An Introduction to Python

Tue, 03 Sep 2019 10:00:00 GMT

Python has become one of the most popular languages of late, especially in the data science and AI/machine learning world. Ted Neward starts a new series that will explore Python’s syntax, semantics and some of the more interesting libraries in the Python ecosystem.

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Coding Naked: Naked Networking

Mon, 01 Jul 2019 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward closes out his series on the Naked Objects Framework with a look at NOF Restful API networking, and how the entire state of the network interaction is stored in a hypermedia document shared between the client and the server.

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Coding Naked: Naked Acting

Mon, 03 Jun 2019 10:00:00 GMT

Actions represent an important aspect of the Naked Objects Framework experience in that they are where behavior on an object is defined. In the fifth article in this series, Ted Neward covers the places where actions can live and how they appear in the UI.

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Coding Naked: Naked Collections

Wed, 01 May 2019 10:00:00 GMT

In the latest in his series on the Naked Object Framework, Ted Neward discusses NOF collections—how a given domain object can have references to more than one of something.

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Coding Naked: Naked Properties

Fri, 01 Mar 2019 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward continues to build out the domain model for his conference system to support important capabilities, such as validating fields, by using Naked Objects Framework custom attributes or, for more complex scenarios, by relying on convention.

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Coding Naked: Naked Speakers

Fri, 01 Feb 2019 10:00:00 GMT

In the second installation in his series on the Naked Objects Framework (NOF), Ted Neward begins to examine NOF features–specifically, what you can define on a class with NOF and how that translates into UI and database persistence.

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Coding Naked

Wed, 02 Jan 2019 10:00:00 GMT

The Naked Objects Framework aims to further the idea that developers should focus solely on the business domain while users should be able to work with the objects directly, without additional decoration. Ted Neward begins a new series that will examine the underlying concepts.

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How To Be MEAN: End to End

Sat, 01 Dec 2018 10:00:00 GMT

In his 30th—and last—column on the MEAN stack, Ted Neward covers end-to-end testing in Angular, which looks to test the system as a whole and tries to ensure that the front end is communicating effectively with the back end.

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How To Be MEAN: Testing Angularly

Thu, 01 Nov 2018 10:00:00 GMT

It’s pretty clear that testing is not an optional part of modern software development anymore, so Ted Neward shows you how an Angular application should be tested.

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How to be MEAN: Routing Angular

Sat, 01 Sep 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Unlike in most traditional Web applications, single-page frameworks like Angular require a mechanism to provide the kind of “scoping” or “segmenting” that page boundaries provide. Within Angular, that mechanism is called “routing,” as Ted Neward explains.

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How To Be MEAN: Dynamically Angular

Mon, 02 Jul 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward extends his exploration of building forms with Angular, by showing how to create a Web-based questionnaire that dynamically generates fields based on the types of questions drawn from an external source, such as JSON service or file.

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How To Be MEAN: Reactive Programming

Fri, 01 Jun 2018 10:00:00 GMT

Reactive programming is a new concept around how to view the “flow” of information—and the resultant control exhibited in code—within a Web application. In this month's column, Ted Neward explores reactive programming with Angular.

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How To Be MEAN: Validating Angular

Thu, 01 Mar 2018 10:00:00 GMT

This month Ted Neward explores validating data input, because without validation you’re basically asking users to pour garbage into your system, leaving it to you to sort out.

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How to be MEAN: Angular Forms, Too

Fri, 01 Dec 2017 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward explores the forms capabilities of Angular Forms in greater depth.

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How To Be MEAN: Angular Forms

Wed, 01 Nov 2017 10:00:00 GMT

Data input in Angular is similar to how it looks all over the Web, but the Angular Way demands a slightly different approach, one driven by a component perspective rather than the traditional page metaphor.

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How To Be MEAN: Angular Plays Fetch

Sun, 01 Oct 2017 10:00:00 GMT

In his latest MEAN stack exploration, Ted Neward shows how an Angular service can fetch data from an HTTP API.

