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Book Excerpt and Interview: Silverlight 4 in Action

Silverlight 4 in Action by Pete Brown is a comprehensive guide to Silverlight application building using C#. It features several practical examples that explore flexible layout, control extensibility, the communication and binding models, rich media, animation and more.

Dio Synodinos
on Oct 16, 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
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
Flexible and User-configurable Charts with Flash Builder Backed by a Java-based RESTful API

Daniel Morgan shows how to build a portal-style web application comprising a Java back-end to serve a RESTful API for creating, updating, deleting and retrieving dashboard-style, user-configurable charts assembled using Adobe Flash Builder.

Daniel Morgan
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
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
Unit and Integration Testing for GWT Applications

Bertrand Paquet and Gael Lazzari of Octo Technology explore Unit Testing GWT applications and introduce their own open source gwt-test-utils framework to support unit and integration testing of GWT code with standard tools such as JUnit and Easymock.

Bertrand Paquet Gael Lazzari
on Apr 19, 2010
How HTML5 Web Sockets Interact With Proxy Servers

Peter Lubbers makes an introduction to HTML5 Web Sockets explaining how they interact with proxy servers, and what proxy configuration or updates are needed for the Web Sockets traffic to go through.

Peter Lubbers
on Mar 16, 2010
BlazeDS and JMS for PHP Developers, Part 2

In the second and final of our articles on BlazeDS and JMS, InfoQ looks at two additional methods for sending messages to JMS topics or queues from PHP - the PHP/Java Bridge which provides a framework for calling Java classes from PHP scripts using a simple Java façade, and the STOMP protocol.

Nathan A. Good
on Feb 23, 2010
What's New in Two: Adobe AIR 2.0 is Coming Soon!

Adobe AIR 2.0 is coming, and it contains many highly requested features that application developers have wanted since AIR 1.0 was released nearly two years ago. When Adobe releases the new runtime, it will be automatically downloaded and installed by all of your users. It's important to test now to make sure you're not caught off guard. And, you can get a head start using some of the new features.

Jeff Roberts
on Feb 03, 2010