Automating Data Visualization with Ruby and Graphviz from omninerd.com
A few dozen lines of reusable code now gives us a script that will generate visual representations of our data like the one below which uses the data from the tables at the beginning of the article
A Better, Faster Way to Stress and Load Test Today’s Web Application by Daniel Baloche
Poor application performance, unexpected deployment issues, and server malfunction can compromise your Web application. But by following the best practices and techniques explained in this article, testers can improve reliability and performance, reduce development costs and most importantly help their companies deliver what they promised in terms of application functionality and performance.
Live merge, merge to live. Part II by Pablo Santos
And you're right. But, as I told you, the merge tool is not a wizard's device; it is just a programmer's tool. So, use it correctly and it will make your life much easier.
Reference Ontology for Semantic Service Oriented Architectures by Boris Lublinsky
SOA Reference Ontology, published by OASIS last month, is an extension of OASIS Reference Model for Service Oriented Architecture (SOA-RM) combining it with the key concepts of semantics that are relevant for Semantically-enabling Service Oriented Architectures.
Writing A Textual DSL Using 'OSLO by Dilip Krishnan
Microsoft unveiled the building blocks of their “OSLO” vision during the PDC event in Los Angeles. Oslo has three main components:
* A modeling language M for textual DSLs
* Quadrant a design surface for graphical DSLs
* A relational database repository that stores these models.
Describing RESTful Applications by Subbu Allamaraju
My goal in this article is to answer the following questions.
* Why is not there a standard descriptions language for RESTful applications yet?
* How does a contract for RESTful applications looks like?
* What kind of software do we need to build that can understand and take advantage of such a contract?
* If we decide to come up with a machine-readable description, how might it look like?
Application Integration Through Mail Servers by Tijs Rademakers and Jos Dirksen
This segment shows how to integrate Mule and ServiceMix with a mail server.
