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Getting Started With Scala

Content Team — Thu, 18 Mar 2010 04:27:47 +0000

The session looks at the fundamentals of Scala with examples to highlight its unique features like case classes and pattern matching, for comprehensions, traits, functions as values and others. It also looks at Scala’s support for writing internal as well as external DSLs. Scala is a multi-paradigm programming language [...]

Ehcache 2.0 Offers Grails Integration & Scaling Without Code Changes

Content Team — Wed, 17 Mar 2010 07:39:06 +0000

Version 2.0 of Ehcache open source caching solution claims to deliver the enterprise-class capabilities of high priced and proprietary technologies like Oracle Coherence without requiring application changes. The 2.0 release provides a number of new features that simplify development effort, testing and scale-out, such as an express mode that easily clusters application data via configuration changes, whether [...]

Google Android Is The Fastest Growing Smartphone Platform

Content Team — Mon, 15 Mar 2010 13:21:55 +0000

Google’s Android platform is gaining rapidly in the smartphone platform space. As per comScore which reports trends in the U.S. mobile phone industry, during October 2009 and January 2010 Google Android’s share of the smartphone subscriber base in the US rose by a whopping 4.3%. RIM (Blackberry) was the leading mobile smartphone platform in the [...]

SpringSource Releases Apache Tomcat based tc Server Spring Edition

Content Team — Wed, 10 Mar 2010 14:01:12 +0000

SpringSource has released tc Server Spring Edition, which claims to be the best place to build and run Spring applications. tc Server Spring Edition provides a lightweight platform for running modern applications and is said to be suited for the virtualized datacenter as well as private and public cloud environments. Based on the popular Apache Tomcat [...]

FlexMonkey Tool For Flex Automated Functional Testing Releases v 1.0

Content Team — Thu, 04 Mar 2010 04:05:05 +0000

Gorilla Logic has released FlexMonkey 1.0 GA which it claims to be a de facto standard for automated functional testing of Flex applications. After eight months of maturing in a beta status, FlexMonkey is now available for production use by developers and quality assurance professionals everywhere. FlexMonkey is an open source testing tool providing record/playback functional testing [...]

Java & .NET Combos Are Top Cause Of Performance Issues In Enterprise Apps

Content Team — Wed, 03 Mar 2010 05:33:31 +0000

Companies are increasingly using a combination of Java and .NET to build and operate enterprise applications. A global survey has found that this was the most frequently identified obstacle to delivering acceptable results — even more so than virtualization or service-oriented architectures. More than half of US IT organizations cite heterogeneous architectures as a [...]

Groovy & Grails Scripting For Web Applications – Session Video

Content Team — Tue, 02 Mar 2010 06:45:50 +0000

Dynamic scripting languages are a powerful addition to a software designer’s toolbox. Rails/Ruby and Python have not gained much acceptance in the enterprise. Grails and Groovy are an attempt to bridge the gap between the modern scripting world and the Enterprise Java world. This talk is an introduction towards building web applications in Grails. First [...]

RPM Monitoring & Metrics for Sinatra, Rack and Rails Metals Apps

Content Team — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:42:05 +0000

New Relic RPM is an on-demand performance management solution for web applications developed in Java, Ruby, or JRuby. RPM now provides real-time monitoring and metrics for applications running Sinatra, Rack and Rails Metals. Additional features of the New Relic RPM Ruby agent 2.10 include: Enhanced Visibility into Ruby EE Garbage Collection Passenger Queue Time Capture Profiling built in to [...]

Web Security Dojo Releases Version v1.0 – Available For Free

Content Team — Fri, 26 Feb 2010 09:15:04 +0000

Web Security Dojo is a web application security lab with tools, targets, and training materials built into a Virtual Machine(VM). It is an open source project built on Ubuntu and hosted at SourceForge. It is available in three flavors: a Virtualbox VM, VMWare VM, and a build script which can be used on [...]

Hobo, Rapid Web App Builder for Ruby on Rails Releases Version 1.0

Content Team — Thu, 25 Feb 2010 04:42:08 +0000

Hobo is an open source rapid development toolkit for Ruby on Rails, which claims to help developers build anything from throwaway prototypes to meticulously crafted full-blown web apps in a fraction of the time it takes with conventional tools. Hobo has now officially reached Version 1.0 after three years of focused development effort. “We’re over the moon [...]