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A Tester's Learning Journey

The software industry is changing fast. More and more teams put testing up front and center; they use tests to drive development. In this article, Lisa Crispin talks about how her attitude and curiosity have shaped her career and kept her passion for testing software fresh.

Lisa Crispin
on Jun 24, 2010
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.

Marc de Graauw
on Jun 18, 2010
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.

Srini Penchikala
on Jun 04, 2010
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.

Raja Das Zhi Da Luo Yao Qi
on May 27, 2010
Agile Operations in the Enterprise

We've been hearing about agile operations quite a bit lately. There have been some good talks, articles and a few lively debates. It has even been called the "secret sauce for startups". What about those of us who aren't in a startup or a Web 2.0 company? Is agile operations something that can really work inside a large, established enterprise?

Michael Nygard
on May 21, 2010
Architecture & Design

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.

Robert Bazinet
on May 19, 2010
Scala & Spring: Combine the best of both worlds

Based on a concrete example with Scala, Spring and JPA the article explains how to enhance Spring with Scala’s powerful concepts such as implicit conversions and traits. Moreover, it shows how the gap between a Java based framework and Scala can smoothly be bridged.

Urs Peter
on May 19, 2010
Graph Databases, NOSQL and Neo4j

Peter Neubauer introduces Graph databases and how they compare to RDBMS' and where they stand in the NOSQL-movement, followed by examples of using a graph database in Java with Neo4j.

Peter Neubauer
on May 12, 2010
Debugging in MonoTouch

When you run into bugs in application development, it's important to be able to track them down quickly and efficiently. To this end, debuggers allow you to track your code during execution and see exactly what’s happening. This article explores how to set up, test out, and work with the MonoTouch debugger while developing iPhone applications, including debugging running applications over Wifi.

Bryan Costanich
on May 10, 2010
10 SOA Commandments

Using Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) it is possible to lower the costs of information systems. Paradigms which are appropriate to database era are still being applied to SOA, resulting in counterproductive, and sometimes even dangerous designs. The author explores ways to achieve the potential of SOA initiatives by adhering to ten basic commandments.

Hans Wierenga
on May 10, 2010
An In-Depth Look at Clojure Collections

If you're familiar with Clojure, then you may know that at its heart lays a powerful set of immutable, persistent, collection types. This article covers the underpinnings of these collection types including a deep dive into a couple of them; namely vectors and maps, and presents an example of how viewing a problem through the lens of the "Clojure way" can greatly simply a design.

Michael Fogus Chris Houser
on May 06, 2010
Phil Abernathy on Agile Governance and Suncorp's Agile Transition

Phil Abernathy discusses the Sun Corp Agile journey - taking a 19000 person banking and insurance organization formed by the merger of two companies with over 4000 IT staff Agile from the top down. He talks about handling governance and change management, implementing Agile on mainframe projects and the impact of Agile in the heavily regulated financial industry in Australia.

Shane Hastie
on May 05, 2010