InfoQ Homepage Programming Content on InfoQ

Articles

RSS Feed

Newer Older

Ruby on Rails case study: ChangingThePresent.org

Bruce Tate, author and CTO of ChangingThePresent.org gives a glimpse inside the day to day operations of ChangeThePresent.org with a broad overview of how his team works, the technology trusted for production environments, tools, and most important Rails frameworks.

Bruce Tate
on Mar 26, 2007
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2007

This article presents the main takeway points and further reading as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Case studies (amazon, eBay, Yahoo!) Java, Agile, the Agile Open Space, Qualities in Architecture, Ajax and Browser Apps, .NET, Ruby, SOA, Usability, Banking Architectures followed by a summary of peoples over all opinions of QCon.

Floyd Marinescu
on Mar 22, 2007
Paul Oldfield on Doing Agile Right

In a new InfoQ interview, Agile thought-leader Paul Oldfield shares his ideas on what it means for organizations to do Agile "right".

Kurt Christensen
on Mar 15, 2007
Versatile RESTful APIs Beyond XML

The world of RESTful resources that Rails firmly entered with version 1.2 naturally uses XML as its lingua franca. But there's no reason that it can't be multi-lingual, and thanks to the versatility of rails it's easy to support other standards alongside XML in our RESTful applications, potentially opening them up to a wider audience and/or reducing their bandwidth requirements.

James Stewart
on Mar 13, 2007
Integrating Java Content Repository and Spring

Costin Leau introduces JSR 170 (Java Content Repositories) and how to integrate it with Spring Modules' JCR module, whose main objective is to simplify development with the JSR-170 API in a similar manner to that of the ORM package from the main Spring distribution.

Costin Leau
on Mar 12, 2007
Much ado about Boo

Boo is a OO-statically typed .NET programming language which in the spirit of Ruby or Python is licensed under an MIT/BSD license. Boo excels for building quick user interfaces and developer prototyping when using the boo's interactive shell. Andrew Glover's favorite reason for developing with boo, once compiled into byte-code it can easily be reused by any .NET based language.

Andy Glover
on Mar 07, 2007
Introduction to ActiveMessaging for Rails

The maintainer of ActiveMessaging for Ruby on Rails gives a comprehensive and informative introduction to his open-source framework, which enables enterprise messaging technologies to be easily integrated with Ruby on Rails applications, and is getting support from noted industry leaders such as James Strachan and Jon Tirsen.

Andrew Kuklewicz
on Mar 01, 2007
10 Principles of SOA

In this article, InfoQ's Stefan Tilkov, consultant at innoQ, proposes 10 principles to serve as a basis for SOA discussions. The list starts with Don Box's four tenets (service with explicit boundaries, shared contract and schema, policy-driven, and autonomous) and expands them to include wire formats, document orientation, loose coupling, standards compliance, vendor independence, and metadata.

Stefan Tilkov
on Feb 27, 2007
Rich Office Client Applications

There is a client platform that's already present on nearly every user's desktop, one which provides an amazing amount of power and flexibility in its user interface options, and provides a familiar user-interactive style that undergoes intensive study with every release. Ted Neward introduces the Microsoft Office platform as a rich client technology with examples of Excel - Java integration.

Ted Neward
on Feb 26, 2007
TDD with Selenium and Castle

Dan Bunea shows developers how TDD can be applied in .NET using Selenium RC and Castle. Test first principals provide architects a way to quickly jump into active development early in the application development lifecycle. The benefits of TDD are a drastic reduction in defects as well as increased flexibility in the code base since the application evolves quickly through an iterative process.

Dan Bunea
on Feb 20, 2007
Interview with Sanjiva Weerawarana: Debunking REST/WS-* Myths

InfoQ had a chance to talk to WS-* expert and WSO2 CEO Sanjiva Weerawarana, one of the fathers and a firm advocate of the WS-* architectural vision, we questioned him on the WS-* platform and his views on Microsoft's role in standardization. Sanjiva also took the opportunity to address "WS-* and REST myths".

Stefan Tilkov
on Feb 16, 2007
Evaluation Options in Ruby

Jay Fields, known for his cutting edge work defining BNLs (Business Natural Languages) delivers a code-rich explanation of eval, class_eval, and instance_eval, in the context of implementing domain-specific languages in Ruby.

Jay Fields
on Feb 14, 2007

Newer Articles

Older Articles

InfoQ Software Architects' Newsletter

Articles