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How To Be MEAN: Servicing Angular

Fri, 01 Sep 2017 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward introduces the concept of an Angular service, shows how it relates to component-oriented design, and begins refactoring a sample project over to using services to manage the data access against the HTTP API built earlier in the series.

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How To Be MEAN: Up-Angular-izing

Tue, 01 Aug 2017 10:00:00 GMT

As Angular applications grow and evolve, the required work to keep them up-to-date with the latest versions of Angular is (for the moment, anyway) trivial.

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How To Be MEAN: Angular Ins and Outs

Sat, 01 Jul 2017 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward adds an “upvote”’ component to the Angular front end, and in doing so, demonstrates how to handle input and output to an Angular component.

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How To Be MEAN: Angular CRUD

Mon, 01 May 2017 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward explores the Angular components in detail, and shows how the time and effort spent building them can pay off down the road.

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How To Be MEAN: Angular Components

Wed, 01 Mar 2017 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward examines major Angular concepts, focusing on “components” and how they drive the design and organization of an Angular project.

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How To Be MEAN: Working the Angular

Wed, 01 Feb 2017 10:00:00 GMT

In this month’s The Working Programmer column, Ted Neward gets started working with Angular 2, starting with a basic “Hello World” and exploring some of the big concepts that Angular 2 espouses.

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How To Be MEAN: Type Script with TypeScript

Sun, 01 Jan 2017 10:00:00 GMT

In this month’s The Working Programmer column, Ted Neward looks at TypeScript, the AngularJS-endorsed language for building AngularJS 2 applications.

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How To Be MEAN: Take a Gulp

Tue, 01 Nov 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward examines Gulp, an ECMAScript development automation tool, and looks at a few helpful tools that Gulp can “turn on” in your Node.js projects as a side benefit.

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How To Be MEAN: Exploring Yeoman

Sat, 01 Oct 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward examines Yeoman, the ECMAScript scaffolding tool, which serves the same purpose as the project template facility in Visual Studio.

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How To Be MEAN: Exploring ECMAScript

Mon, 01 Aug 2016 10:00:00 GMT

In this column, Ted Neward examines the nascent ECMAScript 2015 Standard, the next-generation leap for JavaScript.

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How To Be MEAN: Let's Be DEAN

Fri, 01 Jul 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward examines the work required to replace the M in MEAN (MongoDB) with another non-relational database--DocumentDB running in Microsoft Azure. This flexibility lets developers take advantage of DocumentDB's enterprise-friendly capabilities, including server-side code execution and SQL-like query language.

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How To Be MEAN: Passport

Wed, 01 Jun 2016 10:00:00 GMT

PassportJS is arguably the most successful authentication project ever developed, across any language or platform. It manages to provide the necessary authentication “hooks” while leaving open the actual means of authentication when you want to control that. Yet, it can still slip in and do the heavy lifting when needed.

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How To Be MEAN: Getting the Edge(.js)

Sun, 01 May 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Certain kinds of applications are much easier to write using the various packages available in the npm repository that EdgeJS now opens up to the traditional .NET developer.

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How To Be MEAN: Robust Validation with MongooseJS

Tue, 01 Mar 2016 10:00:00 GMT

How to validate with MongooseJS, a software layer that sits on top of MongoDB and provides not only a schema-like, language-verified validation layer, but also an opportunity to build a layer of “domain object.”

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How to Be MEAN: Inside MongoDB

Mon, 01 Feb 2016 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward continues his exploration of the MEAN stack, consisting of MongoDB, Express, AngularJS and Node.js. In this installment, he explores the MongoDB NoSQL database.

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How To Be MEAN: Test Me MEANly

Fri, 01 Jan 2016 10:00:00 GMT

In the latest installment of his series on the MEAN stack, comprised of MongoDB, Express, AngularJS and Node.js, Ted Neward explores automated tests that exercise the API he's built over previous issues.

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How To Be MEAN: Express Input

Tue, 01 Dec 2015 10:00:00 GMT

The MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js (MEAN) stack is an alternative “Web stack” to ASP.NET. In this installment, learn about processing input—the ability to put a new person into the system, remove a person from the system and update an existing person.

