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Tools

JSP Tag Library with Scala (TagLib Resurrection User Guide)

What is dead may never die! ― George R. R. Martin, A Song of Ice and Fire One can argue over what is dead and what is not for a long time. You can argue over anything, the main question is: is it worth doing that when you need to act? Necromancy has always been […]

Cloud

Cloud OCR Project: Learn to Develop for Windows Azure Today

A few months ago, we conducted a Cloud Development training course for our engineers. The attendees learned the main concepts of Cloud Computing, found out about the capabilities of the most popular cloud providers on the market, and learned the key design decisions for building highly available, scalable and fault-tolerant distributed systems in the cloud. […]

Amazon

AWS: 10 Things You’re Probably Doing Wrong as an Architect

Amazon Web Services is a powerful and mature cloud platform that keeps growing rapidly. Quite often, new features are added in such pace that many developers and architects barely have a chance to experiment with all of them on real projects. However, as with any cloud platform, the god is in the details. If you […]

Amazon

Getting More From AWS: the Spot Instances (via SDK for .NET)

We have discussed the basic principles of working with On-Demand instances of AWS web-services in the previous post. On-Demand instances are quite straightforward and have expected behaviour. But… what about something more stochastic and thus more interesting? Amazon EC2 instance types Amazon offers us several types of its compute instances: On-Demand, Reserved and Spot instances. […]

Android

Google Glass Development Without Glass

Here are the slides of my “Google Glass Development without Glass” presentation. As I promised, here is the follow-up blogpost with some code samples. If you haven’t seen my presentation, I strongly suggest clicking through the slides! 0.Intro Technologies emerge. Extremely. Wearable trend takes over the world. It seems like every week we start with […]

Amazon

The Not-so-short Introduction to EC2 Instances in AWS SDK for .NET

Today is the era of cloud computing: never-ending computing resources available on demand. Amazon is one of the biggest players on the market of cloud computing. It provides different cloud services: Elastic Cloud, Elastic Block Store, Simple Email Service, Cloud Drive and others. Amazon Elastic Compute Cloud (EC2) allows to launch virtual servers in the […]

DevOps

Continuous Integration with TeamCity – Preparing Deployment Package

In this post we’ll discuss how one can create deployment package with the help of TeamCity. And do we need TeamCity to create deployment package? What feature and benefits TeamCity provides and what are the downsides of these “benefits”? prepare-deployment-package configuration First we need to define what deployment package is. It can also be named […]

Continuous Integration

Continuous Integration with TeamCity – Supporting Multiple Branches

Everybody will agree that nowadays Continuous Integration (CI) process established on project is as usual as Version Control System (VCS) for source code. Actually both are tightly coupled – CI server takes source code from VCS and runs all the pre-configured by build engineer magic: source code compilation, automated tests run, installation package preparation, etc. […]

Application development

Mobile Cross-platform Choices. Unraveled

This topic is obviously not new. Everyone talks about it. Sooner or later. After making these choices couple of times and talking with customers I noticed common misunderstanding, misuse and mistakes people do(and so did I). There are lots of great articles out there which help out deciding, but still I think it could be […]

Android

Boosting Android Apps Performance

While mobile vendor giants struggle to produce the most intellectual device, it appears that a huge amount of users want to buy a device as cheap as possible but still prefer smartphones over old-school feature-phones. This trend is mostly driven by a huge demand from emerging markets such as China and other Asian countries. Sub-$100 […]