AIR applications allow Flex developers to create desktop apps using the web technologies that they already know.  An AIR application is essentially a desktop application, and it has all of the permissions of a desktop application, so the developer has an added responsibility to keep it secure.  In this interview, Jason Dean gives us some tips on how to keep these applications secure. ...

PHP applications are composed of (hopefully small) scripts, and only a minority of them is actually read during each HTTP request. We'll take a look at the various inclusion mechanisms available in PHP to build a response from a set of isolated scripts, from the universal constructs and their configuration via the include_path directive to more specific solutions like autoloading, which are ideal...

I got a question about the feasibility of porting Rhino Queues to Silverlight, but that isn’t really something that can fit in that scenario. So I set down to write the design for a Silverlight queuing system. Just to be clear, I have no intention currently to actually build this at this time (well, not unless someone is willing to pay for it or I get a project that requires it). This is...

The next alpha release of Arquillian changes the version scheme for containers, making it easier to configure for containers.  Alpha 3 also works with JBoss AS Remote 5.0, JBoss AS 6 M4, GlassFish 3 Remote, Jetty Embedded 6.1 and 7, Tomcat Embedded 6.0, Weld EE Mock 1.1, and OSGi Embedded 4.2.  The Arquillian framework for running tests in the container helps confirm that the business logic is...

ASP.NET MVC 3 introduces new ViewModel property of Controller that you can use to assign different properties to the model of your view. ViewModel is dynamic by type. In this posting I will show you how to use ViewModel property in your ASP.NET MVC applications. Suppose you have controller for products that has method Details() to show details of product requested by visitor. We want to...

A year ago we wrote a number of articles devoted to the PSD-to-HTML/CSS conversion market. It's a good time now to analyze changes in the Design-to-HTML field: what's new, what tendencies have a positive or negative impact on customers. PSD-to-HTML/CSS Market - Changes and Growth Definitely the PSD-to-HTML/CSS conversion market has become more mature during the past year. Article...

Project committer Stuart Halloway just announced the launch of the first release candidate for Clojure 1.2.  Although there have been few changes between this release and the last, the news is significant because the first beta of Clojure 1.2 went live only two weeks ago.  They only had one beta release and they may only have one release candidate as well.  Expect the GA very soon.JBoss...

One of the ongoing trends on the .NET community for the past years of its existence has been to import many of the famous and helpful Java projects to the .NET Framework. The main reason is that Open Source is more common and older on the Java community and the .NET community has been wanting to get its hands on the rich tools and libraries created for the Java in the shortest time...

The new hosted Drupal service called Drupal Gardens, was recently given beta status.  This announcement means that anyone can now go to the site and start using the beta for free.  The leaders of the Drupal community have also announced that the next version of Drupal should have its beta release sometime in August.  However, they're going to need plenty of help from the community to fix the...

Riak is unique because it's a key-value store with the additional ability to put links between the things you store and perform MapReduce queries.  Sean Cribbs supports the users of this database, and he also works on Radiant CMS, which is the most popular Ruby on Rails-built content management system.  Cribbs was the lead developer on the project for the last two years. Embed Tag:  ...

References Reference:  <angular/>: A Radically Different Way of Building AJAX Apps Mitchell Pronsc...

The fourth JBoss Application Server 6.0 milestone was released this week.  It is the first to include support for EJB 3.1 Timer Service and EJB 3.1 Asynchronous invocations. M4 also comes with a different default JBossWS stack that uses Apache CXF.  With this support, users will immediately get better performance for WS-*.Objectivity Ships its New GraphDB

In this final installment we’ll take a look at some additional examples of problems caused by distributed transactions. The following execution history results in a deadlock. What would you suggest to address it?

The release of IntelliJ IDEA 9.0 last year brought a flurry of extra excitement with JetBrains' announcement that there would also be a FOSS Community Edition with the release.  Although there's no major announcements on the open source front, the next release of IntelliJ IDEA looks like its going to raise the bar for the major IDEs.  

Patterns are big business in IT. You can't get far in OO programming before hitting a book about design patterns, stressing the need for standardized solutions to particular problems. When it comes to web development though, design patterns never really hit off. Maybe because of the chaotic nature of the so-called web standards, maybe because we as an industry are just not ready for them...

The Two Step View pattern, as its own name suggests, proposes a mechanism composed of two steps for generating an HTML page:first, a logical representation of the page is produced, as a map (key => value) of the different elements of the page.then, the physical representation is rendered, by juggling around the single elements to compose the final HTML.The first step is usually related to...

By introducing a central licensing server on the Android Marketplace, Google hopes to provide an effective method for protecting Android apps that can currently be copied pretty easily.  The licensing service works with almost every version of Android, all the way back to 1.5.  You can read their documentation to learn how to license your applications.A Brand New "Day" for Adobe

Greg and Steven Hazel from Sauce Labs have recently built what they call, "An async programming framework with a blocking look-alike syntax".  This framework, named Monocle, is focused on being portable between event-driven I/O frameworks.  Currently, Monocle supports the Twisted and Tornado frameworks.

My last posts described new action results in ASP.NET MVC 3 – HttpNotFoundResult and HttpStatusCodeResult. Unfortunately these result have no body to send to client but there are times we need it to inform our visitor about problems the way that we don’t go out of information context where visitor is. In this example I will show you how to write your own HttpStatusCodeResult that has...

Over the weekend, there was a tweet announcing that Google was going to provide “scholarships” to qualified women to attend JSConf.eu. There was then a tweet by another person calling this “disgusting” and “illegal.” Nicole Sullivan has a level-headed and well-articulated roundup of the back-and-forth and some of the surrounding issues, and I suggest you read it.References ...