby. In addition to a detailed example of an IronRuby WPF sample application, others areas covered include event handling, working with XAML, inheriting from CLR classes, and reducing verbosity in IronRuby code.
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Architecting TekPub - Moving from ASP.NET MVC to Ruby on Rails
TekPub is a web site devoted to developers, giving them a source of focused on-line training in various topics from Microsoft Entity Framework to writing your own blog engine using Ruby on Rails. They are an interesting case about company who started on ASP.NET MVC and quickly moved to Ruby on Rails. We had the opportunity to talk with them about their technology turnaround.