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The Future of Authentication

In this IEEE roundtable discussion hosted by guest editors Richard Chow, Markus Jakobsson, and Jesus Molina, the panelists discuss current authentication approaches, how to authenticate users on mobile devices and the future direction of authentication.

Steve Kirsch Scott Matsumoto Jesus Molina Ori Eisen Richard Chow Paul van Oorschot Markus Jakobsson Dirk Balfanz
on May 04, 2012
HTML5 offline web applications using ASP.NET MVC

One of the major constraints of web applications has always been connectivity, especially with mobile applications. In this article, Jef Claes shows you how to use HTML’s offline capabilities to ensure the application keeps working even when the network connection isn’t.

Jef Claes
on May 02, 2012
MongoDB, Java and Object Relational Mapping

Brian C. Dilley covers pitfalls, & strengths of using MongoDB ("a very approachable NoSQL solution"), and introduces MJORM. The MJORM project is an annotation free MongoDB Java ORM library. This article builds on Brian's real world in the trenches experience with MongoDB and includes "gotchas" like "Don't treat MongoDB like an RDBMS...", how to "design your indexes carefully", and more.

Brian C. Dilley
on Apr 30, 2012
Benchmarking JVM Concurrency Options for Java, Scala and Akka

Michael Slinn examines how to benchmark JVM concurrency options for JVM-based langauges including Java and Scala.

Michael Slinn
on Apr 26, 2012
From C# to Objective-C with Somya Jain

A shift has been occurring in the business world. Many consulting companies that traditionally write line-of-business applications in .NET are now being asked to build applications for iOS. And while .NET and Java will still be viable for years to come, there are a lot of opportunities for teams that are willing to cross-train. Somya Jain explains what that entails for C# developers.

Somya Jain
on Apr 24, 2012
Software Engineering Meets Evolutionary Computation

In this IEEE article, author Mark Harman talks about evolutionary computation and how it has affected software design. Main focus is on search-based software engineering (SBSE), which focuses on the application of search-based optimization techniques to problems in software engineering. Mark also discusses the application of SBSE in emerging areas such as cloud, mobile and embedded systems.

Mark Harman
on Apr 16, 2012
Results from InfoQ 2012 User Survey

In February, we launched the 2012 InfoQ User survey to gauge community interest in various topics, technologies, and practices. 2,850 people completed the survey, with thousands of respondents providing detailed feedback on their areas of interest. The following report summarizes some of our key findings, things that surprised us, and reactions/analysis from members of the InfoQ editorial team.

Nitin Bharti
on Apr 11, 2012
Rejection of Social Media API by JCP Expert Group Members Sparks Debate On Innovation

When the JCP rejected JSR 357 (Social Media API) in an 8 to 5 vote, members criticised it for being too broad in scope and not taking sufficient account of security and the mobile space. However, members favouring the proposal indicated this was a political move and impedes innovation.

Charles Humble
on Apr 11, 2012
Welcome to the Future, Your PaaS has Arrived

This Article by Lucas and Adron dives into NoOps, DevOps, and how they relate to PaaS. Then with a short context description of what led to this technology it takes a look at the premier open source solution Cloud Foundry - what makes it tick, the architecture, and a simple deployment of an application. Along the way it also steps into the core concepts behind Platform as a Service.

Lucas Carlson Adron Hall
on Apr 10, 2012
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2012

This article presents the main takeaway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged or tweeted about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Tutorials, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, Agile Adoption, Big Data and NoSQL, Cross Platform Mobile, Highly-available systems, Java Platform (hard-core Java) and many more!

Abel Avram
on Apr 05, 2012
Grails Best Practices

Basic best practices for Grails projects gathered from mailing list, Stack Overflow, blogs, podcasts and internal discussions at IntelliGrape, categorized under controller, service, domain, views...

Amit Jain
on Apr 03, 2012
Scala or Java? Exploring myths and facts

The popularization of the Scala programming language and the comparisons with other languages has greatly increased the amount of posts in blogs and social nets, many of those containing many claims that can be outdated, superficial or biased. This article explains the common issues about the language and its environment, favoring a more accurate and balanced assessment.

Julio Faerman
on Mar 29, 2012

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