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Fn.py: Enjoy Functional Programming in Python
Despite the fact that Python is not a pure-functional programming language, it's multi-paradigm and it gives you enough freedom to take credits from functional programming approach. Library fn.py was created in order to assist Python developers in using a functional programming style.
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New Book: jQuery, jQuery UI And jQuery Mobile
“jQuery, jQuery UI and jQuery Mobile” is a new book by Adriaan de Jonge and Phil Dutson. The book takes you through the various jQuery libraries and also covers the plugin-architecture provided by jQuery. The authors assume that the reader has basic HTML and JavaScript knowledge, but start from very basics of each of the jQuery libraries before going into advanced topics.
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Cloudberry: An HTML5 Cloud Phone Platform for Mobile Devices
In this article, authors introduce Cloudberry, an HTML5-based cloud phone software which offers the benefit of changing features on mobile devices almost instantly. They also talk about challenges of using this platform.
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Designing and Implementing Hypermedia APIs
This article (the second in a four-part series) walks through the implementation of a hypermedia server based on the design for the class scheduling problem domain outlined in the first installment of this series. In upcoming weekly installments of the series, details of implementing hypermedia clients will be reviewed along with techniques for evolving the API safely over time.
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Running Google App Engine Apps in JBoss AS7: Aleš Justin Discusses CapeDwarf
During JUDCon China 2012 Red Hat's Aleš Justin introduced Project CapeDwarf, a Google AppEngine API implemented with JBoss and other open source libraries. Sai Yang, Senior Planning Editor of InfoQ China, spoke with him about why he started the project, what challenges the project has faced, and his experiences as a software developer in general.
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Jonah Kowall on Application Performance Monitoring and Management
Application Performance Management (APM) focuses on monitoring and managing the performance and availability of software applications running in an enterprise. Jonah Kowall from Gartner team co-authored the Gartner Magic Quadrant report on Application Performance Monitoring. InfoQ spoke with Jonah about the APM space, techniques and tools and emerging trends in this area.
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Chris Patterson on Automated Builds in TFS
We spoke with Chris Patterson, Senior Program Manager Team Foundation Server about the role of automated builds and continuous delivery in modern application development. Team Foundation Server is the Microsoft-hosted version of Team Foundation Services.
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Learning Modern C++: An Interview with Barbara Moo
C++ was originally introduced in the 1980s, when coinciding with the rise of object orientated programming, it became one of the primary languages for software development. In the years since C++'s entry, both scripted languages and managed languages have risen in popularity. InfoQ speaks with Barbara Moo, coauthor of C++ Primer Fifth Edition, about C++11 and modern C++ development.
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Designing and Implementing Hypermedia APIs
This article (the first in a four-part series) talks briefly about the concept of using hypermedia as an application programming interface (API) and how to design a hypermedia type to use as a basis for your API. In upcoming weekly installments of the series, details of implementing hypermedia servers and clients will be reviewed along with techniques for evolving the API safely over time.
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The Datomic Information Model
Rich Hickey, the author of Clojure, explains the information model of Datomic - a new database designed as a composition of simple services, combining the capabilities of RDBMS and scalability of NoSQL.
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Book Review: Core Java Volume 1 - Fundamentals
Core Java Volume I Ninth Edition by Cay Horstmann and Gary Cornell has been released, and it is as lucid and replete with basic non-trivial examples as ever. In this two-volume tome you will find everything you ever wanted to know about Java 7, the latest release of the Java Development Kit, including collections, generics, concurrency, etc.
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Getting Started with Shuttle Service Bus
Shuttle Service Bus is a .NET open source framework providing distribution support for command and event messaging useful in building an EDA system. This article introduces Shuttle and a case study of its use in production.