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AtomServer – The Power of Publishing for Data Distribution – Part Two

In this article, Bryon Jacob and Chris Berry continue their description of AtomServer, their implementation of a full-fledged Atom Store based on Apache Abdera. The authors have created several extensions to the AtomPub specification, among them Auto-Tagging, Batching, and Aggregate Feeds.

Chris Berry Bryon Jacob
on Sep 26, 2008
Book Spotlight: Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed

Mike Snell and Lars Powers tackle developer productivity with their recent book titled Visual Studio 2008 Unleashed by Sams Publishing. Included is a sample chapter for download, Chapter 10 on Debugging.

Mike Snell Lars Powers
on Sep 24, 2008
Culture & Methods

"Who Do You Trust?" by Linda Rising

During Agile 2008, Dr. Linda Rising held a presentation centered on experiments conducted many years ago, presenting how deep, powerfully affecting, and difficult to avoid are human “prejudices” and “stereotypes”. This article is a summary of that presentation.

Tsutomu Yasui translated by Kazuteru Tajima
on Sep 23, 2008
Joshua Bloch: Bumper-Sticker API Design

In this article, Joshua Bloch, head of Java on Google and former Distinguished Engineer at Sun Microsystems, presents a list of maxims intended to be a concise summary of good API design guidelines. The maxims represent the abstract written by Joshua for his session "How to Design a Good API and Why it Matters" held during JavaPolis 2006.

Joshua Bloch
on Sep 22, 2008
Paradigm based Polyglot Programming

Have you ever wondered why people talk about having "the right language for the right job"? Or why people talk about using more languages within the same system? Sadek Drobi explains why you should consider mixing languages within your system, how to think and what to consider.

Sadek Drobi
on Sep 19, 2008
Interview and Book Excerpt: Pro Web 2.0 Application Development with GWT

Jeff Dwyer discusses his new book, GWT 1.5, and creating searchable Ajax applications.

Scott Delap
on Sep 17, 2008
Developing Portlets using JSF, Ajax, and Seam (Part 3 of 3)

This article, the last in a three-part series, expands upon the previous articles by introducing Seam. It covers integrating Seam into the previous sample application, deploying a Seam portlet, Bridgelets, Single-sign on between Seam and JBoss Portal, and several new features and capabilities of JBoss Portlet Bridge.

Wesley Hales
on Sep 16, 2008
Your First Cup of Web 2.0 - A Quick Look at jQuery, Spring MVC, and XStream/Jettison

Refreshing the web page every time data is requested from the server is annoying for the users. Joel Confino shows how existing web pages can be tweaked to request data via AJAX without refreshing the page, by using jQuery, a JavaScript library, which involves minimal changes to existing code.

Joel Confino
on Sep 15, 2008
"Systems Development": a New Discipline for a New Education

Educator Dr. Dave West discusses “Systems Development”, a new discipline emphasizing humanity, craft, design, creativity, innovation, and emergence - in stark contrast with current university disciplines. West proposes a better educational experience, replacing the sterility of today’s classrooms and labs with the workshop, or “bottega.”

Dr. Dave West
on Sep 12, 2008
Quest for True SOA

Alex Maclinovsky explains why his vision of Governance differs from those prevailing in the industry. Based on his precise understanding of what a SOA platform should do, he defines a unified view of SOA Governance which he claims "has the potential to take the imperfect SOA platforms and implementations ... and transform them into true Service Oriented Architectures..."

Alex Maclinovsky
on Sep 10, 2008
Typemock: Past, Present and Future

In this interview with Eli Lopian of Typemock, he discusses the impetus for Typemock, it's differentiators and program futures. Typemock was originally created to fill a need for a Test Driven Development tool within the .NET community.

Eli Lopian
on Sep 04, 2008
More Than Just Spin (Up) : Virtualization for the Enterprise and SaaS

Cloud services, such as Amazon EC2, have helped bring virtualization to the forefront of the IT conversation. Its full power however, also includes benefits such as high availability, disaster recovery, and rapid application provisioning. In this article, Contegix CEO Matthew Porter, discusses how virtualization can be used to bring these benefits to enterprise and Saas deployments.

Matthew Porter
on Aug 31, 2008

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