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Nashorn - The Combined Power of Java and JavaScript in JDK 8
With JDK 8, Nashorn replaces Rhino as Java’s standard JavaScript engine for the benefit of improved performance and compatibility. Avatar.js brings the popular Node framework’s programming model to Nashorn, enabling many JavaScript server applications to run in a Java environment. In this article JavaScript expert Oliver Zeigermann explains the hows and the why's.
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How Composite C1 Found Success by Becoming Open Source
In today’s environment it is difficult to offer commercial products, especially in highly competitive fields such as content management systems. Finding themselves being squeezed out of the market, Composite C1 found a way to thrive by releasing their core product under an open source license with cloud based hosting.
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Interview with Andy Piper on the Eclipse Paho project and the Internet of Things
MQTT provides the communications link for low-power systems. InfoQ caught up with Andy Piper, lead of the Eclipse Paho project, to find out more about the history of MQTT and why it is being used by internet scale companies such as Facebook.
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Durandal: Quick Start
Durandal is a lightweight JavaScript framework designed to make building Single Page Applications (SPAs) simple and elegant. It has strong support for MVC, MVP and MVVM so that no matter what type of front end architecture you prefer, Durandal can handle the task.
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Developing Modular JavaScript Components
While most web applications these days employ an abundance of JavaScript, keeping client-side functionality focused, robust and maintainable remains a significant challenge. This article will present an example of evolving a simple widget from a largely unstructured code base to a reusable component.
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Writing Automated Tests with Jazz Automation
Jazz Automation is a testing framework built to automate and speed up acceptance/functional testing for all types of web based systems or static websites and in any industry. It also lends itself to easily implement automated integration testing. Historically this type of testing has been all manual, labor intensive, and inaccurate.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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Codenvy’s Architecture, Part 2
Tyler Jewell, CEO of Codenvy, unveils in this 2-parts article the architecture of Codenvy - a cloud IDE –, providing details on its platform and plug-in architecture, workspace and cluster management, multi-tenancy implementation, IDE collaboration, release model and SCRUM process used for development.
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Codenvy’s Architecture, Part 1
Tyler Jewell, CEO of Codenvy, unveils in this 2-parts article the architecture of Codenvy - a cloud IDE –, providing details on its platform and plug-in architecture, workspace and cluster management, multi-tenancy implementation, IDE collaboration, release model and SCRUM process used for development.