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Teaching Kids Java Programming

During the holiday season we think about our families, our children, and and their future. In this article, Yakov Fain give us some insight about what lead him to write his new book "Java Programming for Kids" (now available as a free download) and includes some sample chapters.

Yakov Fain
on Dec 22, 2014
Mobile

Merry Swiftmas from InfoQ

It's nearly Christmas time now and some might still be looking for a tree and a few presents. Well, InfoQ would like to help you here. This article teaches you to create as many trees and presents as you need on your iOS device using Apple Swift and SceneKit. SceneKit is a 3d-graphics-framework often used for gaming projects and obviously sometimes to create Christmas accessories. Merry Swiftmas!

Alex Blewitt
on Dec 20, 2014
Creating a Sales Dashboard with Bootstrap and ShieldUI

Bootstrap is a front-end framework, which addresses important development problems such as element positioning, application responsiveness and multi-device rendering. This article shows how to use it, along with ShieldUI, to create a sales dashboard.

David Johnson
on Dec 19, 2014
Book Review and Interview: The Practice of Cloud System Administration

The new book, The Practice of Cloud System Administration: Designing and Operating Large Distributed Systems, looks at a wide range of considerations for cloud-scale systems. In this book review and interview with the authors, we look at how teams can apply proven best practices.

Richard Seroter
on Dec 18, 2014
Roy Fielding on Versioning, Hypermedia, and REST

Roy Fielding talks to Mike Amundsen about versioning on the Web, why hypermedia is a requirement in his REST style, the process of designing network software that can adapt over time, and the challenge of thinking at the scale of decades.

Mike Amundsen
on Dec 17, 2014
Java

Designing a Highly Available, Fault Tolerant, Hadoop Cluster with Data Isolation

As data grows exponentially, the modern Hadoop ecosystem provides not only a reliable distributed aggregation system that delivers data parallelism, but also analytics for great data insights. In this article Monica Beckwith, starting from core Hadoop components, investigates the design of a highly available, fault tolerant Hadoop cluster, adding security and data-level isolation.

Monica Beckwith
on Dec 16, 2014
Implementing Hypermedia

In this article, we'll talk about four different real-world implementations of hypermedia: how you may already be using hypermedia through image links, how GitHub uses the Link header for pagination, using hypermedia in constrained systems like iOS, and how Balanced uses hypermedia principles to build their product.

Steve Klabnik
on Dec 11, 2014
Book Review and Interview: Mastering Eclipse Plug-in Development

Regular InfoQ Java contributor Dr. Alex Blewitt has recently published a follow-up to last year’s "Eclipse 4 Plug-in Development by Example”. Called “Mastering Eclipse Plug-in Development,” the book, like its predecessor, is essentially a tutorial, but it assumes that you are already familiar with the basics of building plug-ins for the Eclipse IDE, and rapidly dives into advanced topics.

Charles Humble
on Dec 11, 2014
Q&A with Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin about More Agile Testing

The book More Agile Testing reflects back on the developments that have happened in agile testing in the last five years. It covers new challenges in testing, test practices, and examples of and experiences with agile testing from teams all around the world. InfoQ did an interview with the authors Janet Gregory and Lisa Crispin.

Ben Linders
on Dec 09, 2014
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 2014

This article summarizes the key takeaways and highlights from QCon San Francisco 2014 as blogged and tweeted by QCon's 1,200 attendees. Over the course of the next 4 months, InfoQ will be publishing most of the conference sessions online, including 10 video interviews that were recorded by the InfoQ editorial team.

Abel Avram
on Dec 08, 2014
Functional Programming in Scala Review and Q&A with the Authors

Paul Chiusano and Rúnar Bjarnason's Functional Programming in Scala "is not a book about Scala," say the authors, rather it is a principled introduction to functional programming that relies on Scala. An interview with the authors.

Sergio De Simone
on Dec 08, 2014
A Web API Design Methodology

This article provides a brief overview of the design methodology covered in the book "RESTful Web APIs" by Richardson and Amundsen.

Mike Amundsen
on Dec 07, 2014

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