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  • Refactoring Legacy Applications: A Case Study

    To refactor legacy code, the ideal is to have a suite of unit tests to prevent regressions. However it's not always that easy. This article describes a methodology to safely refactor legacy code.

  • New Book: jQuery, jQuery UI And jQuery Mobile

    “jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile” is a new book by Adriaan de Jonge and Phil Dutson. The book takes you through the various jQuery libraries and also covers the plugin-architecture provided by jQuery. The authors assume that the reader has basic HTML and JavaScript knowledge, but start from very basics of each of the jQuery libraries before going into advanced topics.

  • Cloudberry: An HTML5 Cloud Phone Platform for Mobile Devices

    In this article, authors introduce Cloudberry, an HTML5-based cloud phone software which offers the benefit of changing features on mobile devices almost instantly. They also talk about challenges of using this platform.

  • Running Google App Engine Apps in JBoss AS7: Aleš Justin Discusses CapeDwarf

    During JUDCon China 2012 Red Hat's Aleš Justin introduced Project CapeDwarf, a Google AppEngine API implemented with JBoss and other open source libraries. Sai Yang, Senior Planning Editor of InfoQ China, spoke with him about why he started the project, what challenges the project has faced, and his experiences as a software developer in general.

  • Sharing Code in WCF without Code Generation

    One of the principal problems with normal WCF development is code reuse. No matter how well you design your classes on the server, once the proxy generator has touched them you get nothing but simple DTOs. This article shows how to bypass the proxy generator so that your client and server can share code.

  • Java EE Mobile Application Development using the AeroGear Framework

    AeroGear is a mobile development framework from JBoss that supports mobile web, hybrid, native apps on iOS & Android, and server side resources with extensions into existing projects like RESTEasy. Jay Balunas and Marius Bogoevici spoke at JavaOne 2012 Conference about AeroGear framework. InfoQ caught up with them and Anil Saldhana to speak about mobile development using AeroGear.

  • Developing Motoric Games with HTML5 - The Making of VeloMaze

    In this article Raimo explains the challenges and the solutions he had to come up with, while building a motoric HTML5 game for the NodeKO contest. The technologies used in the game were: Node.js, express (serving static content), Socket.io (letting the client and server communicate, Sylvester.js (a vector library for the physics engine) and jQuery.

  • A Technical Overview of Moscrif – MObile SCRipting Framework

    Moscrif is a cross-platform solution for mobile application development enabling developers to create native applications and games for smartphones, tablets and desktops.

  • James Ward on Client Server Application Development with HTML5 and Java

    Application development, whether it's client server, traditional web or a mobile web application, the recent trend is in using technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. James Ward spoke at JavaOne 2012 Conference about client server application development with HTML5 and Java. InfoQ caught up with James to speak about his presentation and the new application development trend.

  • New Book: JQuery Mobile In 24 Hrs

    “Sams Teach Yourself jQuery Mobile In 24 Hrs” is a new book by Phil Dutson that introduces web developers to building mobile web apps with JQuery Mobile. The book is divided into 24 separate chapters meant to be consumed in an hour each. InfoQ got in touch with Phil to know more about the book and Mobile web app development in general.

  • 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.

  • 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.

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