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SOA Master Data Management in .NET 4.0

Sharing data among applications in a complex corporate IT environment is unfortunately often reduced to sharing a common database or in some cases a cube. .NET 4.0 introduces a lot of industrialization tools that make the idea of an application independent SOA data repository reachable. This article explores some of those tools, and how they help make SOA data services flexible and non-intrusive.

Sebastien Jehan
on Jul 06, 2010
Web Development

Virtual Panel: State of the Art in Enterprise Flex Frameworks

Flex 1.0 was released in March 2004 and since then Flex based RIA development has been increasingly gaining momentum. Recently Adobe released Flex 4 along with Flash Builder 4, as part of the Adobe Flash Platform technology. To assess the state of Adobe Flex for enterprise adoption, InfoQ has conducted a virtual panel with the creators of popular third-party flex frameworks.

Dio Synodinos
on Jul 01, 2010
Web Development

Virtual Panel: New JavaScript Frameworks Targeting HTML5

During the last year, HTML5 has gained general acceptance as one of the dominant development platforms for both the classic and the mobile Web. In that time new JavaScript frameworks have evolved that directly target this platform and attempt to set a new paradigm for Web development.

Dio Synodinos
on Jun 17, 2010
Building a WPF Application in IronRuby

Building upon the previous article introducing IronRuby, this article explores how to work with Windows Presentation Foundation (WPF) within IronRuby. In addition to a detailed example of an IronRuby WPF sample application, others areas covered include event handling, working with XAML, inheriting from CLR classes, and reducing verbosity in IronRuby code.

Edd Morgan
on May 25, 2010
Architecture & Design

Architecting TekPub - Moving from ASP.NET MVC to Ruby on Rails

TekPub is a web site devoted to developers, giving them a source of focused on-line training in various topics from Microsoft Entity Framework to writing your own blog engine using Ruby on Rails. They are an interesting case about company who started on ASP.NET MVC and quickly moved to Ruby on Rails. We had the opportunity to talk with them about their technology turnaround.

Robert Bazinet
on May 19, 2010
What's IronRuby, and How Do I Put It on Rails?

IronRuby is Microsoft's implementation of the Ruby language we all know and love with the added bonus of interoperability with the .NET framework. It's supported by the .NET Common Language Runtime as well as, albeit unofficially, the Mono project. This article gives an introduction to IronRuby, and discusses how to run Rails applications in IronRuby as well as potential issues to look out for.

Edd Morgan
on May 13, 2010
Debugging in MonoTouch

When you run into bugs in application development, it's important to be able to track them down quickly and efficiently. To this end, debuggers allow you to track your code during execution and see exactly what’s happening. This article explores how to set up, test out, and work with the MonoTouch debugger while developing iPhone applications, including debugging running applications over Wifi.

Bryan Costanich
on May 10, 2010
Book Excerpt and Interview: Deploying HTML5

Deploying HTML5 is a book written by Aditya Yadav, a former Sr. Architect for ThoughtWorks and actual CTO of a consultancy firm, explaining the HTML5 standard components, showing how they are implemented across major browsers and providing code samples for using them.

Abel Avram
on May 06, 2010
Code Contracts in C#

This article discusses the concepts and ideas of Code Contracts and the way they are handled in C#. Unless you happen to have used a language supporting Design by Contract before, you may sometimes find yourself unsure of how to proceed with Code Contracts. If you're using it in conjunction with Test Driven Development, what should you write first - the contract or the implementation?

Jon Skeet
on Apr 14, 2010
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2010

This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Tutorials, 2015 Software Development, Agile Evolution, AlphaGeeks on .NET, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, Pragmatic Cloud Computing, Cool Stuff with Java, Dev and Ops: A single team, Software Craftsmanship, NoSQL and many more!

Abel Avram
on Apr 06, 2010
Customizing Tables in MonoTouch

Tables are a staple in many iPhone applications. Although not a new invention in terms of application development, tables in the iPhone are very specific, given the constraints of the size of the device. Fortunately, Apple offers an easy way to customize tables, and this article explores working with the UITableView and UITableViewCell controls to create highly customized iPhone tables.

Bryan Costanich
on Apr 01, 2010
An Intro to the Model-View-Controller in MonoTouch

The Model-View-Controller pattern is essential to iPhone development with the MonoTouch framework. Building on our earlier article, Bryan Costanich introduces the MVC framework and shows how it can be used to develop more complex iPhone applications.

Bryan Costanich
on Dec 17, 2009

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