Interested in Backbone & Marionette but not sure where to start? Check out this Marionette-Require-Boilerplate to build your single page application with solid foundation. The best tools + best practices, all rolled up and ready to go.

Minnal is a highly scalabale and productive REST framework that helps you eliminate boiler plate code and build applications faster Minnal is a Tamil noun, meaning "lightning". It allows you to build restful applications at lightning speed through its powerful instrumentation module. It generates the API's for your resources at runtime and eliminates the need to write controller and data access layers for your application leaving you to concentrate on enriching your domain Minnal is extremely powerful for applications that are mostly CRUD centric but doesn't restrict you from using it for business interfaces as well

With the ZXing library, you can create Android applications with barcode scanning functionality. In Android SDK: Create a Barcode Reader, we implemented basic barcode reading with the library in a simple app. In this tutorial series, we will build on what we learned to create an app that will scan books and retrieve related information about them from Google Books API.

This tutorial will guide you through the development of a Location-based mobile website using the Google Place search engine and Sencha Touch 2.1 . This is a two part tutorial and in this first part we’ll learn how to create a project with Sencha cmd, create a cool theme using SASS/Compass, and find services close to the user’s location.

For this tutorial, we’re going to be building a single page app using Laravel 4 and Backbone.js. Both frameworks make it very easy to use a different templating engine other than their respective default, so we’re going to use Mustache, which is an engine that is common to both. By using the same templating language on both sides of our application, we’ll be able to share our views betweem them, saving us from having to repeat our work multiple times.

As I mentioned in my previous article, iOS 7 represents more than a change in Apple’s approach to their mobile device user interfaces; it also represents an opportunity for developers who’ve been putting off learning how to build native iOS apps to get started. iOS 7 is the latest in a series of changes that makes the present time the best time for a new developer to try their hand at making apps for the iPhone, iPad and iPod Touch, which include:

In an AngularJS application, $scope instances are all part of a prototypal chain. That is, every $scope instance (except $rootScope, I believe) has, as its prototype, the $parent scope. This is a brilliant way to architect the view-model because it means that data loaded in one controller can be accessed by controllers (and views) farther down in the same $scope chain. But, does the "visibility" of this data imply anything about which controllers should modify this data? From a functional standpoint,

In 2010 I bought a Kindle and it changed my life! Since then I’ve been catching up on books I should have read years ago. Back then, reading technical books meant carrying bulky/ heavy printed books in my bag. The day I got my first kindle, is the day I started reading again!

One of the more annoying issues in the current version of ASP.NET Web API, is that it’s very difficult to override global/controller scoped filters at action level. Perhaps you may have logging functionality or authorization filters, that you want to apply globally, and only exclude certain actions from participating in this process.

This week we released some great updates to Windows Azure that make it significantly easier to develop mobile applications that use the cloud. These new capabilities include: Mobile Services: Custom API support Mobile Services: Git Source Control support Mobile Services: Node.js NPM Module support Mobile Services: A .NET API via NuGet Mobile Services and Web Sites: Free 20MB SQL Database Option for Mobile Services and Web Sites Mobile Notification Hubs: Android Broadcast Push Notification Support All of these improvements are now available to use immediately (note: some are still in preview).  Below are more details about them

The first algorithm I ever worked on in the C# compiler was the optimizer that handles string concatenations.1 It's all pretty straightforward, but there are a few clever bits that I thought I might discuss today.

Joe Zimmerman shows how you can use the future of JavaScript today by transpiling from ES6 to ES5 or using JavaScript supersets.

This is the third post in a series about the new JavaConfig features in the just released Spring Batch 2.2.0. This post is about launching jobs in an application server environment, using different configurations but keeping perfect exchangeability.

A look at the TABLE generation strategy - does it fit with Hibernate's supported mechanisms ?

This post shows how we can keep our classes clean by using aspect oriented programming with Spring Framework

Many Java frameworks now exist to ease this pain and make a developer’s life better and easier. This is the first article in a series where we look at web frameworks and see how and to what extent they make a developers job easier. This post is on Vaadin.

"A better way to build apps" that is what Open Source Web Platform Meteor promises.This tutorial looks on the salient features of this Web framework and finally build a simple app with Meteor.

ForkJoin - a quick exploration with code examples.

Simple statistics is a JavaScript library that does descriptive statistics, regression, and classification. It can tell you basic things like minimum and maximum, but it can also compute tricky things like standard deviation and sample correlation. But more importantly, it's see-through: you can read it, and it's written in a friendly, literate manner.

I have put together a list of great examples of JomSocial networking sites. There are many examples out there, however I also want to show only those that met a high level of design which will give you ideas for your next project.