JBoss' Manik Surtani provides an overview of the scope and capabilities of the Infinispan open source data grid platform, along with usage examples and a brief tour of the APIs. An upcoming second part will take a deep-dive into the architecture, more advanced APIs and extending Infinispan.

I have attended a presentation by Simon Guest from Microsoft on their cloud computing architecture. Although there was no new concept or idea introduced, Simon has provided an excellent summary on the major patterns of doing cloud computing. I have to admit that I am not familiar with Azure and this is my first time hearing a Microsoft cloud computing presentation. I felt Microsoft has explained their Azure platform in a very comprehensible way. I am quite impressed. Simon talked about 5 patterns of Cloud computing. Let me summarize it (and mix-in a lot of my own thoughts) ...

How and why a large financial organization is using the NetBeans Platform.

This text compares Java's two stream oriented XML parsers, SAX and StAX, and explains the difference in a "push" model and "pull" model. It also lists other differences in these two API's. If you have ever wondered which of these two API's to use, this text may help you decide.

This is a really cool jQuery selector tester that let's you try selectors and automatically highlights them in the html. Lots of fun to play with and helps with the understanding of how jQuery selectors work! A must try!

This is a list of Rapid Application Development tools that might sometimes save your precious time. Some tools you already use might not be in this list so if you want it to be added here, please drop a comment.

Pystachio is an early-stage Python-to-JavaScript translator (written in JavaScript) aimed at providing Python scripting in any modern browser.

This corner plugin is pulling off its magic by adding more elements to the page. Specifically, it adds div "strips" to the item to be cornered and sets a solid background color on these strips in order to hide the actual corners of the real item. Recently I added support for native border-radius rounding in browsers that support it (Firefox, Safari, and Chrome).

JTable uses some pretty weird index handling under the hood. Here is an example where it all broke down.

Building a jQuery plugin is relatively easy if you know the basics. In this article we are going to learn how to implement our first jQuery plug-in.

I decided to move to KO3 and ditch the 2.3.x tutorial series. 1st part, configuring and creating a simple controller.

Welcome to the first in a series of tutorials on Multi-Threading in C#. Before we even think about looking at any code, I think first, since this is the intro tutorial, we need to discuss what multi-threading is, and how it can benefit your application. We will also discuss some short falls in multi-threading capabilities.

This little tidbit is sparked by a question asked on the forum earlier. It was then that I realized that there isnt much content there regarding playing with the EventLog in C# (it really isnt as had as one may thing, trust me:) ).First thing we need to look at a few items in the System.Diagnostics Namespace.

Welcome to my tutorial on working with Enumerations (enum) in C#. In this tutorial we will cover a few items involving enum's including understand anding what enum's are, learn how to create new enum's, and learn how to use the enum's we create and become familiar with some of the built in classes for using and parsing enum's in C#.

I created something at my job that has proven to be extremely useful that I think many people could benefit from. I like to call it Easy Partials, and the goal is to make using partials a bit easier (in case the name didn't make that glaringly obvious). The problem is that rendering a partial requires method calls when a little extra work will allow simpler and more readable partial invocation via convention. You are probably lost, so let me give you some examples. As it stands today, to render a partial you would do: