As if web framework religious discussions weren’t annoying enough, one thing that I always think is missing from such debates is context regarding the type of application being developed. It’s like discussing the best mode of personal travel without ...

Short tutorial on how to get started writing a web application using clojure and compojure.

Why not grab an open source program and modify it to fit your needs? You do realize that you decided to write an entirely new system from scratch, just because you didnt like a few things in existing programs surely thats a serious net loss?

Welcome to the seventh and final episode of The Agile Guerilla series. The focus of this series of articles is to to help you introduce change, specifically moving to agility, into your organization from the grassroots level. In this episode were goi...

This chapter explores the basic goals of service-oriented design and design guidelines for splitting applications into separate services.

Although the Star Wars fans may not be happy about its name change, the Bespin project is approaching a 1.0 release and gaining adoption in the Node Knockout competition. Mozilla says theyve had many compliments and complaints about the name Bespin, ...

Google made it clear that Steve Jobs couldnt have been referring to Android when he said that some mobile companies include upgrades in their new activations measurements. Windows Phone 7 will soon join the battle of OSes.

Great quick reference guides for the UML notation

After all the talks about platform independence, portability, universality of HTML5, and so on – why Apps? why closed (or half-open) app stores, when theoretically the same thing can be obtained through a web page? I have a set of personal opinion on...

Discover when and when not to use Strings in Java. This article describes in an easy way a common pitfall when working with Strings in ordinary java applications.

Just browsing through my emails I noticed Try Gmail Priority Inbox on top right hand corner just after my user id. Out of curiosity I clicked on it and I got to see this video.I clicked on try and what I saw after that was just fantastic, Gmail right...

One of the key components of a mobile development environment is the emulator that will allow developers to test their applications (to some extent) without an actual device. In fact, this is a logical approach – you probably wouldn’t want to connect...

This is a tutorial about setting up Ruby 1.9.2 and Ruby on Rails 3.0 on Windows. It includes setting up SQLite3 and using it as your development data store.

Ever since I started programming object oriented PHP Ive been using function chaining and function dereferencing. But there is another thing Id like to be able to do that was added to the PHP trunk over 8 months ago that still hasnt made it to the cu...

Apache 2, Cherokee, LigHTTPd, Nginx Benchmarked with Static Files, PHP5 Script and WordPress

For most Groovy scripts I use, I simply run the script from its Groovy source code as-is and allow the compilation to take place implicitly.  However, it can be helpful at times to use groovyc to compile Groovy code into .class files and then execute...

A lot of reactions started on Twitter this morning following the publication of the article titled “The Future of Silverlight” on the Silverlight Team Blog.

Way to often, when you talk to your friends about your great idea, you just came up with I have this new idea, but well, I cant talk to much about it now, its secret!No! its not!Talking to your project with your friends in details can only be helpful...

The wait is finally over! You can now download WebORB for Java 4.0. Just as we did with WebORB for .NET 4.0, we’ve added many new developer productivity tools and feature enhancements to ease the process of developing and integrating online applicati...

So by now youve probably already read:Progress Buy a Bridge in Brooklyn (Savvion BRMS) and make Del Boy Trotter ProudBreaking news... Have your vote on what the Drools community should do with its 30 of the Savvion $49mill SaleAnd are thinking, this ...

Modern websites necessarily make a lot of requests for resources back to the server.  Through books like those by Steve Souders we’ve become increasingly aware that each of these requests causes a delay in whatever it is your user has requested being...

In this post, we look at two scenarios where deploying on Tcat can help you to go further with your Spring web applications. For this, we will leverage Tcat’s configuration profile mechanism that, among other things, allows an orderly deployment of f...

What has Maven ever done for us?!

One of the toughest challenges facing any designer is the web page. There are perhaps millions of pages in the World Wide Web all jostling for attention. The question that is foremost is how you as a designer can make a difference.

Cache is memory used to store the most frequently used resources, because accessing resources from a cache is faster than accessing them from a disk drive. So Memcached means memorycached, which simply is caching resources in the memory. These resour...