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Igniting Kids' Enthusiasm for Coding

CodingStuff.org is an initiative to ignite kids' enthusiasm to learn how to code, to create apps, to design websites, and overall to become comfortable with technology. This article explores what teachers can do to ignite kid's enthusiasm for coding by using interesting and cool lessons to give them some pointers on how to code and then let the magic happen!

Henk Jurriens
on Aug 25, 2015
Version Control, Git, and your Enterprise

This article is about understanding Git – both its benefits and limits – and deciding if it’s right for your enterprise. It is intended to highlight some of the key advantages and disadvantages typically experienced by enterprises and presents the key questions to be contemplated by your enterprise in determining whether Git is right for you and what you need to consider in moving to Git.

Bob Jenkins
on Aug 18, 2015
Elixir in Action Review and Q&A with the Author

Elixir in action is a new release from Manning that aims to introduce readers to Elixir and the Erlang virtual machine while also discussing concurrent programming topics, fault-tolerance, and topics related to high-availability. InfoQ has interviewed Saša Jurić, the book's author.

Sergio De Simone
on Aug 08, 2015
The Lean Machine: Bringing Agile Thinking to the Database

For some years now, Agile practices have been attracting application developers with their promise of short iterations, fast releases, and software that gets out there sooner. Those same practices are now entering the database space, but how can database development teams adapt, and where should they start?

Matt Hilbert
on Aug 05, 2015
Project Jigsaw is Really Coming in Java 9

Eight years in the making, Project Jigsaw is finally coming to Java 9. With the potential to introduce breaking changes to your code, modularization will certainly change the way we think about our projects and the JDK itself. In this article, Nicolai Parlog tells us what we need to know and what we need to do to prepare

Nicolai Parlog
on Aug 04, 2015
EIP Designer: Bridging the Gap Between EA and Development

This article presents the EIP Designer project, an Eclipse-based tool for introducing integration patterns into an EA design, providing fluidity and continuity while filling the gap existing between EA practices and concrete software development.

Laurent Broudoux
on Aug 02, 2015
WebSocket: Bringing Desktop Agility to Web Application

Web applications are a critical part of life, yet the user experience is lacking compared to native or desktop applications. To improve the experience, web applications can stop relying on the one-way HTTP protocol and embrace WebSocket. With this technology, applications can provide a truly interactive experience.

Dmitriy Rogatkin
on Jul 30, 2015
Java

Build High Performance JVM Microservices with Ratpack & Spring Boot

Ratpack and Spring Boot offer powerful platforms in the JVM ecosystem for building microservices that garner an unparalleled merger of performance and extensibility. Ratpack microservices and Spring Boot's convention-over-configuration succinctly leverage Spring Data to create data driven RESTful HTTP APIs in a lightweight, cloud native deployment.

Dan Woods
on Jul 28, 2015
Java 9's New HTTP/2 and REPL

Java 9 will not just be about modularity; it is targeting a large number of additional pieces of functionality. In this article Ben Evans dives into HTTP/2 support and the JShell REPL (Read-Eval-Print-Loop) that brings shell-based interactive Java development, two new JEPs that may well have the biggest impact on developers' working lives during the lifetime of Java 9.

Ben Evans
on Jul 21, 2015
The Practice and Future of Release Engineering

This article features highlights from interviews with release engineers on the state of the practice and challenges in release engineering space. The interview questions cover topics like release engineering metrics, continuous delivery's benefits and limitations.

Tamara Marshall-Keim Christian Bird Foutse Khomh Bram Adams Kim Moir Stephany Bellomo
on Jul 19, 2015
Integrating Raft into JGroups

JGroups has many features that could be useful to a robust Raft consensus based implementation. In this article, Ugo Landini takes us through a project to implement a Raft consensus based algorithm on top of JGroups, which could be really a nice addition in many different use cases.

Ugo Landini
on Jul 14, 2015
Programming with Semantic Profiles: In the Land of Magic Strings, the Profile-Aware is King

As this article’s author, Mark Foster, puts it, "Absent profiles, the API space will be relegated to blindly passing around 'magic strings, fooling ourselves into thinking we are passing reliable semantic information." Here, Foster — one of the editors of the ALPS specification — explains what semantic profiles are and how they can transform the way Web APIs are desgined and implemented.

Mark Foster
on Jul 11, 2015