Introducing Infinispan: Part I

Part I provides an overview of the capabilities of Infinispan, including usage examples and a tour of the API's.

ColdFusion Trends with Ben Forta

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

Is OSGi Adoption Growing? An Interview with Kirk Knoernschild

Interest in OSGi has seen a steady increase over the years as the benefits of modularity drive its adoption.  In a recent blog post, Kirk Knoernschild of the...

0 replies - 2471 views - 11/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in Articles

Will SPDY Make the Internet Faster?

Right now, Google is working on an application-layer protocol aimed at making web pages download twice as fast.  Google revealed the early-stage research on...

5 replies - 2484 views - 11/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Introduction to Amazon Cloud Computing

Amazon is the current leader of Cloud provider based on the IaaS model. At the heart of its technology stack, they have the virtual machine layer called EC2....

0 replies - 1386 views - 11/13/09 by riho in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/13

Can't stand your tiny 30-inch, panoramic monitor?  Why not upgrade with the single-slot Matrox M9188 PCIe x16 graphics card?  It drives eight monitors, each...

0 replies - 2719 views - 11/13/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

Apache Hadoop: The Definitive Guide Book Review

Hadoop is a technology that is relatively unknown to most of my peer software developers however it is gaining...

0 replies - 2592 views - 11/12/09 by rabies in Book Reviews

Knowledge Management: It's All About Granularity

In my pursuit of the ideal collaboration platform, I’ve tested a few knowledge management systems lately: Knowledge Plaza, Seemy, a combination of...

0 replies - 852 views - 11/12/09 by Sebastien Arbogast in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/12

Ken Auletta, the author of "Google: The End of The World As We Know It",  recently revealed that Google was interested in buying the New York...

0 replies - 2742 views - 11/12/09 by lyndsey in News

An Introduction to Planning Poker

Planning Poker is an agile estimating technique which has become very popular in the last few years.  It is based on an estimation technique known as Wideband...

0 replies - 3933 views - 11/11/09 by AgileForAll in Articles

Book Giveaway & Exclusive Chapter Download: Agile Coaching

DZone and Pragmatic Bookshelf have partnered to bring you this exclusive chapter from 'Agile Coaching' by Rachel Davies and Liz Sedley. This excerpt was...

3 replies - 728 views - 11/11/09 by lyndsey in Articles

Desirable technical characteristics of PaaS

PaaS can most dramatically improve the IT experience in four areas: Hosting/operations efficiencyApplication-centric managementDevelopment...

0 replies - 465 views - 11/11/09 by vambenepe in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/11

Google has until the end of the week to revise its book deal with the Authors Guild and the Association of American publishers.  A judge extended the deadline...

0 replies - 2240 views - 11/11/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News

On static compilation of Groovy

Groovy is the great programming language. Period. I am not going to argue about that and I don't plan to convince anybody. If you don't share this belief or...

11 replies - 3951 views - 11/10/09 by Alex Tkachman in Articles

A Look Inside JBoss Microcontainer's ClassLoading Layer

Now that we've grasped the Virtual File System (VFS) concepts, it’s time we move on to Microcontainer’s ClassLoading layer (as promised in the previous...

0 replies - 3749 views - 11/10/09 by alesj in Articles

Enumeration of PaaS container types

What do we need from an on-demand application platform for enterprise software? Here is a proposed classification of container types on which you can...

0 replies - 543 views - 11/10/09 by vambenepe in News

DZone Daily Dose - 2009/11/10

Today is the 5 year anniversary of Firefox 1.0.  Thousands of add-ons have been contributed over the years because Firefox's XUL based architecture makes it...

1 replies - 2426 views - 11/10/09 by Mitch Pronschinske in News