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Channel: Web Development
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Understanding the Differences Between Microservices, Monoliths, SOA and APIs
Microservice is becoming the framework of choice for brands like Amazon and Netflix but how does this architecture differ from monoliths, SOAs and APIs?
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What are Microservices and Can this Architecture Improve Your Application Development?
Big brands like Amazon and Netflix are embracing microservice architecture, but what is it, and how does it fit into application and software development?
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Get Adobe's Creative Suite From the Cloud, For Just $49 A Month
Adobe's new offering, Creative Cloud, brings the company's expansive and expensive range of legendary publishing and art applications, Flash development software and other tools to all via an affordable software as a service solution.
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SharePoint 15 Arriving Early 2013 According to Leaked MS Roadmap
The next version of Office and SharePoint seem likely to land on servers in the first quarter of next year, making it SharePoint 2013, with a beta due this summer.
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Google Chrome and Adobe Flash Updates Bring Game to the Browser
While many might still believe that games are just for the kids, the ever-evolving web is now increasingly capable of running advanced games-class technologies within the browser, and they can be deployed for much more than Angry Bird clones.
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Wix Brings No-Coding-Skills-Needed Design to HTML5 Sites
Site design for those lacking in actual design skills is a problem that many seem to want to solve.
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Google Donates 2 Tools' Source Code to Eclipse Foundation
Google (news, site) is showing the Eclipse Foundation (news, site ) a bit of holiday goodwill. The Internet giant has made a donation -- in the form of source code and intellectual property -- valued at more than US$ 5 million dollars.
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Monotype Imaging Makes Thousands of Fonts Available
This week, Monotype Imaging Holdings Inc., one of the leading text imaging solution providers announced the availability of Fonts.com Web Fonts. Serving as Monotype’s cloud-based solution, Fonts.com provides thousands of high-quality fonts for web designers. WOFF 1.0 Makes Fonts More Enjoyable Thanks to last month’s meeting between the W3C and Society of Typographic Aficionados (SOTA) about the
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W3C Releases New Standard for XML Processes
A lot has happened since 1998 when the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C) published its first standard for XML, the Extensible Markup Language. Soon after, they standardized a few more XML core operations like validation, query, transformation and linking.
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CollabNet Adds Scrum Project Management to its Agile ALM Platform
If you are big on agile development, then you probably know who CollabNet is. We've mentioned the ALM (application lifecycle management) solution provider before when they came out with a Visual Studio supported version of their desktop offering. And while we don't cover a lot of agile development news,
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Ringing in the New Year with Clean Intellectual Property
In 2008, the open source community saw the year end with a headline catching lawsuit, the Free Software Foundation files suit against Cisco for General Public License (GPL) violations. Not to be outdone, 2009 also ended with a bang.
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The Essence of a Successful Persona Project
Personas are a flexible and powerful tool for user researchers. They're also one of the most misunderstood. When done well, they ensure the team focuses on the needs and delights of their users. Like other effective user research techniques, personas deliver confidence and insights to the team.
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April 12 is the New Release Date for Visual Studio 2010
We like really short and sweet posts about project updates. They get to the point very quickly and leave no room for misinterpretation. At least that is what we get from Microsoft's Rob Caron. He's the Marketing Communications Manager for Developer and User Experience Runtimes and Tools at Microsoft
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SPDY: Can Google Make the Web Faster?
Raise your hand if you hate the idea of the Web running faster! Yeah, I thought so. In apparent frustration with not being able to deliver their massive array of content as quickly as they'd like, Google (news, site ) is working on this very problem.
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