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Interview With Fastify Node.js Web Framework Co-Creator Matteo Collina

Fastify is an open source, low performance overhead Node.js web framework filling a significant need in the ecosystem. Fastify emphasizes developer experience as a driving force in building a solid open source project and community. The Fastify project is part of the OpenJS Foundation.

Dylan Schiemann
on Aug 28, 2020
Web Development

Functional UI - a Model-Based Approach

Functional UI techniques rely on the functional relation between events processed by the user interface and the actions performed by the interface. If the user interface has discrete modes in which its behavior can be expressed simply, a modelization with state machines is an advantageous functional UI technique. This article explains the technique, its benefits and how it is used in the industry.

Bruno Couriol
on Feb 22, 2020
Contrasting Backbone and Angular

Victor Savkin presents in detail the pros and cons of using Backbone.js and Angular.js to create web applications, comparing the two frameworks with each other.

Victor Savkin
on Nov 26, 2013
Grails Best Practices

Basic best practices for Grails projects gathered from mailing list, Stack Overflow, blogs, podcasts and internal discussions at IntelliGrape, categorized under controller, service, domain, views...

Amit Jain
on Apr 03, 2012
F# mobile development with WebSharper

Functional programming languages can lead to novel ways of thinking about application development. There is just something about using a different paradigm that puts engineering problems into a new context. In such a spirit, Adam Granicz shows how F# and WebSharper can be used to tame mobile development.

Adam Granicz
on Sep 20, 2011
Interview: François-Régis Sinot on Opa, a Web Development Platform

An interview with François-Régis Sinot, an architect working on Opa which is a web development platform including a language, a built-in web server, database and distributed execution engine.

Abel Avram
on Sep 07, 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
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
Fulfilling the Promise of MVC

When Trygve Reenskaug invented the MVC pattern for Smalltalk, he had originally envisaged that all models would come with default views and controllers. By combining Entity Framework 4, ASP.NET MVC, and his reflection-based view engine, Richard Pawson shows how that vision can be achieved using Naked Objects.

Richard Pawson
on Nov 16, 2010
Interview and Book Excerpt: Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC

Today, InfoQ publishes and excerpt(PDF) from Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC written by Jonathan McCracken. We also used the opportunity to interview the author. Test-Drive ASP.NET MVC gives a thorough introduction to ASP.NET MVC using Test Driven Development (TDD). The book is targeted at both existing ASP.NET developers as well as non Microsoft developers.

Jon Arild Tørresdal
on Sep 27, 2010
Architecture & Design

Architecting TekPub - Moving from ASP.NET MVC to Ruby on Rails

TekPub is a web site devoted to developers, giving them a source of focused on-line training in various topics from Microsoft Entity Framework to writing your own blog engine using Ruby on Rails. They are an interesting case about company who started on ASP.NET MVC and quickly moved to Ruby on Rails. We had the opportunity to talk with them about their technology turnaround.

Robert Bazinet
on May 19, 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.

Gael Lazzari Bertrand Paquet
on Apr 19, 2010