Tired of web apps written in Ruby being big, slow, and complex? Then try subdividing your problem space by slicing up your app into a set of lightweight web services. In this talk, Adam Wiggins,…
TechScreencast – Software Factories :: tutorial, videos, articles,…
Bare-Naked Languages or What Not to Model Domain-specific languages (DSLs) are useful as stand-alone languages, but not everyone knows when or when not to use them. Find out how you can fit DSLs into the…
TechScreencast – Great Architects :: tutorial, videos, articles,…
Welcome to the summer issue of JOURNAL. These last few months have been really exciting for architecture as a topic at Microsoft. The Microsoft Architecture Center has become established as a leading portal for architectural…
TechScreencast – Generation Workflow :: tutorial, videos, articles,…
Building Applications on a Workflow Platform A workflow is important for resolving business problems. Examine a range of applications that demonstrate the decisions and reasoning architects face when building a workflow platform. The Amazing Race…
TechScreencast – Service Oriented Architectures :: tutorial, videos,…
Welcome to the spring issue of JOURNAL. With this second issue we've gone global. This is a direct result of the tremendous feedback for JOURNAL1 from Microsoft's customers and partners, together with encouragement from colleagues…
TechScreencast – zendcasts :: tutorial, videos, articles, screencast…
Introducing Zend View Helpers Category: Web Development > PHP Posted: 02 Aug 09 This video covers how to setup and user Zend View Helpers. I also cover how state is managed within the class.…
TechScreencast – Making Your Code CRAPpier: Applying Principles…
Code serves two purposes: the first is to instruct the computer to do something, of course, but the second is to communicate your intentions with other programmers. The latter is too often neglected, whether out…
TechScreencast – Nereus: Massively Parallel Computation in Java…
With 1 Billion idle PC's in the world, there is approximately $100 Billion's worth of CPU time going to waste every year. Given that insatiable global demand for computation is fuelling massive datacentre proliferation, with…
TechScreencast – A Puppet Story: Systems Building Systems…
After years of automating systems with CFEngine, Luke Kanies, Puppet's primary author, had ideas about automation that he could not express with existing tools. He tried to fork CFEngine, but threw up his hands at…
TechScreencast – Ruby Mendicant Project – Gregory Brown…
The Ruby Mendicant project was at first meant as a joke. Who would be crazy enough to donate money to an individual developer to work on unspecified open source projects for 3-6 months without any…