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How To Be MEAN: Express Routing

Sun, 01 Nov 2015 10:00:00 GMT

The MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js (MEAN) stack is an alternative “Web stack” to the ASP.NET stack. In this installment, learn about Express routing and discover how to use it more effectively.

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How To Be MEAN: Express Install

Thu, 01 Oct 2015 10:00:00 GMT

The MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js (MEAN) stack is an alternative “Web stack” to the ASP.NET stack. In this installment, you’ll read about the Express library, which handles HTTP processing on the server.

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How To Be MEAN: Node.js

Tue, 01 Sep 2015 10:00:00 GMT

The MongoDB, Express, AngularJS, Node.js (MEAN) stack is quickly becoming a key player in the new technology world. It’s a favored development software stack for the Node.js platform. This installment takes the Node.js aspect a bit further.

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How To Be MEAN: Getting Started

Sat, 01 Aug 2015 10:00:00 GMT

The MEAN (Mongo, Express, Angular, Node) stack is quickly emerging as one of the favored development software stacks for the Node.js platform. Ted Neward introduces MEAN in the first of a series.

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The Working Programmer - Fun with C#, Part 2

Tue, 02 Sep 2014 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward completes his F# adventure, showing how the functional language can be used to solve a thorny C# programming challenge.

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The Working Programmer - Fun with C#

Tue, 01 Jul 2014 10:00:00 GMT

Both F# and C# are languages based on the Microsoft .NET Framework, so you can often resolve a programming problem in one language, then transfer the code over to the other. This functional programming approach opens new avenues to problem resolution.

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The Working Programmer - Growl Notification System: Simpler Is Better

Thu, 01 May 2014 10:00:00 GMT

Sometimes the simplest approach is best, as Ted Neward illustrates with the Growl notification utility, which makes it easy for developers to add reliable notificiations to their software.

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The Working Programmer - Getting Started with Oak: Data Validation and Wrapping Up

Mon, 03 Mar 2014 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward wraps up his four-part examination of the Oak framework’s dynamic approach to Web development by diving into data validation and explaining why Oak is going into his personal toolbox.

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The Working Programmer - Getting Started with Oak: Database Interaction

Thu, 02 Jan 2014 10:00:00 GMT

Digging deeper into the workings of the Oak dynamic Web development framework, Ted Neward shows how to wire up a SQL Server instance, build a database, add a related type and more.

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The Working Programmer - Getting Started with Oak: A Different Approach

Mon, 02 Dec 2013 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward explores developing an application in the Oak Web framework, which provides a dynamic environment similar to Ruby on Rails that’s well-suited for rapid application development.

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The Working Programmer - Getting Started with Oak

Tue, 01 Oct 2013 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward begins an exploration of Oak, an open source project built to leverage the dynamic capabilities inherent within C# while gaining the productivity benefits of a system such as Ruby on Rails.

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The Working Programmer - Exploring NSpec

Mon, 02 Sep 2013 10:00:00 GMT

Regardless of your feelings in the Test-Driven Development (TDD) versus Behavior-Driven Development (BDD) debate, Ted Neward shows you why the open source NSpec testing tool from the BDD camp is worth a look.

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The Working Programmer - Going Dynamic with the Gemini Library

Thu, 01 Aug 2013 10:00:00 GMT

The open source Gemini library builds on the dynamic keyword/type functionality of C# and provides the option of using traditional static type definitions or new flexible type definitions.

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The Working Programmer - Capturing Important Business Logic

Mon, 01 Apr 2013 10:00:00 GMT

On April 1, Ted Neward pays homage to his feline friends and introduces an important language for your .NET programming toolbox: LOLCODE.

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The Working Programmer - Noda Time

Fri, 01 Mar 2013 10:00:00 GMT

Noda Time is a powerful, .NET library that can seriously amp up time and date support in your applications.

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The Working Programmer - .NET Collections, Part 2: Working with C5

Fri, 01 Feb 2013 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward delves deeper into the Copenhagen Comprehensive Collection Classes for C#, explaining how their implementations and functionality go a bit beyond the .NET Framework Class Library.

