The Ruby Mendicant project was at first meant as a joke. Who would be crazy enough to donate money to an individual developer to work on unspecified ...

Ruby has gained a lot of popularity in the last few years, especially in web development, due to the infamous Ruby on Rails framework. However, it has...

David speaks on ActiveMQ and NMS. ActiveMQ is an opensource high-performance messaging solution from the Apache Foundation. NMS is the ActiveMQ client library for .NET. This solution is a very interesting choice for asynchronous .NET messaging, especially for messages that are published to the masses...

In this talk, David Ross gives an introduction to PostSharp - an Aspect Oriented Programming (AOP) toolkit for .NET. AOP allows developers to reduce the level of duplication of code and allows code injection of duplicated code (such as for login functionality and logging). David introduces the concep...

Software developers, QA testers, and IT managers are challenged to rapidly build and test Ajax, Service Oriented Architecture (SOA,) and Rich Internet Applications (RIA) in a time when schedules are short, budgets are tight, standards are few, and much of this is new technology! Find out why AMD, For...

In this presentation from QCon San Francisco 2007, Rod Johnson discusses the Spring Framework. Topics covered include the philosophy behind Spring, con...