Many years ago, there was HyperCard, included free with the Macintosh in the late 1980s. It got a lot of attention because it was one of the first tools that made it trivial to create GUI applications. Apple couldn’t figure out how to properly market or position it, so it eventually died of apathy. RunRev …
Elgg is an open-source and powerful social networking engine used to create your own social networking web site. In this How To, I am gonna show you how to build your own social network website, just like Facebook and Linkedin. via Run Your Own Social Network Using elgg on RHEL / CentOS and Scientific Linux.
Google solved the problem ages ago, but only for itself. Now, Facebook is building a solution for everyone else. As far back as 2007, rumors indicated that Google was designing its own networking switches, creating a cheaper and more effective way of moving information across the massive data centers that underpin its web empire, and …
Last year InfoQ published my article “Ember.js – Rich Web Applications done right”; at the time the code was based on version 0.9.4 of Ember.js, and Ember.js itself was a fairly young project. The framework has come a long way since then and it’s time to update the article with the state of the art in Ember.js …
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One of the key foundations and most attractive principle of Agile or Lean methodologies is that “Everyone can help each other remain focused on the highest possible business value per unit of time”. via Reinventing Agile: From Value to Solutions.
When saying noBackend, I do not suggest that apps don’t need a backend at all, I agree that the term is confusing, but it’s catchy. What I mean by noBackend is: you don’t have to think about the backend any more. You don’t have to differentiate about what a browser can do and what a …
Rust is a curly-brace, block-structured expression language. It visually resembles the C language family, but differs significantly in syntactic and semantic details. Its design is oriented toward concerns of “programming in the large”, that is, of creating and maintaining boundaries – both abstract and operational – that preserve large-system integrity, availability and concurrency. via The …
XMLHttpRequest makes sending HTTP requests very easy. You simply create an instance of the object, open a URL, and send the request. The HTTP status of the result, as well as the result’s contents, are available in the request object when the transaction is completed. This page outlines some of the common and even slightly …
Closed source, license restricted, and unbelievably expensive, enterprise software will cause more problems than it is worth at some point. Case in point, we once ran our entire stack on IBM’s WebSphere. via Common Themes in Scaling.