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  • Developing Motoric Games with HTML5 - The Making of VeloMaze

    In this article Raimo explains the challenges and the solutions he had to come up with, while building a motoric HTML5 game for the NodeKO contest. The technologies used in the game were: Node.js, express (serving static content), Socket.io (letting the client and server communicate, Sylvester.js (a vector library for the physics engine) and jQuery.

  • A Technical Overview of Moscrif – MObile SCRipting Framework

    Moscrif is a cross-platform solution for mobile application development enabling developers to create native applications and games for smartphones, tablets and desktops.

  • James Ward on Client Server Application Development with HTML5 and Java

    Application development, whether it's client server, traditional web or a mobile web application, the recent trend is in using technologies like HTML5, CSS3, and JavaScript. James Ward spoke at JavaOne 2012 Conference about client server application development with HTML5 and Java. InfoQ caught up with James to speak about his presentation and the new application development trend.

  • Interview and Book Review: Spring Integration in Action

    Spring Integration in Action book, authored by Mark Fisher, Jonas Partner, Marius Bogoevici and Iwein Fuld, covers the Spring Integration framework which provides an implementation of Enterprise Integration Patterns based on Spring programming model. InfoQ spoke with authors about the book, Spring Integration framework, its strengths and limitations.

  • Introduction to Interface-Driven Development Using Swagger and Scalatra

    Since it began life a little over three years ago, the Scalatra web micro-framework has evolved into a lightweight but full-featured MVC framework with a lively community behind it. Scalatra started out as a port of Ruby's Sinatra to the Scala language. Since then the two systems have evolved independently, with Scalatra gaining capabilities such as an Atmosphere integration and Akka support.

  • Julien Nioche on Apache Nutch 2 Features and Product Roadmap

    Open source web-search framework Apache Nutch version 2 supports large scale crawling, link-graph database and HTML parsing. InfoQ spoke with Julien Nioche, VP of Apache Nutch project, about the framework new features and its future roadmap.

  • A Detailed Look at The New File API in Java 7

    Java 7 introduced a number of useful features to the language, including a new I/O file package which offers finer grained control over file system functionality, particularly for POSIX based systems. This article will first introduce the new API, and then explore it in more detail using an example of a web-based file manager project, called WebFolder.

  • New Book: JQuery Mobile In 24 Hrs

    “Sams Teach Yourself jQuery Mobile In 24 Hrs” is a new book by Phil Dutson that introduces web developers to building mobile web apps with JQuery Mobile. The book is divided into 24 separate chapters meant to be consumed in an hour each. InfoQ got in touch with Phil to know more about the book and Mobile web app development in general.

  • arrayDB, a New and Easy PHP ORM

    Most ORM libraries make you write a new class for each item you want to keep in the database. Extending this and that for no apparent reason is repetitious and capricious. Using techniques that can be applied to most languages, arrayDB looks at simplifying the whole process by doing away with statically defined classes.

  • Mobile Application Architecture with HTML5 and Javascript

    David Pitt presents a guide to combining specific frameworks and structures for the basic functionality of HTML5-based mobile applications. He discusses the development considerations mobile devices require, difficulties necessary to overcome with HTML5 development, and a detailed example implementation of an HTML5-based mobile application with MVC architecture.

  • Spring Data – One API To Rule Them All?

    Tobias Trelle offers an introduction to the Spring Data project, a high level SpringSource project whose purpose is to unify and ease the access to different kinds of persistence stores, both relational database systems and NoSQL data stores.

  • Exterminating Heisenbugs

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

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