By Vipul Patel
| Architecture & Design Article Published 26-Sep-11
When designing applications for SQL Azure, it is important to consider the architectural impact to achieve the best performance. In this article, we discuss some of the architectural considerations for an SQL Azure application.
By Debu Panda
| Architecture & Design Article Published 20-Mar-11
If you are a Java developer and your organization is jumping on the cloud computing bandwagon, here's what you can expect.
By Vipul Patel
| Architecture & Design Article Published 09-Mar-11
To get on the Microsoft Windows Azure cloud computing bandwagon, you need to understand how to develop applications targeting the platform. Discover how to create your first “Hello World” cloud application.
By Brian Prince
| Architecture & Design Article Published 18-Feb-11
Any day now your pointy-haired boss is going to ask you about this cloud stuff. Do you have a strategy? Can you even define it? Discover how easily it is to explain the cloud to your boss, and begin to start a longer discussion on all aspects of cloud computing.
By Vipul Patel
| Architecture & Design Article Published 11-Feb-11
Before writing applications targeting the Windows Azure platform, you should understand the various roles within a hosted service.
By Sean Michael Kerner
| Architecture & Design Article Published 22-Jul-10
How does Facebook deliver social networking to 500 million people? It takes a whole lot of storage and some open source goodness.
By Jason Gilmore
| Architecture & Design Article Published 04-Jan-10
Using an MVC framework? Pack the model with as much data-related logic as possible while maintaining a streamlined controller. You'll produce cleaner, more maintainable code.
By Chris Bennett
| Architecture & Design Article Published 28-Dec-09
Is it time to give your next application a major user interface face lift? Try the WPF Ribbon as used in Microsoft Office 2007.
By Vlad Kofman
| Architecture & Design Article Published 21-Dec-09
In today's environment prototyping your UI can be paramount.
This article will show users how to use the Microsoft
Expression Blend 3 prototyping tool and discuss the differences
between static, interactive and convertible prototypes.
By Mark Strawmyer
| Architecture & Design Article Published 11-Dec-09
The focus of this article will be on the dynamic language support (DLR) that will be released as a part of the upcoming 4.0 version of the .NET Framework.
By Paul Kimmel
| Architecture & Design Article Published 07-Dec-09
Using an anonymous type in VB, which is essential for technologies like LINQ, means that the compiler will generate a class for you based on context and named initializers saving you time and effort. To learn more read on.
By Jeff Ryan
| Architecture & Design Article Published 04-Dec-09
Learn how to explicitly define the principles upon which your IT organization stands and practical advice for putting them into practice.
By Paul Kimmel
| Architecture & Design Article Published 25-Nov-09
Add ultimate flexibility and power to your programs with function parameters and Lambda Expressions.
By Jason Gilmore
| Architecture & Design Article Published 16-Nov-09
The Zend_Auth component, part of the Zend Framework,
provides a mechanism for authenticating users in your web
apps. Jason Gilmore will show you how use this robust
component to give users the ability to create their own
accounts.
By Mike Rozlog
| Architecture & Design Article Published 21-Oct-09
Explore the world of code coverage tools that help developers create better code in less time.
By Matt Goebel
| Architecture & Design Article Published 02-Oct-09
Learn how to use Windows Azure to setup and deploy your first application hosted in the "cloud."
By Jeff Ryan
| Architecture & Design Article Published 14-Sep-09
Have you ever struggled to communicate architectural information with stakeholders? Do you recognize that presenting data and information is a core competency of an architect? Consider putting these proven principles and patterns to use in your next presentation.
By Jani Järvinen
| Architecture & Design Article Published 04-Sep-09
One of the fundamental programming challenges is managing state. Chances are you have written dozens and dozens of methods that at the beginning check that certain conditions are met, and that another set of conditions is met when the method returns. With Code Contracts in .NET 4.0, you can make things considerably easier. Read on to learn how.
By Raja Gangavarapu
| Architecture & Design Article Published 24-Aug-09
Architectural roles can make a project great or set you back
to the drawing board. Read on to discover the many
architectural roles in your project life cycle and how to
achieve consistency throughout.
By Robert Bogue
| Architecture & Design Article Published 03-Aug-09
What do you do when a system or application performance problem just can't seem to be fixed?
By Robert Bogue
| Architecture & Design Article Published 27-Jul-09
Caching can greatly improve performance but it can also lull you into a false sense of security. In some cases it can even make the performance worse. If you haven't already, then now is the time to learn the issues and limitations of caching so that you can truly improve performance.
By Surekha Durvasula
| Architecture & Design Article Published 22-Jul-09
This article demonstrates how an enterprise can improve time to market without sacrificing quality when offering new services: by leveraging investments made in existing services, incorporating best practices, and adopting a level of standardization.
By Robert Bogue
| Architecture & Design Article Published 20-Jul-09
Performance is critical to today's successful applications and web sites. If you design with an awareness of the session state management challenges you can always change your strategies to match your performance needs.
By Jani Järvinen
| Architecture & Design Article Published 30-Jun-09
With more and more computers using a multi-core processor, the free lunch of increased clock speeds and the inherent performance gains are over. Software developers must instead make sure their applications take use of all the cores available in an efficient manner. New features in .NET 4.0 mean that managed code developers too can join the party.
By Robert Bogue
| Architecture & Design Article Published 29-Jun-09
The results you get out of any performance prediction exercise are bound to be wrong. The goal is to make them as least wrong as possible. Rob Bogue will help you understand how to avoid getting them too wrong.
Discover how to start developing for the Android platform with this extensive guide, which provides a reference to the Android platform as well as a look at developing your first Android application. You'll explore the top 10 features for developers as well as learn design and development tips that go beyond the phone and target tablet development as well.
