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The Essence of Google Dart: Building Applications, Snapshots, Isolates

Google has previewed Dart, a new language with a VM but also a JS compiler. InfoQ looks beyond the grammar at Dart's contributions for building apps: Snapshots, Isolates, Modularity.

Werner Schuster
on Oct 24, 2011
SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer Discusses the Impact of the Cloud on Enterprise IT

This article is a transcript of an interview with SpringSource CTO Adrian Colyer, recorded at the inaugural What's Next Conference in Paris in May. Colyer discusses the impact of mobile devices, HTML 5 and cloud-computing on enterprise IT generally, and SpringSource's Cloud Foundary product.

Charles Humble
on Sep 06, 2011
QoS for Applications: A Resource Management Framework for Runtimes

This article draws an analogy between QoS for networks and for applications, resulting in a mapping guide between the two and introducing a production solution for Java, (J)Ruby, and (J)Python apps.

William Louth
on Jul 26, 2011
Twitter Shifting More Code to JVM, Citing Performance and Encapsulation As Primary Drivers

While it almost certainly remains the largest Ruby on Rails based site in the world, Twitter has gradually been moving more and more of its stack to the JVM. Last year the company announced that its back-end message queue had been re-written in Scala, and more recently it moved the search stack to Java, making Twitter search around three times faster.

Charles Humble
on Jul 04, 2011
Interview: Russ Olsen on "Eloquent Ruby"

The book "Eloquent Ruby" aims to help Ruby programmers to write idiomatic Ruby and make best use of Ruby's capabilities. InfoQ talked to author Russ Olsen about Ruby style, metaprogramming and more.

Werner Schuster
on May 26, 2011
Development

Learning Ruby on Rails with Michael Hartl

Learning a new programming language can be a daunting task and at times difficult to know where to start. Now try to learn a new web framework at the same time and you have a recipe for confusion. We had the opportunity to talk with Michael Hartl about his approach to teaching people Ruby on Rails, his book the Ruby on Rails 3 Tutorial, and the excellent video series with the same title.

Robert Bazinet
on Apr 12, 2011
Key Takeaway Points and Lessons Learned from QCon London 2011

This article presents the main takeway points as seen by the many attendees who blogged or tweeted about QCon. Comments are organized by tracks and sessions: Keynotes, Tutorials, Architectures You've Always Wondered About, Building Systems With REST, Design and Objects 2011, Enterprise Agile Transformation, Functional Web, HTML5, the Platform, iOS4 and Android, NoSQL: Where and How, and many more!

Abel Avram
on Apr 05, 2011
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
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
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