Over my programming career, I have made a lot of mistakes in several different languages. In fact, if I write 10 or more lines of code and it works the first time, I’ll get a bit suspicious and test it more rigorously than usual. I would expect to find a syntax error or a bad array reference or a misspelled variable or something. [...]

In this example I will show how you can perform a standard Maven build whilst keeping your unit and integration tests in separate packages. [...]

In this example I will expand upon my previous example of keeping your unit and integration tests in separate packages, and explain how to also produce code coverage statistics. [...]

This blog shows how to seperate your unit and integration tests in a multi-module maven project whilst providing seperate test coverage results for each. [...]

“grep” one of the most frequently used UNIX command stands for “Global Regular Expression Print”. This grep command tutorial is not about theory of UNIX grep but to practical use of grep in UNIX and here I am sharing my experience [...]

I will focus on four primary topics: Functional programming, performance, testing and code guidelines. When those four aspects merge in one programmer, he or she will gain greatness no matter what. [...]

There are some simple configuration changes that you can make on machine.config and IIS to give your web applications significant performance boost. These are simple harmless changes but make a lot of difference in terms of scalability. [...]

Caching large objects, duplicate objects, caching collections, live objects, thread unsafe caching and other common mistakes break your app instead of making it fly. Learn ten common caching mistakes devs make. [...]

This article presents some realistic unit and integration test examples in a N-tier web application to assist in writing tests that provide confidence in moving towards Test Driven Development (TDD) [...]

Web Sockets is a relatively new specification introduced as part of HTML 5 to support a full duplex-communication channel over http in web browsers.  This  represents a great advance toward real-time and event driven web applications. Before Web Sockets jumped in scene, the only available  solutions for emulating real time notifications in web applications were different variants of Http Long polling. Real time notifications in this context became particularly important for specific scenarios, such as reporting stock pricing updates, online gaming or news reports to name a few. [...]

This guide is geared toward beginners and people who are unfamiliar with reverse HTTP proxying, websocket proxing, load balancing, virtual host configuration, request forwarding, and other web proxying concepts – those who already know what they’re doing and just want to see the syntax should skip down to the sample code. [...]

As you may have heard or seen, ActiveRecord 3.1 now comes with prepared statement support. This happens for you automatically since ActiveRecord will associate all SQL statements with bind substitute variables. The implementation of these is left to each database adapter. [...]

This is the third closed captioned video in a series where we explore PHP6 and other advanced PHP concepts. From our Advanced PHP Course. We are happy to announce that we are well on our way to closed captioning all of our Web Design and Web Programming related video training courses. [...]

Sometimes we need to use external libraries with strange and obscure class names, and it can be really annoying. Luckily, from PHP 5.3 version we can create aliases for classes and interfaces with class_alias function. Example of class_alias usage. [...]

Date and time manipulation in PHP is mostly connected with functions like: date, time or strtotime. They can be sufficient, but if we want to deal with dates like with objects – we can use DateTime class. DateTime class is not only straightforward wrapper for standard functions, it has a lot of additional features [...]

There are several ways to create backup for a single table in SQL Server database. In SQL Server 2008, now you can create insert statements for selected tables. Beside this Export wizard is commonly used to create a flat file backup for a single table. Both methods are reliable but still time consuming. [...]

Language-Integrated Query—LINQ—is a new data-access feature that does exactly what it says: allow for querying of data sources from within the language itself. [...]

In my last article I installed Node on Ubuntu 10.10. Nothing really has changed for Ubuntu 11.04 but I want to have a separate article since a lot of people hit my installing Node articles. Also, keep in mind you [...]

The engineering team behind Facebook Messages spent the past year building out a robust, scalable infrastructure. We spent a few weeks setting up a test framework to evaluate clusters of MySQL, Apache Cassandra, Apache HBase, and a couple of other [...]

As the article name says learn MVC, so the agenda is simple we are going to learn ASP.NET MVC [...]

As the current production version of Ruby, a boost for Ruby 1.9.2-p180 should benefit most of you so I knew I had to share Todd’s work as soon as I’d given it a test run. I ran the same benchmarks [...]

With the growth of PHP from a simple scripting language to a full-fledged programming language, there has been a parallel growth in the complexity of the code bases of a typical PHP application. To control support and maintenance of these applications, various testing tools help automate this process. [...]

Zend Server is great. It kicks WAMP & MAMP’s butt. My favorite feature is the job queue – it offers an object oriented, cross-platform, cron-like paradigm. It’s really handy. [...]

Some applications need to perform several tasks that may take a while to finish. When there are many tasks to execute, it may take a long time to finish all of them if they are executed sequentially, i.e., one after another. A possible solution for this problem is to execute several tasks at the same time using separate processes or threads. [...]

Jon Galloway is researching dynamic ASP.NET MVC 3 models using Mono’s Compiler as a Service. Meanwhile Karsten Januszewski is looking into deserialized JSON in lieu of statically typed models. [...]