InfoQ Homepage Development Content on InfoQ
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Public Beta of Play! is Now Available on Heroku
Play!, a Java Web Framework is now available on Heroku as a public beta. Play! is built on Netty and is well suited for handling asynchronous I/Os. It is based on a "share-nothing" stateless programming model.
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iisnode: Node.js for Internet Information Server
The iisnode project is a module that adds Node support to Internet Information Server 7.0 and later. The primary role of IIS is to act as an application server for Node, much in the same way that it does for classic ASP and ASP.NET. Developers familiar with these technologies will find the feature list to be quite familiar.
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Visual Studio vNext Code Editor Improvements for C++
Sumit Kumar on the VC++ team has revealed some of the new IDE features for the next version of Visual Studio. While some of them are merely catching up to VB/C#, others suggest new features that all of the languages could take advantage of.
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Official Support for Jython in Visual Studio
Python Tools for Visual Studio, which has its first production release today, now supports all four major Python interpreters, CPython, IronPython, Jython, and PyPy. It is available with the free Visual Studio Integrated Shell or as a plugin for Visual Studio Professional.
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InfoQ’s First Minor UI Update in 5 years – feedback?
On behalf of the InfoQ team, we are happy to announce our underwhelming first minor UI re-launch in our 5 year history. This re-launch is the first in a set of incremental changes that will end with a homepage re-launch later in the year, with your feedback. This first launch maintains the same look and feel but removes the left bar while expanding the header and footer.
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.NET Extension Methods For Microsoft Translator API
Microsoft Translator API exposes Translation services for developers using REST-based and SOAP based end-points. An open source project, Bing (Microsoft) Translator .NET, creates a wrapper around these APIs by using extension methods, making it much easier to build .NET applications that can use translation.
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"Apache Killer" a DDoS using the Range HTTP Header
The "Apache Killer" lets an attacker use a single PC to wage a denial of service attack against an Apache server. So far, the Apache development team has issued an alert and workarounds in advance of rolling out a patch for the flaw in Apache HTTPD Web Server 1.3 and 2.X, but no patches.
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Noda Time: An Advanced Date/Time Library for .NET
To put it bluntly, the date/time libraries in .NET are flawed. In an effort to address many, but far from all, of these problems Jon Skeet is working on a port of Joda Time called Noda Time.
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What is the Future of Flash and Flex?
Adobe wants to strengthen Flash and Flex’s position in the enterprise and especially in the mobile space. But a recent study shows that jQuery has overtaken Flash as a deployed web solution on the top 17,000 websites.
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New in RAD Studio XE2: Multiplatform, Native iOS&Android, HD&3D Animation, and Cloud
Embarcadero is preparing a new release of their RAD Studio XE2 tools which includes Delphi XE2, C++Builder XE2, RADPHP XE2, and Prism XE2, at exactly one year after the initial launch of the XE line on August 30, 2010. This release has many new features, the most interesting being support for cross-platform development, Windows 64-bit, Amazon Cloud API, Native Android and iOS, and HD&3D animation.
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LightSwitch 2011: Truly "Coding Optional"?
Visual Studio LightSwitch 2011, the development tool intended to help non-developers produce business applications, was released earlier this month. Ever since the beta release last year, it has been the subject of some debate over the intended audience for the product.
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Task Parallel Library for Silverlight
Silverlight’s asynchronous service model forces developers to deal with multi-threading from the very beginning. So it seems odd that Microsoft choose to omit the Task Parallel Library, which is the core of .NET’s multi-threading infrastructure. Fortunately there are options.
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U.S. Government Program Seeks Alternatives to Passwords
In an effort to find viable alternatives to the false security offered by passwords, a new U.S. government program is trying to find consensus on standards with leaders of private industry. The new National Strategy for Trusted Identities in Cyberspace (NSTIC) program was formed early in 2011 with limited funding but ambitious objectives.
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Mozilla Favors Web Over Native Application Development
Mozilla has started working on WebAPI, a set of APIs for accessing device functionality usually accessible only for native applications in an attempt to develop a cross platform solution that will enable developers to write web applications once for all mobile OSes.
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VMware Releases Free Version of Micro Cloud Foundry
VMware today released a free downloadable version of its Cloud Foundry software, called Micro Cloud Foundry, designed to run locally on a developer’s workstation in a single virtual machine. Mac and PC developers can run and build cloud applications locally without having to configure middleware, and scale and deploy to their applications wherever they want without modifying code.