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  • Meet the Goliath of Ruby Application Servers

    PostRank Labs released an open source version of their Ruby web server framework powering PostRank. Goliath, is an asynchronous server designed for speed, leveraging key features of Ruby 1.9+. Goliath creates fast web and data services not unlike node.js but sticking with what Ruby developers know..Ruby. Discover how easy it can be to create manageable server-side services with Ruby.

    Robert Bazinet
    on Mar 21, 2011

  • Concrete: Rich, Customizable DSL Editors for the Browser

    Text-based DSLs are useful, an custom editor for the DSL is even better. Concrete allows to build customized editors for JSON-based DSLs/Models. InfoQ talks to Concrete's creator Martin Thiede.

    Werner Schuster
    on Feb 24, 2011

  • Using Apache Avro

    Boris Lublinsky presents an introduction to AVRO and evaluate its usage for Schema componentization, inheritance and polymorphism. He also discusses backward compatibility issues and AVRO solutions for this problem.

    Boris Lublinsky
    on Jan 25, 2011
  • Web Development

    Virtual Panel: How to Survive Asynchronous Programming in JavaScript

    Using callback-passing for asynchronous actions does not compose very well and might create complex flows of passing callbacks around to handle return values. The JavaScript community is aware of this and has come up with several libraries to deal with it. In this virtual panel, InfoQ has interviewed the creators of the most popular of these libraries.

    Dio Synodinos Werner Schuster
    on Jan 09, 2011
  • Web Development

    No Callbacks Required: StratifiedJS Returns Sequential Programming to Javascript

    StratifiedJS is a superset of Javascript that adds concurrency constructs and makes callback hell a thing of the past. How? InfoQ talked to Alexander Fritze, of Onilabs, to find out.

    Werner Schuster
    on Dec 19, 2010

  • Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon San Francisco 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, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, Java, the Platform, Real Life Cloud Architectures, Agile Evolution, Design at Scale, Dev and Ops: A Single Team, NoSQL, SOA for the REST of Us, and many more!

    Abel Avram
    on Nov 30, 2010

  • JetBrains Developer Tools

    JetBrains is one of the few companies that thrives selling developer tools. In this interview you get some insight in their strategies, current and new products and future plans.

    Michael Hunger
    on Nov 25, 2010

  • FlexMonkey Deep Dive

    FlexMonkey is an open source tool from Gorilla Logic for testing Flex and AIR applications.  This article provides a brief introduction to FlexMonkey and then walks through debugging issues that can be encountered when testing with it.

    Jon Rose
    on Nov 15, 2010

  • LinkedIn Signal: A Case Study for Scala, JRuby and Voldemort

    On September 29th LinkedIn Signal was announced, providing a social search application both for LinkedIn shares and tweets from LinkedIn-Twitter bounded accounts. This article aims to provide more insight into the motivation and technical challenges of combining Scala, JRuby and Voldemort, at such scale.

    Dio Synodinos
    on Oct 11, 2010

  • Book Excerpt and Interview: ExtJS in Action

    ExtJS in Action by Jesus Garcia is a book that tries to introduce the Ext JS cross-browser JavaScript library, which is used for building Rich Internet Applications. Ext JS combines a large library of widgets, an extensible component model, and an easy-to-use API to create a full, rock-solid platform for JavaScript-based web apps.

    Dio Synodinos
    on Sep 17, 2010
  • Mobile

    Virtual Panel: The State of the Art in Mobile Web Application Development

    To assess the state of the art in mobile web application development, InfoQ has conducted a virtual panel with the creators of some of the most popular libraries, toolkits and frameworks that target this field.

    Dio Synodinos
    on Aug 26, 2010
  • Web Development

    Book Excerpt and Interview: Pro HTML5 Programming

    Pro HTML5 Programming, by Peter Lubbers, Brian Albers, Frank Salim, is a book that aims to help developers build HTML5 applications that tap the full potential of modern browsers. The main areas of focus are: Communication APIs, Canvas API, Geolocation API, Web Sockets API, Web Storage API, Web Workers API and HTML5 Audio and Video.

    Dio Synodinos
    on Aug 21, 2010
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