Software Architecture Videos and Tutorials
At the heart of most successful open source projects is an emphasis on open architecture — at least one mechanism that allows the product to be utilized as a support network for unanticipated extensions and independently motivated functionality. Such extensibility mechanisms allow an open source project to decentralize its evolution …
Joseph Smarr is the Chief Platform Architect at Plaxo, Inc., where he’s led the engineering of Plaxo’s address-book integration application. In the course of building Plaxo 3.0, which involved an ambitious foray into rich internet application design, Joseph and learned a host of lessons about the importance of performance and …
Today’s software landscape resembles increasingly a tower of Babel: Systems are built using many different languages, combining server-side and client-side languages, scripting and systems programming languages, general and domain specific languages, all glued together with a hefty amount of XML. The advantage of this approach is that each individual language …
Kunal Shah walks through how to install and use the Eclipse Plug-in for developers using the Java Client Library for Google Data APIs. Additional resource: gdata-java-client-eclipse-plugin
Part 3 of 3 in an overview series on the Android platform. In this segment, Mike gives an overview of a few of the APIs available on the platform.
Part 2 of 3 in an overview series on the Android platform. In this segment, Mike explains the application and process lifecycle as a user navigates through different applications.