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Oozie Plugin for Eclipse

Oozie Eclipse plugin is a new tool for editing Apache Oozie workflows graphically inside Eclipse. Usage of this plugin allows to skip hard to develop and maintain process definition in HPDL. Instead a process graph is defined graphically by placing process actions on pallet and connecting them. An article introduces Eclipse Oozie plugin and provides an example of its usage.

Ahmed Mahran
on Oct 30, 2015
Java

From Imperative to Functional and Back-Monads are for Functional Languages

Grafting Functional Programming's approach of monadic composition onto imperative languages yields the worst of both worlds. And the only reason for importing the PFP abstraction is due to a flaw in that most basic concurrency abstract, the thread; a flaw that can be easily rectified by the introduction of fibers.

Ron Pressler
on Oct 27, 2015
Web Development

Bridging Microsoft Word and the Browser

HTML editors work fine for general formatting, but they don’t have all the capabilities that some businesses require. Creating graphics, diagrams, tracking changes and inserting comments are useful and come out of the box in Microsoft Word In this article, Prasadu Babu Dandu shows how to serve up Word documents as HTML.

Prasadu Babu Dandu
on Oct 26, 2015
Web Development

Stylish and Sane: A Guide to Better CSS

All websites need CSS and most is awful. There's too much of it. There's a bunch of duplication. It's like a delicately spun spider web, tightly coupled and fragile. It has more patches than a bicycle wheel. It doesn't need to be this way. Rouan Wilsenach introduces the concept of component-based styling and how to curate a style guide for your site.

Rouan Wilsenach
on Oct 21, 2015
Culture & Methods

Q&A on Save our Scrum

The book Save our Scrum by Matt Heusser and Markus Gärtner provides advice for teams to implement Scrum. It explores what teams that are having difficulties doing Scrum can do to get out of trouble and find better ways to use Scrum. An interview about the knowledge level of people that are doing Scrum and "saving Scrum", pursuing business value, how Scrum fails, and adopting and tailoring Scrum.

Ben Linders
on Oct 20, 2015
Mobile

Understanding Bitcode for iOS Applications

When Apple released Xcode 7, they also enabled applications to be distributed to the AppStore through bitcode, instead of per-processor target files. InfoQ looks under the covers at what Bitcode is, what advantages it may offer, and why developers should consider enabling bitcode projects for their iOS targets.

Alex Blewitt
on Oct 15, 2015
Culture & Methods

Q&A and Book Review of Software Development Metrics

The book Software Development Metrics by Dave Nicolette explores how to use metrics to track and guide software development. It explains how different development approaches and process models, like traditional waterfall-based or iterative agile software development, affect the choice and usage of metrics. It describes metrics that can be used for steering work and for managing improvement.

Ben Linders
on Oct 12, 2015
Mobile

What’s New in iOS 9: Xcode 7 and Other Developer Tools

In the first four installments of this series, we reviewed new and enhanced frameworks included with iOS 9 SD, changes to Swift and Objective-C, and the new Safari content blocking API. In this article, we will describe what is new within Apple Developer Tools, including Xcode Playgrounds, LLDB, UI testing, Interface Builder, etc.

Sergio De Simone
on Oct 09, 2015
Architecture & Design

Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model Book Review and Q&A with Vaughn Vernon

Vaughn Vernon in his new book Reactive Messaging Patterns with the Actor Model shows how this model can simplify enterprise software development. After an introduction to the basics of the actor model and tutorials on Scala and Akka the rest of the book is a patterns catalogue describing most of the patterns in the book Enterprise Integration Patterns from an actor model perspective.

Jan Stenberg
on Oct 06, 2015
Development

Author Q&A with Brett Slatkin on Effective Python

InfoQ speaks with Brett Slatkin, senior staff software engineer at Google and author of Effective Python.

Jeff Martin
on Oct 05, 2015
Culture & Methods

Q&A with Tom Roden and Ben Williams on Improving Retrospectives

InfoQ interviewed the authors of fifty quick ideas to improve your retrospectives about why they wrote the book and how ideas are described, when you can do retrospectives, what facilitators can do to establish safety, why facilitators should not be the ones who solve problems, celebrating successes, good practices for getting actions done, and the value that teams get from doing retrospectives.

Ben Linders
on Oct 02, 2015
.NET

Fighting Developer Fatigue with JNBridge

Developer fatigue is the overwhelming frustration felt by developers who are under pressure to keep current with a flood of new languages, libraries, frameworks, platforms and programming models. JNBridge offers a way to help alleviate developer fatigue by allowing you to mix the libraries you know with code written in the language you are learning.

Wayne Citrin
on Oct 01, 2015

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