Enterprises are deploying SOAs to gain business flexibility and efficiency. However when it comes to ensuring superior performance this approach and the technologies that underpin it, pose special management challenges. The loose coupling of services offers clear benefits – such as better alignment between business and IT; however, the complexities …
Google Gears is an open source browser extension that lets developers create web applications that can run offline. During this presentation Dion Almaer will explain what Google Gears is and what the future usage will be within Google and other related partners. Dion Almaer now works at Google on the …
Eric Brunel is co-founder and CTO of PragmaDev, and co-designer of the SDL-RT language. He also participates in the ITU-T Study Group on System Design Languages. Before the company creation in 2001, he had 10 years of experience as a project leader on development support and modeling tools in a …
Evolving your database schema without a sweat. Before you know it, you’ll have data that you care about in your application. Which makes adding, removing, or changing the schema an error-prone, time-consuming, and frustrating process. That is, unless you’re using Ruby on Rails. In 20 minutes, you’ll learn all about …
Interview with Grady Booch at RSDC this year. He explains why people are concerned about multi-core, concurrent programming – rather, the idea that there’s a lack of developer skill in that area. He does a good job of laying out why it’s an issue. He then talks about model-driven programming …
DZone recently interviewed JBoss Solutions Architect David Ward to talk about what’s new in JBoss Developer Studio (JBDS) and the Enterprise Application Platform (EAP). Ward distinguishes EAP from the various projects found on jboss.org and describes JBoss’ flexible deployment and configuration model. He looks at how JBDS tooling works together …