Architects Zone | Architectural Design Patterns & Best Practices

Raymond Camden05/17/13
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Hear me wax poetic on Nerd Radio

Ray Camden, Adobe Creative Cloud Evangelist, talks with us about his sessions at MAX covering topics like PhoneGap Build and web development tools.

Yusuf Aytaş05/17/13
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Achieving Abstraction In JavaScript

While abstraction is well understood and well applied in languages like Java, C++, this approach is not discussed much for JavaScript. In this post, we will try to give some insight for abstraction of JavaScript.

Peter Zaitsev05/17/13
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Virident vCache vs. FlashCache: Part 1

Over the past few weeks I have been looking at a preview release of Virident’s vCache software, which is a kernel module and set of utilities designed to provide functionality similar to that of FlashCache.

Leigh Shevchik05/17/13
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Simple JavaScript Testing with QUnit

I haven’t done a lot of JavaScript testing. Like a number of developers, I’m guilty of leaving JavaScript as an afterthought, whereas my PHP, Bash and Python code are first-class citizens.

Peter Zaitsev05/17/13
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Virident vCache vs. FlashCache: Part 2

This is the second part in a two-part series comparing Virident’s vCache to FlashCache. The first part was focused on usability and feature comparison; in this post, we’ll look at some sysbench test results.

John Blanco05/17/13
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Google is Winning the Developers; How Apple Can Win Them Back in an Instant

Google is winning the developers. The tools are outpacing Apple’s XCode which still suffers from excruciatingly long wait times to get the most obvious, and obnoxious, bugs fixed up. Storyboards are a duplication of XIB’s without replacing them. Autolayout is an unmitigated disaster.

Steven Lott05/17/13
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Legacy Code Preservation: Why Preserve the DSL?

A Domain-Specific Language (DSL) can provide some intellectual leverage. We can always write long and convoluted programs in a general-purpose programming language (like Python, Java or C). Sometimes it can make more sense to invent a new domain-specific language and implement the solution in that language.

Greg Ness05/17/13
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CloudVelocity Named TIEcon 2013 Lightning Round Winner for SDI

CloudVelocity is happy to be selected as a TiEcon 2013 Lightning Round Winner in the Software Defined Infrastructure category

Eric Genesky05/17/13
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From Zero to Cloud in Almost No Time with OpenShift

This demo will show you how to use JBoss Forge and JBoss Developer Studio to reverse engineer a Java EE application from an existing database and deploy it on OpenShift.

Hubert Klein Ikkink05/17/13
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Grails Goodness: Checking Results from Forward Action in Controller Unit Tests

In Grails we can write unit tests for controllers. We can check for example the results from a redirect() or render() method.

Arthur Charpentier05/17/13
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From a Random Generator to a Random Function

Is it possible to reproduce the random generator? Yes, we can. And it is quite simple, if you use the appropriate library and the appropriate function.

Rob J Hyndman05/17/13
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Forecasting Annual Totals From Monthly Data

I’ve come across this problem before in my consulting work, although I don’t think I’ve ever published my solution. So here it is. If x is your monthly time series, then you can construct annual totals as follows...

Kevin Remde05/17/13
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Put Your ADFS in the Cloud

The Scenario: Single Sign-On support using Active Directory, Windows Azure Active Directory, ADFS (Active Directory Federation Services), and Office 365 and/or Windows InTune.

Todd Merritt05/17/13
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Agile Can Alter the 5 Desirable Properties of Modeling Tools and Techniques

I do not think the agile approach diminishes modeling, in fact I think it increases the modeling because before the start of every development cycle, modeling must be checked for accuracy based on the changed requirements.

Mitch Pronschinske05/17/13
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A Look at How ZeroMQ Became a Leading Message-Passing Library

Pieter Hintjens, a maintainer of ZeroMQ: The Definitive Guide, discusses the patterns, the code, and the community behind this message-passing library.