Article :: Getting Started with IronRuby

IronRuby is Microsoft's implementation of the Ruby language on top of the DLR. Its main goal is to provide seamless interoperability between Ruby and the .NET Framework. Shay Friedman gives you your first taste of IronRuby.

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Article :: SOA Pattern of the Week (#5): Service Decomposition

The Service Decomposition pattern provides a technique for splitting up a service after its initial deployment into two or more fine-grained services.

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Article :: A Refactoring Example in Ruby

In this chapter from "Refactoring in Ruby," the authors share a quick example of refactoring to show how you can identify problems in code and systematically clean it up.

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Article :: What Is a CMDB?

In this chapter, learn about the enigma that is a CMDB (Configuration Management Database), including answers to frequently asked questions.

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Article :: SOA Pattern (#9): Enterprise Inventory

The Enterprise Inventory design pattern attempts to maximize the reusability and recomposition of services by proposing the development of services based on a single enterprise-wide service inventory.

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Lee Barney shows how to activate several desirable features of iPhone or iPod Touch devices from within your JavaScript application.

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Article :: Cloud Computing and SOA Convergence: Where We Are, How We Got Here, and How to Fix It

IT has become the single-most visible point of latency when a business needs to change. However, it does not have to be this way. David S. Linthicum discusses how things got off track and how SOA and Cloud Computing can fix it.

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Article :: Increasing Organizational Capability through the People CMM

Learn how to increase your organizational capability throught the People CMM, which applies the principles of the process maturity framework to the domain of workforce practices.

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Article :: Understanding HTML and XHTML Connections

Learn the various elements that must appear in an HTML file, including how to include all the HTML Tags that every web page must have, how to organize a page with paragraphs, line breaks and headings, how to validate your web content, and how to differentiate between HTML, XML, XHTML, and HTML 5.

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Article :: Creating Pages and Content in Microsoft Expression Web 3

Jim Cheshire shows you how to create pages in Microsoft Expression Web 3, including how to import files, format text, create hyperlinks, configure page properties, use code snippets, and configure file editors.

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Article :: Beyond HTML: Returning JSON and XML Data From Your MVC Endpoints

You adopted MVC to get better control over your URL structure. Then you're asked to provide REST access over the same data. Instead of developing a new API and set of endpoints that mirrors what you already have, you can augment the existing application to respond to requests for JSON and XML as well as handle data updates and deletes. Scott Seely shows you how.

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Article :: Dynamic SOA and BPM: From Simplified Integration to Dynamic Processes

In this chapter, Marc Fiammante presents multiple aspects for an enterprise to address in order to realize the value of a truly dynamic BPM and SOA approach.

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Article :: Building a Home Page with Microsoft Expression Web: A Look Behind the Curtain

In web design, what happens behind the curtain is what really matters. It's time to learn some basic HTML and see how the code affects the content in this chapter from Sams Teach Yourself Microsoft Expression Web 3 in 24 Hours.

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Article :: Exploring HTML 5

David Chisnall continues his look at the new features of HTML 5 by exploring some of the features that are useful beyond web applications.

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Article :: Introduction to Viral Data in SOA

The viral affects of data are without bounds and can, under certain conditions, reach a pandemic state. Neal A. Fishman explores this concept in the introduction to his book.

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