Who are the on demand (SaaS) message queuing (MQ) providers ? What are the advantages of using one over the other ?
Check out the article for answers to the above questions.
In this blog post, CohesiveFT's Yan Pritzker shows you how to quickly get your Rails app from your local repo, or from GitHub, up to Amazon EC2 in a few easy steps.
CohesiveFT's Elastic Server platform is a web-based factory without all the noise and occasional grime. Inside the factory, you can create a server "blueprint" that is created from components in our library, or components you upload yourself. Your custom-assembled server can be deployed to a variety of virtualization and cloud environments. Did we mention the Community Edition is free?
This article will explain how to create a simple end-to-end Web application using the JPA, AJAX, and Dojo tools available in IBM Rational Application Developer for WebSphere Software Version 7.5.
This is the fifth entry in the JSF 2.0 New Feature Preview Series. The last entry wrapped up the new application resource handling. We'll now switch focus to the new publish/subscribe event system.
This is a list of ten useful articles about Script.aculo.us which includes practical, basic and advanced tips to help you to implement quickly modern solutions for your web projects.
In case you missed the news, JAX-RS 1.0 (JSR-311) was the first specification scheduled for inclusion in Java EE 6 to reach the final stage. My thanks to the spec leads, Marc Hadley and Paul Sandoz, the entire expert group and the very active community around JAX-RS for making this happen!
I've often wondered if it was possible to use Ajax to reload the main content of a web application without reloading the header, menu and footer. SiteMesh allows you to move these common elements to a decorator that gets wrapped around each page.
After proclaiming very publicly that I loved HttpFox and everyone should have it there were many comments regarding Firebug, including some that came via e-mail. I've used Firebug in the past, but hadn't really looked at it in comparison to HttpFox and thought that with so many people saying it was "all that and more" with regards to HttpFox, I should take a second look and compare.
IWebMvc2 now includes the code to allow different (sub)sessions for each tab in your web application. The approach and the code is explained in detail.
It's time that developers and web-based businesses realize that the term Web2.0 is doing more harm than good. For years now, the meaning of Web2.0 has been derided and debated while all along it has quietly acquired a meaning that colors the efforts of countless entrepreneurs and developers as something unwelcome and harmful. Read the post if you'd like to know what the meaning is, and PLEASE consider the proposed alternative!
Learn some of the new features of ASP.NET 3.5 - including LINQ, Update Panels, Update Progress controls, etc.
A collection of 10 great development slide shows that can be found on the presentation website slideshare. Includes presentations about Javascript, PHP, Rails and Python.
2.6.0 introduces a new Carousel Control, offers the Paginator Control for general use (it was previously bundled with DataTable), includes more than 450 total fixes, enhancements and optimizations, graduates eight components out of “beta,” and now ships with more than 290 functional examples.
Jean Deruelle, Project Lead of Mobicents blogs that Mobicents is the first Open Source SIP Servlets 1.1 server to pass the TCK. JBoss is now the only vendor to have implemented both the SIP Servlets, and JSLEE specifications.
This weekend I got a chance to go two Dojo Developer Meetups and was impressed with all the things I saw the community doing with Dojo. Having been around since ~2004, Dojo has built up an impress list of functionality that makes every type of Ajax application easier to build and maintain. I wrote up my notes from the two days and break down the project into its piece to make it easier to swallow.
Jonas Jacobi and John Fallows, the founders of Kaazing talk of the need for two way communication and compare it with established request-response and Ajax models of communication. They also touch on how WebSocket can be used in JavaEE applications and its impact on existing architecture and code.
Elgg is an open, flexible social networking engine, designed to run at the heart of any socially-aware application. Building on Elgg is easy, and because the engine handles common web application and social functionality for you, you can concentrate on developing your idea.
I’ve always taken a lot of pride in the fact that I’ve taught myself most of what I know. It started when I was 13 and taught myself HTML, then CSS, then Javascript, then PHP, and the process continues today with MooTools, jQuery, and whatever else comes my way. I’d be lying if I said I didn’t learn some things the hard way though. Have a chuckle at some of my past CSS mistakes.
Is SaaS and Clould computing all hype and no substance? While there is certainly a lot of hype around these, there are good and bad reasons to adopt these technologies on a case-by-case basis, as long as you remember that there is no silver bullet!
Download free standards compliant CSS templates.Web Template Source has a huge selection of web templates, available for immediate download. You will find well-categorized HTML, Fireworks, Flash and PHP Nuke templates.
Lucene.Net is a high performance Information Retrieval (IR) library, also known as a search engine library. Lucene.Net contains powerful APIs for creating full text indexes and implementing advanced and precise search technologies into your programs. Some people may confuse Lucene.net with a ready to use application like a web search/crawler, or a file search application, But Lucene.Net is not such an application, it a framework library. Lucene.Net provides a framework for implementing these difficult technologies yourself. Lucene.net makes no discriminations on what you can index and search, which gives you a lot more power compared to other full text indexing/searching implications, you can index anything that can be represented as text. There are also ways to get Lucene.net to index HTML, Office documents, PDF files and much more.
In our projects, we often have a requirement of accessing Cross Domain Services in Silverlight. There are certain steps to be followed to able to do so. But what if the service is hosted in a console application or a windows service? In this article, we will follow a step by step approach and discuss how to create and consume a WCF Service hosted in a console application using Silverlight. We will also explore how to provide a Policy File at a given URI using REST.