Implementing the Repository Pattern
Category: Languages > .net      Posted: 03 Feb 09

Mike Hadlow starts his talk by summarising the evolution of data access from the early days of using RDO and DAO with Visual Basic, which did not provide a lot of control over the database, to contemporary domain driven approaches. He goes on explaining the different meanings people tend to give to t...

Neil Bartlett: From Desktop to Web
Category: Tools > Eclipse      Posted: 03 Feb 09

Building Rich Client and Web applications from a single code base. A short demo of an application which runs both as a desktop "rich client" using Ecli...

Ashish Thandavan: Overview and demo of g-Eclipse
Category: Tools > Eclipse      Posted: 03 Feb 09

Ashish Thandavan gives an introduction to g-Eclipse, the tool that allows you to use eclipse to manage many grid and cloud computing environments. He a...

Building Twitter with Grails in 40 minutes
Category: Languages > Java      Posted: 03 Feb 09

In a frank post, the architects of Twitter conceded that Twitter should have been built around a messaging architecture. Citing scalability as their main concern, the Java platform with its advanced and mature support for messaging, through the Java Messaging Service (JMS), could have been a perfect ...