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The Working Programmer - .NET Collections: Getting Started with C5

Wed, 02 Jan 2013 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward explores the Copenhagen Comprehensive Collection Classes for C#, which he deems a worthy complement to System.Collections.Generic.

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The Working Programmer - Cassandra NoSQL Database, Part 3: Clustering

Thu, 01 Nov 2012 10:00:00 GMT

Talk about big data, this database can scale to “ridiculous” sizes, says Ted Neward. One firm claimed to use Cassandra to store more than 50PB of information. Learn how clustering makes such implementations possible straight out of the box.

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The Working Programmer - Cassandra NoSQL Database, Part 2: Programming

Mon, 01 Oct 2012 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward explains how to connect to the Apache Cassandra NoSQL database from the Microsoft .NET Framework, how to read and write data to it, and more.

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The Working Programmer - Cassandra NoSQL Database: Getting Started

Wed, 01 Aug 2012 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward explores Cassandra (the NoSQL database software, not the figure from Greek mythology), which is “an open-source, distributed, decentralized, elastically scalable, highly-available, fault-tolerant, tuneably consistent, column-oriented database that bases its distribution design on Amazon’s Dynamo and its data model on Google’s Bigtable.”

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The Working Programmer - Talk to Me, Part 4: Feliza Gets Her Voice

Fri, 01 Jun 2012 10:00:00 GMT

The final installment of Ted Neward's four-part series on creating an F#-based chatterbot modeled on the old ELIZA software. This time, Ted takes Feliza for a spin.

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The Working Programmer - Talk to Me, Part 3: Meet the Therapist

Tue, 01 May 2012 10:00:00 GMT

After building a simple cloud-hosted voice-input system and a chat-bot named Feliza to respond to user input in the first two parts of this series, Ted Neward takes his project a bit further by combining the two systems, showing how the host, Tropo, offers voice/SMS access over HTTP/REST-like channels.

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The Working Programmer - Talk to Me, Part 2: ELIZA

Thu, 01 Mar 2012 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward builds on the example in his last column with a side trip into artificial intelligence. Read on as he uses F# to create Feliza, a chatterbot based on ELIZA.

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The Working Programmer - Talk to Me: Voice and SMS in the Cloud

Wed, 01 Feb 2012 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward shows how to develop applications for Tropo, a free, cloud-hosted, voice-and-SMS solution.

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The Working Programmer - Building Combinators

Tue, 03 Jan 2012 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward finishes his discussion of parser combinators by extending the Spache library to parse the exact number of parsers you pass to it, incidentally demonstrating the power of functional programming.

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The Working Programmer - Parser Combinators

Wed, 30 Nov 2011 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward puts parser combinators to work in a real-life scenario as he designs custom configurations for neuro-optical scientific experiments in which optical tissue is stimulated and the results are recorded.

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The Working Programmer - Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 10: Choosing an Approach

Fri, 09 Sep 2011 10:00:00 GMT

In this last article in his series on multiparadigmatic programming, Ted Neward helps you think about how to consider which paradigms to choose when designing an application.

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The Working Programmer - Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 9: Functional Programming

Thu, 30 Jun 2011 10:00:00 GMT

The ninth in our series on multiparadigmatic programming focuses on functional programming, which is about treating functions as values—and which offers operations similar to what LINQ-to-Objects provides.

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Working Programmer - Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 8: Dynamic Programming

Wed, 01 Jun 2011 10:00:00 GMT

In as far as it goes, parametric metaprogramming provides some powerful solutions. But it’s not the be-all, end-all answer to every design problem. Dynamic languages take the concept of name-bound execution to its highest degree. Let's see how it works.

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The Working Programmer - Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 7: Parametric Metaprogramming

Mon, 02 May 2011 10:00:00 GMT

In this series we've examined procedural and structural programming, objects, and metaobjects. Now let's take a look at generics and put them to work as an example of parametric polymorphism in action.

