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Creating a sales dashboard for ASP.NET and MVC with ShieldUI Chart

In this article David Johnson demonstrates the differences between ASP.NET Web Forms and MVC by integrating the same charting control in each.

David Johnson
on Oct 23, 2013
JSIL: Challenges Met Compiling CIL into JavaScript

This article introduces JSIL, a .NET to JavaScript compiler, and contains details on the difficulties encountered while compiling CIL code into cross-browsers JavaScript.

Abel Avram
on Oct 21, 2013
JavaOne 2013 Roundup: Java 8 is Revolutionary, Java is back

JavaOne 2013 was recently held in San Francisco, from September 22 to September 26th. The festivities kicked off Sunday, with a Strategy Keynote by Peter Utzschneider, Nandini Ramani and Cameron Purdy.

Matt Raible
on Oct 20, 2013
Book Review: Building Applications with the Android SDK, 2nd Edition

The Android Developer’s Cookbook: Building Applications with the Android SDK, 2nd Edition is a collaborative effort by Ronan Schwarz, Phil Dutson, James Steele and Nelson To. The authors have succeeded in providing a solid reference book. A book for mobile app developers that can serve as an authoritative guide for newbies and intermediate to expert devs for creating awesome mobile apps.

Martin Monroe
on Oct 19, 2013
ATDD From the Trenches

A concrete example of how to get started with acceptance-test driven development on an existing code base. It is part of the solution to technical debt.

Henrik Kniberg
on Oct 17, 2013
Book Review: Learning Gerrit Code Review

Learning Gerrit Code Review presents an overview of the Gerrit review tool, from how to install and configure projects through to how to integrate with other services like GitHub and Jenkins.The book also presents the rationale behind code reviews and the benefits that it brings to projects, as well as some low-level introductions to git.

Alex Blewitt
on Oct 16, 2013
Bridging Subsidiaries With the Cloud to Create a Global API

One of the biggest challenges in modern business is how you integrate subsidiaries and present a single global view so that customers and partners find it simpler to integrate with your organisation. In this article we will discuss a fictitious sample based on a real-world scenario and look at some of the challenges and good practices that you should look to implement to be successful.

Michael Stephenson
on Oct 15, 2013
Interview: Adrian Cockcroft on High Availability, Best Practices, and Lessons Learned in the Cloud

Netflix is a widely referenced case study for how to effectively operate a cloud application at scale. While their hyper-resilient approach may not be necessary at most organizations, Netflix has advanced the conversation about what it means to build modern systems. In this interview, InfoQ spoke with Adrian Cockcroft who is the Cloud Architect for the Netflix platform.

Richard Seroter
on Oct 11, 2013
Preparing for Your First MongoDB Deployment: Capacity Planning and Monitoring

In this article, author Mat Keep discusses the deployment best practices of MongoDB databases with focus on capacity planning and monitoring aspects. He also explains the topics like hardware selection, key metrics for monitoring and when it’s time to add shards.

Mat Keep
on Oct 08, 2013
Keeping Your Secrets

Dennis Sosnoski explains how supposedly-secure connections can be downgraded to the point where they are easily broken and how even at full strength most forms of encryption are vulnerable to data capture and later decryption if your private keys are exposed. In this article you'll learn some ways of making it more difficult for anyone to see or alter your data exchanges.

Dennis Sosnoski
on Sep 30, 2013
Docker: Using Linux Containers to Support Portable Application Deployment

Docker is an open source tool to run applications inside of a Linux container, a kind of light-weight virtual machine. In addition to running, it also offers tools to distribute containerized applications through the Docker index -- or your own hosted Docker registry -- simplifying the process of deploying complex applications.

Zef Hemel
on Sep 26, 2013
How to Make Your In-memory NoSQL Datastores Enterprise-Ready

In this article, author Yiftach Schoolman outlines how to overcome the top seven challenges associated with managing the in-memory NoSQL datastores in the cloud. He discusses the challenges like availability, consistency during and after network splits, data durability, scalability, and ops overhead.

Yiftach Schoolman
on Sep 24, 2013

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