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Facebook App Development 101: The Facebook Platform

By Scott Robinson

| Other Article Published 07-Oct-11

The Facebook platform hosts over 550,000 apps and nearly any developer can create a Facebook app and deploy it for free. Learn all about the platform that makes this possible.

Shopify for Simplified E-Commerce Web Projects

By Jason Gilmore

| Other Article Published 11-Aug-11

Shopify, a hosted e-commerce application, greatly simplifies creating and launching an online store that integrates into a business' existing infrastructure.

Zen Coding and the Art of Rapid HTML Authoring

By Jason Gilmore

| Other Article Published 01-Jun-10

The powerful new Zen Coding IDE plugin allows developers to write HTML with blazing speed.

A Degree Program Can Take a Developer's Career to the Next Level

By Developer.com Staff

| Other Article Published 20-Mar-10

Get the facts you need to make the type of educational and career-related decisions that could take you to the next level.

Check Out The HTML5 Development Center

HTML5 pushes the limit of Web development, allowing you to build a new class of experiences. HTML Goodies HTML5 Development Center is your destination for the latest how-to, news, and associated Web technologies.

ActiveState Debuts Support for Python, Perl, Tcl

By Sean Michael Kerner

| Other Article Published 03-Feb-10

Need support for dynamic languages? You don't have to rely on just the community.

Anatomy of a Google Go Program

By Edmon Begoli

| Other Article Published 03-Feb-10

Get an introduction to a concurrent, file-processing program written in Google's Go language.

On Programmer Laziness & Anonymous Types

By Developer.com Staff

| Other Article Published 08-Dec-09

Programmers should look for the lazy way to solve a problem. Laziness is an unquantifiable myth.

Forms Processing with the Zend Framework

By Jason Gilmore

| Other Article Published 23-Nov-09

Processing user-supplied form data can be fraught with errors. Not so with the Zend Framework! This tutorial shows you how to use the Zend Framework's Zend_Validate component to easily and conveniently validate complex form data.

Agile, a Different Methodology

By Eric Landes

| Other Article Published 13-Nov-09

If you wonder why you are hearing so much about the chaotic Agile methods lately, this is the article for you. We'll show you how to put the Agile method to work for you.

Improved COM Interoperability

By Mark Strawmyer

| Other Article Published 26-Oct-09

Learn about the COM Interoperability improvements comingwith the next release of the .NET Framework and how theywill make your COM Interop such as Office applications mucheasier.

Build your own MVC Framework: Getting your Framework Up And Running

By Marc Plotz

| Other Article Published 16-Oct-09

In the last part of Marc's series we put all the pieces together and write a simple Hello World Application.

Real World REST Using Jersey, AJAX and JSON

By Bob Reselman

| Other Article Published 09-Oct-09

In this article Bob Reselman gives us a brief overview of REST, and explains the basic operational concepts behind Jersey.

Build your own MVC Framework: Making Headway

By Marc Plotz

| Other Article Published 31-Aug-09

Marc Plotz takes us further into his custom, lightweight MVC Framework.

Catch Errors at Compile Time with Java Generics

By Sridhar M S

| Other Article Published 28-Jul-09

Using generics in your Java development can help you detect issues during compile time rather than being confronted by them at run time.

Performance Improvement: Understanding

By Robert Bogue

| Other 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.

Hardware's Dirty Little Secret, or Why Software Can be Mass Produced

By Paul Kimmel

| Other Article Published 16-Jun-09

OP-ED: Unlike the Illuminati, the IEEE exists, and they have a secret. This secret helps them turn out shiny MP3 players, phones, and computers with processing power than we programmers can figure out how to use. This is how they do it. When will developers learn the same truths?

On the Road with the Google Maps API

By W. Jason Gilmore

| Other Article Published 15-Jun-09

Create sophisticated route finding features using the Google Maps API's powerful GDirections class!

Iteration or Recursion?

By Liviu Tudor

| Other Article Published 23-Apr-09

Did you ever get stuck having to choose between a recursive or iterative implementation? Get the answers to whether one is better than the other or whether it really matter?

Charting Your Course Using the Google Maps API

By W. Jason Gilmore

| Other Article Published 13-Apr-09

Create compelling location-based web sites by providing users with the ability to calculate distances between points on a Google Map!

Creating RSS Feeds with the Zend Framework for Fun and Profit

By W. Jason Gilmore

| Other Article Published 26-Feb-09

Build RSS feeds with the Zend Framework and profit from their publication using Google AdSense for Feeds!

Consider GlassFish ESB v2 for SOA Tooling

By Kelvin Meeks

| Other Article Published 29-Jan-09

Are you finding it hard to obtain funding to finish building out your Service Oriented Architecture (SOA) technology stack? You may have heard about the Open Source GlassFish Java 5 EE Application Server, but did you know that there is a GlassFish ESB (Enterprise Service Bus) Project that integrates the Open ESB Project? See what it can do for you.

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) with Spring.Net

By David Consdorf

| Other Article Published 08-Jan-09

Aspect-Oriented Programming (AOP) allows developers to achieve greater modularity in their applications by allowing the separation of cross-cutting concerns. Explore basic AOP concepts and their implementation using Spring.Net, a popular open source application framework by walking through several examples.

Writing Excel Files with Apache POI HSSF

By Scott Nelson

| Other Article Published 07-Jan-09

Learn how to create fully formatted Microsoft Excel workbooks at runtime. Just use Java with the help of the Apache POI projects' HSSF libraries.

Reading Excel Files with Apache POI HSSF

By Scott Nelson

| Other Article Published 22-Dec-08

Learn how to create a pure Java class for reading Microsoft Excel with the help of the Apache POI projects' HSSF libraries.

Cleaner Code with the PMD Eclipse Plug-In

By Scott Nelson

| Other Article Published 04-Dec-08

The Eclipse PMD plug-in finds code that isn't up to the standards you define, improving the code's consistency and preventing the avoidable production bugs.