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  • Exterminating Heisenbugs

    Victor Grazi presents ten tips to keep in mind when architecting or developing concurrent applications in Java.

    Victor Grazi
    on Jul 24, 2012

  • Tackling real-world unit testing problems

    All the information, books and tools are out there, just pick up NUnit, and you’re good to go, right? Not exactly. Even before deciding to start unit testing, we need to sift through real experience of others; good and bad, horror stories and miracles (“This one test saved me a week of work!”). Then, we take the plunge, and realize: There’s so much to learn!

    Gil Zilberfeld
    on Jul 23, 2012

  • Introducing: Restful Objects

    Restful Objects is a public specification of a hypermedia API for domain object models. Version 1.0.0 of the specification has just been released and there are already two open source frameworks that implement the specification - one for the Java platform and one for .NET.

    Dan Haywood Richard Pawson
    on Jul 19, 2012

  • Book Review: Java Application Architecture

    Java Application Architecture: Modularity Patterns with Examples using OSGi is Kirk Knoernschild's seminal book on a pattern catalogue for modular systems design. Starting with an overview of the arguments for modularity, the main section in the book introduces eighteen categorised patterns for module development, and concludes with an OSGi example. InfoQ spoke to Kirk to find out more about it.

    Alex Blewitt
    on Jul 18, 2012

  • Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon New York 2012

    The first annual QCon New York brought together over 400 team leads, architects and engineering directors. This article summarizes the key takeaways from the event as blogged and tweeted by attendees.

    Abel Avram
    on Jul 17, 2012

  • What is CouchDB and Why Should I Care?

    CouchDB, a NoSQL solution, is a document-oriented database and within each document fields are stored as key-value maps. CouchDB has some unique characteristics like advanced replication. This article covers getting started, unit testing, CRUD and query operations.

    Leo Pryzbylski Warner Onstine
    on Jul 04, 2012

  • Virtual Panel: NoSQL Database Patterns and Polyglot Persistence

    NoSQL database space has different databases that support different data storage patterns. InfoQ spoke with four panelists about the current state of NoSQL adoption, architecture patterns supported by different NoSQL databases, polyglot persistence and security aspects when using NoSQL databases.

    Srini Penchikala
    on Jul 03, 2012

  • Java 8 vs Scala: a Feature Comparison

    This article explores some of Java 8’s new features, using both Java’s proposed syntax and Scala. We cover lambda expressions, higher-order functions, parallel collections and virtual extension methods aka traits. Besides this, we will provide insights into the new paradigms integrated in Java 8, such as functional programming.

    Urs Peter Sander van den Berg
    on Jun 29, 2012

  • What’s new in Groovy 2.0?

    The newly released Groovy 2.0 brings key static features to the language with static type checking and static compilation, adopts JDK 7 related improvements with Project Coin syntax enhancements and the support of the new “invoke dynamic” JVM instruction, and becomes more modular than before. In this article, we’re going to look into those new features in more detail.

    Guillaume LaForge
    on Jun 28, 2012

  • Implementing Aggregation Functions in MongoDB

    In this article, authors Arun Viswanathan and Shruthi Kumar discuss how to implement common aggregation functions on a MongoDB document database using its MapReduce functionality. They also discuss a typical application of aggregations which includes business reporting of sales data.

    Shruthi Kumar Arun Viswanathan
    on Jun 20, 2012

  • Testing SQL Server Code with TST

    Automated Testing (unit/integration) is an integral part of any agile development process. However a project with significant logic housed in database code creates severe constraints to writing unit level tests, especially if it is large, complex and depend on data. We will explore the TST framework and a few ideas for writing and maintaining good tests for database code.

    Roopesh Shenoy
    on Jun 18, 2012

  • Interview with Alessandro Del Sole, Author of LightSwitch Unleashed

    Visual Studio LightSwitch is Microsoft’s attempt to offer a tool that people with little or no programming experience to create simple and effective line-of-business applications. We spoke with Alessandro Del Sole, author of Microsoft Visual Studio LightSwitch Unleashed, to get some more insights into the product.

    Jonathan Allen
    on Jun 15, 2012
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