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IF(DEV) CURRENT TECHNOLOGIES
if(dev) is the vNext.org home page and main blog about whats hot now in the dev world from HTML5 and Android to win8 and Phone7. Want to know what everyone else is into? Trying to stay a breast of the current technologies, then if(dev) is the one blog source for you.
Saga SOA Pattern
SOA is all about interaction of services with service consumers. The patterns shown in figure 1 deal with the core interaction patterns between services and their consumers
Figure 1 Connecting … more
Designing and Implementing a Distributed Item-Based Algorithm
We’ll talk about how you would tackle a data set of 130 million “preferences” in the form of article-to-article links from Wikipedia’s massive corpus. In this data set, the … more
Making Animations over the Canvas for Android
If you’re animating your own widgets, you might find that the Android APIs are a bit limited. Is there an Android API to draw things directly to the screen? The answer is yes. Android offers … more
Top Level Domains and Azure
Here is the problem. Azure is one of many Cloud systems out there and the one design and built by Microsoft and in fact hosts this site. Windows Azure has a lot of great features; and … more
Arduino - Using Processing to Control Servos
Processing is one of the most influential and oldest creative code projects. It was originally developed at MIT by Ben Fry and Casey Reas and is now being developed by a large team of maintainers. … more
Implementing User Stories as Functional Tests on Android
Android not only supports writing unit tests but also what Android calls a functional test. A functional test allows you to test your application (or a single component, if you like) in a fully … more
HTML5 Bing Maps JavaScript API
The world of web-based mapping and GIS is broad and deep. The following is a small sample of companies that currently offer mapping and/or GIS services for web applications.
Bing … more
Trying out Hadoop on Azure Screencast Series
I made some short screencasts today as I tried out some functionality of the Hadoop on Azure CTP. I intend to continue to post more screencasts as I work through the samples and start trying out … more
Need to Program your TI-83/84+ Calculator - The Basics of getKey
Say you want to make a simple game where you control a character on the homescreen. You want to be able to move the character around the homescreen to any position, for example, to get to items it can … more
Mirrored Queues and Preserving Messages
Queues only live on one node in the cluster “by default.” If you’re using any version of RabbitMQ before 2.6.0, that’s the only option you have. However, with version 2.6.0, … more