Reflections on how the nature of programming and development have changed over the last 10 years.

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.

Gearman is a tool for distributing processing jobs over one or more machines. This article explains how to use Gearman in PHP applications to handle better the load of busy sites or applications that need to execute heavy jobs.

This version features Ajax Push/Comet Integration, 12 new UI Components, various enhancements and bug fixes.

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 is a very basic review of active and available open source Java EE Application servers and Servlet container (Web containers) to let the community know which active containers are available and what is the general status of each container. The article can simply act as a start point for anyone need to select one of them for later use in development or product. Detailed comparison of these production cover many pages of a tick book.

Most commercial defect-tracking software vendors charge enormous licensing fees. Despite being “free”, these open source defect tracking systems have many features its expensive counterparts lack.

Not too long ago Google announced their new experimental, open source, system language which was said to be a mix of Python and C called Go. Immediately the internet super highway’s lights lit up and the news spread like wild fire. Comments came from all over and besides the news that another language with the same name already existed, the enthusiasm did not let up. Writing the odd ‘Hello Go’ program or dabbling with the syntax is all well and good but, until you sit down and write something a tad more useful, you do not really get to know whether a new language holds any promise. I learned about a Twitter client written in Go and asked it’s author Dmitry Chestnykh to share his experience.

This morning I just installed Google OS Chrome on my Mac OS using Virtual Box. To my surprise, my first impressions are . . .

Google has released a release candidate version of GWT 2.0. They have also released a google eclipse plugin for GWT 2.0 which provides new UIBinder template support.

Bottlenecks to application scalability are a thorn in many architects' sides. Offloading the database and dumping the impedance mismatch with object caching is one answer, but that may require major changes to a company's data management environment. In an exclusive interview with DZone, Ari Zilka, the CTO and co-founder of Terracotta, Inc., explained how his company can solve scalability problems and ease the transition into the cloud.