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The Working Programmer - Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 6: Reflective Metaprogramming

Fri, 04 Mar 2011 10:00:00 GMT

Code generation can simplify many programming tasks, but harnessing reflection gives you an entirely new kind of variability. Now names can refer to elements within the program at a much later time than the compiler traditionally permits. We'll show you how it works.

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The Working Programmer - Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 5: Automatic Metaprogramming

Tue, 04 Jan 2011 10:00:00 GMT

Inheritance stands at the center of the object-oriented paradigm, but it isn’t always the best solution for all problems in OO programming, and despite its flaws and pitfalls, automatic metaprogramming, or code generation, is a useful tool to keep in your toolbox.

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The Working Programmer - Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 4: Object Orientation

Fri, 03 Dec 2010 10:00:00 GMT

Object-oriented developers may be too comfortable modeling commonality and variability with inheritance. As Ted Neward points out, that can lead to problems for the unwary.

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The Working Programmer - Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 3: Procedural Programming

Tue, 02 Nov 2010 10:00:00 GMT

Procedural programming is often seen as “old school,” outdated and useless in modern software design, but the design paradigm still shows up in a surprising number of places—including the compiler and MSBuild.

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The Working Programmer - Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 2

Fri, 01 Oct 2010 10:00:00 GMT

Finding the commonalities and variabilities within a system, and expressing them, forms the heart of design.

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The Working Programmer - Multiparadigmatic .NET, Part 1

Tue, 31 Aug 2010 10:00:00 GMT

Software development isn’t all about object-oriented design; it’s about finding what works best, and incorporating it into your solution.

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The Working Programmer - Inside SQLite

Fri, 30 Jul 2010 10:00:00 GMT

After tackling NoSQL, Ted Neward turns back to the relational world of SQL—SQLite, that is. Learn all about the lightweight, embedded database whose running footprint can be as small as one file installed in a client file system.

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The Working Programmer - Going NoSQL with MongoDB, Part 3

Tue, 29 Jun 2010 10:00:00 GMT

Wrapping up his examination of MongoDB, Ted Neward discusses predicate queries, aggregate functions and LINQ support, and provides some tips on hosting the NoSQL database in a production environment.

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The Working Programmer - Going NoSQL with MongoDB, Part 2

Mon, 07 Jun 2010 10:00:00 GMT

Ted Neward continues his dissection of the alternative MongoDB database system, using exploration testing to investigate the underlying technology.

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The Working Programmer - Going NoSQL with MongoDB

Mon, 03 May 2010 10:00:00 GMT

MongoDB is one of the principal tools of the NoSQL movement, which offers alternatives to the traditional relational database system. Learn its strengths and weaknesses as Ted Neward examines the document-based database in detail in the first of a series of columns.

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The Polyglot Programmer - ACID Transactions with STM.NET

Wed, 06 Jan 2010 10:00:00 GMT

STM.NET allows developers to mark their code with ACID-style transactional semantics, and leaves the grunt work of managing locks to the underlying environment.

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The Polyglot Programmer - Concurrency with Channels, Domains and Messages

Fri, 14 Aug 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Axum is not a general-purpose language like C# or VB, but one aimed squarely at the problem of concurrency, designed from the outset to be part of a suite of languages that collectively cooperate to solve a business problem.

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The Polyglot Programmer - Reaping The Benefits Of Cobra

Mon, 18 May 2009 10:00:00 GMT

Cobra, a descendant of Python, offers a combined dynamic and statically-typed programming model, built-in unit test facilities, scripting capabilities, and much more. Feel the power here.

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The Polyglot Programmer - Mixing And Matching Languages

Thu, 19 Feb 2009 10:00:00 GMT

See why you need to be a polyglot programmer and what mixing and matching languages can do for your projects.

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Editor's Note - Flex Your Data

Fri, 20 Jun 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Filling in for Editor-in-Chief Howard Dierking, Ted Neward lends some insight into the state of data collection and manipulation.

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F# Primer - Use Functional Programming Techniques in the .NET Framework

Wed, 23 Jan 2008 10:00:00 GMT

Here we introduce you to some of the concepts behind the new F# language, which combines elements of functional and object-oriented .NET languages. We then help you get started writing some simple programs.

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