Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.

ColdFusion Trends with Ben Forta

ColdFusion guru Ben Forta discusses the state of ColdFusion, CF adoption trends, and the future of the platform.

In the "Data Path": Dumping the Database

Bottlenecks to application scalability are a thorn in many architects' sides.  Offloading the database and dumping the impedance mismatch with object caching...

0 replies - 67 views - 11/20/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

An Introduction to Feature-Driven Development

Feature-Driven Development (FDD) is one of the agile processes not talked or written about very much. Often mentioned in passing in agile software development...

1 replies - 556 views - 11/20/09 by stephenrpalmer in Articles

SOA and Cloud

Following on from my post about our WSO2 Cloud announcements, I felt it was important to talk about how I see Cloud intersecting with SOA.

0 replies - 90 views - 11/20/09 by PaulFremantle in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/20

A few more details about the closures announcement for Java 7 surfaced today.  According to Stephen Colebourne's blog, Mark Reinhold said that JDK 7 closures...

0 replies - 1224 views - 11/20/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Getting REST Right in Spring 3.0

I've been working on getting a REST + Hibernate application using the goodies found in Spring 3.0 for my upcoming book - Spring Persistence with Hibernate.

16 replies - 2223 views - 11/19/09 by Solomon in Articles

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/19

It was announced this morning that closures would be added to JDK 7.  Mark Reinhold made the announcement at the Devoxx conference.  Before today, Sun could...

0 replies - 1737 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Azure to Feature App Marketplace

Mirosoft just announced that the Windows Azure cloud computing platform is now generally available in beta form.  The announcement was made at this week's PDC...

0 replies - 310 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

CTO Ari Zilka Says Terracotta is Fast

Terracotta is having a defining year in 2009.  Their Hibernate and EHcache products provide innovative methods for object-relational mapping and distributed...

0 replies - 1910 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

From ESB to BPEL - Continuing with the RiftSaw-JBossESB Integration

In the previous post to this blog, we looked at orchestrating JBossESB services from a RiftSaw BPEL process. In this post, we'll look at the other side of the...

0 replies - 757 views - 11/18/09 by ldimaggi in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/18

Microsoft released version 4.0 of its .Net Micro framework under the Apache 2.0 licence.  That's right, the .Net Micro development framework is now open...

1 replies - 1724 views - 11/18/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Transfer Obejcts vs Business Objects - Which Approach Works Best?

I would like to get the community's feedback on a common technical discussion about what is the best approach, Transfer objects or Business objects...

24 replies - 2386 views - 11/17/09 by alvarovilaplana in Articles

The Benefits of Testable Code

One of the most beneficial approaches that you can take in software development is to follow a test driven development approach. While we all understand why...

1 replies - 3035 views - 11/17/09 by James Sugrue in Articles

Impression on Scala

I have been hearing quite a lot of good comments about the Scala programming language. I personally use Java extensively in the past and have switched to Ruby...

3 replies - 1177 views - 11/17/09 by riho in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/17

Mark your calendars!  The dates have been set for next year's Red Hat Summit and JBoss World.  Both conferences will take place from June 22nd to the 25th. ...

0 replies - 1793 views - 11/17/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Inside the New Apache Solr

In 2006, Solr was donated to the Apache Foundation and integrated into the Lucene project.  Apache Solr is an enterprise search platform that powers the...

2 replies - 2960 views - 11/16/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles