Learn which HTML5 features to seek out and which to avoid when it comes to building fast HTML5 web apps. For years we built web apps that far outpaced the capabilities of the browsers they ran in. Just as the browsers were catching up HTML5 came on the scene – …
Let’s do a deep dive into the first of the SOLID principles for good object oriented software design. What is a responsibility? Why should it be single? How do we make it single? We’ll examine all these issues in extreme detail. We’ll look at some old code to see whether …
Learn how to configure Celery for development and how to create and run simple distributed tasks from Django views. A common pattern in Django web applications is to pass long-running tasks off to a task queue. Celery is a popular distributed task queue with good Django integration.
In the early days of a project, Rails absolutely dazzles.Tragically, the very same forces that make it so easy to add new features to a brand new Rails application are the ones that start to hold you back as the number of features grows. Your test suite gets slower and …
Explore emerging design patterns for building web applications that take advantage of large-scale, structured data. We’ll look at open datasets like Wikipedia and Freebase as well as structured markup like Schema.org and RDFa to see what new types of applications these technologies open up for developers.
VB and C# together share about 50% of the “garbage-collected languages” market. How do Microsoft design these languages? Where do they get ideas? How do they incorporate new paradigms without breaking the existing languages? Where will they go in the future and how will we get there?
